news and notes 10/18/06

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.

*Letter to parents, due Friday 10/20.
*Read to page 120 in Esperanza Rising and write comments and questions on Post-its, due Thurday 10/19.

Math:

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

For Wednesday SL 2.
For Thursday SMJ p 46, 47 #1 & 2, Test corrections with signature.
Start your search for Tough Numbers.

Humanities: Reread Farmfolks handout. Write selected questions in your writer's notebook with space for answers, due the day of your Farm Field Trip.

Grammar: Part of speech, due 10/24.

French:

Spanish:

Science: Read Chapter 1 and answer questions in complete sentences.

Tech:


Sorry I'm off to a faculty meeting, so a short note. We did a lot of great work today and as a class we were focused and thoughtful.

For your amusement, a joke:
This guy needs a job and decides to apply at the zoo. As it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla, had passed away the night before and they had carefully preserved his hide. They tell this guy that they'll pay him well if he would dress up in the gorillas skin and pretend to be the gorilla so people will keep coming to the zoo. Well, the guy has his doubts, but Hey! He needs the money, so he puts on the skin and goes out into the cage. The people all cheer to see him. He plays up to the audience and they just eat it up. This isn't so bad, he thinks, and he starts really putting on a show, jumping around, beating his chest and roaring, swinging around. During one acrobatic attempt, though, he loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting, landing square in the middle of the lion cage! As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. He's terrified and starts screaming, "Help, Help, Help!" The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, "Shut up or we'll BOTH lose our jobs!"