Week of March 21-25, 2011

Thursday HW
1. Japan Earthquake relief efforts:
a) Toonie Tuesday March 29
b) Cookie sale, $2.00 each, from April 6 to April 8
2.  There is an Earth Rangers performance on April 6.  Students are asked to contribute $2.00 as a donation to the organization.  Please bring in your donation on Thursday April 1.
3. Planet powerpoint due in class on Friday. Each student had opportunities to use computers in class today. Please hand it in to me digitally when you have completed it. We will have had generous time in class which has come to an end today.  Students who have not finished will have to make arrangements to complete the work at home.  We will bvegin presented them to the class on the Smart board beginning next week.
4.  Main and supporting details quiz on Tuesday March 30.  Students had in-class highlighter work corrected today and received a quiz practice sheet which they completed in class today as well.  Any unfinished work or quiz practice is considered homework.  This activity represents our fourth follow-up activity on Main Idea and Inferences since "The Other Side" diagnostic activity was returned to students.

Wednesday HW
1. Japan Earthquake relief efforts:
a) Toonie Tuesday March 29
b) Cookie sale, $2 from April 6 to April 8
2. Diamante poem good copy is due in class tomorrow.
3. Planet powerpoint due in class on Friday. Each student had opportunities to use computers in class today. Please hand it in to me digitally if you have completed it.  We will have a large time period tomorrow to work on it as well.

Tuesday HW
1.  Japan Earthquake relief efforts:
a)  Toonie Tuesday March 29
b)  Cookie sale, $2 from April 6 to April 8
2.  Five Sense poem and haiku good copies are due in class tomorrow. 
3.  Rough Draft of Diamante poem in class for tomorrow.
4.  Planet powerpoint due in class on Friday.  Each student had opportunities to use computers in class today and during the homework club at lunch.  Please hand it in to me digitally if you have completed it.

Monday HW
1.  Math quiz tomorrow on Unit 6 Lessons 8 and 9 ( capacity/volume and relating units of mass).  This is mostly a conversion quiz.  The two main conversions we did focussed on multiplying a given unit by 1000 or by 0.001 depending on which direction the conversion was going.  Calculators are permitted but recall that these calculations are mental math from an earlier unit.  We also focussed on memorizing three baseline conversions found at the bottom of page 233 of the math text and repeated on page 92 of the homework book.
2.  Gather some colourful magazine pictures for your nature-based Haiku poem.
3.  Planet powerpoint due on Friday.  Each student had a period today to work on the computers and will receive more time each day until Friday.