Reminders:
1. Please check Mr. Woods’ blog for information about new school hours, Catholic School Week, and other announcements.
2. The fifth grade needs to wear gym uniforms every Wednesday. They will also need to wear gym uniforms on Thursday of this week, because of an extra gym period.
3. There will be schedule and teacher changes due to extended hours for Math class each day.
4. Please check the blog and Google Classroom for updated homework assignments or announcements.
Remember that homework and classwork count as a grade!
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Week of January 23, 2017- Module 2 Week 7
HOMEWORK GRADE 5
READING:
For Module 3, the fifth grade will be reading Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson. (Scholastic, 2004) $13.50 You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.
Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
Famous Inventor Projects due on Tuesday, January 24.
Outline for Project:
Slide 1: Introduction- Person's name and picture, your name, date, and grade
Slide 2: Infancy (where and when he/she was born), childhood, and teenage years, parents, siblings, and schooling (can be more than 1 slide)
Slide 3: Life as an adult (can be more than 1 slide)
Slide 4: What are some of the inventions that the person is famous for (can be more than 1 slide)
Slide 5: Anything else that you would like to add. If you add pictures, be able to explain them.
Slide 6: Bibliography- there must be two sources of information
There should be no more than two sentences of text on a slide plus a picture. Your information should be on index cards or looseleaf. Study your presentation, so you are not reading from the cards or paper- the cards/paper should be used as notes, so you don't forget anything. Please follow this outline carefully.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Ms. Larios will now be teaching Social Studies to the Fifth Grade due to schedule changes. The children will continue to use the same textbook and notebook and will pick up where they left off with Mrs. Ramsey.
Please check daily for Homework in Social Studies.
Monday: Review Inventor’s Project- due tomorrow.
Tuesday: Define the words below using the glossary in the back of the back or within the chapter. Write them in the Social Studies. Due Thursday, 1/26.
Wednesday: Read pages 148-152 in textbook. Answer questions 1, 2, 3 on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday,1/27.
New Vocabulary:
colony, plantation, slavery, borderlands, presidio, mission, hacienda
New Map will be distributed.
Topic for African American Heritage Month will be chosen this week.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 6
READING
For Module 3, the sixth grade will be reading two books- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky, Frank Stockton (Illustrator), $11 and Flush by Carl Hiaasen, $7.50. You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.
Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
Famous Children’s Author Projects due on Tuesday, January 24.
Outline for Project:
Slide 1: Introduction- Person's name and picture, your name, date, and grade
Slide 2: Infancy (where and when he/she was born), childhood, and teenage years, parents, siblings, and schooling (can be more than 1 slide)
Slide 3: Life as an adult (can be more than 1 slide)
Slide 4: What are some of the books that the person is famous for (can be more than 1 slide)
Slide 5: Anything else that you would like to add. If you add pictures, be able to explain them. You can bring in some books by the author if you have any.
Slide 6: Bibliography- there must be two sources of information
There should be no more than two sentences of text on a slide plus a picture. Your information should be on index cards or looseleaf. Study your presentation, so you are not reading from the cards or paper- the cards/paper should be used as notes, so you don't forget anything. Please follow this outline carefully.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 7
READING
For Module 3, the seventh grade will be reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass $6.50. You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place, so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
SOCIAL STUDIES-
American Revolution begins 1774-1783
Monday- Define the words below using the glossary in the back of the back or within the chapter. Write them in the vocabulary notebook. Due Thursday, 1/26.
Tuesday- Read pages 108-117 in the textbook. On page 116, answer questions 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday, 1/27.
New Vocabulary:
First Continental Congress, Patriots, minutemen, Redcoats, Second Continental Congress, Continental Army, George Washington, Battle of Bunker Hill
Copy into notebook:
1. reaction- response
New Map will be distributed.
Topic for African American Heritage Month will be chosen this week.
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HOMEWORK GRADE 8
READING
For Module 3, the eighth grade will be reading two books- A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High by Carlotta Walls LaNier and Liza Frazier Page, $ 14 and Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas, $7.50. You can purchase or order the book yourself. We will be starting Module 3 next week. If I ordered the book for you, the money is due ASAP.Achieve 3000 is assigned each week to help improve the children’s vocabulary and comprehension skills. The children should complete any assignments (activities or thought questions) that are not completed during class. They can also get extra review by completing the stretch activities for the story that they have worked on in class. The Activity and Thought Question must be completed every week because they are counted as a grade!
Write all new vocabulary on index cards. Words will not be accepted if they are not in a bag! Please keep Module 1 and 2 index cards in a safe place so you will have them for the Final Exam. You can keep them at home until we start to review. You will need a new Ziploc bag and index cards for Module 3.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The Progressive Spirit of Reform 1868-1920
Monday- Define the words below using the glossary in the back of the back or within the chapter. Write them in the vocabulary notebook. Due Thursday, 1/26.
Tuesday- Read pages 642-649 in the textbook. On page 645, answer questions 1b, 2a and on page 649, answer questions 1a, 2b on loose-leaf. Remember to write a full heading on the loose-leaf and restate the question in the answer. Due Friday, 1/27.
New Vocabulary:
mass transit, suburbs, Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jacob Riis, settlement houses, Jane Addams, Hull House, Florence Kelley
Copy into notebook:
1. factor- cause
2. charity- an institution engaged in relief for the poor
3. sanitation- the promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease
New Map will be distributed.
Topic for African American Heritage Month will be chosen this week.
Have a great week!
