Ms. Kimberly Souba 7 th Grade Homeroom

Ms. Kimberly Souba7th 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