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 Important Dates

No School..WINTER HOLIDAY  BREAK...starts December 22, 2007.

         STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL on JANUARY 7, 2008

 

HOMEWORK
  • Homework is assigned every night,   and the students are expected to do independent reading every night.   Homework should be completed in the appropriate spiral notebook. We will go over all homework assignments in class.  
  • On Fridays the students will bring home a weekly report of their conduct, homework, and academic  effort.   Please review the report with your child,   sign the report and have your child return it  on Monday. 
  • Occasionally, I will give an extra credit assignment on Friday. If a research project is assigned students may choose to work on it over the weekend. Encourage your child not to wait to the last minute when research projects are assigned.  
  • The students have been issued a password for their class, so that they can complete some assignments, quizzes, or games on line.
LANGUAGE ARTS (reading & writing)
  • The focus of instruction in Language Arts will be comprehension,   word knowledge,   fluency, and   writing, based on the Chicago Reading Initiative.
  • The students will be studying fiction and nonfiction reading selections such as short stories, poetry, biographies, dramas and novels. The students will write narrative, expository,and persuasive   compositions.
  • All students will do daily writing in their journals. The students will be involved in writing books as part of the Young Author's program.  
  • The students will be required to do at least one research project per quarter, in addition to the research that they will have to do in order to answer " the question of the week." This research will be integrated into the other subject areas.  
  • Please be aware that students are expected to read a minimum of 25 books this school year.
MATH
  • The class has started working on identifying and understanding grade level math terms such as operation, factor, minuend, subtrahend, power, base, exponent, and coefficient. 
  • The students will be solving word problems, and studying areas such as whole numbers, prime numbers, ratios, proportions, equations, percents, integers, rational numbers, algebra, geometric and number patterns, similar figures, scale models, collecting, organizing, reading, representing,, predicting, and interpreting data, using graphs, numerical and algebraic expressions. The students will also work with linear, area, and volume measurement as well as with probability.
SCIENCE
  • The students will continue learning  the concepts,  principles, and processes of scientific inquiry( the scientific method) by designing and conducting experiments..
  • This year the  students will be studying  more about life, physical, and earth/space science.  Some of the topics  we will  cover are the structure, functions, interactions and adaptations of organisms (living things),the Periodic Table of elements, chemical and physical characteristics  of atoms,  the Earth's interior and the Solar System.
  • The students will be expected to know and apply the accepted practices of science and the  concepts that describe the interaction between science, technology and society.
  • Information about the Science Fair will be posted later.
SOCIAL STUDIES
  •   The students will review pre and post Civil War events in   U. S. history  from the 7th grade curriculum including the Constitution. We will also be studying geography and United States History from after the Reconstruction (1877)  to the present.  The topics we will cover include  economic development, the Populist movement, the Progressive Era   and World War I and World War II, and the U.S. in the 1960's and 1970's.
  • Information about the History Fair will be posted later.
OTHER
 
I am aware that sometimes a student will be sick or unable to come to school for some reason. Often times a child will be absent, and a parent will ask me to send work home.   I have no problem with sending work home, but be aware that there is no way I can duplicate the lectures, discussions, and group work that occur during a normal school day. Unless it is a real emergency please send your child to school. Remember, that you can check my web site for most for homework assignments.

 

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