Spelling List 1/4/10-1/8/10 Contractions

The words for the week are listed below:
1. We'll 11. He'll
2. I'm 12. She'll
3. I'd 13. They'll
4. You'd 14. They'd
5. I'll 15. He'd
6.We've 16. Would've
7. I'ts 17. Could've
8. What's 18. Wouldn't
9. That's 19. Shouldn't
10. Doesn't 20. Let's

As always the students recieve this list in class on Monday and work with these words throughout the week. for testing purposes they do not have to be capitalized. They can always be found on the blog as well. I will do my best to make sure they are assesable every week here on the blog.

Arizona Projects

I wanted to provide a heads up concerning the Arizona project we will be doing when we return for break. In effort to provide a good, well rounded, exploration of Arizona I have developed a poster-presentation project to go along with our lessons. The instructions for this project will go out the Monday we return back from break as well as the grading rubric I will use to grade these projects. On the instructions page it tell you what you can do to help your student with their project as these will mostly be done in class. They will need a poster, or tri-fold board which can be purchased at numerous locations (Walmart, K-mart, Walgreens, Office Max, etc.). These are relatively inexpensive and I will let you choose which poster or tri-fold you wish. This project will be based on information gathered, creativity, participation, and oral presentation as you will see in the rubric. This should be a fun way to explore our states history, animals, plants, and other points of interest. They will be due at the beginning of February which is about the halfway point in the quarter. If you have any questions you can email me or stop by the class one afternoon and view an example I have in class.

Happy Holidays and Thank You

I hope that you are enjoying the holidays. I wanted to say thank you for all of the Christmas gifts that I recieved before the break. I also wanted to say thank you for all of your support before school let out for the break. You may have know through your student that my family was going through a tramatic experience with a close family friend in the hospital. On December 16th the day we let out for break she passed away. It was a sudden thing and it even forced me to leave school early several times to help with the family. I wanted to take this moment to say thank you for all of your support and understanding through the past through weeks. My family appreciates your kind words of encouragment and support.

Homework for 11/10-11/11

During our short break the students have been asked to try to find pictures on the internet that have to do with the constitution and its formation. May be a picture of the people gathering to sign the constitution. Possibly a picture of the constitution itself. Try to find what you can and print them out for class on Thursday. If you can't get one for technical reasons like your printer or computer doesn't work I totally understand. My feeling is that if most bring in something we will have items to choose from for these group projects. I can alos make copies here once I have pictures to work with.

There will be no school on Wednesday 11th, due to observance of Veteran's Day. Take time to thank a veteran.

Homwork Monday 9th 2009

Tonight's homework is multiplication facts 6's and selecting the action verb in a sentence.

Science this week!!!

We will be continueing our exploration of the Earth and the processes that cause change such as erosion, weathering, and chemical weathering. I will be giving a vocabulary quiz this week on various words that relate to this Science section. The words are: Core, Crust, Delta, Dunes, Earthquake, Erosion, Fault, Glacier, Landforms, Mantle, Plates, Sediments, Volcano, and Weathering.

They will be working with these words all this week so if you want to help them study for the quiz on Friday ask them about the definitions.

Spelling Words for the Week

If all students get a 10 out of 10 on their Word Study quiz this week they will recieve a homework pass for the week.

1. ability
2. signal
3. meant
4. dealt
5. soften
6. relate
7. health
8. metric
9. compose
10. crumble

Bonus: Weathering, Erosion, Crust, Mantle, Volcano