This Week in Room 101: February 4-8

Core
Language Arts: Valentine Odes (RD due Wednesday), root: jur/jus (test Friday)
Social Studies: Native Americans (presentations & test February 15)

Reading
We are OAKS testing every day, please get a good night's sleep and eat breakfast each morning.

Wildcat Pride
Beginning of week: Blast from the Past (due Wednesday)
End of the week: Marshmallow Challenge

Cultural Exploration
lunes: los verbos en espanol
martes/miercoles/jueves: practicamos con verbos "-AR"
viernes: QUIZ-ito de -AR verbs

This Week in Room 101 January 14 - 17

Core:

• Design Star project is in full swing
• Monday: presentation
• Tuesday: group selection, drafting
• Wednesday: site decisions
• Thursday & Friday: rough draft
• New Year Essays are being graded and will be returned and discussed on Friday

Reading:

• Reading for details (in preparation for OAKS), packet assigned Tuesday, due Thursday when you come through the door

Wildcat Pride:

• Mini-incentive was a success!!! I am proud of the hard work and contributions of each team (and you should be too)
• Yearbook Design Competition
• working with your small group
• layouts must have design theme (including font and color)
• due Friday at the end of the period

Cultural Exploration:

• Career exploration project continues
• Monday & Tuesday: research
• Wednesday - Friday: work on google presentations

Reading Lab:

• Figurative language

This Week in Room 101: Jan 8-11

Core

Tuesday: Writing scoring guide, writing modes, intro New Year essay

Wednesday: New Year essay work time

Thursday: New Year essay RD due, edit and revise, work on final draft

Friday: New Year essay DUE at the beginning of class, present

Reading:

Wednesday: New Year Around the World

Friday: New Year Around the World

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Wildcat Pride

Tuesday-Friday: Mini incentive PREP

Cultural Exploration

Tuesday: Intro Career Project: "What is Your Adjective" "What color?"

Wednesday -Friday: Laptops for Career Project Research

This Week in Room 101: December 17 - 21

Important Dates
Ugly Holiday Sweater/Outfit Day: FRIDAY!!!
6th grade movie trip: Tuesday
7th grade movie trip: Wednesday
8th grade movie trip: Thursday

Core
Monday -Friday: Winter words mini-unit, What is Culture?

Reading

Monday: Finish Socratic Seminar for The Ugly Duckling
Wednesday: Seminar reflection
Friday: Scrooge

 
Wildcat Pride

Monday: Bullying resources
Tuesday - Friday: Mini Incentive Prep

Cultural Exploration

Monday - Thursday: Finish books & present

Friday: Art

This Week in Room 101 December 10 -14

Core

Monday: Chapter 5 Section 3

Tuesday: Homophone review

Wednesday: Homophone quiz

Thursday: Chapter 5 Study Guide

Friday: Chapter 5 Test (all chapter 5 handouts due)

Reading:

Tuesday: Ugly Duckling seminar and test prep

Thursday: Ugly Duckling seminar (see previous post for details)

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Wildcat Pride

Monday: Re-do signs

Tuesday: Mini incentive prep, Studio Works intro

Wednesday: Studio Works

Thursday: Mini incentive prep

Friday: Studio Works

Cultural Exploration

Monday: Book construction: Cover Boards

Tuesday: Final draft inside pages DUE

Wednesday: Book construction: ribbons and accordion

Thursday & Friday: Final touches

This Week in Room 101: December 3-7

Happy December!

Please note: Miss Bryant will be at a conference on Thursday and Friday

Core

Monday: Verbs, Chapter 5 Section 1 Review

Tuesday: Verbs, homophones, Chapter 5 Section 2, Geography Bee

Wednesday: Geography Bee, homophone comic intro

Thursday: homophone packet, verb work, Chapter 5 Section 2 due

Friday: homophone comic DUE at the end of the period

Reading:

Monday: Ugly Duckling small group read (finish)

Wednesday: Ugly Duckling whole class read

Friday: Ugly Duckling whole class read (finish)

Wildcat Pride

Monday: Edit advertising letters

Tuesday: Envelope making (for ad letters)

Wednesday: Yearbook Wednesday

Thursday: Ugly Sweater Day Signs

Friday: Ugly Sweater Day signs

Cultural Exploration

Monday: Book RD work time (due Tuesday)

Tuesday: Final draft book work time

Wednesday: Cover boards

Thursday: Library to type final draft/final draft work time

Friday: Library to type final draft/final draft work time

Reading Lab Tutorial

Monday: "Think Aloud" using fiction AND non fiction

Wednesday: tbd

Friday: tbd

This Week in Room 101: November 13-16

Core
Tuesday: Spelling sort it, Verbs, How to Packet (library to type), Types of Government, Book Box Prep
Wednesday: Book Box due, presntations BEGIN
Thursday: Book Box presentations, Library to type How-To, Verbs, Types of Government DUE
Friday: Spelling & Vocab TEST (mis/mit), How-To Paragraph DUE

Reading
Wednesday: Thanksgiving Reading
Friday:  Thanksgiving Reading

Wildcat Pride
Tuesday: Photo & design Vocab REVIEW
Wednesday: Photo & Design Vocab QUIZ
Thursday & Friday: Community 101 Research

Cultural Exploration
Tuesday: Food collage work time
Wednesday: Talking about food using "gustar"
Thursday: Mi Vida Loca Final Episodes
Friday: Mi Vida Loca TEST

Reading Tutorial
Wednesday: Test Taking Strategies, Exit Test
Friday: Finish Exit Test

This Week in Room 101 10/29-11/2

Notes for the week:
- MV does not have a Halloween costume day (please keep your costume at home on Wednesday)
- Miss B will be attending a training on Thursday and Friday, email replies to parent concerns may be lagging as a result of this absence
- Novels for CORE need to be finished by November 6th

Core
Monday: New vocab (phobia), intro CE #1 (due Friday), Chapter 3, Reading Log (due Nov 6)
Tuesday: Chapter 3 packet, edit setting paragraph
Wednesday: Chapter 3 packet, library to type paragraph, commas
Thursday: work time (CE, spelling, and typing), commas
Friday: CE due! Spelling&Vocab test, commas, Chapter 3 packet DUE

Reading
Tuesday: Spooky Reading part 1
Thursday: Spooky Reading part 2

Wildcat Pride
Monday: Community 101 Mission Statement
Tuesday: Yearbook Theme
Wednesday: Boundary Breaking
Thursday: Oregon Pride signs
Friday: Oregon Pride sign DUE

Cultural Exploration
Monday: Prep QUESO board
Tuesday: Day of the Dead
Wednesday: Play QUESO
Thursday: Day of the Dead
Friday: Day of the Dead

This Week in Room 101: 10/16-10/19

Core
Monday: New spelling/vocab (root=sect), Create a Country planning sheet
Tuesday: Create a Country Rough Draft
Wednesday: CaC RD due, Final draft work time, nouns review
Thursday: CaC work time, spelling sort it
Friday: CaC work time (due Monday), spelling and vocab test, fun write Fri.

Reading
Tuesday: Finish American Slurp
Thursday: American Slurp QUIZ

Wildcat Pride
Monday-Friday: prep for incentive
***Wednesday: run through

Cultural Exploration
Monday: Picasso Monsters
Tuesday: Mi Vida Loca ep 11 & 12
Wednesday: PIcasso Monsters
Thursday: Mi Vida Loca ep 13
Friday: Picasso Monster (due at end of class)

This Week in Room 101: October 1st - 5th

Core
Monday: Atlas work, writing notebook warm up (weekend topic), latitude & longitude review
Tuesday: Latitude & Longitude QUIZ, Detectives (I promise!), subject & predicate, begin plot, ***BOOK LOG DUE!
Wednesday: Earth & Sun (SS reading activity)
Thursday: Plot diagram as a class, detectives, subject & predicate NOVEL DUE
Friday: Novel TEST

Notes: No spelling this week (we are taking a week off to catch up on other things)

Reading
Monday: Ta-Na-E-Ka
Wednesday: Finish Ta-Na-E-Ka
Friday: Ta-Na-E-Ka Quiz

Wildcat Pride
Monday & Tuesday: First half = what type of leader are you, second half incentive brainstorm
Wednesday & Thursday: Incentive brainstorm
Friday: Team building

Cultural Exploration
Monday: Mi Vida Loca episode 7
Tuesday: Seasons art DUE, seasons writing
Wednesday: Mi Vida Loca episode 8
Thursday: Family
Friday: Family

Reading Lab
See Miss B for details

This Week in Room 101: September 24-28

Core (Language Arts and Social Studies

Monday: New vocabulary words (root word: ject), map+atlas practice, edline & email

Tuesday: Reading Log (setting) DUE, Character, Get Coordinated (from Mon) DUE

Wednesday: Nouns, Latitude + Longitude assessment, Detectives

Thursday: Detectives, spelling sort it

Friday: Vocab test, spelling practice sheet DUE, Detective DUE, Maps

Reading (meets 1st period B days only)

Tuesday:

Thursday:

Wildcat Pride 

Monday: Theme boards

Tuesday: Vote on theme, figure out t-shirts

Wednesday: Photography tips and tricks

Thursday: Photography tips and tricks continued

Friday: COMFY COZY DAY!! Team building

Cultural Exploration

Monday: Weather

Tuesday: Weather art

Wednesday: Mi Vida Loca

Thursday: Weather art, finish and DUE

Friday: Mi Vida Loca

This Week in Room 101: Sept 17-21

 Here is our plan for the week of September 17 - September 21.

Core (Language Arts and Social Studies

Monday: New vocabulary words (root word: man/manu), Cornell note taking

Tuesday: Maps & Globes, reading log (focus on setting), nouns

Wednesday: Latitude & Longitude

Thursday: Continue work on setting, nouns and latitude+longitude

Friday: Vocab test, fun write Friday

Reading (meets 1st period B days only)

Monday: "Eleven" name activity/reading

Wednesday: "Eleven" due at the end of the period
Friday: Reading circuit: focus on setting 

Wildcat Pride 

Monday: Comfy Cozy Sign DUE, yearbook theme brainstorm, parts of a yearbook

Tuesday: Meet Balfour rep, work on theme

Wednesday: Photography tips and tricks, finalize theme

Thursday: Photography tips and tricks continued

Friday: Team building

Cultural Exploration

Monday: Review numbers, days, months

Tuesday: Intro weather

Wednesday: Weather

Thursday: Weather, prepare "Queso" board

Friday: Weather "Queso" and weather quiz

This Week in Room 101

 Welcome to the BIG SHOW. Week 2.

A few notes:

1.  We do our best to stick to this schedule, but inevitably, life happens. If deadlines change, they will be noted here on the blog...this is a PLAN, and is meant to be used for students to have a general idea of what happened in class. Detailed assignments and notes will sometimes be posted, extra copies are available in the classroom.
2. Core meets for 3 periods on A days and 1 period on B days and thus some days will have more to accomplish than others (as you will see below)

Core (Language Arts and Social Studies

Monday: New vocabulary words (see related post HERE), Intro to DOL, vocab flashcards, blog tour, Fire Drill "how to"

Tuesday: Magical words and phrases (a writing activity)

Wednesday: DOl, Maps and Globes, LibLab tour, using gmail

Thursday: Vocab practice, latitude and longitude

Friday: Vocab test, DOL, latitude and longitude, fun write Friday

Reading (meets 1st period B days only)

Tuesday: Intro WIR and begin "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros

Thursday: Finish "Eleven"

Wildcat Pride 

Monday: Spirit day presentation prep

Tuesday: Present spirit day decisions to Mr. Murphy

Wednesday: Sign making 101

Thursday: Sign due @ end of the period

Friday: Team building

Cultural Exploration

Monday: Fire drill practice, basic conversation comic RD due

Tuesday: basic conversation comic work time, due @ end of the period

Wednesday: numbers, telephone conversations

Thursday: Classroom objects

Friday: Classroom objects

First Day Homework

I really enjoyed meeting everyone today, I can't wait to see what this year brings us.

A few notes:

Core: please bring composition book (or let Miss B know you need one) by Thursday

WCP: camera use permission slip is due ASAP

All courses (Core, Reading, WCP, CX): the first homework assignment of the year (signed syllabus slip) is due on FRIDAY. If it is not turned in by Friday, you can expect call home... please place in the green basket when complete.

Happy School Year!

Miss B

This Week in Room 101

Language Arts
Monday: New vocab words (root = bio)
Tuesday: Noun & Adjective Review, intro hyphens
Wednesday: Using hyphens effectively
Thursday: vocab review, writing 
Friday: Vocab test, fun write Friday


Social Studies
Monday: Chapter 11 & 12 test
Tuesday: Intro Latin American Research project
Wednesday: Research 
Thursday: Research 
Friday: Research, sheets #1-4 due at the end of the period
Tuesday May 29: All Research due at the end of the period



Reading
Tuesday: Intro AMSND Characters and overview of play
Thursday: Read AMSND


Wildcat Pride
Monday: committee work
Tuesday: committee work
Wednesday: Community 101 run through, committee work
Thursday: Community 101 Final Banquet
Friday: decades day, dollyhead clean up


Cultural Exploration
Monday:book rough draft
Tuesday: type book RD
Wednesday: cover book boards
Thursday: book final draft
Friday: book final draft

This Week in Room 101

Core
Monday: Intro Creature Feature, Mayan Beliefs note taking
Tuesday: Creature Feature, Mayan Beliefs seminar (see related post HERE)
Wednesday:Creature Feature drawing due, Mayan writing, intro Incas
Thursday: Creature Feature, poems in two voices practice, Incas
Friday: Creature Feature poem DUE, Macchu Picchu Real Estate advertisement notes


Reading
Tuesday: Jabberwocky
Thursday: You are Old Father William


Wildcat Pride
Monday: Decades Day signs
Tuesday: Finish Decades Day signs (due Wednesday)
Wednesday: Community 101: Family Building Blocks meeting
Thursday: Community 101: Love Inc meeting
Friday: Community 101: Children First for Oregon meeting


Cultural Exploration
Monday: Finish "Bad Hair Day" art
Tuesday: making appointments in Spanish
Wednesday: new vocab
Thursday: new vocab practice 
Friday: art Friday

This Week in Room 101: April 2-6

 6th Grade Core

Monday - Friday in SS: create Google presentation

Monday - Friday in LA: study and prepare vocabulary for "Mondo-Octo Vocab quiz"

Tuesday: book Log Due

Wednesday: intro BARF (due April 11)

**April 11: Mondo-Octo (80 word vocab quiz)

Reading

Monday: Intro Shakespeare

Wednesday: Shakespeare's life and times

Friday: Shakespeare's life and times

Wildcat Pride

Monday - Friday: Finish Yearbook

Wednesday: Doernbecher committee apps due

Thursday or Friday: Community 101 funder visit

Cultural Explorations

Monday: Culturebook Rough Draft

Tuesday: Culturebook RD due

Wednesday: Culturebook Final Draft

Thursday: Culturebook Final draft DUE and present

Friday: Art Friday

This Week in Room 101

 

6th grade Core                                                                             

Theme for the week: the importance of study skills

Monday: New Spelling words (LA), History of Canada (SS)

Tuesday: Writing lesson: figurative language review (LA), History of Canada (SS), Canada Map Quiz (SS)

Wednesday: Canadian Government (SS), finish figurative language review (LA)

Thursday: Spelling Review (LA), Canada map quiz (SS)

Friday: Spelling test (LA), French Canada (SS) 

6th grade Reading                                                                         

Theme for the week: Thunder and Lightning (non fiction reading pieces)

Monday: non-fiction reading "Strike Zone"

Wednesday: "Strike Zone" questions due, non-fiction reading: more about lightning

Friday: finish up lightning reading

Wildcat Pride                                                                               

Theme for the week: Yearbook Deadline is looming

Monday: LibLab: finishing layouts (no pictures til approved), interviewing

Tuesday: LibLab: finishing layouts (no pictures til approved), interviewing

Wednesday: LibLab: finishing layouts (no pictures til approved), interviewing

Thursday: Yearbook Time out: Community 101 time: Interviewing the Oregon Food Bank

Friday: LibLab: Rough layout with basic captions and pictures READY, interviewing DUE

Cultural Explorations                                                                    

Theme for the week: Understanding symbolism in art and life

Monday: Spanish prepositions review, begin personal soundtrack

Tuesday: personal soundtrack work time

Wednesday: personal soundtrack DUE (at the beginning of the period), review spanish prepositions

Thursday: prepositions warm up, symbolism in art

Friday: symbolism in life (an art lesson)

This Week in Room 101

Core                                     
Monday: New vocab words (root of the week = mit and miss), Viking ABC chart
Tuesday: Spelling practice sheet, novel project work time, Viking review
Wednesday: Grammar workshop, Viking QUIZ(ito)
Thursday: Novel project work time, Canada map
Friday: Vocab and spelling TEST, Canada map 
Next Week: weird schedule for OAKS testing, Novel Project due TUESDAY


Reading                                                 
Monday: Finish Stargirl
Wednesday: Stargirl ABC
Friday: Stargirl TEST
Next week: OAKS Testing Round 2, every day


Wildcat Pride                                                            
Monday: 4 styles of leadership
Tuesday: yearbook work time
Wednesday: yearbook survey
Thursday: yearbook layouts
Friday: team building


Cultural Explorations                                                                     
Monday: Self portrait, using the verb 'Ser' to describe yourself
Tuesday: Self portrait due, SER sentence strips due
Wednesday: Ser and professions
Thursday: Ser Quiz
Friday: Art Friday