news and notes 9/21/06

Homework

Reading and Writing: 15 Minutes of each daily.

Writing notebooks will be collected on
Mondays for Table 5
Tuesdays for Table 1
Wednesdays for Table 2
Thursdays for Table 3
and Fridays for Table 4.

Bring your reading book Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Math:

5 minutes of math facts practice daily.
Estimation, due every Thursday.
Stumper (optional), due whenever you get unstumped.
Problem Solving, due every Monday.

and for Friday, Message Box 1.5, No Math Message.

* Produce Surveys are due Tuesday, 9/26.
* Graphs are due Wednesday, 9/27.


Humanities: Migrant Farmer article, highlighting and questions, due next Monday 9/25
and for TOMORROW, write a reflection in your green farm unit folder about the lives of migrant farmworkers based on what you've found out from Coach Nick, the webquest and and the book A Migrant Family

French: Unit Packet 1, ex. 1-7 due Friday, 9/22. Also, finish the comic.

Spanish: Worksheet, pick up in homeroom tomorrow, due Friday 9/22.

Science: Earth the whole, due Friday, 9/22

Tech: Survey, due Tuesday, 9/26.

Other: Your completed Homework Plan, due tomorrow.
Scholastic Book Orders due Monday 9/25.

Today we did a lot! Writing, reading, hot chocolate. During reading time, I've started reading with each student, just to get a sense of who they are as readers. The process is going a little more slowly than I anticipated but hopefully we will be done next week. During Humanities we started to have a great discussion about meat production in the United States, but out conversation was cut short by Project Time. That reminds me, I am adding a link to a short animated film called "The Meatrix." It makes an argument against the production of meat in huge farms. I wonder if anyone can find an opposing viewpoint on the internet? Everyone had some fun playing games or the ukulele, reading, knitting and listening to Jimi Hendrix during th 9 minutes of Project Time. Hopefully next week we'll have a little more time to enjoy our interests together. Just keep working at jobs, and handing in homework.

Sylvia shared the discover of a tiny lizard in the lower yard during recess today. She and some other 6th graders lovingly put it on a sunny leaf in the planter box outside our room. It was very cute. The snapshot I took is definitely in the running for picture of the week.