Hello From Justin

Tips For Having A Good Year:

• Return your library books!
• Use your planner
• Do your homework
• Stay organized
• Learn to type
• Learn to read fast
• Wear your tennis shoes on PE day

Multiage Daily Critical Thinking

Daily Mathematics: A digital clock shows either 3 digits or four digits at a time. At what time do the digits have the greatest sum?

Answer: tomorrow.

Daily Geography: What are the names of the four hemispheres of the earth?

Answer: tomorrow.

Daily Analogies: rapid : swift :: _________ : river

Answer: tomorrow

Hello from Cross Middle School

Hello, our names are Morgan and Shannon.  We are both 8th graders at Cross Middle School, and have achieved 4.0 averages for the past two years.  At Cross, the teachers are both resourceful and kind.  Even though it may sound a lot harder, middle school is not much harder than elementary school.  Our favorite subject is math, and we are both going into geometry which is 10th grade math.

Here are some tips on how to survive middle school:

1. Always do your homework or else you will get lunch detention

2. Do not procrastinate or you will have a hard time and unhappiness

3. Make new friends

4. Don’t chew gum or else you will have to stay after school to scrape gum off of the campus.

5. Always follow the dress code or you will have to wear your P.E. uniform

6. Listen to your teachers, they will be able to help you

7. Join MATHCOUNTS! Or other extra curricular activities

8. Lastly, have fun!

Thank you for reading our Blog. Have a great day, the choice is yours.

Multiage Interimmediate reading Program

Reading Program

 

·      Literature stories – AR

·      Literature practice

·      Literature tests

·      Reading projects

·      Vocabulary lessons

·      Vocabulary tests

·      Silent reading

·      Classroom trade books and read aloud AR (50% of grade)

Reading ought to be about comprehension; getting meaning from the text. The student getting meaning from the text themselves, not with the teacher explaining it, digesting it for them, giving them the important ideas and concept. The students need to learn the use their reading skills that include their analytical and critical thinking skills. They need to be able to comprehend non-fiction and reading in a content area with the same skill that they bring to reading fiction.

 

Books we read in class this year and next: (2008-09)

Across Five Aprils

A Family Apart

The Applewhites

Because of Winn-Dixie

Behind Rebel Lines 

Being of Two Minds

Ben and Me

The Big Wave

The Black Stallion

Caddie Woodlawn

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Crispin: the Cross of Lead

The Family Under the Bridge

The Fledgling

The Fragile Flag

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Hatchet

Holes

Hoot

James and the Giant Peach

Joey Pigza Loses Control

Kavik the Wolf Dog

kira-kira

A Long Way From Chicago

Loser

Maniac Magee

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Mr. Revere and I

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

My Daniel

Pleasing the Ghost

Sadako and the Thousand Cranes

The Sign of the Beaver

Silent Thunder

A Single Shard

Sounder

Stinker From Space

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom

The Tiger Rising

The Time Bike

Walk Two Moons

The Wanderer

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

Words of Stone

Wringer

A Year Down Yonder

 

 

 

 

A suprise visit.

Today former student Tori, who lives in China and attends an American school, visited our class. Tori attended Copper Creek five years ago. It was nice seeing her and her mom and catching up on all the things they have been doing. Tori had the lead part in a production of Grease. Tori plans to go to the U of A and study music. Tori has kept up with several her friends that live in Tucson. It was nice of her to stop by and we enjoyed the visit. Good luck to Tori in the future.

I am in Mr. Floore’s classroom helping Mr. Floore get ready for Parent Orientation right now.  I have been writing things down on the SMART Board for awhile.  We have made math folders, name tags for the desk, clothespins for the drawings, and posters for the new school supplies.  The room now looks very different from last year, when I was in his class.  This year, I will be in Wilson.  I am nervous to start middle school.  I want the summer to last forever.  I have gone on many vacations this summer.  I have also taken some classes, and gone to some camps.  I have read a few books, and I have competed in swimming.

Welcome to the 2008-2009 school year at Copper Creek Elementary School.

Welcome to the 2008 – 2009 school year. You will love the books that we will read in class this year.  I think after we read the book Holes, we might perform it as a play. In science, we will study magnetism and electricity. You will learn to be organized, you will learn excellent test taking skills, and you will be ready for middle school.

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