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Week of March 8 - 12, 2010

 

   
                   
   
General Information

 

Agenda should be signed every Tuesday night.

Daffodil Days 3/5 - 3/11


CMTs will continue next week.
Be sure to be rested, relaxed and ready!

Field Trip Permission Slips are due with payment by March 26th.

 

Math

ACE starts on page 24 of Comparing and Scaling

Blue Group~ Complete Blue Prints...be creative!

Red Group~ Complete Blue Prints...be creative!

Brown Group~ Complete Blue Prints...be creative!

Need extra help...just ask! I am more than happy to stay after with anyone that needs the support.

MATH COUNTS will be on Tuesday, March 9th.

Social Studies

Mr. Suthers is still accepting revisions to the Three Gorges Dam Paper.

 

Language Arts

1. Independent Reading (30 mins./daily): Be sure to fill in your Reading Log daily.
2. Letter to Parents re: Criterion Program--PAST DUE! Please hand in.
3. Book Club cycle-continue reading BC Book; complete the read by Wed., March 10th; pay attention to the characters in the story as you read (re: characterization - how the author develops the characters in a story

Art

Art class will resume at mid-quarter. There will be technology and art this quarter.

Technology

Links for LOGO: Go to this link and set-up:http://www.softronix.com/logo.html

For Alice, go to this link and select Storytelling Alice:http://www.alice.org/

You need to have Sun Microsystems Updated "Java" for Alice to work properly.

Students will move to Art class at the conclusion of the week. They will have the entire month of March to complete their Alice programming.

Science

Monday: No Homework....Unit Asessment Cancelled until after CMTs

Tuesday - Friday: Please continue to review your science notes durting the CMT testing. This gives you a lot of exta time to review your science notes!

Don't forget to stop by:
http://mrforde.blogspot.com and http://terrapinkids.blogspot.com!

Three Current event web sites: Science news for kids, Science News Daily, USA Today science and health section,