news and notes 10/25/06

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.

*Esperenza Rising: read pages 150-157 and write comments and questions on Post-it Notes, due Thursday, 10/26.

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 Thursday Red Paint plan, SL 2.3, SMJ 50-54.
for Monday the answer to the Red Paint plan.

Humanities: *Service Learning Assignment #1, Thursday 10/26.

Grammar: Nouns, due Tuesday 10/31.

French:

Spanish: Study for test.

Science: Pay attention to serving sizes. Write down the serving size or two things you eat and note the amount you ate. Sometimes serving sizes are unrealistic, due Monday 10/30.

Tech:

Other: Last chance to submit Scholastic Book Orders, due Monday 10/30.


Notes

Today was an inspiring day for all the aspiring writers in our classroom. Brad Marshland, dad to Xan and author of the recently published book, The Imagicators, talked to 6s about how he develops ideas for fiction. We created plot, setting and characters for a book by the title of Sherm's Revenge. Many 6Sers expressed interest in writing their own version of the book. I hope that we'll soon have time to work on that. In addition to the exciting we accomplished a lot, with students independently correcting their grammar assignments and doing some introductory reading about creating service projects.

Joke of the Day

A man walking down the street noticed a small boy trying to reach the doorbell of a house. Even when he jumped up, he couldn't quite reach it.The man decided to help the boy, walked up on to the porch and pushed the doorbell. He looked down at the boy, smiled and asked, "What now?"
The boy answered, "Now we run like crazy!"