Parent/teacher conference will be held the next two days… Tuesday and Wednesday. Please plan on attending and I look forward to meeting with you. I also sent home informational updates on RadKids with each student.
Mr. Carlson
Instead of science today we had the annual Geography Bee. Congratulations to Ian Tribe for winning it.
For the next three or four days we will be working in the classroom on a math quest. A math quest is like a treasure hunt on the interent for math related facts and concepts. It also teaches students how to more effectively navigate the internet.
Flander’s Field poem was due today… many students have not passed it off. If your child is one of them, please have them memorize it and pass it off by Friday.
We are working on two big writing assignments; a pursuasive essay on “Three Items I Would Take With Me Into the Future” and “My Place [...]
Discussed changes in the Earth’s surface involving volcanoes and more specifically the Cascade Range in the northwestern United States
Assigned and reviewed the following vocabulary words for learning of which there will be a quiz on next Monday: drought, equator, erosion, mantle, atmosphere, ocean, axis, ozone, revolution, rotation, terrain, core, and crust
Students received their first state graded writing test results today and did rather well… we will work on the categories that received the lowest scores and resubmit for a final grade
Book report for “The Giver” is due Friday
Students didn’t do too well on their probability quiz… will review the concepts
Comprehensive test 6A/B is a take home test and will be due tomorrow at the beginning of class… therefore, there will be no make-up for this test if a student receives a poor grade
Discussed changes in the Earth’s surface involving volcanoes and more specifically the Cascade Range in the northwestern United States
Assigned and reviewed the following vocabulary words for learning of which there will be a quiz on next Friday: drought, equator, erosion, mantle, atmosphere, ocean, axis, ozone, revolution, rotation, terrain, core, and crust
Assigned mixed practive problems on Lesson 35 which will be due tomorrow
Students need to review the concept on this website http://www.math-videos-online.com/probability-problem.html; and will be given a quiz on the information tomorrow
New poem assigned “In Flanders Fields” due Nov. 30th
Persurasive essay due tomorrow
Book report on “The Giver” due Friday
We are starting a new unit tomorrow on “The Universe”… it is a big unit and will take approximately three weeks to complete