Ms. Rouse

Peek of the Weeks: May 11- 22

It is almost impossible to believe that the year is almost over.  We have worked hard and learned a lot!  Our last two weeks will be extremely busy! Here's a peek at some upcoming activites:

Sunday, May 10 - Happy Mother's Day

Tuesday, May 12 - D/HH Tea Party and Program

Thursday, May 14 - Retirement celebration for Mr. Boling

Monday, May 18 - Wednesday, May 20 - The Olympic Games

                

Upcoming Tests and Projects

Reading:

Matilda: Final 4 chapters

Main Idea- Final Test

Project: Comparison of "Matilda" the movie and Matilda, the book

Language Arts:

Parts of Speech

Sentence Diagramming with Direct Objects

Social Studies:

Map Skills

All About Georgia

Study Skills

Project: Comparison of "The Tale of Despereaux" the movie with The Tale of Despereauux, the novel

Graphics from the following sites:

Olympic rings: ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com

Tea pot: www.anewday-anewway.com

Boy studying: nursingpad.blogspot.com

Peek of the Week: March 30 - April 3

Classes are working on the following skills/topics:

Reading: Main idea and details, cause and effect, facts/opinions

Book: Matilda by Roald Dahl

Social Studies: Georgia and The Civil War

Books: F is for Freedom by Ron Shcotter, If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America by Anne Kamma and The Civil War by Kerry A. Graves

Language Arts: Adjectives and adverbs (test-Monday), sentence diagramming, direct objects

Text: "Africa Digs"

Study Skills: Journal Writing  (persuasive piece) topic- "Dear Mom and Dad, We Should Go to _______ for Spring Break"           

         

Have a spectacular spring vacation!

Peek of the Week - January 20 -23, 2009

Monday, January 19,  we take a pause to remember and reflect upon the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Following Monday's commerative holiday in his honor, we will embark upon a historic moment history as the first African American president will be inaugurated.  Homework assignments for both reading and social studies will consist of vocabulary and writing assignments related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the inauguration of our 44th president, Barack Obama.

  

graphics: democraticunderground.com and depaw.edu

Social Studies: Lawmakers of our country

Language Arts: Verbs, subject/verb agreement

Study Skills: Complete writing narrative writing pieces, The Tale of Despereaux

Reading: Test on pages 1-10 of Bats- Wednesday, January 21

Have a sensational week!

Peek of the Week for January 12 - 16, 2008

Study Skills: This week we will be working on the writing process: using a graphic organizer, writing a rough draft, editing a rough draft and writing a final copy.  This week's homework is comprised of questions from earlier chapters in the book, The Tale of Despereaux.  image:increaseyourranking.com

 

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Social Studies: We are continuing our Georgia Study unit.  This week's focus is Eli Whitney's cotton gin and its influence on slavery, as well as the Cherokee Native American's Trail of Tears. There will be a test on Wednesday, January 15.  Homework: Study for Friday's test using notes from class.

Language Arts: We are beginning a more in depth study of nouns this week.  We will differetiate singualar and plural, common and proper, and concrete and abstract nouns.  Homework: Nouns Test on Friday, January 16.

Reading: We are still reading the nonfictional text, Bats.  We will continue working on differentiating between facts and opinions.  Homework: Reading Logs and advertisements using facts and opinions. 

Peek of the Week for December 15-19, 2008

Dear Families,

Wow, can you believe this is our last blog for the year 2008?  I know I can't!  As the holidays appproach I would like to say thank you to all of the support you give to the children.  M y first semester here at Pine Mountain has been terrific thanks to you and your wonderful children. I hope that you all have a fantastic holiday season and that all your holiday wishes come true!

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  All Students: Remember Friday, December 19th is our Winter Holiday Celebration! Don't forget to bring your assigned goodies by Thursday, December 18th.

Study Skills: During next week's study skills class, we will continue working with the Tale of Despereaux and finish some of our incomplete journal entries.  Homework- Foreshadowing assignment from The Tale of Despereaux  readings.   

**Remember, although the movie,"The Tale of Despereaux" comes out at the theatres next week, please do not go to see it until after the holidays when we are finished with the book.I know you are in great anticipation, but be patient...we're getting there. **  (graphic - www.leoncounty.fla.gov.)

Reading: During next week's reading class we will continue reading our chapter book, Matilda and our guided reading book, Bats by Ron Cole.  I will introduce a new Reading Test Prep. warm-up drill.  This week's drill will focus on differentiating between fact and opinion.  Homework- Reading logs, and questions from the stories, Snack Time!  and Winter is Coming

Language Arts:  Next week we will work with helping/linking verbs and compound predicates.

Social Studies:  We'll be working with Georgia geography.

Peek of the Week for December 8-12, 2008

 Study Skills: This week's study skills focuses on foreshadowing and summarizing.  We're getting closer to the end of our fantastic book, The Tale of Despereaux.  Homework - Reading logs and reading summaries of chapters 30 - 36 from The Tale of Despereaux. Picture (bigpicture.fancast.com)

 Reading: We will continue our guided reading of Bats, chapter book activities for the story, Matilda , and working on our multi- meaning word books. Homework - Reading Log and Bat story. *** Study bat vocabulary for test on Tuesday, December 16. Picture (beekeeping.com)

  Language Arts: Sentence diagramming, vocabulary, subject/verb agreement. Picture (tdl.com)

Social Studies: All about Atlanta Picture (busbank.com)

Peek of the Week for December 1 - 5, 2008

 I hope that you had a restful Thanksgiving vacation. Today, we discussed everyone's vacation.  Some of the kids complained about being bored during the holidays, which is so funny to me!  The week before we left for break they were all talking about how they were tired and ready to stay home.  Boy, oh boy, we just can't please our little teenagers! 

Study Skills Class- This week will will work on understanding and using subheadings in reading and writing.

 Reading Class- As you know, our reading class is full of "budding poets".  We work on a different type of poetry every other month.  The December/January poetry type is acrostic poems.  We will be writing acrostic poems about our grandmothers this week, as well as reading our book, Bats. Here's the link to help with acrostic poem writing http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

Language Arts- Diagraming, diagramming and more diagramming this week in Language Arts.

Social Studies- We'll be focusing on Atlanta this week in our Georgia study.  

Peek of the Week for November 17 -21

Study Skills: This week we will work on writing.  We will work on subjects, predicates and predicate expanders.  At the end of the week will work on chapter 16 of The Tale of Despereaux.

Reading: At beginning of the week we will have a vocabulary and comprehension test on the story, Lon Po Po. Then we will begin reading a new non-fictional book entitled, Bats .

Language Arts:  We will continue working on our writing skills using the program "Framing our Thoughts"  Specifically, we will work on compound subjects and predicates.

Social Studies:  We will continue working on our new "Georgia" unit.

Peek of the Week for the Week of October 6 - 10,2008

Study Skills:  This week you will be working on making connections with your text from " The Tale of Despereaux", chapters 1-6.  If you have forgetten the process, I have posted one of the powerpoints from class to help you along.  Download my_connections_study_skills_class.ppt

Reading:  This week you will be working on making connections with your text from "Matilda" chapters 1 -8.  If you have forgotten the process, I have posted one of the powerpoints from class to help you remember.Download my_connections_reading_class.ppt

Peek of the Week for the Week of September 28 - October 3, 2008

Study Skills: For the next two or three weeks we will work on foreshadowing.  We will continue to explore this literary strategy in our current story, The Tale of Despereaux.  Remember this week, you have homework from Gallaudet's online magazine publication.  If you forgot what to do, here's an attached copy especially for you!  Download oct_3_study_skills_homework.doc   Have a happy week!

Reading:  You all did a great job on your wolf reports!  I enjoyed reading all of the great things you learned about these interesting animals.  This week we will finish our October Haiku poems.  We will also begin reading Lon Po Po by Ed Young.  In our chapter book, Matilda, we will read about the dreaded and terrible "Trunchbull".  Here's a copy of this week's homework in case you lose your copy. Download september_26_reading_homework.doc   Have a happy week!