A Busy Week

8ELA/SS - We're using our classes to build a Writer's Notebook; it's filled with manipulatives and interactive notes to learn and study how writers write.  Today we finished our Hurricane Katrina activity--this saw us thinking about how to read non-fiction with the purpose of writing a summary.  We annotated, completed a summarizing worksheet, then wrote the summary.  We reviewed WHY writers write (PIEED) and started learning HOW they write.  We did an activity with Description and started one with Compare and Contrast.  HOMEWORK:  8B needs to finish transferring their information from the article to their Compare and Contrast tool.

7SS - We are learning about latitude and longitude and spent time today learning co-ordinates.  We started a worksheet plotting the N/S/W/E on a global map and will continue with it tomorrow.  NO HOMEWORK.