Monday, September 30, 2013

Weekly Update September 30, 2013

Please remember to sign your student's agenda.  I check agendas Monday morning for signatures.  Home Reading should be included in the Agenda with the book name and time read.

WE CARE KITS--The students will be assembling kits in our classroom and delivering them to CLWR at the end of the month.  Items are due on Oct. 11.  Check with your child to see what item they are bringing.  We will assemble 13 kits as a class.

ELA--The Timeline Project is due October 2. We have been working on Sentence Structure and identifying types of sentences.  Spelling Worksheets are due each Friday with a Spelling Test as well.  Four Reader Responses are due on November 1.  We will be starting a Short Stories Unit at the end of this week or early next week.

Math--Gr. 7--Students are working on Ch. 2--Operations on Decimal Numbers.

Math--Gr. 8--Students are working on Ch. 2--Ratios, Rates, and Proportional Reasoning.

Social Studies--Students are working on World Views, about what history means to them and some vocabulary items.


If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call the school or email me directly.


Important Dates
Sept. 30--Shops p.m.
Oct. 1--Book Orders Due
Oct. 2--Timeline Project Due
Oct. 8--Shops p.m.
Oct. 9--Lunch Lady Hot Lunch
Oct. 11--We Care Kit Items due
Oct. 14--Thanksgiving Monday, No Classes
Oct. 17--Shops p.m.
Oct. 25--SAGE, No Classes