Students were busy the first full week of school learning procedures, setting behavior norms, completing their first writing assignment, and analyzing genre identification stations. We used a jigsaw puzzle activity to discuss the importance of teamwork and how we want collaboration to look in our classroom. 6th graders learned all about policies and procedures and wrote a reflection assignment on their first few days of middle school as well as an introduction letter to me. 7th graders also analyzed genre identification stations as a review of all the reading genres.
The last couple of weeks, 6th graders have been reviewing figurative language. They have identified types of figurative language, categorized types of figurative language, and answered questions and analyzed figurative language in stations. Students also went to the library for the first time.