Greetings!
Well, we've made it through another great year at CHAT. I know that these great students learned a lot -- just compare their first essays with their final ones!
Even though I had a full day planned for the class, we didn't skip the Quick Write. Students had two options: they could write an end of the year thank you letter to their parents or they could brainstorm and list as much as they could remember about what they learned this year. As we went around the room, they commented on both academic topics and every day life learning.
We didn't do any Words of the Day this week. I wanted to make sure we had time for the rest of our activities.
I handed back all the homework that I had graded, and students handed in their Reflection Papers along with any other homework that they had for me. Today was the last day to hand in homework. My hope is to get everything graded and have the grades sent out by the beginning of next week.
Now for the fun stuff ...
We finished our Poetry Jam. Team 3 (David, Madi, Katelyn, and Timothy) and Team 4 (Carter, Julia, Alec, and Sofia) recited against each other, while the other 2 teams judged. We had a great collection of poems, some memorized and some originals. As far as I'm concerned everyone who participated was a winner! We also heard poetry presentations from our "MVPs," the top scorers from each team. We finished our poetry with the 5 teams doing a class reading of Dr. Seuss's "Oh the Places You will Go" with a rap background.
Remaining in our teams, the class then played a Jeopardy game with questions related to the grammar, writing, and literature that we've covered this year.
Today was a bitter sweet day. After eight great years at CHAT, I will miss engaging with young student writers. I'm pretty proud of these kids. They've written well, engaged well in class discussions, worked hard on homework, and been generally great all-around kids. We had a marvelous year reading and writing! At the end of class, the students presented me with a sweet card, and a few tears were shed.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!
This week's links:
Class Notes
Have a great summer!
Mrs. Prichard
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