Weekly Reminders:
GRADE 4-HOMEROOM
A. Gym
uniforms must be worn by 4th graders on Mondays and Tuesdays for gym
unless students are told differently.
B. All
parent signature pages must be returned by today Monday,9/16. Please return
them in the folder they came in.
C. MAP
Testing begins this week. The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday-
Math
Wednesday-
Reading
Thursday-
Language Arts (Grammar)
D. Please
send in all the supplies listed on the blog. The children cannot do their work
without the necessary materials. If you are unsure of the supplies needed,
please check the blogs of your child’s teachers. This is the second week of
school, and there are still children without any supplies.
E. Next
Monday, 9/23 there will be a 12:00 dismissal due to a Faculty Meeting. The ASP
will be in session.
F. Make
sure to read Mr. Woods blog for other important information.
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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. Remember
homework counts as part of the total grade!
HOMEWORK:
For the Week of September 16,2019: Grades 6,7,8
ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 6
My
Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson
Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that
we are working on in class. We will be taking a baseline assessment this week
to find your Lexile level.
I will
be assigning homework in class for ELA since we will be using Pearson, Voyages,
Common Lit, and No Red Ink.
Social Studies
Homework for Grade 6
Unit 1 Early Humankind/ Chapter 1: The World’s Early People
Monday,9/16: Write definitions
for the words below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB, Due Thursday, 9/19. The
definitions can be found in the glossary or on the page listed next to the word
listed below. Read pages 22-29 in your textbook.
Remember
to copy the notes for Chapter 1 (click on the link below) into your Social
Studies class notebook. Notes will be
posted on Wednesday,9/18 and will be due Wednesday, 9/25.
Hispanic
Heritage Month -begin to research the person you
chose to present.
Vocabulary for the Week:
humankind (p.23), technology (p.23),
adapt (p.24), environment (p.24), extinct (p.24), hunters and gatherers (p.25),
consequence (p.25), longitude (p.28), latitude (p.28), prime meridian (p.28)
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ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 7
My
Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson
Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that
we are working on in class. We will be taking a baseline assessment this week
to find your Lexile level.
I will
be assigning homework in class for ELA since we will be using Pearson, Voyages,
Common Lit, and No Red Ink.
Social Studies
Homework for Grade 7
Unit 1 Our Colonial Heritage (Beginnings-1783)/ Chapter 1: The
World Before the Opening of the Atlantic (Beginnings-1500)
Monday,9/16: Write
definitions for the words below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB, Due Thursday, 9/19. The
definitions can be found in the glossary or on the page listed next to the word
listed below. Read pages 16-21 in your
textbook.
Remember
to copy the notes for Chapter 1 (click on the link below) into your Social
Studies class notebook. Notes are due on Monday,
September 23.
Hispanic
Heritage Month -begin to research the person you
chose to present.
Vocabulary for the Week:
profit (p.16), succession (p.16), Berbers
(p.16), Mansa Musa (p.18) hajj (p.18), mosques (p.19), Askia the Great (p.19)
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ELA/Reading Homework for Grade 8
My
Perspectives (Pearson)- Please review (in your textbook or online in Pearson
Realize) the story, vocabulary, and concepts (word study and conventions) that
we are working on in class. We will be taking a baseline assessment this week
to find your Lexile level.
I will
be assigning homework in class for ELA since we will be using Pearson, Voyages,
Common Lit, and No Red Ink.
Social Studies Homework
for Grade 8
Unit 1 The Nation Breaks Apart (1861-1877)/ Chapter 16: The
Civil War
Monday,9/16: Write
definitions for the words below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB, Due Thursday, 9/19. The definitions
can be found in the glossary or on the page listed next to the word listed
below. Read pages 522-535 in your textbook.
Remember
to copy the notes for Chapter 1 (click on the link below) into your Social
Studies class notebook. Notes are due on
Tuesday, September 24.
Hispanic
Heritage Month - begin to research the person you
chose to present.
Vocabulary for the Week:
campaign
(p.522), maneuvers (p.522), Ulysses S. Grant (p.522), Battle of Shiloh (p.523),
David Farragut (p.524), Siege of Vicksburg (p.524), abolitionist (p.529), emancipation
(p.529), Emancipation Proclamation (p. 529), contrabands (p.531), 54th
Massachusetts Infantry (p.531), Copperheads (p.532), habeas corpus (p.532), Clara
Barton (p.534)
Have a wonderful week!
