Monday, November 30, 2015

Week of November 30 - December 4, 2015

Friday HW:

Based on the number of absent students I elected to move the Triangles and Polygons quiz to Monday, December 7.

Thursday HW
1.  Book Report is due December 10.
2.  Literature Circle reading and note taking for the last quarter of the book.  we will meet on Friday for our final oral presentations.
3.  Triangles and Polygons quiz tomorrow.
4.  Spelling Dictation #8 tomorrow.
5.  Refugee Relief Fundraising:  cookie order forms were handed out today.  Cookies can be ordered for $2.00 each by December 4 or by December 11, with correspondingly different delivery dates.  Thank you for considering a donation.
6.  Food Drive is underway.


Wednesday HW
1.  Book Report is due December 10.
2.  Literature Circle reading and note taking for the last quarter of the book.  we will meet on Friday for our final oral presentations.
3.  Do some reading on the web about the smoking topic you are researching in Science class.  Bring whatever notes you have to class for Friday.
4.  Refugee Relief Fundraising:  cookie order forms were handed out today.  Cookies can be ordered for $2.00 each by December 4 or by December 11, with correspondingly different delivery dates.  Thank you for considering a donation.
5.  Food Drive starts tomorrow.


Tuesday HW
**HW Club is today after school.
1.  Book Report is due December 10.
2.  Literature Circle reading and note taking for the last quarter of the book.  we will meet on Friday for our final oral presentations.
3.  MMS Lesson 3.4, pages 40-41.  The page numbers are somewhat hidden in the binding of the duo-tang at the bottom.  We've been stressing the importance of using proper Math vocabulary in our work (acute, right, and obtuse triangles; regular and irregular polygons) and in recording it legibly in our notebooks.  Today we also learned that the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees and that we can sort polygons by attributes, such as number of sides, length of sides, and types of angles.
4.  Refugee Relief Fundraising:  cookie order forms were handed out today.  Cookies can be ordered for $2.00 each by December 4 or by December 11, with correspondingly different delivery dates.  Thank you for considering a donation.


Monday HW
1.  Complete Spelling Cycle for week 8 with 15 sentences and the four lists.
2.  Good copy of the Illness In The Human Body report is due on Tuesday by 3:15.  we worked on it last week, today and we will have some time tomorrow.
3.  Book Report is due December 10.
4.  Literature Circle reading and note taking for the last quarter of the book.  we will meet on Friday for our final oral presentations.