Until Next Time,
Ritchie
7th & 8th Graders have been very busy since the start of the new year! I feel bad because I've had to put blogging on hold for a month or so due to my eyes being out of sorts! With the strabmismus surgery being a success, I decided to do a brief synopsis of different activities I was able to capture while being on hiatus! Enjoy all the randomness below! The 7th & 8th graders and I discovered an awesome new review game online called Quizziz! It's very similar to Kahoot, but I can export an excel document of scores & progress! *insert evil laugh* Below are pictures of 8R's Super Bowl Pizza Party. I've learned my lesson... never make a bet that you've never researched! Why I thought the Steelers would make it to the Super Bowl is beyond me... Irregular Verb Bingo!!! 7th graders made their bingo boards by choosing the past form of irregular verbs while I called out the present form. We used our writer's choice books to help us! (Ex. Me: Ran Answer:Run) Adjective Pictionary - this was more challenging than it looks! 7th graders did an excellent job problem solving & working together as a team! 8th Grade has been working hard on our African American History Unit! We've been working on broadening our vocabulary & understanding difficult concepts like segregation, civil rights, and bigotry. Mrs. Myer and I teamed up for this unit!! Anytime we can "chunk" important information for our students, the better off they'll be! For this activity, students worked together to compile a list of synonyms, examples, definitions, word part meanings, etc... related to the word at the top. Students passed these sheets to different groups and at the end, we determined the meaning of the word. Goal setting & New Years Resolution Banners! Writing Process w/ Play Doh! I do have a more detailed post from last year! After the long break, I wanted to review with my 7th graders the writing process ASAP! What better way on those 20 minute days than to review with Play Doh!! Adverb Antics, & Guess the Noun & Verb! These games are much like charades and students come up and preform for the class in a limited amount of time. The objective is to be very clear with actions & sayings so that the class could guess correctly! Great review games for parts of speech! We've even managed to sneak in a STEM activity to promote team work, problem solving & critical thinking! Students had 20 minutes to create the longest looping-linking chain they could with one piece of construction paper! Told you we've been busy! ;) Cant wait to show you our figurative language, word choice, and poetry soon!
Until Next Time, Ritchie
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I know what you're thinking.... "this sounds a little morbid"... "why obituaries and epitaphs?!?" "Uhhhh... what is an Epitaph?!?". Well, for those of you who haven't read the Outsiders (which you should!!!), this novel is full of great opportunities to write from a variety of different purposes... especially when S.E. Hinton, the author, decides to kill off some major characters... 😭 #illalwaysloveyoujohnnycake After chapter 11, students used textual evidence & their own inferences to create an epitaph (tomb poem or saying remembering the deceased) and obituary for Johnny Cade. My students did an excellent job with this challenge!!
Until Next Time, Ritchie On those wonky schedule days, I like to switch it up and do art with writing. The kids seem to enjoy this one, where we created snowman in different perspectives. This was an introduction to our point of view unit. The kids were able to create snowman from any perspective they wanted! They turned out great! Take a look at the gallery below! Take a look at the "Exploratory Unit" page to see what we've been up too!!
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