Week in Preview Oct. 5- 9
I apologize for this not arriving until Sunday PM. I didn’t have internet access until now.
Hurray! The laptops are going home. Please make sure they are charging in a safe place and they are not being charged in the case.
Please use the teachers’ after school info below to help your child plan his/her week. Don’t forget to check the planners.
Ellen Santora
ELA Blue Crew
After School: Tuesday/Thursday
**Portfolios are coming home today!** Kids have been working hard to organize their portfolios to bring them home to work with parents/guardians. There is a PINK LETTER in the writing section designed to guide you through the “goal setting” process. Each student will set TEN personalized writing goals (see Writing Strategies Worksheets for complete list) and will choose to “Aquire”, “Improve”, or “Sophisticate” that skill. With instruction, conferencing, practice, and revision kids will write toward those goals. First books are should be completed. In the coming week, we will address how students can choose a new novel in an informed way using goals and lexiles (from this year’s NWEAs!) and we will discuss Independent Reading Activities to demonstrate comprehension. Most students have begun a second piece of writing and will be tweaking it to demonstrate a goal. Enjoy looking over the writing from this year and years past!
Jeremy Stein
Social Studies
Late Day: Tuesday
Students will have a Middle East Map Quiz on Wednesday or Thursday depending on the class rotation. This is the first map quiz of the year. All students have labeled the countries on a map, colored a map and taken a practice quiz on line.
On Monday we will begin our historical study of the Middle East by reading about the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome. Students will read Chapter 1 Sec 1 of the text and use the Cornell Note taking template to guide their reading. Throughout the week we will enhance the study by viewing a short video on the Byzantine Empire as well as reading two separate essays about Emperor Justinian.
Mathematics
After School Help
Monday – Ms. Jacobs
Tuesday- Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Towle
Wednesday- Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Towle, Ms. Jacobs
Thursday – Mrs. Hodgkins
Variables and Patterns:
Students will finish their work in Investigation #2 with an exercise eliciting their interpretation of the data represented in several different shaped graphs. There will be a quiz on this investigation at the end of the week. The mathematical goals to be assessed are on the yellow assignment sheet in the math binder.
During the next couple of weeks, we will be reviewing your child’s binder and collecting the vocabulary section for a “surprise” notebook check.
Student Support
Mrs. Paul after school Tuesday and Thursday
Le Français Mme Turner after school Tues. & Thurs.
Students should be applying their French numbers whenever possible….doing Math, exercising, counting sheep at night etc. There will be a quiz on numbers their second class of the week. We have started with the word “comment” (how) followed by the verb être (to be) to start describing people….ie Comment est Sylivie? (How is Sylvie…meaning describe her). We will work on the grammar piece of agreement of adjectives in number and gender in French. Students will do an assessment project at the end of the week titled “Les Contraires” (The opposites).
Sra. Campbell -Spanish
Available after school on Tuesday and Thursday
This coming week we will continue expanding our use of gustar to talk about what other people like to do, using the verb ser to say where people are from, moving in to talking about what people are like.We will continue to expand our practice into reading and writing activities. We will also refocus on numbers above 10.
We had a couple of quizzes this week on vocabulary and the results show that vocabulary in the cuardernos needs to be studied a bit more by many of the students. Here’s a tip on a way to study that might be helpful: there are flash-card programs on Classzone.com (the online site for the text we use) that would be helpful I think, now that the laptops are going home. These can be done on any computer and the students all know this site as we have used it in class.
Science: Ms. Boudreau After school help Tuesday & Wednesday
Students created moon phase study pamphlets last week and finished study of season. Projects are due from B, D & E this week. There will be a moon phase and seasons quiz on Friday. Students should visit links, review notes in binders, read articles and ask lots of questions if they don’t understand how moon phases and seasons happen. This weeks focus is on the properties of light and next week we will be using the metric system to measure mass and volume.
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