Monday, January 25, 2016

January 25th, 2016

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Congratulations to:
  • Hayden Lamrouex, our school spelling bee champion!
  • Clara Kociba, the winner of the yearbook cover contest!

  • From 10:30-11:30 on Thursday, each of our classrooms will host a Poetry Slam, and you’re invited! Please return the R.S.V.P. by tomorrow.   

MATH
Barber: Review packet and PEMDAS practice.  
*TEST: DIVIDING DECIMALS WEDNESDAY.

Brazier: Interpreting Remainders. P.E.M.D.A.S.
* ASK: “What does  it mean to interpret a remainder?”

Martinez: DELTA Screening.  Handed back CFP.  Retake on Wednesday.


READING WORKSHOP
Barber: Poetry practice

Brazier: “Partners push each other to back up their ideas with passages from the text.”

Martinez:  Independent Reading

WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: Revision partner work.  Read it out loud.

Brazier: Revision Strategy: Change past tense to present tense
* ASK: “Have you signed up to work with a high school senior on poetry revisions? What’s one way in which you’ve made your published piece(s) of poetry better?”

Martinez: Poetry work day.
Invitations for our Poetry Slam went home today!

SOCIAL STUDIES (Teacher: Mrs. Barber)  
BARBER:  Chapter 8.2 & 8.3, INB page 46.  Small group discussions on choices the Africans had when the Europeans came to trade.

MARTINEZ & BRAZIER: 8.4 & 8.5, INB page 47.                     

EXPLORE & DESIGN (Teacher: Mr. Brazier)
Word of the Day (plaza). Spelling Sort.

SCIENCE (Teacher: Mrs. Martinez)
All science classes worked on labeling their “active” skeleton.
In the News: Scientists believe there is a new planet!  Check out the link below to hear about it.







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