General Announcements:
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- Reading Rally Books: Students at Brock's Gap have been challenged to read 6 chapter books! These books were introduced to the students at our school-wide Reading Rally assembly a few weeks ago. We are encouraging our students to "Read, Read, Read!" As students finish one book, they should swap or trade their book for the next one they would like to read! This challenge has been a lot of fun and your children are very excited about what they are reading! We will have our final Reading Rally This Friday, March 11th, so encourage your child to read all 6 by then!
- On March 18, 2016 we will be donating all items in our lost and found to a nonprofit organization. Please ask your child to check lost and found for any lost items.
- Extended Day's Spring Break Camp is open to interested BGIS students. Please see the attached flyer. The deadline to register has been extended until March 9, 2016.
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Language Arts:
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- We are talking about summarizing nonfiction this week. We are looking at different texts and picking out the most important information. We will have a cold read on Friday to test summarizing nonfiction. We have been using Global Scholar to take our cold reads because it is very similar to what the ACT Aspire will look like.
The article "After a year in space, astronaut says he could do another" was assigned on Tween Tribune last Friday and is due on Friday, March 11th. Students will need to read the article and answer the 3 questions that go along with it. We practiced opening a separate window with the the quiz so that they can easily go back and check their answers, is it is only a 3 question quiz. The assignment is a 10 point homework grade. Because the website will not allow them to retake a quiz, they may read and take other articles and quizzes to average with their score.
- Spotlight reader will take place on Friday, March 11th as well. The students will need to bring the book of choice they are reading to school be prepared to present the following: book title, author, main characters, basic plot, and a teacher question of choice. I will be choosing students at random, so everyone needs to be prepared!
Grammar IXL skills II.1, II.2, KK.1, KK.2 (Level G) are due Friday, March 11th.
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Social Studies:
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This week we are finishing up our study of Westward Expansion. The Westward Expansion Test will be this Thursday, March 10th.
The study guide came home last week and is posted in google classroom. I have posted a quizlet in google classroom for the kids to use to help them study. |
Math:
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- We have been working hard on our understanding and application of multiplying fractions and now dividing fractions.
- Cumulative Review #20 came home today!
- Cumulative Review is due Wednesday.
- NO New IXL activities were assigned. Last week's activities were due today, several students had not finished when I checked earlier today.
- There will be a Cumulative Review Test this Friday with an emphasis on multiplying and dividing fractions.
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Science:
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- We are doing hands-on lab investigative activities. We observed and compared soft-drink solutions. This was a fun lab because they got to taste what we made. We made salt solutions and compared their concentrations.....we did not taste this activity. Tomorrow we will determine the relative concentrations of three mystery salt solutions (the most concentrated and the most dilute) by comparing equal volumes on a balance. We will also observe that a mass piece sinks in one liquid and floats in another, because liquids are different densities.
- Students are learning to: plan and carry out investigations, analyze and interpret data, use mathematics and computational thinking, engage in argument from evidence, and ....obtain, evalutate, and communicate information.
- Grades will be taken from Science notebook and lab activities.
- We will also have an open notes Lab Assessment Quiz on Thursday....there will not be a study guide because this is application of what we have been doing in our labs.
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