Don't forget your summer assignments! They are due the first day of school
for a 100! Each week the grade will be lowered 15 points. (New students
have until Sept. 30 to receive full credit.)
Week 1 assignments:
Science: MU Lesson 1 (due Fri.), Vocabulary cards (due Thurs.; test next
week.), Safety Contract (in red folder)(due Friday), quiz on Safety rules on
Friday
Week 1 Vocabulary words: mass, matter, density, volume, weight,
temperature, hazard, precaution, waft, metric system
Spelling:
Unit 1 pp. 12-13; 7 sentences with 14 words due Wed. Test on Friday.
Mark nouns in yellow in sentences (due Tues.)
Social Studies:
USA political map and key due Tuesday.
Daily Geography Week 1 due Tuesday.
Week 2 Sept. 2-5
Science - watch the hurricanes! We will track them in class.
Extra Credit opportunity on Saturday from 9-1. We are working on the
gardens and pond. Bring your parents and yard tools.
Language Arts:
Spelling Unit 2 pp. 18-19; Copy 5 sentences from p. 18 and underline nouns
(yellow) and verbs (orange). Spelling test on Friday (15 words including
the challenge words plus 3 sentences using 6 words).
Social Studies:
Daily Geography Week 2 Due Friday.
Week 3 Sept. 8-12
Science: Vocab test on Tuesday over week 1 words. MU lesson 3 due Wed.
Safety and equipment test on Wed. MU lesson 2 due Thurs. New vocab words
given on Thurs. Cards due Mon. and test will be next Tues. Continue
tracking hurricanes with coordinates given in class. Tracking chart due on
Monday.
Vocab words: thermometer, hand lens, microscope, telescope, beaker, triple
beam balance, pan balance, hypothesis, variable,control, testable,
Language Arts:
Spelling Unit 3, pp.24-25 due Thurs. Test on Friday (Weekly Format: all
challenge words and 10 of basic words plus 3 sentences using 6 different
spelling words).
Social Studies:
Daily Geog due Friday. List of 10 dangerous things in Table Group category
due Wednesday.
Week 4 - Sept. 29-Oct. 3 (2 week break due to Hurricane Ike)
If you have suffered losses of school materials due to the hurricane, please
let me know. I will not penalize any student for a natural disaster!
Science:
New vocabulary cards (see week 3) due on Thursday (test next Tues.). MU
Lesson 4 due Thurs. Corrections with explanations to LF 1.1 test due
Wednesday (optional to raise grade). MU Lesson 5 due next Monday.
Social Studies and Language Arts:
Daily Geography 4 due Friday. Spelling pp. 30-31 due Wed. Spelling test
Unit 4 on Friday (remember to practice for sentence composition ie. write 5
sentences using 10 words.) Cold War summaries due Wed. (Cuban Missle
Crisis, Arms Race, Vietnam War, Space Race, and Afghanistan). Students
should write a short summary explaining each event (no more than 5 lines for
each event). Multisensory Grammar sentences due Friday. Students choose 5
sentences from the spelling book p. 30 and mark noun markers (red), nouns
(yellow), and verbs (orange).
Week 5- Oct. 6-10 (holiday on Oct. 9th)
Science: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, (due to Benchmark testing, one group
will meet each day.) Vocabulary test #2, Check MU Lesson 5, discuss results
and conclusions for experiments; Discuss reliability and multiple trials.
Friday - discuss scientific method, variables, controls, trials for test on
LF 1.2 Experimental Design on Monday. Also retest for vocab. #2 on Mond
Social Studies and Language Arts:
Monday- Unit 5 Spelling- pp. 36-37; turn in DG4; receive DG5
Tuesday - US role in world post-Cold War (pp.660-665)
Wednesday - Open book test over Ch. 19 (lessons 1, 3, 4)
Friday - Spelling test; Presidential Election; turn in DG5
Week 6 - Oct. 13-17
Science: Monday LF 1.2 test and Vocab #2 retest; new vocab cards due Wed.
and test Friday for the following: solid, liquid, gas, molecule, mixture,
solution, dissolve, melting point, boiling point, freezing point,
evaporation, condensation.
Test Friday on States of Matter, Mixtures and Solutions, Magnetism, and
Water Properties. Vocabulary test also on Friday.
Social Studies & Language Arts:
Unit 6 Spelling-Assign “Think and Write” ,“Independent Practice”due
Tuesday. Paragraphe p.35 English due in class on Tues. Homework: Use
challenge words on p. 44 in Spelling to write 8 sentences (2 declarative, 2
interrogative, 2 imperative, and 2 exclamatory). Use one different challenge
word in each sentence. Due Wed.
Friday - Spelling test and sentence composition.
Week 7 - Oct. 20-24
Science
New vocabulary words(vocab #4) are heat energy, light energy, sound energy,
conductor, insulator, visible spectrum, refraction, reflection, light ray,
wave, vibration
Tues. vocabulary cards due
Wednesday.-retest over vocab #3
Thursday- corrections due for tests 1.2 and 1.3
Friday. test over heat, light and sound; vocabulary test #4
Language Arts and Social Studies
Monday-spelling unit 7, think & write
Tuesday - English p. 47
Thursday - all corrections to Daily Geography 4-6 due
Friday - spelling test unit-7
week of Oct. 27th Camp Cullen!!
go over Science tests from Friday; corrections due Monday, Nov. 3rd
Week 9 - week of Nov. 3rd
Science
Monday - Assign vocabulary words electrical energy, current, circuit,
energy source, connector, output device, closed circuit, open circuit,
switch). Cards due tomorrow. Students draw diagrams of ways to make a
closed circuit and ways that do not create a closed circuit (open ircuit).
Tuesday - Check vocabulary cards. Provide notes on electrical energy.
Sstudents illustrate one open circuit and one closed circuit for each type
of output device.
Wednesday - Students investigate electrical conductors and insulators.
Provide notes on insulators, conductors and electromagnets. Students (in
table groups) should propose a question and hypothesis for electromagnets.
Once approved, students should complete experimental design for Thursday.
Thursday - Vocabulary test. Those passing perform electromagnet
experiment. Those failing, observe.
Friday - Electrical energy test. Vocabulary retest. Complete experiment
and write up for Monday.
Language Arts/Social Studies
Monday - p.54-55 spelling; Write 5 sentences using 10 words (due Tues).
Tuesday - election homework (family homework)
Wednesday - electoral college map (due Friday)
Thursday - Junior Achievement lesson
Friday - spelling test; political map due
Week 10 - Week of November 10th
New words - natural resources, nonrenewable resources, renewable resources,
inexhaustible resources, soil, humus, decay, water retention, percolation
Monday - Turn in Electromagnet experiment write-up. Introduction to Earth
Science. Vocabulary cards due Tuesday.
Tuesday -cards due. continue notes; begin water retention lab report
Wednesday - electricity test corrections due with parent signatures on test
and vocabulary tests; conduct water retention experiment in lab;
Thursday - vocab test; complete lab report;
Friday - soil and natural resources test; vocabulary retest; lab reports due
Homeroom
Monday - turn in Presidential maps from last week; spelling unit 9 p60-61.
Wrtie five sentences using 10 words. DG 6 due Friday.
Tuesday - Sentences due. Host Garden buddies
Wednesday - draft camp letters; peer revisions
Thursday - JA;
Friday - spelling test; DG6 due; turn in drafts of letters
Tuesday
Weeks of Nov. 17 & 24
Science
Monday Nov. 17- Science Fair details given out with proposal due next
Monday; new vocab words due Friday; corrections and signatures on Soil and
Natural Resources test due Friday. (new words: weathering, deposition,
erosion, flow, constructive forces, destructive forces, landforms, delta,
fossil fuels, alternative energy)
Friday Nov. 21- corrections, signatures, and vocab cards due; MU lessons 32
& 34 due Monday
Monday, Nov. 24 - vocabulary test; Science Fair proposal due
Language Arts and Social Studies
Monday Nov. 17 - spelling pp 66-67; 5 sentences using 10 words both due
Friday;
Friday, Nov. 21 - spelling test corrections due with signatures, sentences
due
Monday- Nov. 24 spelling test
Week 13 December 1-5
Science
Monday: Return progress reports, new vocabulary words (evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, percolation, transpiration, groundwater, runoff)
Tuesday: Vocab cards due; signature on vocabulary #7 test and Science Fair
deadlines due
Wednesday: SF (Science Fair) proposal approved;
Thursday: Vocabulary test
Friday: test over Weathering, Erosion, Deposition
Social Studies & Language Arts
Monday: Return progress reports; Spelling pp72-73; 5 sentences using 10
spelling words Due Tuesday; corrections to Unit 10 (write word 5 times and
sentence 5 times)
Tuesday: turn in sentences; return corrections & signature on Unit 10 test;
Friday: spelling test
Week 14 December 8-12
Science
Monday: Parent Signature and corrections on W-E-D test.New vocabulary words:
planet, star, moon, rotation, revolution, orbit, tide, gravity, phase.
Study notes on "What Happened Before".
Tuesday: Vocabulary cards due. Study notes on "Recurring Events" such as
day/night, seasons, tides.
Wednesday: Test Corretions and Parent signatures due. Study notes on Earth
and Moon
Thursday: Vocabulary test
Friday: Guest lecture about the Moon. SF steps 1-5 with blank data table
due. (No test this week).
Social Studies and Language Arts:
Monday: Unit 12 Review - Indep Practice due Wednesday. Corrections (write
word and sentence or definition 5 times for incorrect words)and parent
signature on Spelling test due Tuesday.
Tuesday: Spelling Corrections and signatures due.
Wednesday: Ind Practice due.
Friday: Spelling Test Unit 12.
Week 15 December 15-19
Science -
Monday - study for test on Wednesday
Tuesday - study for test on Wednesday (make-up test for voc #9 today)
Wednesday - test over water cycle, tree rings, soil and rock columns,Earth
as a planet, moon, planets (students do not need to bring journal with steps
1-5)
Thursday - gravity lab
Friday Science Fair work day - bring SF folder, bring or make SF journal
(Note: Science Fair experiment should be completed by Jan. 5th. Journal
with completed data table is due Jan 6th - students first day back)
Social Studies and Language Arts
Monday - spelling unit 13 Think and Write and independent practice
Tuesday - spelling assignment due
Wednesday - spelling test
Thursday - Holiday party
Friday - Semester cleaning
Happy New Year!!
Week 16 - Jan. 6-9
Science: vocabulary words (cards due Th; test on Friday)
organism, species, population, life cycle, seed, embryo, root, stem, leaf,
seedling
Tuesday: return solar system test; vocab cards; fruit lab;
Wednesday: bean lab; continue on vocab cards; notes on plant parts
Thursday: SF journal due (data table completed with dated entries; procedure
included); vocab cards; begin germination experiment
Friday: vocab test; new vocabulary words assigned
NOTE: SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT IS DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 12th! I will be
available after school each day until 4:30 to assist or answer questions
this week.
Social Studies and Language arts:
Tuesday: Spelling p. 90-91; DL1 in class;
Wed: complete DL1; view american Revolution video
Thursday: Last JA session
Friday: Spelling and Language test
Week 17 January 12-16
Science:
Vocabulary: pollen, spore, germination, larva, pupa, pollenator, egg,
nymph, adult, chrysalis
Monday: Science Fair presentations in class; vocabulary corrections
Tuesday: corrections due; flower lab; finish voc cards
Wednesday: Voc cards due; animal life cycles lab; draw a plant and an animal
life cycle
Thursday: life cycle drawings due; Review for test
Friday: test over plants and plant and animal life cycles
Social Studies and Language Arts:
Monday: spelling unit 15 pp.96-97; DL2; Unit 14 spelling corrections
Tuesday: ck spelling; turn in corrections; finish DL2
Wednesday: American Revolution video with questions
Thursday: continue video with questions
Friday: spelling and language test
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Week 22 February 16-20, 2009
Science
Monday - return adaptations test (corrections due Wed.) Practice Questions
1-10. Vocabulary #1 cards due Thurs.
Tuesday - food web corrections due. Practice questions 11-20.
Wednesday - adaptations corrections due. Practice questions 21-30
Thursday - vocabulary cards due. Practice quesitons 31-35.
Friday - vocabulary quiz. Complete practice questions 36-40. Test next
Wednesday over objective 1.
Week 23 Feb. 23-27, 2009
Science
Monday - finish packet
Tuesday - review for test
Wednesday - Objective 1 test (study the packet)
Thursday - Begin Obj 3 packet
Friday - voc #1 corrections due, Voc. #2 cards due, tutorial assignments
distributed, Obj 1 test returned.
Language Arts/Social Studies
Monday - complete writing prompt; Spelling homework Unit 21 Indep Practice
and Think and write
Tuesday - check spelling; finish writing
Wednesday - chapt 10 SS review questions lesson 1-2
Thursday - Ch 10 SS review questions lesson 3-4. Spelling corr. due for 20.
Friday - spelling test Unit 21
Week 24 & 25 March 2-6
Science
Tutorial letters went home last Friday and a correction on Monday.
Tutorials
are as follows: Thursday 3/5 Safety, Equipment, Models, Density
Monday 3/9 Scientific Method
Tuesday 3/10 Analysis/Inference/Ads (Blue and Yellow)
Thursday 3/12 Analysis/Inference/Ads (Red)
Students who have not passed any of these sections on the Objective 1 test
have been assigned tutorials.
Monday 3/2- Objective 3 packet 11-20
Tuesday 3/3- Reading TAKS
Wednesday 3/4-Objective 3 packet20-33
Thursday 3/5- study for vocab test Updated Grade report sent home
Friday 3/6- vocab test review #3; receive vocab review #4
Monday 3/7 review for Objective 3 test
Tuesday 3/8 Math benchmark
Wednesday 3/9 Objective 3 test; Vocab #4 Review test; and Science Benchmark
Thursday 3/10 students will be given all vocab words for Obj 4 (cards due on
Tuesday March 24th)
Students will receive tutorial letters for Objective 3 on Friday, March
11th. These tutorials will be held the week we return from Spring Break.
Social Studies corrections due no later than Tues. March 10th for Chapters 9
and 10. Spelling corrections also due on Tuesday. See letter dated 3/5/09
with progress reports. Chapter 11 Review questions due no later than
Tuesday 3/10 also.
Week 26 March 23-27
Science: Practice packet (10 questions each day). Vocab cards for 6-9 due
Tuesday (36 cards)Vocab Review #6 on Thursday.
Social Studies and Language Arts
Spelling Unit 23 Think & write and Indep. Practice
Social Studies Chapt 11.
Tutorials for Students failing Obj 3 on Tues. and Thurs. after school.
Week 27 March 30-April 3
Science
Mon-vocab review 8
Tues - vocab review 9
Wed. review for Obj 4 test; corrections to vocab review 6&7 due
Thurs. Obj 4 test
Fri. Obj 4 analysis; tutorial assignments for next week; corrections to
vocab 8&9 due
Homeroom
Mon. Unit 24 Indep Practice #1-60 due tues.
Tues. Unit 23 test
Wed. Chapt. 13 SS
Thurs.ch 13 SS
Fri. Unit 24 test
Week 28 April 6-10
Science
Mon. Review vocabulary #10-12 (commended tutorials)
Tues. TAKS MATH (Science tutorials after school)
Wed. Begin Obj 2 packet
Thurs. Cards for vocabulary 10-12 due
Friday Holiday
Homeroom
Mon. Social Studies - discuss Ch 13 People & places
Tues. TAKS MATH
Wed. continue Social Studies
Thurs. Field Day; Social Studies p. 452-453
Friday. Holiday
Week 29 April 13-17
Science
Mon. continue Obj. 2 packet (Commended tutorials)
Tues. Vocab 10 quiz - continue packet (tutorials after school)
Wed. vocab 11 quiz - finish packet
Thurs. vocab. 12 quiz - review for test
Fri. Obj 2 test
Homeroom
Monday - Spelling unit 25 think & write; Indep. practice (due Tues)
Tuesday -Thursday - Social Studies ch14; P. 488 due Friday
Friday spelling test
