8/24/09

ELA6C1

Language Arts: Students will identify and use the eight parts of speech and determine that words can be different parts of speech in a sentence.

In Class activities:  

Parts of speech overview. Nouns Pronouns Adjectives.

Diagnostic preview.

Copy notes p. 25. Homework: Study notes form page 25. 

Define: Noun

Give examples of :

person

places

 things

Ideas

one word nouns

hyphenated words

two word nouns

Do workpage 25 in your workbook for homework.

8/25/09

Students will do Language Arts Map testing

No homework

8/26/09

Students will review the homework from Monday night.

Class activity: Find the nouns in the sentence.

Define common and proper nouns.

Provide common and proper nouns which they will complete as a homework assignment.

Homework: Study your Language Arts notes on Nouns: Complete the learning activity on common and proper nouns.

8/24/09 Math

Study your multiplication tables and complete all unfinished classwork.

8th grade students are working on Variables and Expressions Chapter 1-1.  8th grade students will divide the math works on p.  6. Students need to study the vocabulary words for that chapter.  

8/25/09 Students will do problems 1- 9 in class.

Homework: Do problems 10-18  for homework.

 8/26/09

Math Students are working on basic skills. Please assist your child in learning multiplication and division facts each night. Homework is usually unfinished classwork. There is no homework tonight. Most students were given the math MAP test today. No homework for Wednesday. 

8th grade students complete problems 19-30; page 8. 

8/27/09

Language Arts H/W. Students will label the nouns common or proper.

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of nouns by construct a noun college using pictures from magazines, construction paper, glue, scissors.

Math: Study Multiplication tables

8th grade students will complete p.8, evaluating expressions in the math text book.

Monday, August 31, Language Arts.

• Students will  complete the noun college.
• Students will learn plural and collective nouns
• Homework; Study notes on plural and collective nouns
• Do collective nouns crossword

Social Studies:

Students will do:

• Social Studies MAP test
• Please bring a library book to class to read after you complete the test.

 9/3/09

Science:

Students will learn that the metric system is the system of measurement that scientists use to measure.

Read: the metric system from handout.

copy: the units of measurement and how to convert from one unit of measurement to another.

Homework: Study handouts and notes from the metric system.

Students need to bring a ruler to school.

Friday: 9/4/09 Students will continue to study the metric system. There will be no homework over the weekend.

Language Arts. 9/3/09

Students will review homework on collective nouns.

Read for meaning: Students will read a short comprehension passage and answer questions independently.

Students will take STAR Reading in the 6th grade computer lab. The scores on this test will determine the level of AR readers that students will be able to check out in the library.

No homework on Thursday or Friday just study notes on nouns.

Students will begin lesson on pronouns on Tuesday.

Read your library book each night. We will visit the library every other Thursday. Our next visit will be September 17, 2009.

Students will learn to multiply one digit by two and three digits. Please assist your child in writing multiplication tables each night. All unfinished classwork will be homework.

Eighth Grade students are to study notes on integers. Classwork and homework will began on 9/4/09. Please assist your child in studying the rules and vocabulary notes each night.

 9/8/09 Tuesday: Science S7CS4-B- Review of what is Metric System?  The class will review notes from the metric system. Students will measure line segments in centimeters and millimeters.

9/9/09 Wednesday Students will continue to measure in Millimeters, meters, and centimeters. Students will measure items in the classroom as a hands on activity. Homework P61.  

9/10/09 Students will convert from one measurement to another using the powers of 10.

9/10/09 Friday. Students will continue to measure using the metric system.

9/8/09 Tuesday Language Arts. ELA6C1 Students will learn that a pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Pronoun notes: personal pronouns, Reflexive, and intensive pronouns.

Whole group activity P 39, pronouns and antecedents.

Homework/complete p. 39, part A.

9/9/09 Wednesday Complete pronoun notes. Give examples of each type of pronoun.

Homework: Pronoun worksheet:

9/10/09 Thursday Continue to study pronouns.

9/11/09 Pronoun quiz

Eighth Grade students will continue to study integers.

All other students will study basic skills with multiplication.

Social Studies: Beginning Sunday 9/13/09, students are to watch the weather report everyday for seven days. Students will write a one or two sentence description of the report and then a one or two sentence statement of the actual weather.  

10/6/09 Update

Math students are studying graphs: They will be drawing and reading different types of graphs. They will also continue to work on the basic facts in Math. For homework, 10/6/09: write your 4 times tables one time. Let your parents sign your work. 

Good evening parents: Social studies students are now studying Mexico. Remind your student to study their notes every night and then get a good nights rest.

These are some of the key terms to look for in your child's notes.  

10/7/09

Good evening parents!

Science: Today we begin studying the Earth and it's layers. We began with notes and a transparency that illustrates what the layers of the Earth are.

ELA: Today was our second day going over adverbs. We also finished reading the story "The Dog of Pompeii". Ask your children about the story and have them tell it back to you! We also wrote 5 sentences about the story in class. We will be working on reading and writing much more during the next 9 weeks. Encourage your children to give their opinions or details about stories or what you are talking about - this will help them when we begin to write.

Math: We continued with graphing ordered pairs today. We will continue graphing ordered pairs or finding ordered pairs from points that are already graphed through the rest of the week.

Social Studies: We are continuing with our chapter on Mexico. Please share any knowledge that you have of Mexico with your children!! If you don't know much about Mexico - ask your children!!

10/9/09

Happy Friday!!

Science: We are continuing with the layers of the earth and the earth's interior. On Monday we will have a quiz on this! Encourage your children to look over their science notes this weekend. I also gave out spelling words for next week's spelling test. The words are: core, crust, mantle, pressure, oceanic, granite, seismic, interior, continental, and magnet. The bonus word is: lithosphere.

Today in ELA we are continuing our lesson with adverbs. Your children had a small adverb quiz this afternoon. We also read some short passages on guide dogs which related to the previous story that we read, "The Dog of Pompeii".

In Mathematics we concentrated on coordinated pairs and finding the pairs to go with a given point. We also reviewed multiplication and division.

In Social Studies we are continuing our chapter on Mexico. Next week we will begin doing PowerPoints on Central American countries!

Have a great weekend!

Tuesday October 13, 2009

Good evening parents!

Science: Please study the science spelling words with your children. This particular set of words can be quite tricky! We are finishing up with the layers of the Earth today! Tomorrow there will be a small assessment on what we have worked on so far.

ELA: Today we will continue working with adverbs. This week your children will begin writing in their journals. Please ask them about what they have written and encourage them to be as detailed as possible. If they can add the details while they are speaking it will be easier for them to translate that to writing! We will also be reading the story "Storm" which is about a sled dog that is racing in the Iditarod.

Math: In math we will be finishing up with ordered pairs. Our homework tonight for math is writing the 3's, 4's, and 5's times tables two times each. Please sign your child's paper once they have completed the homework.

Social Studies: Today we have a review on our chapter about Mexico! Tomorrow will be our chapter test. Please continue to talk with your children about different nations in the world and encourage them to find out more about the nations that we are currently studying!

Have a great night!

10/16/2009

Happy Friday!!

Science: Today we had our Science test on mantle convection! It was a very hard subject but our students did well. Our spelling test will be on Monday! We had some delays this week and our list or words is difficult this week. Remember to study them!

ELA: Today we had a test on adverbs and wrote about our happiest day. We will be doing a lot of writing in the upcoming months and they are all doing very well.

Math: Next week we begin working with line graphs and ratios. Today the class beat me in multiplication football!

Social Studies: We have just begun Chapter 9, Central America and the Caribbean Islands.

Have a fabulous weekend!!!

10/28/09

Good evening!!

Science: We have moved into plate tectonics and mid-ocean ridges. This is difficult material but the students are doing very well! We also have spelling words each week in science. The reason for this is that some of the most challenging words that our students encounter are the infrequent subject specific words that they must use in science. They are doing quite well with spelling and today they had their practice test. Most of them passed but please encourage all of them to study for Friday's test.

ELA: Please encourage your children to read the AR books that they check out from our library. Our library day is every other Thursday. We will be attending tomorrow. I allow the students to check out one book that is in their zone of proximal development and is an AR book and I also allow them to check out a book that may not be on their reading level. Today in ELA the entire class took AR tests on their book and I am proud to say that they all passed!! They were quite proud of themselves!! I would like for them to take and pass at least one AR test every two weeks.

Math: We are working on line graphs in math. We will have a test on line graphs on Friday.

Social Studies: This week we have been studying the Caribbean Islands and watching "West Side Story". Today students wrote on the cultural differences that were portrayed in the movie and why there was so much conflict between the Sharks and the Jets.