Odds and Ends

Science Fair Club:  Make sure you complete your experiment or inquiry over the holiday.  Collect your data.  Do you research.  We will only meet two more times before completed boards are due!  We will meet January 10 and 17.  The Science Fair is Tuesday, January 22!

Please search your houses and cars for any books that might belong to me!  They will either have my name on them in Sharpie or have a white sticker on them.  Please bring any books back in January!  I miss them and I'm sure they are homesick!  We are desperately looking for 3 paperback copies of 13 Birthdays. They belong to the school, not me!

Classroom spelling bees will be held the first few days we get back to school.  The school wide spelling bee is January 17.  Please have your child study!  They have all been given lists; many have been given lists several times!

Most importantly, have a wonderful holiday and enjoy your family time together!  Your children are so precious and they will grow up so quickly!

Science Fair Club

All students should be completing their experiment or inquiry. They should be recording all their raw data and converting it to a graph.  Students can use microsoft Excel to make their graph or Create a Graph from our school website. Students should be doing research and printing what they find.  They should include research in their conclusion after their experiment is complete.  We will only meet 2 more times before the Fair on January 22.  We will meet on January 10 and January 17.

Hat Day!!!

5th Grade AC ELA

Tomorrow:
Word Work Test...study!!!
Character Brochures are due by noon!
Informational Writing is due by noon!
Interims are next week, so please try to be here every day.

Science Fair Club

Our Science Fair is January 22,2013.  All projects are due on that day.  All students must be doing their experiment or investigation now.  They need to repeat it at least 3 times and record their observations and their data.  They should be doing research now that they will incorporate into their conclusions later. Don't forget to use the websites we have talked about.
www.stevespangler.com
www.sciencebuddies.com
www.chem4kids.com
www.dragonflytv.com
www.sciencebob.com

4th Grade "Edward" Vocab Test Friday, December 7

Diligence

Grotesque

Duration

Mortified

Discerning

Descent

Rancid

Garb

Exhilarated

Savor

Intrusive

Loathed

Provoked

Ignored

Shuffle

Elegant

Restore

Precious

Impassioned

Pummeled

Shattered

Solemn

Fragile

horrid

SS Updates

SS HW:  Finish your Before/After Poster.  Complete your quick study sheet on lesson 1.  Save lesson 2 for tomorrow night.  You will not have a project before the holiday break, but you will have two tests.  Your first test will be on all the vocabulary from Chapter 5.  Save your homework sheets and learn all the highlighted words in the chapter.  Chapter 5 vocab test will be Wednesday December 12.  Your second test will cover content from all of chapter 5 and lessons 1 and 2 from chapter 6.  That test will be on Tuesday, December 18.  Keep working hard.  Let's finish this semester strong!

5th Grade AC ELA

Homework:  Use each of  the 8 problem words in a sentence (may, can, set, sit, let, leave, lie, lay).You must have at least 2 compoud  sentences and 2 complex.  Also, almost everyone has completed their Character Analysis Brochure.  If you have not, it is up to you to finish it before Friday at noon. I will not be providing any more computer time, so you must either use a school computer during study hall, or complete it at home.  To do it at home, you must have Microsoft Publisher.  Tomorrow is the Word Study class work grade and Friday is the test. Study hard!

5th Grade AC ELA

Homework: Some students need to finish their "non-fiction close reading" for homework.  They are reading their social studies text closely to analyze the points of view of various people regarding child labor. 
We are all going to the computer lab to FINISH our Character Analysis Brochures tomorrow.  Each student has a yellow rubric that shows exactly what is expected in each part of their project.  Please check with your child to see how they are progressing.  They can work on this at home and bring their work back and forth on a flash drive.  We are using Microsoft Publisher. 
Today we started an informational piece of writing.  They are writing about the average workday of a person in the job of their choosing.  This piece is for a test grade.  For a timed writing piece, the students are allotted 2 hours.  For this piece they are getting 2 hours and 40 minutes.  Therefore, all writing is due at the end of class on Friday. 
Thank you for talking to your children about these assignments and making sure they stay on task right up until the holiday!