Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Dec. 16 - Dec. 20

Welcome to the third week of Advent and the final week of school before Christmas break!

Upcoming Academic Events:

Spelling Test (no vocabulary, just Unit 8 spelling words) on Friday

Science Quiz (animals and plant cell diagram, notes will be allowed) on Friday

Book Reports and Projects on Wednesday

Literature Packet (substitute for the final test for Little House in the Big Woods) on Wednesday

RAH Thursday

Book Club on Tuesday 3:45 - 4:30

Monday, December 2, 2013

Decemeber 2 - December 6

Math - In math students will continue to strengthen their skills with division.  Homework will be; P. 33-34 (Due Tues.) Worksheet R14 (Due Wed.), and P 35-36 (Due Thurs.), Extra credit will be available also this week, E14 (Due Fri.)

Science - In Science this week we will be looking at how technology can be used to help meet needs and the possible benefits/costs that can come from new technology.  Students will have an at-home-observational assignment (Due Wed.), homework from p. 90-92 (Due Thurs.), and the review on p. 97-100 (Due Mon.).  We will be having a test on this Unit next Tuesday (Dec. 10).

Social Studies - Having just taken our test on Unit 2 last week we will be starting Unit 3, Ch. 1 this week.  Students will have to take daily notes and will also be expected to complete WB 41-48 (Due. Fri).

Religion - Rosary Monday, Reconciliation Tuesday, Mass Friday.  No test this week. 

Literature - Students were to have read Ch. 7 in Little House in the Big Woods over the weekend, this week we will get through Ch. 8, 9, 10, and 11 with worksheets for Ch. 7-8 (Due. Tues.), Ch. 9 (Due Wed.) amd Ch. 10-11 (Due Fri).

Spelling/Vocabulary - There will be a test on Unit 7 Spelling/Vocabulary words a week from this Friday (December 13).  This week, students will have homework twice, writting the words three times each (Due. Tuesday) and writing the words in alphabetical order (Due Wednesday). 
The Unit 7 words are listed below:

1. shrivel
2. loot
3. barrier
4. rejoice
5. industrious
6. senseless
7. deputy
8. compose
9. calculate
10. considerable
11. jolt
12. reliable
13. prototype
14. design
15. decimals
16. conjunctions
17. homonyms
18. introductory
19. concluding
20. criteria