We are back at it. Today we began some vocabulary work. Our words this week are rigor, gratify, proficient and standard. These are four key words from an article we will be reading later this week. Please try to use these words as much as possible in conversations with your child and have them explain what they mean. The students will not have homework related to these words (at this time), but we will be working with them everyday in class. Tomorrow we will be looking at synonyms and antonyms for the words so we know what they are and are not.
This week we will be doing a lot of acknowledging where we are in our learning and then looking at where we want to be by the end of the year. After exploring new reasons for reading (as we all know, they change as we get older and 7th grade begins that shift), we will be setting reading goals, demonstrating our writing through the district writing prompts and then analyzing our data from last year so we know how far we need to grow to meet our goals. Be sure to ask your student about their goals for the year and how they plan to reach them.
Book orders are coming home tomorrow and are due back by September 16th. You can also order online by that date.
I need a parent who has some time to come in and laminate the name tags the students made and then cut them out. This may even be a two parent thing. Let me know if you have a day this week that you are available. I will be out Wednesday afternoon because my son is getting braces, but you can still come in and help. I will be there until 11:30.
Homework: Read 30 minutes.
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