Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Week of January 18, 2010

Monday - No School - Celebrate Martin Luther King Day

8th Grade: Working on Dictator Projects - Outlines were turned in last week - they all did a great job - I was Impressed!

Tuesday - Working on Notecards
Wednesday - Notecards/Timeline
Thursday - Current Events, Notecards/Timeline
Friday - None

7th Grade: Finishing up the colonies

Tuesday - Complete Check Your Progress
Wednesday - Check Points 86,87, and 89, Skills Activity Pg. 86
Thursday - Current Events
Friday - None


6th Grade - We are finishing up our River Projects this week. They are doing a great job on their posters!

Tuesday - None
Wednesday - Study for Quiz, Pg. 31, 1 - 10
Thursday - Current Events, Map Master Pg. 32
Friday - None

5th grade - We are completing our Comic Strip of the landing in the Indies by Explorers
Tuesday - Review for Quiz
Wednesday - Comprehension Questions 1 - 4 pg. 94
Thursday - Current Event, Complete Comprehension, Quick Check Pg. 101
I hope everyone had a nice long weekend. Don't forget that tomorrow is the end of the Marking Period and Report Cards will be going home on January 27th :)
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Homework Week of January 11th

Homework - 8th Grade
Monday - Read Pg. 30/Paragraph on Shay (agree/disagree)
Tuesday - Study for Quarterly Exam - All 44 Presidents
Wednesday - Work on Outline (due Friday, January 15th)
Thursday - Current Events, Outline due tomorrow
Friday - None


Homework - 7th
Monday - Check Point Pg. 81/Study
Tuesday - Complete Vocab\
Wednesday - Checkpoint pg. 85 and Critical Thinking
Thursday - Current event, Checkpoint Pgs. 86, 87, and 89
Friday - None


Homework - 6th
Monday - Read pgs. 26 - 27, Map Masters Pg. 27
Tuesday - Read Pgs. 28-29, Checkpint 28-29, Map Masters 29
Wednesday - Read Pgf. 30, Check Point Pg. 30
Thursday - Current events, Assessment Pg. 30 1-3
Friday - None


Homework - 5th grade
Monday - Quick Check Pgs. 87 and 89, Map Skill Pg. 89
Tuesday - Quick Check Pgs. 91 and 93
Wednesday - Writing Prompt, Study
Thursday - Current Event, Pg. 94 1-4
Friday - None


Just a reminder that the 2nd Marking Period ends on January 20th and report Cards will be coming home on Wednesday, January 27th.

Have a great week :)

Monday, January 4, 2010

WELCOME BACK

The eighth graders were introduced to a new project today on dictators. They will have the exact due dates given to them with their rubrics tomorrow 1/5.

Homework:
Monday - Complete Vocab for Cpt. 2
Tuesday - Study Guide #1 and 2
Wednesday - Study Guide #3 and 4
Thursday - Current Events, Study Guide #5
Friday - None


In seventh grade we presented the Salem Witch Trials today.

Homework:
Monday - Complete Vocab on Pg. 77
Tuesday - Check Point Pgs. 77 - 79
Wednesday - Check Your Progress 1,2,4,5
Thursday - Current Events, Ann Putmun's Point of View
Friday - None

Today in sixth grade I introduced them to a new project on the rivers of Africa. We have four groups to represent the four rivers. This project will resemble National Geographic articles.

Homework:
Monday - Map Masters Pg. 17
Tuesday - Reading Check pg. 19, graph Skills Pg. 19
Wednesday - Assessment pg. 23: 1-3
Thursday - Current Events, Study, Reading Check Pgs. 22 - 23
Friday - None

5th Grade
Homework:
Monday - Study, Wirte About It
Tuesday - Quick Check Pg. 83 and 85
Wednesday - Writing Prompt
Thursday - Current Event Study for Quiz
Friday - None