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Orland School District 135

Teresa Joyce

 Miss Joyce
Life Skills Teacher (Room 107)
7th/8th Grade
Contact Information:
Email-
tjoyce@orland135.org
Phone- 708-364-3726


Welcome to Life Skills Class!  I am excited to work with your child and to see how they learn as individuals.   Your child will remain in my classroom for 1st period (Life Skills).  Students will be switching groups for math and reading with Mrs. Depke's class.  On this site, you can find due dates for longterm assignments and quizzes that are given in advance.  Please make sure to check your child's assignment notebook every night for daily assignments and sign Signatures earn them 2 tickets to our class store!!!  Looking forward to the 2011/2012 school year :)  

Long-term Assignments/Quizzes/Tests
 
7th Grade Social Studies (Tompkins)
1.  
 
7th Grade Social Studies (Kantor)

1. 
8th Grade Social Studies (Pavlick)

1. 
7th Grade Science (Bragiel)
1. 
8th Grade Science (Marinier)
1. 
 
**Special Points of Interest**

Wear BLUE on Wednesdays
**READ AND SIGN assignment notebooks
every night**


To view, click on the following: 
Parent letter, classroom behavior plan, and class store


MATH GROUPS: 
1.  Saxon Math- This is a direct instruction program that allows students to develop a foundation of the language and basic concepts of mathematics. This program introduces a new skill or principle each day and will review these skills throughout the program.
2.  Connecting Math Concepts- This is a direct instruction program that teaches students how to connect concepts. The students develop skills and concepts in small increments. Several concepts are taught in short increments over many lessons.   


READING GROUPS:  Reading groups have begun!  Students are working in a reading intervention program called Reading Mastery.  In all of the groups, students are working on reading decoding, comprehension, and spelling.   


The following are helpful learning resources for math and reading!! 

www.starfall.com/
www.funbrain.com/
http://www.coolmath.com/
http://www.aplusmath.com/
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html
Kitten Match Addition
Cone Crazy Multiplication

The following is a link to online textbooks. 
www.orland135.org/academics/OnlineTextbooks.asp










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