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. The children may wear gym uniforms this week also (for the pictures) instead of regular uniforms since they have gym.
B. June calendars will be handed out today. Please check your child’s bookbag for it. Please read Mr. Woods' for important details and events.
C. Progress Reports were distributed on Thursday, May 31. If you did not sign and return it, please send it in tomorrow. All signed Progress Reports were returned to the children on Friday, 6/1.
D. Monday, June 11 12:00 Dismissal due to a Faculty Meeting. The After School Program will be in session.
D. Monday, June 11 12:00 Dismissal due to a Faculty Meeting. The After School Program will be in session.
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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.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 6
Book for Quarter 4- Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin, published March 9, 2010. Read Chapters 21-24.
Common Lit, 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. Study Unit 2 for Exam next week.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 7
Book for Quarter 4- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, published April 20, 2006. Read Chapters 10 & 11.
Common Lit, 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. Study Unit 2 for Exam next week.
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 8:
New Book for Quarter 4- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. Read Chapters 9, 10.
Common Lit, 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. Study Unit 2 for Exam next week.
Social Studies Homework for Grade 8
Unit 8 Boom Times and Challenges- 1938-1945– Chapter 26: World War II
Monday,6/4-Remember to copy the notes for Chapter 26 into your Social Studies notebook. It will be collected on Wednesday, 6/6. No extensions
Tuesday,6/5- Write definitions for the words below in your Social Studies NB, Due Thursday, 6/7. Read pages 820- 832 in your textbook.
Monday,6/4-Remember to copy the notes for Chapter 26 into your Social Studies notebook. It will be collected on Wednesday, 6/6. No extensions
We will continue to present research projects this week. Please make sure you are ready.
Vocabulary for the Week:
liberating (815), Battle of Alamein (816), Dwight D. Eisenhower (816), obsessed (817), Battle of Stalingrad (817), D-Day (819), Douglas MacArthur (820), Bataan Death March (820), Chester Nimitz (821), Battle of the Coral Sea (821), Battle of Midway (821), island hopping (822), Battle of Leyte Gulf (822), kamikaze (822), execute (822), inferno (826), Battle of the Bulge (826), Harry S. Truman (826), Holocaust (827), genocide (827), Manhattan Project (828), atomic bomb (828), postwar (829)
Have a wonderful week!
