Missing Biography Books

Fungi Students and Parents,

We have been going over inventory in the book room and we noticed that there are many books from our  biography unit that have not been returned.  We are missing six copies of I Am Malala, which is hard-cover and very expensive to replace. These books have a label that say "Property of Gifted Education" on the inside cover.  We are also missing many copies of The Blind Side and several adventure titles by Jon Krakauer, and a variety of other selections.  Paperback books that belong to the book room are easily identified--they have a blue label on the back of the book.

If you come across these books we would truly appreciate it if you would drop them off at the Culbreth front office, and let them know they are to be returned to the book room.

Thanks so much for your cooperation and please have a wonderful summer!

Mrs. Mottta

Final Grades Posted and Have a Great Summer!

Final grades for language arts are posted in PowerSchool. I have finished scoring the Social Justice Research Papers and the Biography Essays. Unless you received a perfect score (40/40 for the research paper and 50/50 for the essay) you should have an email from me with a rubric shared with you. Please read this rubric for my comments and explanation of your grade.  I have also put comments in your papers, so you should also check those for my feedback or if you have questions.  I have enjoyed reading your papers and I am impressed at the growth demonstrated by so many of you.

It has been a pleasure working with you and being your teacher for this short time.  I have learned a great deal from you and I hope most of you feel like you have grown in your reading and writing abilities. I wish you all the best in high school and in your future.

Have a wonderful summer!

Tuesday, June 9

We are so close to the end of the school year!  While I am looking forward to finishing the year and a relaxing summer, I want you to know how much of a learning and growing this experience has been for me this year. I have enjoyed working with all of you and watching you grow in your learning.  I wish you all the best for success in high school and in the future.

Today we have a few end-of-year details that we need to do:

• Climate Assessment - Help us improve our school climate. See Ms. Grinnel's blog for more info. 
• Check grades, get feedback on our research papers. 
• Take home contents of work folder. Look them over. Think about how much you have grown this year and what you still need to work on. 
• Library books - check with me to see if you are missing anything. You will not receive promotion certificates or report cards if you have missing books.
• When you are done with all of this you can check out the following websites for some fun language arts games: 
• Grammar Games
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Madlibs
• IXL - practice on language arts skills. Practice capitalization and sentence structure
• Middle School Vocabulary Games
• High School Vocabulary Games
• More Grammar Games