January 4

Welcome Back

The masque Mrs. Scales made for New Year's Eve

The masque Mrs. Scales made for New Year's Eve

It was great to see everyone again today after the Christmas break. We began the day by me sharing my New Year’s Eve masque. I shared that my husband and I celebrated New Year’s Eve and our 22 wedding anniversary by attending the Masqerade Ball at Union Station in Indianapolis. Then we took the time to go around the room and let anyone who wished to share tell about their holidays.

We heard about the 4 gal New Year’s Eve party fun at Kelly’s, in which a new and upcoming band was formed. A couple of students talked about the go carts they recieved for Christmas and the soccor goal that was given as a Christmas gift so Katey would stop kicking the ball against the house. Debbie talked about the Barbie doll with a flute that she recieved.

Then we got started with the daily language workout sentence:
90 Million People are added to the Worlds population each year. Hints: Numbers, Capitalization, Apostrophe (possessives)

and the root word:
• Root Card # 38 – HOMO (Greek) same, equal, like, common; one and the same – Example words Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs

Everyone was instructed to pick an Anchor Piece from their graded first semester writing assignments. This piece of writing will be used for many things over the next few weeks. One copy needs to be printed with an updated header and put in the page protector in each student’s English Binder. The second copy needs to have 20 words highlighted in yellow.

We also began learning about the Treasure Island unit that begins tomorrow and the cooperative learning groups we will be working in.

All in all, it was a very productive and entertaining day in Mrs. Scales’ room.


Posted January 4, 2010 by mrsscales207 in category Language Arts

About the Author

My life has taken many paths. I grew up in Farmland, Indiana and graduated from Monroe Central High School in 1979. Yes I know that seems like a long time ago to most of you. After I graduated from High School, I went into the U. S. Navy. Not a lot of women enlisted in the Navy back then. Boot camp was still segregated (that means there were only women in my boot camp) and yes, boot camp is as bad as they say it is. I survived though and began seeing a little more of the world than just our lovely corn and soy bean fields of Indiana. I was an advanced avionics technician and worked on F14 Tomcat jets in the Navy. Back then women couldn't go on ships but I was stationed in Bermuda for a little over a year. Bermuda is beautiful and the people are warm and friendly. I married my husband while in the Navy and we eventually moved to Minnesota.

1 thoughts on “Welcome Back

  1. Bret Lawson

    Mrs. Scales….well I think its you under the mask but anyway, whoever you are, I really like the mask. Mysterious!!!!!!!

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