news and notes 10/5/06

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 SMJ pg 34, Read, Area and Perimeter.
and for Tuesday 10/9 a Persuasive Headline.


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: Linking Verbs, due Wednesday 10/11.

French: Study verbs and memorize song, due Friday 10/6.

Spanish: Translate worksheet, due Friday 10/6.

Science: Rap Thing Reflection, due 10/6.

Tech:

What a whirlwind of a day! Did you guys feel that way? Maybe it's just me. We did a lot of work preparing for our upcoming farm field trips including brainstorming and selecting questions to ask. I also handed out information about our new writing cycle, which will be based on reading Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman and on our interviews with farmers. I'm excited about what we will discover on these trips. We still have to finish up our first writing cycle, in which we wrote from our lives. I've been trying my best to keep up with my own writing, but I'm afraid I may have to publish a little later than the rest of the class. Although Project Time was abbreviated, it was fun. I hope we get to spend more Thursday afternoons doing things we like to do. I might even have to get another ukulele for the classroom.

It was great to see so many comments on our blog space this morning. I hope that more and more of you will use this space to communicate. I completely agree that we need more pictures on the blog. Perhaps I will have to assign a class photographer to get us some more pictures, because sometimes I can't take pictures! Someone has got to teach.