Week have another short week but a lot to do.

Today we started reading Chapter 2 of the Spider wick Chronicles, reviewed the past tense and asking questions with the past tense, and talked about our new spelling words.

Here are our plans for the week:

Monday
Read and finish Chapter 2 of the Spiderwick Chronicles
Rewrite our essays from last week
review the past tense and the words did and didn't

Tuesday - No School
practice spelling and vocabulary


Wednesday
Read and start Chapter 3 of the Spiderwick Chronicles
review the past tense, did, and didn't
review vocabulary and spelling

Thrusday
Read and finish Chapter 3 of the Spiderwick Chronicles
Spelling and vocabulary test.

Thank you everybody.

I wanted to thank my students and everyone who helped to make my birthday great.  Thank you so much.  We spent the half the class eating cake and enjoying the sun outside.  It was a good day.

We also started our new Spiderwick Chronicles book, The Ironwood Tree, today.  I'm really excited and this book will be a lot of fun.  Students can read chapter one at home and we will be working on it in class on Thursday. 

Keep on studying the spelling for the spelling test.

We have a test tomorrow!

We rewrote our essays from last week, practiced similes and prepared for our test tomorrow.

Here are our plans for the week:

Monday (tomorrow) - Vocabulary and Spiderwick Chronicles Test.  We will start the essay for this week and work on using gerunds.

Tuesday - Reading, gerunds, and competition

Wednesday -science, and rewrite papers

Thursday - spelling test, gerunds, vocabulary game, and reading

We got a lot done today.

We did writing, reading, review vocabulary and sentence structure.

The students need to keep reading at home.

Tomorrow we will read chapter 7 and review spelling.

We will also start a science experiment tomorrow.

We have a lot to do this week.

Students need to study the spelling and vocabualry flashcards. They must bring the flashcards to school everyday.

Here are our plans for the week.

Monday
Reading Chapter 7 of the Spiderwick Chronicles
Planning and writing our essays

Tuesday
Reading Chapter 7 of the Spiderwick Chronicles
Similes and Metaphors
Review Spelling and Vocabulary

Wednesday
Editing and rewriting papers
Science: Making a Food Garden

Thursday
Competition
Spelling Test
Review spelling and vocabulary
Review Spiderwick Chronicles

Thursday April 12th

We finished writing today and we practice our sentence drills.

In class we did a science experiment today about fat. We used different food like water, milk, apples, and potatoes, and saw how much oil and fat they have.

Everyone needs to be finished with chapter 6 of the Spiderwick Chronicles by Sunday.

We finished the competition

We finished our competition and the Copycats (Adam and Beesan) won. The Mad Bulls (Lilia and Mona), Ninja Aliens (Taleb and Omar A.) and Bieber Fever (Maya and Shayma) also did very well. I'm happy with how everyone did and we will do another competition soon.


We wrote in class today and read the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Students need to be reading at home from their library books and some of the students have spelling homework they have to give me on Thursday.

I'll see you tomorrow.

We will have English tomorrow.

I've had a great weekend. I hiked 45 kilometers this weekend, from Awarta to At-Taybeh.

Tomorrow I will ask you what I did this weekend to see who is reading the blog

The Hokey Pokey

We are still reading chapters 3 and 4 of the Spiderwick Chronicles this week.

The students have homework tonight. They need to finish the if conditional sheet. We will go over it tomorrow and practice saying conditional sentences.

Students need to keep reading at home.

Students, don't ever forget that the verb to be changes into is, am, are, was, and were.

Monday, April 2nd

We worked on writing today. The students finished writing their essays and then exchanged them with a another person in class to correct them. I will go over them today and tomorrow. They will rewrite them in class on Wednesday.

We also continued reading Chapter 3 of the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Everyday in class this week we are practicing saying sentences correctly. We will be doing this the rest of the year. This week the focus is on don't/doesn't and a/an. We are going to have a competition on Thursday. Students will be in teams of two. Each team will have 30 seconds to say as many correct sentences as they can from the cards. The team that has the most will win.

Not a good day.

Reading

Students should be reading 20 minutes a day, five days a week home. They can use the books we have at the library and they can also reread the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Many students did not read for March. They are now reading in zero break everyday.

Writing

The students have writing homework today. They need to fill out the essay planning sheet. We will go over and work on them tomorrow before they write their essays. If you have any questions about the writing post on the comments of this blog and I will answer them tonight.