2008 - 2009 West Fork Boys Basketball

Congrats to Boys Basketball team on a wonderful season. They did us proud, and we'll miss all the seniors that will be gone after this year.

6th Grade Social Studies

The sixth graders have been in the computer lab all week and will be in the computer lab again today. They are typing up their scrapbook entries and finding pics, and making headers for each page. They are a lot of work and they are doing a great job!

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders worked in the computer lab on their essays on Wednesday and yesterday they started to put together their scrapbooks and turned in their essays on Ben Franklin. Today they will be working on their scrapbooks again. They will be due on Tuesday next week.

2008 - 2009 West Fork Girls Basketball

Congrats to Mr. Sheriff and the Girls for a great basketball season. For their first year they did great!!!! Looking forward to the underclassmen stepping up next year and a big shoutout to this years seniors, it has been a pleasure to watch you play!!!!

6th Grade Social Studies

The sixth graders were in the computer lab, typing up their scrapbook pages and finding pics for Rome. They could also be working on this at home.

5th Grade Social Studies

The fifth graders were in the Computer lab typing their essays on Ben Franklin. No Homework!

The Oscars

Hey a BIG shoutout to SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE for its win last night and to HEATH LEDGER, for his well deserved win. He was a demonic, psychoatic genius in THE DARK KNIGHT!

6th Grade Social Studies

Today the 6th graders started to write notes for Chapter 7 Sec. 5, Rome and Byzantium. These notes are homework for 6B and 6C!

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders started to type up their Ben Franklin Essays in the Computer Lab. We will be working on this through Wednesday. There is no homework!

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders started their reading and notes yesterday on Chapter 7 sec. 4 and we hopefully will finish those today. No Homework!

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders started writing their essays on Ben Franklin today, We wrote the Introductory paragraph as a group and the rest will be written on their own. There is no homework and we will finish writing the essay, as a rough draft, tomorrow.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders started to read and take notes over Chapter 7 Lesson 4 today, over the Birth of Christianity and the Conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity. This will be the last section of the Roman Empire. No Homework!

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders listed everything that they knew about Ben Franklin, we then started to put these facts into four categories; Early Life, Philadelphia, Science/Inventions, and Government/Politics. This will be used to write an essay on Ben Franklin later. There was no homework!

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders will be finishing up their discussion on life in the Roman empire today. No Homework!

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders will be talking about and learning about Ben Franklin and his contributions to life and colonial life in general.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders started to talk about Everyday Romans; we will talk about the religion, their entertainment, and basic daily life. No Homework!

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th Graders watched a video on the Salem Witch Trials and Got Extra Credit homework, they can do research on Ben Franklin.

6th Grade Social Studies

Because of a dodgeball tournemrnt, our nursing home visit and Valentines's Day celebration the 6th graders will not have class today.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders wrapped up their study of the Salem Witch Trials today. We went over typed notes that I gave them over the trials. There is no homework over the weekend.

6th Grade Social Studies

We finished a video over the history of Rome.

5th Grade Social Studies

We will go over notes on the Salem Witch Trials.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders will start their final video of the The Roman Era, there are a lot of videos in this section, but I think they do a good job of showing the kids different aspects of the Romans.

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders acted out a play on the Salem Witch Trials, they played parts of accused witches, the accusing girls and the judges. Unfortunatly, there were not parts for everyone and those that were not one of those parts were jury members and audience members.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders will finish their video on the Roman Army, we then discussed the study guides of Julius Caesar and The Roman Army.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders went to the National Geographic webpage and we "experienced" the Salem Witch Trials, as if you were one of the accused. There is homework, today. They need to fill out a graphic organiser worksheet using a packet they were given.

6th Grade Social Studies

The sixth graders turned in their essays on Julius Caesar to start class and then we learned more about the Roman Army. Their tactics, weapons, motivations and accomplishments.

5th Grade Social Studies

The fifth graders turned in their homework of Word Murals at the beginning of class and then we had an opening discussion on the Salem Witch Trials, what happened and why. We will be discussing this for a couple of days, so you may hear some things about "witches" from your students.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders finished their video on Julius Caesar and their homework will be to write an essay on the figure of Julius Caesar. We filled in a four quadrant paper on what we knew about him as a class. They should use that as they write their essay.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th Graders started reading Lesson 3 on slavery in the colonies today. If they don't get done it will be homework. For homework this weekend they will have to complete a word mural with the 13 colonies in it. They can also do extra credit by doing research and bringing info. on Monday about the Salem Witch Trials.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders will start watching a video on Julius Caesar today.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders will be taking a "pop" quiz today! Tomorrow we will read about slavery in the colonies.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders will finish their notes on Lesson 3 of Chapter 7 today. These notes are still on the transition of Rome from a Republic to an Empire. 6C may start a video on Julius Caesar today, if there is time, the 12:30 dismissal, may cause problems.

5th Grade Social Studies

Today the 5th graders will be reading Lesson 2 of Chapter 7. This lesson deals with daily life in the colonies. It will have what their life is like in the cities as well as on the farms. It will also talk about the first period of westward expansion, to the Appalacian Mountains. Because of the 12:30 dismaissal, we may not finish and to finish the reading may be homework for some of the classses.

6th Grade Social Studies

The 6th graders are going to be working on their notes from Lesson 3 of Chapter 7! Nothing to exciting today!

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th graders will be presenting their colonies in groups today! They will also hand in the papers that they wrote on the colonies.

6th Grade Social Studies

Today the 6th graders should wrap up Lesson 3 of Chapter 7 or get close to it, we should wrap up the Roman Empire reading, and tomorrow should be ready for the story of the Roman Army.

5th Grade Social Studies

The 5th Graders will start reading Chapter 7 on life in the colonies today. Today we will find out what many of their motivations were for coming to the New World. Tomorrow the papers and the presentations will be due over their colony.

Super Bowl Sunday

What a great game!!!!! I wanted to see Warner get another one, but you just had to love the game! All Super Bowls should be like the last two!!!!