Week of January 31 - February 4, 2011

Friday HW
1. Bitstrips "A Person I Admire" comic to be completed by Monday morning February 7. Students who have difficulty accessing a computer at home can use one in class on Friday and on Monday at lunch. We have had three periods in the Lab already to work on this remix of our writing assignment.
2. Science to the end of page five of the Space booklet by Monday. Experiment cycle activities introduvced in class today are done in class and not as part of our assigned homework. As such it is important to make good use of class time to finish these experiments during the four periods we wil spend on them.
3.  Test pack signed and corrected -- many are overdue.
4.  Guided Reading: 
Blue -- survey results
Green -- story good copy
Yellow -- free verse poem  rough draft to compare with your partner
Red -- article on the Whales visit rough draft
5.  Dance presentation due on February 17 during gym time.
6.  Math HW book pages 80-81.

Thursday HW
1.  Bitstrips "A Person I Admire" comic to be completed by Monday morning February 7.  Students who have difficulty accessing a computer at home can use one in class on Friday and on Monday at lunch.  We have had three periods in the Lab already to work on this remix of our writing assignment.
2.  Science to the end of page five of the Space booklet by Monday.  Experiment cycle activities introduvced in class today are done in class and not as part of our assigned homework.  As such it is important to make good use of class time to finish these experiments during the four periods we wil spend on them.
3.  We have a Creole Drummatix presentation in the gym for Black History Month on Monday, February 14 in the senior gym at about 9:20 AM.

Wednesday HW
Snow Day!  See you Thursday.

Tuesday HW
1.  Math textbook pages 153-54 # 2 to 10;  page 157 # 2-10.  We spent a fair amoubnt of time on this today.  Students found the "zero in the quotient" step most difficult to remember.  We spent time working through the placement of the decimal, using repeating decimal marks (dot and dash), and rounding to the hundredth place, in addition to our focus on appropriate problem solving techniques.
2.  Test pack signed and corrected for Friday.
3.  Space booklet page 4.

Monday HW
1.  Math textbook pages 149-150 # 2 to 9.  Pay special attention to including a list of "Givens" and using both a number sentence/equation and a word sentence to answer word problems.
2.  Math HW book pages 62-63.
3.  Test pack signed and corrected for Friday.  A new one was distributed today.  13 students have not returned the last one with corrections and a parent signature.  Until the last one is reurned, the new one will not be handed out.
4.  Ski trip form and fee was due today.  10 students have not submitted a "Yes" (with fee) or "No" form regarding that trip.  We have extra capacity on the bus if more than three parents want to come on this trip.  I currently have three volunteers and can welcome additional parents for the same fee.
5.  Science Space booklet page three done.