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Ms. Kimberly Souba. 7 th Grade Homeroom www.ksouba.com. Bio. Grew up 1 ½ hrs. north of Kickapoo Graduated from ICC, Valley City State University in ND B.S. in Elementary and Middle School Education M.S. Ed. in Teaching and Technology How to incorporate technology into the classroom
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Ms. Kimberly Souba 7th Grade Homeroom www.ksouba.com
Bio • Grew up 1 ½ hrs. north of Kickapoo • Graduated from ICC, Valley City State University in ND • B.S. in Elementary and Middle School Education • M.S. Ed. in Teaching and Technology • How to incorporate technology into the classroom • Teaching for 4.5 yrs. • Certified in every subject area except Math • Taught only in Catholic Schools • Fun Facts: Love Diet Coke and butterflies
Goals • Work with parents and students to become a team • Help students realize and reach full potential and bring them to a higher level of excellence academically, personally, and spiritually • Help increase writing scores and ability • Help students to become responsible for turning in their assignments and to take pride in their work • Incorporate technology • Google Docs • Rosetta Stone
Google Docs • Student emails • Slowly move away from flash drives (virus carriers) • Turn in essays, reports • Work on outside of school • Group projects • High schools moving towards using Google Docs • Less paper
Rosetta Stone • Moderating 5-7th Grade • Level 1 by the end of the year • Benchmarks set for trimester grades
5/6th Grade • Literature • Monthly Book Reports • Lexile Number & Grade Level • Tests on Scholastic: 85% or higher • Projects • 6+1 Writing Traits using Children’s Literature • Novels • Spanish • Grammar • Shurley English • Jingles
Spelling • Religion • Saint Reports • Extra Credit • Social Studies • Answers in complete sentences • Read sections • Answer questions together, a few chapters • Extra Credit
7th Grade • 7th Grade Homeroom: “Souba’s Super Students” • Vocab • Spelling • Endings • Religion • Mondays • Fulton Sheen Curriculum
Literature • Novels • 6+1 Writing Traits using Children’s Literature • Monthly Book Reports • Lexile Number & Grade Level • Tests on Scholastic: 85% or higher • Projects • Grammar • Shurley English • Jingles • Letter Writing to Seminarians/Religious • Spanish
8th Grade • Vocab • Spelling • Endings • Literature • Novels • 6+1 Writing Traits using Children’s Literature • Monthly Book Reports • Lexile Number & Grade Level • Tests on Scholastic: 85% or higher • Projects • Grammar • A Sentence Composing Approach • Letter Writing to Seminarians/Religious