Weekly Reminders:
GRADE 4-HOMEROOM
A. Gym uniforms must be worn by 4th graders on Tuesdays and Fridays for gym unless students are told differently.
B. Monday, April 30 (tomorrow)- there will be a 12:00 dismissal due to a Faculty Meeting.
C. May Calendar was distributed today. Check your child’s folder.
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GRADES 6, 7, 8
A. All classwork/homework must be completed in blue or black ink (other colors will not be accepted).
B. If an assignment states that looseleaf is to be used, no other types of paper will be accepted (paper ripped out of notebooks or legal pads is unacceptable).
C. Homework must be handed in on the day due unless I receive a note from a parent explaining why you did not complete your HW. This will only be accepted if there is an emergency at home (not because you were too tired or that you had too much other HW).
D. Homework and classwork must be neat. Work that is sloppy or illegible will not be accepted.
E. The new book for the 4th Quarter is listed below. We will be starting it this week.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 6
New Book for Quarter 4- Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin, published March 9, 2010, $8.50. Please bring in the money this week if I ordered the book for you.
MAP Skills, Common Lit, Khan Academy, Front Row or No Read Ink: Assignments will be given during the week. Make sure you check the blog every day for assignments.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we have worked on in class.
MAP Assignments will be due on Friday of this week.
No Red Ink will also be due by Friday.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 7
New Book for Quarter 4- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, published April 20, 2006, $8.00. Please bring in the money this week if I ordered the book for you.
MAP Skills, Common Lit, Khan Academy, Front Row or No Read Ink: Assignments will be given during the week. Make sure you check the blog every day for assignments.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we have worked on in class.
MAP Assignments will be due on Friday of this week.
No Red Ink will also be due by Friday.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 8:
New Book for Quarter 4- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Penguin Young Readers, 1/28/2002 (reprint) $8.50. Please bring in the money this week if I ordered the book for you.
MAP Skills, Common Lit, Khan Academy, Front Row or No Read Ink: Assignments will be given during the week. Make sure you check the blog every day for assignments.
My Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that we have worked on in class.
MAP Assignments will be due on Friday of this week.
No Red Ink will also be due by Friday.
Social Studies Homework for Grade 8
Unit 8 Boom Times and Challenges- 1919-1945 – Chapter 24: The Roaring Twenties
Monday,4/30- Write definitions for the words below in your Social Studies NB, Due Friday, 5/4
Read pages 746-764 (Chapter 24)
Tuesday, 5/1- Write notes listed below in your notebook.
Due Monday, 5/7
Vocabulary for the Week:
incentive (753), Teapot Dome Scandal (753), Kellogg-Briand Pact (754), Model T (755), moving assembly line (755), Herbert Hoover (757), traditional (762), flappers (759), Red Scare (760), Twenty-First Amendment (761), fundamentalism (762), Scopes trial (762), Great Migration (763), Marcus Garvey (763)
Have a wonderful week!
