Homework

Read: 30 min.
Park Guide: Final draft of "Places of Interest."  Work on your park map if you have not yet finished it.
Remember to use the  table of contents and the bibliography format we reviewed today.
Guide Book due: Tuesday, 3/7.

The kids are continuing to write the rough drafts of their national park reports in class, and I will continue to assign the final drafts for homework.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Math: HC - pg. 91, problems 3 and 4.
National Park Guide:  Final draft of "Plant Life" paragraph. *Remember to refer to the "Final Draft Guidelines" below.
All final pages of the booklet are due on Tuesday, 3/7 (you may turn it in earlier if you like).  Please don't staple the pages together as we will assemble them in class on the day they are due. 

National Park Travel Guide – Final Draft

1.  The final draft of your travel guide may be handwritten or typed on one side of the paper only.

2. Your paragraphs should be well developed (minimum 6 - 8 sentences), containing dates, measurements, distances, and descriptive examples where appropriate.

3. Your writing must be neat and have correct grammar, punctuation and spelling.

4. Your artwork (cover, map, and chart, graph, or diagram) should show best effort quality.

5.  We will assemble your completed final draft pages in class.

Homework

Read: 30 min. The final day to take an AR test is March 8.
National Park Guide:  You can continue with the "Climate" paragraph and begin the "Wildlife" paragraph.  If you need to finish the rough draft of either of these paragraphs, please do so.
Social Studies: Study for tomorrow's test.

*National Park Travel Guide is due on Tuesday, March 7.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
National Park Guide: Final draft of "Statistics" and "Climate" paragraphs.
Social Studies: Study for Friday's test.

Over the past two weeks, the kids have been working on taking notes and writing rough draft paragraphs for their current writing project, a national park "travel guide."  Beginning today, I will be assigning the final draft paragraphs, one piece at a time.  The final drafts may be typed or neatly handwritten.  I will guide them through the title page, table of contents and bibliography in class. They have also been working on the park map which they drawing.  The chart or graph can be printed off an online source.  I will go over this in class as well.

I have included below information and guidelines for the project.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
National Park:  Write the final draft of the "Park History" paragraph.
Social Studies: Study for Friday's test.  Use your study guide!

 

National Park Travel Guide - Guidelines

            For this writing activity you will learn about a national park of your choice.  Using a variety of research sources, you will take notes, organize your information, write a rough draft and after careful editing, write a final draft of your "book."

You will need to find information in each of the following areas:

*Park history (when it was established, who was responsible, original inhabitants)

    

*General statistics (location, size, lengths of rivers, heights of mountains, etc.)

*Climate (temperatures, precipitation, etc.)

*Wildlife

*Plant life

*Places of interest

*Popular activities (things that visitors can do there)

*Other interesting facts (things that are unique to this park)

*Conservation efforts

You will also include the following:

*An illustrated cover

*A table of contents

*A title page containing the name of the park, your name, your grade, and date

*A map showing where your park is located (I will help you with this)

*A chart, graph, or diagram containing information about a particular aspect of the park

*A glossary of at least 5 words and their meanings

*A bibliography (you should have at least 4 sources)

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National Park Travel Guide – Final Draft

1.  The final draft of your travel guide may be handwritten or typed on one side of the paper only.

2. Your paragraphs should be well developed (minimum 6 - 8 sentences), containing dates, measurements, distances, and descriptive examples where appropriate.

3. Your writing must be neat and have correct grammar, punctuation and spelling.

4. Your artwork (cover, map, and chart, graph, or diagram) should show best effort quality.

5.  We will assemble your completed final draft pages in class.

I sent home progress reports today.  This is a record of your child's corrected work as of last week.  There are still four weeks of assignments and scores to add before the end of the grading period.  I will accept and give credit for any missing work your child would like to make up.  Thank you.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Math: Finish and study the math review sheet.
Social Studies: Finish pages 80-84 in the Homework and Practice Book.
"Paul Revere's Ride": Be ready to present tomorrow (if you didn't recide today).

I sent home corrected work today.  I will be sending home progress reports tomorrow.

Homework

Read: 30 min.

Math Review:
HC book - page 82, #4; page 83, #5; page 86, #2 (b); and pg. 87, #3.

"Paul Revere's Ride" - tomorrow.

I'm sorry for the late post.  I had an afternoon meeting that went long and then had to leave to do an important errand.  Unfortunately,  I didn't jot down the math pages I asked the kids to do.  If your child isn't sure of the page numbers, please go to the review section at the end of the Home Connections book and do a few of those problems.  We'll go over everything tomorrow.

Many, many thanks to all my parents who made our Friendship Breakfast this morning possible.  It was awesome and a good time was had by all!

Other Homework

Read: 30 min.
Memorize "Paul Revere's Ride" (first 2 stanzas) by Thursday.

Tuesday is our Friendship Breakfast, and this will be our Valentine's celebration.  Thanks to everyone who brought in the $5 donation for this event.

Here is the class list for Valentine's Day purposes.  Please remember if you wish to hand out valentines, you should have one for everyone.  There is no obligation, of course, to bring valentines that day.  Have a great 3-day weekend!

Adam                            Carter
Symon                          Fiona
Ellie                              Izzie
Madison                        Colette
Luke                              Cole
Grace                            Madi
Holly                            Skyler
Summer                       Gavin
John                             Tyler
Evan                             Daphne
Trevor                         Dylan
Ethan                           Sean
Julia                             Bella
Paige                           Natalie
Samantha

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Math: Student Book - page 146, choose two problems to solve and page 149, problem #1.
Vocabulary: Homework due tomorrow.
News Team #4: Prepare for tomorrow's presentation.
"Paul Revere's Ride"- memorize for next Wednesday.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Science: Study for tomorrow's test.
Vocabulary: Friday
News Team #4: Friday
***Memorize the first to stanza's of "Paul Revere's Ride" by next Wednesday.

I sent home the yearbook order forms today.  The deadline for placing an order is March 31. I also sent home some corrected work today.

After changing the date for our trip to The Tech last week, I ran into another conflict.  Our school talent show is on March 31, and I have several students trying out for it. The date for the show wasn't on the school calendar until last week and I missed it! Anyway, I tried to change the date once again but was unable to find an available slot for the lab and the movie.  I'm sorry!  We do have two more field trips planned before the end of the year - one to the Watsonville Courthouse at the end of April and one to UCSC in mid May, so I hope these will fill in the gap.  I know you all paid for The Tech trip, and I would like to handle this in one of two ways.  The UCSC organic farm trip also costs $5 per student and I could save your money for that trip - or I can refund it to you this week.  I told the kids to let me know what you would prefer.  Thanks for your understanding!

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Math: Student Book - page 142.
Science: Study for Thursday's test.
Vocabulary: Friday
News Team #4: Friday

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Math: Student Book, finish page 135.
Science: Study for Thursday's test.
News Team #4: Prepare for Friday.

Because of today's weather and tomorrow's rainy forecast, I have rescheduled the Tech field trip.  The new date is Friday, March 31.  I will send out a reminder as this date approaches.  Sorry about the change, but I've felt uneasy this week about driving over 17 and felt that it was best to postpone the trip. Thanks for understanding.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Math: Student Book - page 128.
Vocabulary: Homework is due tomorrow.

A reminder that our Tech field trip is this Friday.  We will leave school promptly at 8.  We always allow enough time to return to school by 2, but depending on traffic, there is a slight chance that we will be returning a little later than 2.  I will keep the office updated on our timing. 
Your child will need to bring a bag lunch that day - it takes too much time to buy food there! Thanks!

Homework

Read: 30 min.
Book Talk: Tomorrow. Remember that your writing should be in final draft form and your summary should be attached to your answers.
Vocabulary: Friday