TGIF September 27th

MATH

Barber- CFP # 2.  Weekly Homework goes home.  Begin working on Expanded Notation including decimals.

Brazier- Misc. warm up and challenge problems. Review CFP #3. Place Value Game. Comprehensive review of Strand 1. CFP #3 Re-take on Wednesday. Strand 1 Test tentatively scheduled for Thursday.

Kornas- CFP #2  HW - ADDING AND SUBTRACTING DECIMALS

HOMEWORK FOR ALL: WEEKLY REVIEW. DUE WEDNESDAY (10/02/13).

SWITCHES

Reading: (Teacher - Mr. Brazier) - “Readers ‘stop and jot’ to help themselves make sense of text.” In-class assignment completed in the reading notebook.

Science: (Teacher - Mrs. Kornas)

-Barber:  Finish model on paper of Solar System with partner(s)

-Brazier: Finish model on paper of Solar System with partner(s)

-Kornas:  Finish model on paper of Solar System with partner(s)

Social Studies: (Teacher - Mrs. Barber)

We wrapped up Chapter 2 on the First American Indians.  Next week we will begin planning out how to ‘show’ what we learned in Chapter 2. All classes will work in groups to do this.

BARBER’S WRITING WORKSHOP:Free Write Friday.  A time to work on collaborations in our writing and experiment with new genres.  Partnerships.

BRAZIER’S WRITING WORKSHOP: “Writers revise as they work.”  

HOMEWORK: TAKE YOUR “PATIENT” (writer’s notebook) HOME AND PERFORM “PAPER SURGERY” (make corrections and revisions to an existing piece of writing).

KORNAS’ WRITING WORKSHOP: None W.W. today - Instead we cleaned out desks, organized planner binder and finished up “unfinished” projects.