Friday, November 21, 2014

Friday, November 21


We have Caring and Sharing going the next few weeks:
Nov. 17 – Nov. 25 Peanut Butter & Jelly
Donate jars of peanut butter & jelly.
Dec. 1 – Dec. 5 Breakfast Food
Donate cereal, pancake mix, syrup, granola bars, and muffin mixes.
Dec. 5 Hat Day
Donate a $1.00 to Caring & Sharing to wear a hat to school.
Dec. 8 – Dec. 12 Caring & Sharing
Donate non-perishable food and or money to feed families.
Dec. 12 Hat Day
Donate a $1.00 to Caring & Sharing to wear a hat to school.
Students can bring these donations to school to be collected and earn spirit points!

Science: Students played with dropping objects of various masses from the same height and observed which hit the ground first. We then took notes on gravity and free fall, including a brief video on mass vs. weight.  "Is the Force With You?" lab is due on Monday, the final draft rubric is attached. Here's a video of one group collecting data last week: 

Geometry: Continued discussing congruence and triangles, homework is to find a counterexample for card #8 



Pre-Algebra: Today we took the 3.1 - 3.3 Quiz. No homework. Have a great weekend!

RR English:
Read every evening
Reading log is due Monday, November 24
parents must sign reading logs

RR Math:
A section of math should be completed each night
Math packet is due Tuesday, December 8
TEST: Tuesday, December 8

Humanities: Students concluded our discussion of 5.1 of the text and began to work on 5.2 section assessment in class. 5.2 section assessment is due Monday.

Chinese: We have homework this weekend, please check the class blog.

French 2: Study for the second part of the test on Monday

ELA - We are in the home stretch! Today during Writer's Workshop Day 10 we discussed the parts of a good introduction and a good conclusion. We viewed examples from our mentor paper using the mentor text "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury. Homework: Write or type all paragraphs as rough draft for Peer Editing on Monday. READ!!!


Algebra: We worked on a review packet for our graphing test on Monday, the answers are attached.