12/09/09
5th Science - Open Notebook test on Chapter 15 Friday 12/12/09 - Students
should look over notebooks.
5th Social Studies - Working on Cities in the Western Hemisphere Posters -
oral presentations in class on Friday.
8th ILA - 100 Pages Signed reading logs due 12/17/09. Everyone must get back
to reading. In class research paper- essay writing- thesis statements -
Vocabulary Puzzle and activity test - Participles.
7th ILA - 100 Pages Signed reading log due on 12/17/09. In class unit 5
Vocabulary pages - Unit 5 vocabulary Definition Test on Wednesday 12/17/09.
12/01/09
5th Science - Energy test review in class!
5th Social Studies - 7 Continents & 5 Oceans map test on Friday 12/04/09
7th ILA - Vocabulary Unit 4 Activity Test in class this week.
8th ILA - In class Research paper with Citations - Idioms, Metaphors, and
Similies.
11/10/09
5th Science - Copy a label from an appliance in your home.
11/09/09
5th Science - Txbk. Pgs. 479 # 1-2 Txbk. Pgs. 480-481 # 1-2-3
5TH GRADE BONES TEST NEXT MONDAY 9/23/09 14 BONES STUDY! YOU MUST FILL THEN
IN IN THE CORRECT PLACEMENTS ON THE PAPER AND SPELL THEM CORRECTLY!
8th ILA - in class Veteran's Day reading - vocabulary - Debate video
Vocabulary A's was due today.
Vocabulary A's & B's defintion test on Friday 11/13/09
7th ILA - Library Today!
11/02/09 -11/06/09
ALL 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS PLEASE BRING IN MONEY FOR THE PLAY TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD.
5th Science - In class Forms of Energy - Notebook activities.
Moon Phase poster comparison group projects and presentations.
5th Social Studies - Reading and Understanding the Globe in class
Magazine and Newspaper pictures due on Friday for Forms of Energy collage
project.
7th ILA - Units 1 & 2 & 3 pages and Units 1-3 Cumulative Test pages due
Wednesday November 11/14/09
Group work - Newspaper, Conjucntions and All about verbs in class.
Writers notebook in class.
8th ILA - Vocabulary Pretesting, Writers notebook, and Editing for
Punctuation in class. 400 Pages reading log due end of November.
10/20/09
ALL 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS PLEASE BRING IN MONEY FOR THE PLAY TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD.
7th Grade - Vocab unit 1 Puzzle and Sentences Due Friday 10/23/09
Unit 2 Illustration Test also due 10/23/09
100 Pages signed reading log due 10/23/09
8th Grade - Literature book packet due Friday 10/23/09
100 Pages signed reading log due 10/23/09
20 Words Unit 3 Ilustration Test due 10/23/09
5th Science -Moon Phase Posters in class - take home test due 10/23/09
5th Social Studies - In class Chapter 2 test in notebook. Test on Friday
10/23/09 using practice test and notebook. (Learning how to take standard
test)
10/06/09
5th Social Studies - Chapter 2 Outline all five sections due on Friday
10/09/09
5th Science - Science Moon Phase Journals will be checked on Friday 10/09/09
10/05/09
5th - Science -
Notebook - Comets - 5 facts and drawing
Notebook Txbk. Pg. 555 # 1-2
8th ILA - Book Fair and reading logs today
7th ILA - Book Fair and Grammar dice game today
10/01/09
NEWSFLASH - On Wednesday March 24 the 7th and 8th grade will be going to see
the play, To Kill a Mockingbird, performed at the Broadway Theatre in Pitman,
New Jersey.
http://www.thebroadwaytheatre.org/index.php
All students are asked to bring in $10.00 for a ticket by Friday October
17th. We have room for 23 parents. Parents may also send in $10.00 a ticket,
on a first come first serve basis to reserve the opportunity to join us.I
will arrange the cost of the buses and lunch at a later date. (I had to
reserve the tickets now, they are almost sold out) I estimate 20-25 dollars
per person will be required at a later date. I estimate we will leave St.
Bernadette School at 8:15 a.m. and return by 3:00 p.m.
All seventh graders are asked to have a copy of the book, To Kill a
Mockingbird, by the end of October. Remember next week is the book fair.
7th ILA - Signed Reading Logs due tomorrow 10/02/09
In Class - Practice Grammar Quiz
8th ILA - Signed Reading Logs due tomorrow 10/02/09
In Class - Practice Grammar Quiz
5th Social Studies - In class outlining and practice quiz
5th Science - Moon Phase Journal
9/30/09 Sad to see September go!
7th ILA - In class Sentence Relay Grammar Game
8th ILA - Sentence Grammar Relay Review Game
5th Science - In class Constellations - Keep working on your moon phase
journal.
5th Social Studies - End of 4 Fold presentations - Outlining Chapter 2
Quiz tomorrow using outlines. Participation grade only.
Art - Create your own constellations!
9/29/09
5th Science - In Class Balloon Activity our expanding universe. Wkbk. Pgs.
165-166 & Wkbk. Pgs. 157-159
Everyone should be keeping their moon phase journal up to date.
5th Social Studies - 4 Fold presentations - outlining Chapter 2
7th ILA - In Class Subject/Subject Complement Grammar workbook.
100 pages signed reading due on Friday 10/02/09
8th ILA - In Class typing Business Letter in the computer lab
100 pages signed reading due on Friday 10/02/09
9/23/09
5th Social Studies- 4 Fold Project in class - Anyone not finished must finish
at home and the project is due 9/24/09.
5th Science - Everyone must continue to participate in moon phase
observations and enter them into their journals.
7th ILA - Grammar Maintenance and writers notebook in class. 100 Pages signed
reading log due on Friday 9/25/09.
Grammar quiz in class on 9/23/09
8th ILA - In Class - Literature Book page 466 - complete all questions in
writers notebook - Writing a business letter.
100 Signed reading log due on Friday 9/25/09
9/21/09
5th Science - Moon Phase Journal - All students should be reminded to check
and enter moon data into their journals each day.
8th ILA - Great job eighth grade this week on your reading logs.
100 New pages due this Friday 9/25/09
In Class - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs - Great job on your verb posters!
7th ILA - First 100 pages signed reading logs due on Friday 9/25/09
9/17/09
5th Science - Moon Phase Journal
7th ILA - Grammar pages 5-8
In class - Using part of the question in the answer - Roberto Clemente
Literature book Page 401 # 1-7
8th ILA - Art boxes due tomorrow - detentions will be given to anyone who
does not bring art supplies and art box to class.
100 Pages Reading log signed
In class - Grammar Maintenance # 1
9/16/09
5th Science - Solar System Posters in class
5th Social Studies - Mayan, Aztec, and Inca time lines in class
7th ILA - Grammar Pages 4-8
8th ILA - 100 Pages signed reading log due Friday 9/18/09
9/15/09
5th Social Studies - Mass Today
5th Science - Moon Phase Journal Entry
8th ILA - Grammar Pages 5-8
100 Pages Signed Reading Log due of Friday 9/18/09
7th ILA - Grammar Pages 1-4
In class 7th grade level testing.
9/14/09
8th ILA - Exercises in English Pgs. 1-4 Four types of Sentences
Quiz Tomorrow 9/15/09
100 Pages Signed Reading Log due of Friday 9/18/09
5th Science - Moon Phase Journal Entry