the new trimester begins

Finally getting a feeling that I know what I am doing and I know how I want to be doing it. Yesterday my 7th grade team met and talked for about an hour about the goals for our students and some of the across the board expectations. I kind of needed to be in more contact since my schedule barely allows me the time to meet with them. I think I will write up a trimester plan.

Pretty sure there will be students who don't understand their schedules or who want to make changes in their electives on Monday. Fortunately there isn't much of a change for my students. Some groups, same books, better design. My level 2 students are starting a new section on growth. We'll start with units of measurement and then move on to comparisons. For grammar we will still be using adjectives but also going further and making comparisons using " ~er than" . We'll also be working on sequencing and some conjunctions.

My level 3 students three students will be reading a fictional account of Lewis and Clark with Sacagawea and then learning about maps...relief maps in particular and measurement. We'll also be doing some sequencing and the reading strategy of visualizing. I don't think we will have a project for this section because my goal is to begin new units after the Winter Holidays.

feeling blessed with an abundance of little things to take care of....