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Agenda 9/24

Agenda: Week of September 24th

Upcoming Events:
Monday, September 24th-Eat at Chili’s to benefit St. Jude (100% of profit goes to St. Jude)
Friday, September 28th-Schilling Farms 6th Grade Mixer (dance) 3:00-5:00 PM

Quote of the Week: “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
Bruce Barton

Language Arts:
Monday: Read-“What do Fish have to do with Anything?” page 556. Reading skill: Intro to Inferences/symbolism
Tuesday: Test on nouns, compound nouns, and common/proper nouns.
Pronouns and antecedents
Wednesday: Personal Pronouns
Thursday: Demonstrative pronouns
Friday: Test on reading story “What do Fish..” Pronoun activity
*Enriched Lang. Arts Citizenship Essay Due
*All extra credit opportunities due (citizenship for reg. Lang. (Friday) and Reflections  (Thurs)
*Enriched Language: Finalize Reading Skills Dictionary Project. Presentations begin next week

Social Studies:
Monday: Spanish/Study guide for Chapter 1
Tuesday: Test on Chapter 1
Wednesday: Chapter 2 vocabulary
Thursday: Chapter 2 lesson 1-check what you know
Friday: Cuneiform overhead, Chapter 2 lesson 2, Code of Hammurabi

Science
Monday - Chapter 3: Population Changes and Heredity, Section 1: Change over
time
Tuesday - Section 2:  Natural Selection in Action
Wednesday - “Out of Sight Marshmallows”; Study guide
Thursday - lab
Friday - Chapter 3 Test (Sections 1 and 2)

Math
Current Unit of Study/Topic
Chapter 3: Statistics and Graphs

Mon- lesson 2-5 Stem and Leaf Plot
Tues- lesson 2-6 Mean
Wed- lesson 2-7 Median, Mode, Range
Thu- lesson 2-8 Analyzing Graphs
Fri- Co-ordinate Grids

Enriched Math
Current Unit of Study /Topic
Ch 3 Statistics: Analyzing Data
Course 2 book

Mon- lesson 3-2a Use a graph
Tues- lesson 3-3 Making Predictions
Wed- Lesson 3-4 Mean, Median, Mode
Thu- lesson 3-5 Stem and Leaf Plots
Fri- lesson 3-7 Misleading statistics


Agenda Week of 9/3

Agenda Week of Sept. 4th

Quote of the Week: The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it.
John C. Maxwell

Happy Birthday: Brandon Stone (9-6)

Language Arts:
Tuesday- “All American Slurp” p. 31 Skills:Context Clues/vocabulary development.
Wednesday- Vocab. Cartoon quiz 2/ Prepositions as adverbs
Thursday: Create Prepo Bingo Cards
Friday: Test on All American Slurp/Prepo Bingo
*The book report has been assigned for both Lang. Arts classes. Enriched will be doing Character in a Can. Regular Lang. will be doing the What a Character report. Book reports and 1 AR test will be due Thursday, September 13 (for ALL classes).
Enriched: Reading Skills Dictionary project in class

Social Studies:
Tuesday- Spanish
Wednesday-Begin geography of me project *Bring coloring supplies
Thursday work on geog. Of me
Friday-geog. Of me/short open book quiz on 5 themes of geog.

Math
Unit/Topic
Ch. 1

Mon- School Holiday
Tues- lesson 1-6 Variables and Expressions
Wed- Think Link Learn testing
Thu- lesson 1-7a Problem Solving Strategies
Fri- lesson 1-7 Solving Equations

Enriched Math
Unit/Topic

COURSE 2 Book

Mon- School Holiday
Tues- lesson 1-7 Area
Wed- Think Link Learn testing
Thu- lesson 1-7a Choose the method of Computation
Fri- Test over Area and begin ch. 2 (Decimals)

Science:
Tuesday - Library; finish lab reports
Wednesday - section 4
Thursday - Lab
Friday - Test on Chapter 1

**Students will receive study guide today for test on Friday.