Sunday, February 28, 2010

6th Grade - Week of March 1st

Logic
  • Math Olympiad practice [final contest next week]
  • Alice programming

Math
  • Math Olymiad practice [final contest next week]
  • Chapter 9 homework problems and extension activities

English 
  • DLR
  • Poem blog for Mrs. Lee
  • ACT/SAT grammar test practice questions
  • Work on "Lady or Tiger" essay
  • Editing skills

5th Grade - Week of March 1st

Math
  • Math Olympiad practice [final contest next week]
  • Additional division practice, as needed

Reading
  • Build Your Wild Self creative writing story (due Wednesday)
  • Marketing/advertising activity

English
  • Word Masters vocabulary game  

4th Grade - Week of March 1st

Math
  • Math Olympiad practice [final contest next week]

Language Arts
  • Word Masters game
  • Field trip essay 

3rd Grade Math - Week of March 1st

  • Finish Jump Rope Geometry
  • Using protractors to draw and measure angles

2nd Grade - Week of March 1st

Math
  • Homework sheet due on Monday
  • Multiplication/division fact practice
  • Hands-on Equations (algebra)
  • Primary Education Thinking Skills (PETS) [problem-solving activities]
  • Homework: Practice multiplication and division facts

Reading
  • Continue reading Frindle
  • Poems relating to Frindle characters (cinquain and diamante)  

1st Grade - Week of March 1st

Reading
  • Start Frindle

Math
  • Primary Education Thinking Skills (PETS) [problem-solving activities] 

Monday, February 22, 2010

6th Grade - Week of February 22nd

Logic
  • Alice programming
  • Brainteasers

Math
  • Challenge Math percent problems (Einstein level)
  • Go over Chapter 9 pretest 

English
  • Poem blog for Mrs. Lee
  • DLR/PSAT
  • Editing a newsletter
  • "Lady or Tiger" essay conferences (continue to make progress with essay at home) 

5th Grade - Week of February 22nd

Math
  • Go over Chapter 11 pretest
  • Chapter 11 (division) content, as needed
  • Math Olympiad practice

Language Arts
  • Commas
  • Build Your Wild Self creative writing activity
  • Parts of speech review
  • Apples to Apple with Word Masters words 

4th Grade - Week of February 22nd

Math
  • Hands-on Equations (algebra)

Language Arts
  • Apples to Apples with Word Masters words
  • Essay writing 

3rd Grade Math - Week of February 22nd

  • Jump Rope Geometry, continued
  • Hand-on Equations (algebra), as time permits

2nd Grade - Week of February 22nd

Math
  • Division facts overview (emphasis on rules when quotient is 0 or 1)
  • Pizza Fraction Fun
  • Hands-on Equations (algebra)

Reading
  • Continue Frindle
  • Build Your Wild Self creative writing activity

1st Grade - Week of February 22nd

Note: There will be no class on Thursday, February 25th, due to the field trip
  •  Build Your Wild Self creative writing activity

Friday, February 5, 2010

6th Grade - Week of February 8th

Logic
  • Math Olympiad contest on Monday

Math
  • Test review
  • Unit Test (Chapters 6-8) on Tuesdday
  • Math Olympiad contest on Wednesday
  • Challenge Math Percent Problems 

English
  • Writing and developing "Lady, or Tiger" essays; time to work in class on Wednesday and Thursday; typed draft due Thursday
  • DLRs
  • Poem blog
  • PSAT writing questions
  • Transmogrifications (if time) 

5th Grade - Week of February 8th

Math
  • Chapter 11 pretest
  • Math Olympiad contest and practice (contest on Wednesday)

Language Arts
  • Word Masters contest on Tuesday
  • Commas 

4th Grade - Week of February 8th

  • Math Olympiad contest on Monday
  • Word Masters contest on Tuesday

3rd Grade - Week of February 8th

  • Jump Rope Geometry

2nd Grade - Week of February 8th

Math
  • Subtraction worksheet due Monday
  • Multiplication practice on the Flash Master
  • Practice addition, subtraction and basic multiplication facts at home
  • Push-in activity with Miss Peecher's class

Reading
  • Frindle
  • Build Your Wild Self   

1st Grade - Week of February 8th

  • Letter writing
  • Push-in activity with Mrs. Benton's and Mrs. Adams's classes