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JHMS 6th Grade Language Arts: March 2008
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Thursday, March 6, 2008. Go to the following:. United Streaming Videos about Tsunamis: http:/ streaming.discoveryeducation.com/studentCenter/index.cfm? Another cool site (though the downloads are slow) with actual footage:. Http:/ www.asiantsunamivideos.com/. Posted by M. Rooks. Sunday, March 2, 2008. Red Scarf Girl - Lit Circle. Please use with your discussion:. Http:/ streaming.discoveryeducation.com/studentCenter/index.cfm? From Facing History - Check out this downloadable Learning Guide. Posted by M&...
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JHMS 6th Grade Language Arts: PK for Book Burning Exhbit
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009. PK for Book Burning Exhbit. Prior Knowledge building for Book Burning. Building up to the Holocaust. Posted by M. Rooks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). JHMS 6th Grade Language Arts. Skill and Drill - LA Practice. Great Websites and Blogs! 6 Word Stories by Teens. Advice from 8th graders! Create your own Wordle from your writing! Free Rice - Save the world while you practice any skill! JHMS 6th Grade History. Ms Swiggum - Media Center. Teton Country School District.
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Tips for JHMS Parents: Reading More!
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Tips for JHMS Parents. Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Find books they will love! 160;Another great reading site for boys. The ultimate reading lists. And ideas for TEENS. Posted by M. Rooks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thoughts on Parenting from Bill Cosby. My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.". How Will My Kid Do in School? Interesting and Helpful Websites. Good Websites for Kids.
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Tips for JHMS Parents: Child Development
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Tips for JHMS Parents. Tuesday, May 5, 2009. The great Greek philosopher Plato once mused, "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.". A great site for Child Development. Information about Erik Erikson. And his work with Child Development. Another great site about Child Development - lots of great ideas. Some faith based ideas). NPR interview and Excerpt of the book: The Secret Life of Boys. Posted by M. Rooks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Tips for JHMS Parents: 4 Kinds of Secondary (any level?) Reader (learner?)
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Tips for JHMS Parents. Friday, August 28, 2009. 4 Kinds of Secondary (any level? This is from Teaching Reading in the Middle School. There are 4 kinds of Secondary Readers:. Struggling reader - This student avoids reading; s/he is often disfluent - meaning s/he reads word by word; s/he has a limited vocabulary due to a lack of reading. The goal is to teach word attack strategies and build prior knowledge for reading materials. Think outside the usual genre with this reader! Posted by M. Rooks. My childho...
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Tips for JHMS Parents: Feb 3, 2009
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Tips for JHMS Parents. Tuesday, February 3, 2009. The Secret to Better Grades" by Marcy Lovitch. This article was in the November 2008. Magazine. There are 5 strategies provided to help any child excel. 1 ORGANIZATION skills. Using planners, scheduling TV and computer use, having a family calendar, creating schedules for the week/month. A healthy diet, plenty of sleep, daily exercise, and a home free of squabbling help to create this distraction-free zone as well. 4 Unstuff your child's schedule. JHMS 6t...
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Tips for JHMS Parents: May 5, 2009
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Tips for JHMS Parents. Tuesday, May 5, 2009. The great Greek philosopher Plato once mused, "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.". A great site for Child Development. Information about Erik Erikson. And his work with Child Development. Another great site about Child Development - lots of great ideas. Some faith based ideas). NPR interview and Excerpt of the book: The Secret Life of Boys. Posted by M. Rooks. Find books they will love! And ideas for TEENS.
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JHMS 6th Grade Language Arts: August 2009
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Friday, August 28, 2009. Academic Vocabulary - MAP. 141-150: ABC order, beginning sound, vowel. 151-160: advertisement, business letter, ending sound, fable, journal, legend, list, opposite, outline, rule, short story, synonym, thank-you note, title LU: list. 211-220: allusion, appendix, characterization, contrast, extended metaphor, guide letters, homophone, oxymoron, resolve, suspense LU: comma splice, contrast, documentation, fragment, journalistic, limerick, organization, paraphrase, participial, par...
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JHMS 6th Grade Language Arts: Reading Sites
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Sunday, June 14, 2009. WwwBookadventure.com - created by the Sylvan learning center. This site's book finder matches kids with reads they'll enjoy. (It's like match.com only with books! Acing book quizzes lets them win prizes! WwwTeenreads.com - this extensive site posts lists of upcoming books and interviews with popular writers like Anthony Horowitz and Judy Blume. it also gives tips on how to start a reading club. Info about books and authors: http:/ www.bestlibrary.org/cool/. Posted by M. Rooks.
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JHMS 6th Grade Language Arts: Elyssa ~ "Niagra Falls"
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. The morning we went to Niagara Falls everyone was anxious to leave the house, so they were running up and down the stairs. After that we all dashed to the car and drove for about an hour, my cousin Cody’s breakfast of bean soup started kicking in! He was stinking the car up terribly. The car ride was especially bad, too, because there was seven people in one small car. I couldn’t move my legs and was stuck in one spot for 2 1/2 hours. I felt trapped. Once my aunt, uncle, and ...