What are you learning?

Main Idea. That is what we are learning about in room 117 this week. Luckily, my 6th graders have been covering Main Idea for several years now, so we did a little review about it and took some notes in our Interactive Notebooks. I of course made them into Anchor Charts so I wanted to link them up with Ladybug's Teacher Files too for her Anchor Chart Linky Party. 

There is absolutely no way that I would be able to function in my classroom if it was not for large sticky notes and Sharpie Anchor Chart Markers! 

 If you have not see the story Desert Rose, you must check it out! My kids absolutely loved the story!

We also created a chart to help us remember the 5 steps that will help us to identify the Main Idea of a passage. After we finished all of our notes and our mentor text activity, students then worked with a partner to identify the main idea in 12 short paragraphs. I was so proud of how the students did! 

Tomorrow we are going to be presenting Power Points that students did for their Book Reports this past 6 weeks. I cannot wait to see how all of them finished up and I am also hoping to get some new book titles that I need to add to my classroom library.

I finally got to see The Hunger Games tonight and it so did not disappoint. I will be sporting my Team Peeta shirt to school tomorrow in honor of finally seeing the movie too. I am sure that my 6th graders will give me a hard time about it, but that's okay! The only thing I wish is that I could teach the novel at least to my Pre AP class, but they teach it in 10th grade here in my district. Such a bummer! 

The Teacher of the Year was announced today and it was not me, but I could not be happier for the person who won! The best part is that he is a 6th grade teacher too!

Last but not least, I am also sending out Good Luck wishes to all of the Texas teachers whose students will be taking STAAR tests this week! I know you have prepared them well and they are so going to be RockSTAARs!