September+29th+-+October+3rd

=Friday, October 3rd, 2008=

===Fridays are "Tech" days, where students use their websites to do research or update their sites with the week's assignments. Today's assignment was to create a new page linked to their Science page (Weather page for middle school students, Zoology Project for high school students). After creating the page they were to follow a step-by-step checklist in order to complete their assignment.=== [|Middle School checklist] [|High School checklist]

Students who did not complete the assignment in the allotted time were asked to put the checklist into their "bigmouths" (take-home binders) for homework.
=Wednesday, October 1st, 2008=

===Today students were introduced to the beginning of class ritual that we will continue for the rest of the year. Upon entering the room students will find an activity at their seat or on the board. Students should: ===


=== Today's prompt was: //**"Imagine that your parents have left for a week-long vacation and left you in charge of the house. They have also left a little bit of money for groceries. What do you do with your week? Write a short paragraph describing what you would do with your week of independence."**// ===

=Monday, September 29th, 2008=

===Today students were introduced to their Week 1 spelling list (see page). Students who score 100% on the pre-test do not have to take the final test on Friday. Pre-tests were given and scored as a class.===

===Next, we moved on to some reading comprehension worksheets. Students could choose to join a read-aloud group or a quiet-reading group. Most of the rest of the period was dedicated to working on these sheets. ===