Week of November 12 - 16, 2012

Thursday HW
1.  Return Report Card envelopes with a parent signature.
2.  MMS homework book pages 38-39 are due on Monday.  We spent 20 minutes in class on it today.
3.  Spelling Text work I assigned in class today on pages 31 to 33 is due on Monday.  These are sight word spelling activities, capitalization exercises and reviews of word groups such as 'antonym' and 'homophone' which are frequently misunderstood in writing that I see in our class work.  We spent 25 minutes in class on these activities before they were assigned as homework.
4.  Geometry Quiz on Unit Three, Lessons 1 and 2, on Tuesday November 20.  A study sheet was given to all students to reinforce the vocabulary I mentioned earlier on Monday which should be memorized.
5.  Final Patterning Unit Test on Thursday November 22.
6.  Library period on Monday after Lunch.
Today was our final scheduled period on the Endangered Animal Biodiversity Powerpoint.  Student who are not yet finished should find time at recesses when I do not have duty to finish up by next Wednesday.  We will build success critieria together as a class early next week for oral presentations based on the strengths and needs shown in the News Journal cycle of presentations. The main focus is have student completely refrain from reading each slide to the class. 

Wednesday HW
1.  Return report card envelopes with a signature.
2.  Tomorrow is retake picture day.
3.  Dictation on Thursday -- Word Up # 6.
4.  Test pack # 4 is due tomorrow with corrections and a signature.  I handed it out on Friday November 9th.  (I received seven of them back to date.)

Our Blue Day participation was very well received by our Kindergarten reading buddies -- they loved it.   Way to go boys and girls!  Our final drama workshop with Andre Sills took place this afternoon.  The students showed great appreciation for his work, although we did have a less productive day than we did on Monday afternoon.
 
Tuesday HW
1.  Return report card envelopes with a signature.  Thank you.
2.  Dictation on Thursday:  Word Up #6.
3.  MMS Practice pages 36-37.  This work is due in class tomorrow for corrections.  We covered these attributes today:  scalene, isosceles and equilateral triangles, convex and concave polygons.
Wear BLUE tomorrow for Reading Buddies Blue Day.

Monday HW
1.  Return Interview request forms with preferred choices.
2.  Return Progress Report envelopes with a parent signature.
3.  Spelling Cycle #6:  4 lists and 15 sentences.
Today we spent a fair amount of time in Math reviewing the definition of an "attribute" ( a characteristic all things in a group share) and making a list of common ones in this Geometry unit. 
These included: regular and irregular figures; triangles (acute, right, obtuse, scalene, isosceles, equilateral); quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, paralleleogram, trapezoid, right angled trapezoid); pentagons; hexagons; octagons; angle types (acute, right, obtuse, reflex); equal sides; and parallel sides.
In addition to the motor skills needed to measure and construct angles and polygons in this unit, there is a significant amount of vocabulary to memorize, which is presented on our word wall in class.

Music on a Monday -- let's get fit!