1. Ms. Kimberly Souba 7 th Grade Homeroom www.ksouba.com

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Rosetta Stone  Moderating 5-7 th Grade  Level 1 by the end of the year  Benchmarks set for trimester grades

6. 5/6 th 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

7.  Spelling  Religion  Saint Reports  Extra Credit  Social Studies  Answers in complete sentences  Read sections  Answer questions together, a few chapters  Extra Credit

8. 7 th Grade  7 th Grade Homeroom: “Souba’s Super Students”  Vocab  Spelling  Endings  Religion  Mondays  Fulton Sheen Curriculum

9.  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

10. 8 th 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