Spelling List 1/4/10-1/8/10 Contractions

The words for the week are listed below:
1. We'll 11. He'll
2. I'm 12. She'll
3. I'd 13. They'll
4. You'd 14. They'd
5. I'll 15. He'd
6.We've 16. Would've
7. I'ts 17. Could've
8. What's 18. Wouldn't
9. That's 19. Shouldn't
10. Doesn't 20. Let's

As always the students recieve this list in class on Monday and work with these words throughout the week. for testing purposes they do not have to be capitalized. They can always be found on the blog as well. I will do my best to make sure they are assesable every week here on the blog.

Arizona Projects

I wanted to provide a heads up concerning the Arizona project we will be doing when we return for break. In effort to provide a good, well rounded, exploration of Arizona I have developed a poster-presentation project to go along with our lessons. The instructions for this project will go out the Monday we return back from break as well as the grading rubric I will use to grade these projects. On the instructions page it tell you what you can do to help your student with their project as these will mostly be done in class. They will need a poster, or tri-fold board which can be purchased at numerous locations (Walmart, K-mart, Walgreens, Office Max, etc.). These are relatively inexpensive and I will let you choose which poster or tri-fold you wish. This project will be based on information gathered, creativity, participation, and oral presentation as you will see in the rubric. This should be a fun way to explore our states history, animals, plants, and other points of interest. They will be due at the beginning of February which is about the halfway point in the quarter. If you have any questions you can email me or stop by the class one afternoon and view an example I have in class.

Happy Holidays and Thank You

I hope that you are enjoying the holidays. I wanted to say thank you for all of the Christmas gifts that I recieved before the break. I also wanted to say thank you for all of your support before school let out for the break. You may have know through your student that my family was going through a tramatic experience with a close family friend in the hospital. On December 16th the day we let out for break she passed away. It was a sudden thing and it even forced me to leave school early several times to help with the family. I wanted to take this moment to say thank you for all of your support and understanding through the past through weeks. My family appreciates your kind words of encouragment and support.