WEEKEND HOMEWORK

Hi Families!

Tomorrow I will be at Professional Development for a "Teaching American History" grant. Our wonderful student teacher, Sarah, will be here along with Nick. Below is the homework DUE MONDAY. Have a super weekend!

-L

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes. Pay attention to connections and theories and jot them down!

WRITING: Write 2 news articles about your society

Test Prep: Cause and Effect handout You must have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs. *Essay sandwich!

MATH: Data packet + King Tut handout

SOCIAL STUDIES: INDY KIDS newspaper + vocabulary handout
*(kids will get a new one tomorrow)

Tonight's Homework

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes. Pay attention to connections and theories you are developing about them. Thoughtfully complete your new reading log.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Energy handout for your society (we started this in class this morning). What type of energy will your society use? What things does your society need energy for?

WRITING: Collect an entry! Your choice.

Test Prep: Revise your Death Valley essay. You must have a clear introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs. *Essay sandwich!

MATH: Algebra Handout- missing numbers! Just like we did in class. There are some tricky ones, so do the best you can and we'll review tomorrow.

prop update

This blog post is for props...what we are doing and just an update. So far we have made one spear and over half of our second. We need some more tin foil though. Please comment and give us some ideas for a trident!

Thanks,
Isabell, prop specialist

kente: we need...

today we are doing the Kente project again. It will be great if you can donate these supplies. KENTE TEAM NEEDS... Blue fabric paint, sharpie poster paint colors silver, gold, red and blue. We could also use some plain, white or beige fabric.

Thanks!

by: Seth and Eric.

Homework

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes. Pay attention to connections and theories you are developing about them. Thoughtfully complete your new reading log.
*Think about the comments your partner gave you today.

Test Prep: Character handout (10 minutes)

SOCIAL STUDIES: If your constitution handout is incomplete, you MUST FULLY COMPLETE IT TONIGHT

WRITING: Collect an entry! Your choice.

MATH: Multiplication handout- you must attach a separate sheet of paper showing your work for each problem. You need a clear strategy.
Notebook work: Write a short answer to this question (First, Next, Last, Finally)-
(62 x 3) x 9 = (3 x 9) x 63

Are these 2 equations equal? Why or why not?

HAPPY WEEKEND

THIS weekend's homework is...

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes- refocus yourself when you start to get distracted or something doesn't make sense. Fill out reading log- date, summary, questions.
READING LOG IS DUE ON MONDAY

WRITING: Write your essay "sandwich" about Death Valley. Use your handout of sentence starters to help with the introduction, middle/body, and conclusion. YOU MUST ANSWER THE ENTIRE QUESTION.

MATH: 2 handouts

SOCIAL STUDIES: Read the constitution handout + note taking handout

*Remember the Multi-Cultural Celebration on Sunday!

Have a great weekend!

fabric paint needed!

Hey parents! 405 here! We need FABRIC PAINT! It is for our kente project!

-Sammy

Wednesday 3.30.11

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes. Pay attention to characters and theories you are developing about them. Thoughtfully complete your reading log.

SCHOLASTIC NEWS: Revolutionary War handout

WRITING: Write your essay "sandwich" about Spaghetti. Use your theme/big idea handout and essay "sandwich" outline.

Editing handout

MATH: 2 handouts

Tuesday 3.29.11- Late Breaking!

No internet and no photo copier, but we made it through the day! Alas, this post is just going up. Hopefully, it is a reference for some of the work we've been doing together. We are deep in test prep at this point and the kids are working really hard. The biggest thing we need to keep working on is carefully reading questions and understanding what they are asking. Often, kids are missing questions not because of the skill, but because they are misreading or not fully understanding what is being asked. This is an important skill, test prep or not. I'll write more later about all of the other cool things happening in curriculum- kente project, societies....

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes. Pay attention to characters and theories you are developing about them. Thoughtfully complete your reading log.

SCHOLASTIC NEWS: Redo/rewrite the sentences on your handout for the short answer questions. Use words from the questions in your answers (just like we did together in class for the short answer questions about Death Valley).

WRITING: Read Spaghetti and complete the handout about cause/effect and main idea/detail.

MATH: Packet

Welcome back Sarah!

See you tomorrow at SING!

Monday 3.28.11

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes. Pay attention to characters and theories you are developing about them. Thoughtfully complete your reading log.

SCHOLASTIC NEWS: Read through your copy and fill out the handout (front and back).

WRITING: Revising handout
Draft your best folktale if you did not already

MATH: Packet

SOCIAL STUDIES: What makes you want to be part of a community? How do you like people to work together?

Is what is happening in Egypt and Libya similar to what was happening at the beginning of our country? Hmmmm...

*Tomorrow Sarah is back!!

WEEKEND HOMEWORK

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes- refocus yourself when you start to get distracted or something doesn't make sense. Fill out reading log- date, summary, questions.
READING LOG IS DUE ON MONDAY

TEST PACKET

WRITING: Draft your best folktale and practice reading it aloud

MATH: Packet

Due Monday- SOCIAL STUDIES: Preview Egypt article + find important vocabulary

*Search for important dates and events for your time period! You need at least 1 important date/event

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Seth is a big brother!! His new sister, Skye, was born Tuesday. All the best to Mom, Dad, Seth, and Skye!

Thursday 3.24.11

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes- refocus yourself when you start to get distracted or something doesn't make sense. Fill out reading log- date, summary, questions.

TEST PREP character handout

MATH: Packet

Due Monday- SOCIAL STUDIES: Preview Egypt article + find important vocabulary

*search for important dates and events for your time period!

kente Design props needed!

We need props and recycled items for the kente play! We need news papers,aluminum foil,cardboard, and cloth.

Kente Design

Today is are 2nd day on are kente story. Our kente is still in development and we are now starting our draft. The story is about two boys named Atticus and Leonardo. They are on a journey to test their true identity and to test there wiseness. There will be more info
about the story later.




Bloggers,
Courtney,Eric,Eron and Isabell

Wed. 3.23.11

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes- refocus yourself when you start to get distracted or something doesn't make sense. Fill out reading log- date, summary, questions.
*Partnership handout

WRITING- Editing handout

MATH: Packet + 5th graders: handout

SOCIAL STUDIES: Libya article + handout (main idea + detail/ cause & effect)

*search for important dates and events for your time period!

HOMEWORK- DUE WEDNESDAY!!

Hi Families:
Below is the homework for tonight and tomorrow night (Mon. and Tues.). I will be at a social studies workshop tomorrow, so that's why this is early :) This homework is due on Wednesday.
Thanks,
Lauren

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes- refocus yourself when you start to get distracted or something doesn't make sense. Fill out reading log- date, summary, questions.
*Partnership handout

WRITING- Collect a new folktale that is at least 2 pages or 2 folktales that are 1 page each. *Use the lists we created together to get an idea
Edit 2 pages using a colored pen to show your corrections

MATH: Packet (due Wednesday) + math article (M.C. Escher)

SOCIAL STUDIES: Scholastic News + handout (main idea + detail)

WEEKEND HOMEWORK

Hi Families!

Apologies for the late homework posting. Friday was my birthday and my partner, Leslie, had planned a full day/weekend of fun. This meant I left right at 3pm Friday and have been busy celebrating! This is the first chance I've had to sit down at the computer. Thanks for understanding and I hope your weekend has been wonderful! xo Lauren


READING: Read for at least 40 minutes each day. Reading log is due Monday!

WRITING- Collect a 2 page entry (either add 2 pages to an entry you started or start a new entry that is at least 2 pages).
*If you did not turn in your folktales, you MUST GIVE ME YOUR 2 FOLKTALES ON LOOSE- LEAF PAPER MONDAY MORNING!

MATH: 2 handouts

SOCIAL STUDIES: Read Scholastic News + complete the packet that goes with it
*If your current events packet was not revised or acceptable, make sure it is fixed by Monday morning

*NOTE: All homework due the next day, unless otherwise noted

NEW BLOGGERS

Today Lauren's class is doing our first blog on our kente inspired play/movie and the theme is right and wrong. We have 4 groups.
Group 1 is the writing team and they write the story.
Group 2 is the kente team and they make the kente cloth.
Group 3 is costume team and they make the costumes.
And last but not least group 4 is the AV/bloggers/brochures. The AV are the camera
people,the blogger people blog what is happening, and the brochure person makes the brochures.

- Isabell & Eric

HOMEWORK- Due Tomorrow!

READING: Read for at least 40 minutes- refocus yourself when you start to get distracted or something doesn't make sense. Fill out reading log- date, summary, questions.

WRITING- On loose-leaf paper copy 2 folktales you have written. Use your folktale handout to make sure you have used all of the elements of folktale in your writing.

MATH: Packet (fractions) + look for 2 examples of a right angle (90 degrees).

SOCIAL STUDIES: Revise your current events packet from last night. You need to add more information to the graphic organizers.

*Bonus: look for other forms of government or find out which countries have a monarchy and which countries have a democracy