As we approach Friday and our last day of 1st quarter, I wanted to give a mid week update. There was no school last Friday so I didn't a blog post out but rest assured we are still here and plugging along.
We are reading and reading about Rome and also learning non-fiction reading strategies that will help with all of our reading for this class in the future. We have read two chapters of the Gross History of Rome and we are reading Ancient Rome. We will have a quiz over Ancient Rome chapters 4-5 on Thursday or Friday depending on how our review goes Thursday. After that we are going to to go back to the Gross History of Rome and finish that book. We will probably read one more chapter Ancient Rome together before we do our Rome test and move on! We are still probably two weeks out from the test. Make sure you are checking powerschool to see if there are any mistakes on your grades before they go out on quarter report card.
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I was out Friday to travel to a wedding so here is what is going on this week in class. We are starting our Ancient Rome reading and learning some great reading strategies for reading non-fiction. We will be reading some sections together and some the students will read on their own or with partners. We will do periodic comprehension quizzes to see if they are paying attention while reading and learning the strategies. We will probably have our Chapter 1 quiz on Thursday.
The students were also working on their Rome "All About a Civilization" work sheet, I would like those in by the end of the week. Most are done and if they finish their reading early they can finish those in class. We are also working on Rome maps after reading is finished. Our Mindfulness practice continues this week with counting as our anchor. We also talked about the Ogre of emotions and watch the introduction to Shrek to see that the things we fear are often not as big of a deal as we work our selves up to thinking. |
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