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Monday, March 7, 2011

Week of March 7

Hello Parents and Supporters of JoMaNa Students! 

We have been busy with both academics and other events.  Apologies to all of you who depend on our blog for information and class assignments.  We have some exciting things going on at Sherman Middle School!

NEWS:
  • Fat Tuesday Fund-raising Dinner is March 8th!  We hope to see many of you there.  
  • Congratulations to our team for being awarded the Nickelodeon Grant.  These students were creative and forthright and was a major part of the success.  Students wrote a poem, choreographed the presentation, and videotaped it.  As a result of their initiative, we were awarded $2500 from Nickelodeon!  Thank you to:  Tia, Cian, Chantelle, Alanna, Samantha, and Damon!
ACADEMICS:

  • Math:  Filling and Wrapping book.  Math worksheet due tomorrow focuses on volume and surface area. 
  • Language Arts: 1)  Final essay due today - this was an in-class assignment given last Thursday.  2) Vocabulary test on Friday, with definitions.  Spelling words are listed below. 3)  I Am From poem final turned in.
  • Science: In-class
  • Social Studies:  Africa!  1)  Map quiz on Friday:  guinea, Guinea Bissau, Cote d Ivore, Liberia  2)  In-class notetaking.  3)  Continual study of New Orleans .
  • Reading:  1)  Book group books - reading and in-class assignments.  Work on finishing the book by Friday.  2)  Final assessment is a Character Analysis paper.  
Spelling week of March 7:
  1. advice
  2. advise
  3. proceed
  4. precede
  5. affect
  6. effect
  7. continual
  8. continuous
  9. adapt
  10. adopt
  11. respectively
  12. respectfully
  13. formerly
  14. formally
  15. moral
  16. morale
  17. disinterested
  18. uninterested
  19. dissent
  20. descent
  21. preposition
  22. proposition

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