Week of February 7 - 11, 2011

Thursday HW
1.  Dance to present on February 17.
2.  Book Report Reading.  Report is due on February 24.
3.  Good copy of Totem Pole story is due in class on Monday.  It can be typed or handwritten in pen.

Wednesday HW
1.  Dance to present on February 17
2.  Book Report reading.  Report # 4 is due on February 24.
3.  Bitstrips activities up to Teamwork/Kindness should be submitted electronically.

Tuesday HW
1.  Try out http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ website that we introduced in class.  Use the multiplication game as the primary activity but feel free to try others.
2.  Language Power pages 20-21.
3.  Math Textbook pages 211-12 # 2 to 8.

Monday HW
1.  Math HW book pages 82-83.  We introduced the 24 hour and 12 hour clocks today in our lesson.  Most students have a fairly secure understanding of the working of the clock, but a number could use home review of the short hand and long hand, as well as the idea that the space between the numbers can mean five minutes as well as one hour.  We'll review this as well, but the pace will be quick in class.
2.  Language Power pages 18 and 19.  These two exercises open a wider field for the students to look at their own writing more analytically.  For example we have identified groups of sentences in a variety of ways:
- declarative/interrogative/imperative/exclamatory
- natural order/inverted order
- simple, compound/complex
Students should be looking more critically at the patterns they fall into in their own writing so that a variety of types emerge rather than a sequence of simple sentences in natural order in every outing.
3.  Calendar and newsletter for February handed out today.
4.  Next guided reading period is our last for this cycle.  Folders should be ready to hand in during that class.
5.  A significant number of students have not submitted their Bitstrips comics on A Person I Admire which was due today.  A new assignment on character education was started today.