news and notes 9/22/06

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 Monday, Study Link 1.5, Math Boxes 1.5 (pg 18), Student Math Journal pgs 16-17.

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


Humanities: Migrant Farmer article, highlighting and questions, due Monday 9/25.

French: Read magazine for 20 mins.

Spanish: Study for quiz on Monday.

Science:

Tech: Survey, due Tuesday, 9/26.

Other: Scholastic Book Orders due Monday 9/25.

This afternoon's assembly courtesy of the fifth grade was fabulous! What a great way to start the weekend - singing, dancing and environmental conciousness. Speaking of which today we looked at a few online films that were decidely against agribusiness including The Meatrix and a BBC documentary called Supermarket Secrets (now there is a link to that documentary in our links section, as well). Next week we will be making posters to educate people about the migrant farmworkers who often pick our foods. I know I'll be thinking a lot about where my food comes from this weekend.