Happy Holidays!

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6th Grade - Week of December 14th

Math

• Math Olympiad Contest #2 (and practice)
• Preparation for semester exam (exam designed by Mrs. Kerner)

English

• Essay #5 due
• Daily language review
• Self- and peer-assessments
• Peer editing
• The Important Book

Logic

• Math Olympiad Contest #2   
  

5th Grade - Week of December 14th

Math

• Math Olympiad Contest #2 (and contest practice)
• Tine to work on Unit 3 study guide for Mrs. Jordan (if needed)

Reading

• Essay #5 due Wednesday
• Self- and peer- assessments
• Peer edits
• The Important Book 
  

4th Grade - Week of December 14th

Math

• Math Olympiad Contest #2

Language Arts

• The Important Book
• Live and Learn and Pass It On activity due (share responses)
• Win or Lose 
  

2nd Grade - Week of December 14th

Math

• Addition practice worksheet due Tuesday
• Puzzled by Math
• 1-2-3 OY game

Reading

• The Important Book
• A-B-C OY game  
  

3rd Grade - Week of December 14th

• Measurement Olympics: Student-Created Events
• Puzzled by Math
• Hands-on Equations (algebra)
  

1st Grade - Week of December 14th

• The Important Book
• ABC-OY game
  

6th Grade - Week of December 7th

Math

• AMC 8 corrections
• Math Olympiad practice (contest #2 is next week)
• Review of graphing terms and strategies
• Homework: Practice Math Olympiad problems
  

Logic

• Alice programming 
• Homework: Practice Math Olympiad problems and continue exploring Alice
  

English

• 55-word story due on Wednesday
• Persuasive essay #5 due Wednesday, December 9th
• Student-teacher conferences
• Grammar/editing game
  

5th Grade - Week of December 7th

Math

• Applications of decimal multiplication
• Puzzled by Math (due Tuesday of next week)
  
• Math Olympiad practice (contest next week)

Reading

• Word Masters practice
• Word Masters contest
• 55-word story due on Wednesday
• Persuasive essay #5 due Wednesday, December 16th 
  

4th Grade - Week of December 7th

Math

• Math Olympiad practice (contest #2 next week)

Homework: Practice math facts.  If not currently secure in multiplication and division facts through 10x10=100, learn them by Wednesday, January 6th.


Language Arts

• Word Masters contest (be practicing at home - analogies and vocabulary)
• Live and Learn and Pass It On (start in class; finish at home - due Friday, December 18th) 
  

3rd Grade Math - Week of December 7th

Note: Students have been practicing multiplication facts (through 10x10=100) both in the gifted center and with Mrs. Kelley.  Students must be proficient with these facts by Thursday, January 7th.

Homework: Practice math facts at home.  Use flashcards, First in Math, or any method you choose.

• Fact practice
• Hands-On Equations
• Puzzled by Math
  

2nd Grade - Week of December 7th

Math

• Addition of two- and three-digit numbers
• Puzzled by Math

Note: While some students are proficient with their basic addition and subtraction facts (through 10+10), some are not.  Students must be proficient with these facts by Monday, January 11th.


Reading

• The Real Story of the Tortoise and the Hare 
  

1st Grade Reading - Week of December 7th

• Diamante poem
• Typing and editing traveling story