Weekly Update November 28

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.  Thank you to all parents and family members who attended the JoMaNa Team's Thankful Feast, and who sent food to share.  It was a delicious celebration.

Jomana Dress-up day is next Tuesday, December 8th! 

Language Arts:  1) Vocabulary 2) Continuing our study of Food and Hunger.  We focused on the question:  "How does eating locally and seasonally benefit our health and the environment?"  We partnered up and had conversations about this question.  Tonight's homework is to interview an adult by asking the question above, and discuss the question in-depth together.  Submit important points tomorrow.

Math:  1) Part C, D, page 24, ACE #12-23 on page 29.

Science:  1) Watched a film about diversity of life.  2) Took notes in class.

Social Studies: 1) Current events due Friday.  2) Study countries for this week's map test:  Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatau, and New Caledonia

Reading:  1) November and December's Genre is Non-fiction, and the theme is Advocacy and Service.  Students chose the person they will be studying.  Book report is due December 14th.  

Vocabulary Words:  Assignments: 1) Know what each word means by using it in context with someone else ( you do not have to write this down - just talk to someone about the words.) 2) Write the part of speech for each word (verb, noun, adjective).  Some words will have two parts of speech.  3) ABC Order

(x)

1. dishes
2. boxes
3. wishes
4. dresses
5. beaches
6. kisses
7. brushes
8. classes
9. after
10. before
11. done
12. pretty
13. wash
14. December
15. since

(y)

1. command
2. mirror
3. accomplish
4. according
5. allowance
6. college
7. address
8. committee
9. immediate
10. barricade
11. interrupt
12. collect
13. afford
14. possess
15. announce

(z)

1. reduction
2. intentions
3. retention
4. subscription
5. electricity
6. publicity
7. subtlety
8. technically 
9. hospitality
10. acquisition
11. cruelty
12. specially
13. certainty
14. description
15. recognition

Vocabulary

Assignment:  1) Look up words in the dictionary that you do not know/understand.  2) ABC order  3) Draw pictures that represent the word.  4) STUDY

(X) on, am, if, goes, from, his, her, come, does, want, their, there, grown, actually, pounds

(Y) bizzare, cereal, coarse, counsel, discrete, discreet, marshal, martial, interview, patience, patients, preview, serial, viewpoint, course

(Z) argued, aural, benefited, committed, controlled, horrified, mimicked, mimicking, oral, panicked, prophesied, qualified, receive, researched, transferred

Second Update Week November 16

Language Arts:  1) Food Journal due Friday!  2)  Writing assignment due TOMORROW:  Students have three topics they can choose to write about.  Requirements should be in their writing notebooks. 

Math:  ACE #3-12 page 12-13;  Challenge #27 and 31, pages 16 and 17

Science:  Lab today!  TEST on Friday. 

Social Studies:  Current events due Friday.  Continuing study on Food and Hunger.

Week of November 14

Thank you for attending your child's conference.  We appreciate your support! 

Congratulations to our students who attended the NO Referral Breakfast this morning.  This breakfast was in honor of students who have been following rules and expectations, and who have had no behavior referrals. 

We started our integrated unit on Food and Hunger today.  Sherman is also having a food drive, so please consider donating food items that we can donate to the food pantry. 

ACADEMICS:
1) Math:  ACE #1 page 12 OR ACE #24 page 15

2) Language Arts:  1) Vocabulary due Friday  2) Bring in a food LABEL - we will be tracking where foods come from.  3)  Started a Food Journal, and will be keeping track of food this whole week.  Students set up their Food Journal in class, and entered in this morning's breakfast.  

3)  Science:  Went over science packet.

4)  Social Studies:  1) Current Events due Friday 2) Maps were handed out today, first map quiz will be Thursday:  Study New Zealand, Australia, Guam, and Papua New Guinea. 

Week of November 7

Thank you to all parents and students who attended conferences this week.  I hope you felt it was productive and informational.  We care about your child's progress, and want them to succeed.  Have a relaxing weekend! 

Update November 3

ACADEMICS:

Math:  Special Number project due tomorrow (Thursday)

Language Arts:  1) First Quarter Reflection essay (4 paragraphs - assignment given in class, with a lot of in-class work time) due tomorrow.  Final needs to be typed or written neatly in blue or black ink. 2) Work on Adventure CUBE - due November 9th.

Science: 1) Went over pages 31-50 in resource books, and had discussion

Social Studies:  1) In-class exploration about the island of Guam.  Students took notes, asked questions, and had discussion.  2) Current events due Friday.