December 21, 2007

Early Out! Christmas Dance and movie! See you again on the 2nd of the New Year!

December 19-20, 2007

Reading Workshop: Returned and organized materials for Reading Workshop - ALL library books are due the 20th.

Writing Workshop: PTSA Reflections Contest Poems due on the 21st:)

December 18, 2007

Reading Workshop: Independent Reading Activity - Inference, Mood, and Theme:)

Writing Workshop: Peer Revising Activity - Praise & Polish.

December 17, 2007

Reading Workshop: Independent Reading Activity for the rest of the week on inference, mood, and theme.

Writing Workshop:
Type PTSA Reflections and post to Webboard.

December 11-14, 2007

NO SCHOOL DUE TO ICE STORM:(

December 10, 2007

Mrs. Studer attended Literacy Academy wtih DESE.

Reading: Review with Theme Assessment

Writing: PTSA THEME - "I can make a difference by..."

December 6-7, 2007

Reading Workshop: Wrap-up Mood Activity and Complete Assessment on Mood!

Writing Workshop: PTSA REFLECTIONS DUE BEFORE CHRISTMAS BREAK!

December 5, 2007

Early-Out!

Reading Mini-Lesson: Mood - in class activity with mood words.

Writing Mini-Lesson: Pen-Pal Letters or PTSA Reflections Writing

December 4, 2007

Reading Mini-Lesson: Graphic Organizer for Inferencing

Writing Mini-Lesson: Brainstorming for PTSA Reflection

December 3, 2007

Reading Workshop: Correct Main Problem & Solution page

Writing: Begin PTSA Reflection Writing

November 28-30, 2007

Reading Workshop: Problems & Solutions - See teacher.

Writing Workshop: Lay-out Book due on Friday!

November 27, 2007

Reading Workshop:

Reteaching of Roots & Affixes

Writing Workshop:

Turn in piece from 1st quarter for publication. Also draft and lay-out children's book.

November 26, 2007

Reading Workshop:

Examine Theme Assessment/Focus on Contxt Clues- See teacher for Make-up.


Writing Workshop:

Drafting/sharing of children's book. Post your ideas to Webboard.

November 21, 2007

Early OUT! HAPPY THANSKGIVING:)

Create bulletin Board Display - See Teacher!

November 20, 2007

Reading Workshop: Assessment of Theme - Man & Boy Passage


Writing Workshop: Drafting of Children's Book for Elementary Pen-Pal

Novemebr 19, 2007

Reading workshop: Revisit theme. Reflective on our assessment of theme and revised our Novemebr 14 theme of "Just Once." Reteaching of theme.

Writing Workshop: Completed drafting of children's story.

Novemebr 16, 2007

Reading Workshop: Complete Sharing of Movie-Maker project.

Writing: Write to our elementary pen-pal.

Shorten classes due to pep assembly.

Novemebr 15, 2007

Reading Workshop: Class reading of "Just Once." Assessment of theme.

Writing Workshop: Share Movie-Maker project.

Novemebr 14, 2007

Reading Workshop: Students read children's books to discover theme within the story.

Writing Workshop: Students worked on incorporating a theme to their children's book.

November 13, 2007

Reading Workshop: Students worked on Movie-Maker project.

Writing Workshop: Students developed characters and plot for their book.

November 12, 2007

Reading: Students completed Movie-Maker project to sell their favorite 1st quarter book.

Writing : Students began their brainstorming their ficitonal children's book.

November 5-9, 2007

November 5-7 - Students reviewed district benchmark test results and worked on portfolio items for parent teacher conferences. Parent Teacher conferences are Thursday from 2:30-6:30. Please come by and visit with me.

November 8-9 - Veteran's Day Activities. No assignments.

November 1, 2007

Reading Workshop: Reflection on Reading Workshop for 1st Quarter.


Writing Workshop: Clean-up day with portofolio pieces. Reflection on writing!

October 31, 2007

Reading : Discuss Favorite book and why "what are some of the words that grabbed you as a reader."


Writing: Work in Computer lab creating movie maker project.

October 30, 2007

Benchmark Testing in Reading & Writing! See Mrs. Studer about make-ups:)

October 29, 2007

Review for Reading & Writing Benchmark!

October 22-25

Reading Workshop: Jargon, dialect, and slang


Writing Workshop: Biography Writing

October 15-19, 2007

Reading Workshop: Looking at Context Clues and Analyzing Text

Writing Workshop: Instruction in use Capitalization, Semicolon, colon, and hyphen through the use of biography writing

October 8-12

Reading Workshop Activity - Looking at Context Clues

Writing Workshop Activity- Pumpkin Carving & Descriptive Writing

October 2, 2007

Reading Workshop: Discussed Prefixes that allow good readers develop vocabulary.

Writing Workshop: Used Micrososft Editing as a revision tool.

October 1, 2007

Students were asked to choose their favorite passage from the text. Then during the writing workshop, they were to post their favorite passage and make a connection with media by looking for a picture on-line.

September 25-28

Writing Workshop: Students worked on the blog and published their pieces of writing like point of view and personal narrative. Must be posted by Monday @ 8:00 a.m.

Reading Workshop: Students worked with booktalks and their predicting words.

September 24, 2007

Mrs. Studer attended a DESE workshop for communication arts today. I will be back tomorow:)

Writing Workshop: We worked on sentence fluency with our personal narrative.

Reading Workshop: Seltect 5 predicting words from your novel.

September 20, 2007

Reading Workshop: SRI testing & library day!

Writing Workshop: Type personal narrative!

September 19, 2007

Early out! Work day for your personal narartive! SRI testing tomorrow and Library Day!

September 18, 2007

Reading Workshop: Complete SAW Workheet!

Writing Workshop: Revise for specifc words within personal narrative!

Early out tomorrow!

September 17, 2007

Reading Workshop: Context Clues and Thersuas

Please see teacher for make-up of that worksheet.

Writing Workshop: Took out our "DEAD WORDS"

September 14, 2007

Reading Workshop: Students read independent reading books while teacher conferenced with individual students on their reading fluency.

Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson: Conclusions - Students evaluated conclusions and we discussed what their conclusion should have for their personal narrative. Rough Draft due Monday!

September 13, 2007

Reading Workshop: Students read independent reading books while teacher conferenced with students on reading grade-level text.

Writing Workshop: Students read personal narrative called "Snapshots." Then we discussed the importance of our leads. Evaluated samples and discussed which one was the best, which one was okay, and which one needed lots of work. Then students reflected on their lead and created or revised the lead for their personal narrative.

September 12, 2007

Reading Workshop: Students worked on creating a connection chain that connected ourselves to our reading books.

Writing Workshop: Drafting Day! Draft the story of your personal narrative!

September 11, 2007

Reading Workshop: Students worked on completing the decoding sheet and then worked on a connection worksheet. Please see teacher for make-up work.

Writing Workshop: Discussed 1st Writing Assignment - Personal Narrative . We began by creating a "heart map."

September 10, 2007

Writing Workshop: Hands-on Activity with Play-Dough.
Think about a topic for your personal narrative.


Reading Workshop:
Mini-lesson: Dictionary Usage
See teacher for lesson.

September 7, 2007

Reading Workshop: We talked about the decision we made when we chose our book in the library. Then we took time to make connections to the text with who we are.

Writing Workshop: Review Friendly Letter - Write letter to Jim.

Please see teacher for this day!

September 6, 2007

In our mini-lesson today we talked about "How do I choose a book?". After our mini-lesson, we went to the library and choose a "just-right" book. We then modeled the reading time for working in the "Reading Zone."

September 5, 2007

Students shared their photo and its story with their writing group. The students were then asked to write a 50 word caption for the picture in their notebook. They were asked to post their photo with their caption on paper provided by teacher and decorate it. The students viewed the photos and read the captions.

September 4, 2007

Reading Workshop: Mini-lesson: Definition of Prediction. We read the story "The First Day of School" by Jeffery Deaver. Click on this link to read the 1st portion of the story "The First Day of School." Make a prediction about what might happen next.

Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson: Correct Friendly Letter Format
We wrote a personal goal letter letter based off a former 8th graders advice using the friendly letter.

August 31, 2007

Reading : Structure of the class & Norms- "World Cafe." Please see the anchor chart for your hour in Mrs. Studer's room.

Writing: Click on this link and Complete Writing Inventory.

D-TEAM TEACHERS ENJOYING THEIR FIRST DAY!

August 30, 2007

The first full day of school for the 8th grade.

1. Students completed the reading inventory for the district and the classroom.
2. They also completed a "What's easy and hard" sheet about reading & writing.
3. Their homework tonight is to get their parent letters signed and returned to Mrs. Studer by September 6. You can find a copy of this letter at this site http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dmtjwt9_0f384mb .

August 29, 2007

8th Grade reported at 11:00!

Here was the schedule for the day:)
Enrichment Study - Bode Expectations during enrichment study.
6th Hour - Students received agenda and wrote important days down to remember.
7th Hour - Review Bode Expectations
8th Hour - Review Bode Handbook!

Please bring a picture of yourself for Tuesday!