Wednesday, February 4

Science: Electricity Webpage. After completing the first page visit some of these:

http://www.cleo.net.uk/consultants_resources/science/circuitWorld/circuitworld.html

http://www.learningcircuits.co.uk/flashmain.htm

http://www.hyperstaffs.info/science/work/physics/child/main.html

Geometry: Completed section 5.4- criteria for proving a quadrilateral is a parallelogram. Homework is the criteria for parallelograms handout. 

Pre-Algebra: Students finished and looked over their Chapter 4 tests. No homework.

Humanities: Students presented projects in class. Current events are due Friday.

Chinese: The class have an assignment and the due date is this Friday, Feb 6. Please check the class blog for detail.

RR English:

Read every evening

Reading log is due Monday, February 9, 2015

parents must sign reading logs

RR Math:

A section of math should be completed each night

Math packet was due today (February 4, 2015) - a new packet will be

to students on Friday

TEST: Monday, February 23, 2015

ELA - Welcome back! Hope reading continued over the long weekend. Today students continued with RW Day 7 - finding signposts of Contrasts and Contradictions. We are gathering evidence that will eventually be used in a paper on To Kill a Mockingbird and how Harper Lee used her craft to get her message across.

In case you haven't heard - publishers are taking the remainder of the original book Harper Lee wrote and molding it into a form of a sequel. The original book was set in the 1950s and was a grown up Scout flashing back on the summers in the 1930s - these flashbacks became To Kill a Mockingbird, the "new" book is the remainder of the story of Scout as she has grown. It will be interesting to see the woman she becomes! The book Go Set a Watchman will be released this summer, I already have my alerts on so I can get one of the first copies.

Also, To Kill a Mockingbird is on Kindle-ebooks now! If your child is an ebook reader it is very inexpensive on Amazon $3.99! Homework: Read through Chap 15 $ Journal # 3.13

Technology - Students presented their findings on their Tech Usage individually instead of in groups. We moved on to Quest 2 to stay on track.

Algebra: Welcome back. We talked about scientific notation today. Most students have seen it before. Homework: worksheet 8.4 (evens)