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Posts from the ‘Grade 7’ Category
Feb 22
I’ll Be Attending the NAEA National Convention Next Week!
The NAEA National Convention is the largest professional development opportunity offered worldwide, exclusively developed art educators. Participating in exemplary professional development workshops and sessions with other pK-12 art educators, museum educators, researchers, scholars and university professors, teaching artists, and administrators offers a unique opportunity to collaborate and learn from other professionals in the field, as well as share our schools successes. Within the 1,000 concurrent sessions offered at the 2012 NAEA National Convention, there are numerous sessions specically targeted to my professional development goals including strategies for enhancing student achievement, interdisciplinary learning, assessment, curriculum, and instruction.
I can’t wait to bring back all that I will learn and share it with the students at SJV!
Pre-K and their 7th grade buddies learning the Cupid shuffle….
The 7th grade taught their Pre-K buddies the Cupid shuffle at the Valentine Party.
Everyone had a great time!
Great American Mail Race
Seventh grade students recently received a letter from St. Catherine of Siena School in Phoenix, Arizona asking our school to participate in the “Great American Mail Race”. The idea is to write to a 7th grade class, in a Catholic school, in each of the 50 states. The purpose is not only to practice writing letters, but to find out information about students in their grade from each of the states. Students researched and found schools and have written their first draft of the letters to be mailed. They will also be working with Ms. Moore to create a map and track where all of the letters being sent out and received. We are excited about this cross-curriculur activity!
Writing Assignments
“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”
–Jules Renard
Students in 5th and 6th grade will be working on five-paragraph essays as well as reading comprehension essays. I will be grading the five-paragraph essays for form and mechanics, and I will be grading the reading comprehension essays on comprehension. Students in 7th and 8th grade will be working on research papers. They are in the research stage and should be working on notecards (with MLA documentation) and paraphrasing source information.
