Week of Dec. 14 - 18

MATH:
Timed Test: Thursday - covering the 8s times tables.

This week we continue adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators and without common denominators. This is section A and B of chapter 10.
Thursday we will have a review of these concepts and then Friday, students will write the test.

SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will continue with our simulation.

Reminder: Friday is early dismissal. Hoping your holiday is filled with love and laughter!

HAPPY HANUKKAH!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISMUKKAH!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Christmas Colors Day Tomorrow

We will celebrate our traditional Posadas on Thursday, Decemeber 10. Students may wear Christmas colors.

Week of Dec. 7 - 11

MATH:
We have finished our unit in Fractions. Most students did fairly well on the last assessment.

We have now started a new unit in measurement. Although we finished with the fractions unit, we will continue using fractions as we explore fractional parts of an inch. This is something that most students have struggled with. We started on Friday and continued again today. This may be something students need to work extra on at home (ex: 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 of an inch, plus measuring and rounding to the nearest 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8).

Tomorrow we look at exploring feet, yards, and miles. This will conclude our measurement unit for this chapter (9) in our text. Wednesday will be review and Thursday will be a measurement quiz.

Friday we begin Chapter 10, which further explores fractions and measurement; beginning Friday with adding fractions.

Thursday will be our regular Timed Test - this week focussing on the 7s and 8s time tables.

SOCIAL STUDIES:
Tomorrow, Diary Situation #3 (journal #2) is due at the beginning of the day. This is a 2 page reflection that they have had 2 periods to work on in class. Any work needed to be finished must now be done at home.
We have taken some time off from our simulation to review the learning we have recieved through the game, but this week will in fact return to the game.

GRADED PAPERS:
Packages should be sent home today or tomorrow, must be signed and returned to school.

LITERACY:
Students are working on presentations about the Middle Ages. These are projects they have been working on as groups in class. Presentations will take place tomorrow.

Students must continue with the daily reading and journal entries.

Ms. Leary will return to school Thursday or Friday of this week.

Social Studies Simulation Game: Applying the Game to Our Learning

Here is a copy of the overhead we read today in class, to help students study for tomorrow's quiz:

Standard 1: How does regional geography influence culture and impact change in people, places, and events over time?

Regional geography: the study of regions throughout the world in order to understand the characteristics of a particular region.

What are the different regions in our simulation game?

• The Mountains
• The Plains
• Land beside the ocean
• Land beside the river

Discuss how life is different in each of these places.

Standard 3: Compare rights and responsibilities of individuals living within a given region to those of another region or group of regions.

Rights: entitlements or permissions, usually of a legal or moral nature.

Responsibilities: things for which one is responsible; a duty, obligation, or burden

What different regions/groups do we have in our game?

• the colonists
• the Indians

What rights and responsibilities does each group have?

Standard 4: Understanding of how availability of goods, services, and technology affect a region.

Goods: a physical product capable of being delivered to a purchaser

Services: a process that creates benefits by facilitating a change in customers, a change in their physical possessions, or a change in their intangible assests.

Technology: material objects of use to humanity and the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.

What goods do we have in our game? What services? What technology?

How can we use these things to help the colonists?