Weekly Reminders:
GRADE 4-HOMEROOM
A. Gym
uniforms must be worn by 4th graders on Mondays for gym unless
students are told differently.
B. All
parent signature pages must be returned by Monday,9/16 of this week. Please
return them in the folder they came in.
C. MAP
Testing begins on Monday, 9/16 and continues for the next two weeks. Please
check the September calendar and Mr. Woods’ blog for specific dates.
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.
E. 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 9,2019: 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,9/9: Write definitions
for the words below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB, Due Thursday, 9/12. The
definitions can be found in the glossary or on the page listed next to the word
listed below. Read pages 14-21 in your textbook.
Remember
to copy the notes for Chapter 1 (click on the link below) into your Social
Studies class notebook (I will let you know when I post the notes and when they
are due).
Hispanic
Heritage Month begins on September 15, and you will be picking out topics to
research this week in class.
Vocabulary for the Week:
prehistory (p.15), archaeology
(p.15), artifact (p.15), fossil (p.15), theory (p.15), hominid (p.17), paleolithic
era (p.18), migrate (p.20)
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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,9/9: Write
definitions for the words below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB, Due Thursday, 9/12. The
definitions can be found in the glossary or on the page listed next to the word
listed below. Read pages 6-15 in your
textbook.
Remember
to copy the notes for Chapter 1 (click on the link below) into your Social
Studies class notebook (I will let you know when I post the notes and when they
are due).
Hispanic
Heritage Month begins on September 15, and you will be picking out topics to
research this week in class.
Vocabulary for the Week:
develop (p.8), Bering Land Bridge
(p.6), Paleo Indians (p.6), migration (p.6) hunter-gatherers (p.6),
environments (p.7), culture (p.7), confederation (p.14), nomadic (p.14), raid
(p.14), pueblos (p.11), kivas (p.11), totems (p.12), teepees (p.14), matrilineal
(p.14), Iroquois League (p.14)
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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,9/9: Write
definitions for the words below in your Social Studies Vocabulary NB, Due Thursday, 9/12. The
definitions can be found in the glossary or on the page listed next to the word
listed below. Read pages 506-521 in your textbook.
Remember
to copy the notes for Chapter 1 (click on the link below) into your Social
Studies class notebook (I will let you know when I post the notes and when they
are due).
Hispanic
Heritage Month begins on September 15, and you will be picking out topics to
research this week in class.
Vocabulary for the Week:
mint (p.510),
secede (p.510), Fort Sumter (p.511), border states (p.512), Winfield Scott
(p.513), cotton diplomacy (p.513), innovation (p. 520), casualties (p.518), peninsula
(p. 517), Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (p.517), First Battle of Bull Run (p.517),
George B. McClellan (p.517), Robert E. Lee (p.518), Seven Days’ Battles
(p.518), Second Battle of Bull Run (p. 518), Battle of Antietam (p.519),
ironclads (p.520)
Have a wonderful week!
