Tuesday, March 29

Greetings one and all,

Hey, I'm back. Sorry for my absence the last few days. My family and I had a nice trip to Georgia for a relative's wedding, but now we're back and ready to finish strong before the Spring Break.

Here is the homework for a Tuesday night:

1. Math: a supplemental white sheet working on Mean, Median, Mode, Minimum, Maximum, and Range.
*Mini quiz over these concepts tomorrow.
*Unit 7 Tests should be going home Thursday

2. Writing: the kids are working hard through the fiction unit.
*We're hitting the concept of revision right now. We're looking a lot at setting.
*2nd TYPED Drafts must be completed by Friday, April 15
*We discussed several methods for typing both here and at home.

3. Reading: AR goals for 3rd trimester will be due Thursday, May 26
*That give you just under 9 weeks
*GET READING!!!!

That's all for today folks.

Mr. K

Tuesday, March 22

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Tuesday night:

1. Math: Unit 7 Test tomorrow
*Students should bring home their hard cover math books, we did a practice test on 343 and 344, they should have all the answers copied down from class, they may not have finished the test, but I gave all the answers. It's a great practice since it looks exactly (except for the rounding problems) like tomorrow's test.

2. Reading: Work on the inference of the news reporter
*Text/background knowledge/inference (2 of them)

3. Science quiz coming up soon (ask about dates)

That's all for today folks.

Mr. K

Monday, March 21

Greetings to one and all,

Welcome to Spring. Finally, the snow is almost gone from the playground and we can play without getting too soaked. HA!

Here is the homework for a Monday night:

1. Math: Extra Green Sheet pages 195 and 196
*A study guide (no extra problems, just an explanation of what will be tested) for Unit 7
*Unit 7 Test will be Wednesday (possibly students will be allowed to finish up on Thursday as well)

2. Writing: Written rough drafts of the Fiction stories need to be completed for Tuesday

3. Social Studies: writing from a movie (if you didn't finish in class)

*PE/Jump Rope for Heart tomorrow!

That's all for a Monday!

Mr. K

Thursday, March 17

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Thursday:

1. Math: pages 193 and 194
*Unit 7 test will be next week Wednesday!

2. Science: Some students did not finish the vocabulary work that was required in class and that would be homework.

3. Writing: The written rough drafts of our fiction stories are due next Tuesday

4. AR goal sheets are due tomorrow!

That's all folks.

Mr. K

Wednesday, March 16

Greetings one and all,

A light night of homework here in the middle of the week:

1. Math: no new pages
*Mini quiz over division tomorrow.
*Students have a double sided sheet to practice at home if necessary

2. Writing: Rough draft of the fiction story needs to be completed (written form) by next Tuesday

3. Read for 20 minutes

*Ask your kids how the 1st day of Spanish with Mrs. MacFarland went today.

That's all folks.

Mr. K

Tuesday, March 15

Greetings to one and all,

Here is the homework for Tuesday night:

1. Math: pages 189 and 190 (due for Wednesday)
*Unit 7 math test will be NEXT WEDNESDAY.
*Mini-quiz this week Thursday

2. Spanish class begins tomorrow.
Mrs. MacFarland will be teaching that class

3. Mix and match day tomorrow!

4. Social Studies Vocabulary sheet

Read for 20 minutes, AR goal sheets due with Parent initials Friday!

That's all folks!

Mr. K

Monday, March 14

Thank you so much for a wonderful NATIONAL PI DAY celebration.

*After 3 classes celebrating, I'm feeling pretty FULL!

Here is the homework for a Monday night:

1. Math: pages 187 and188
*These pages SHOULD already be finished, but just in case (they were assigned last week Monday)

2. Writing: Rough Draft of the Fiction story is due Tuesday, March 22
*It's a light night and several people SHOULD be taking this home.

*PE tomorrow!

3. New AR goal sheets are due this Friday!

That's all folks.

Mr. K

Monday, March 7

Greetings one and all,

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the Grand Rapids Symphony performance. We have several parents coming along to chaperon and they would need to be here between 9:30am and 9:45am.

*Students need to pack a sack lunch to eat when we return.
*Students should dress nicely (no t-shirts/holy jeans) nice shirt, nice pants, as if you were going out to a nice place to eat.

Homework:

1. Math: pages 187 and 188

That's all folks.

Mr. K

Thursday, March 3

Greetings one and all,

Here is the minor homework for the weekend:

*Minor, but you still gotta do it!

1. Math: pages 185 and 186 (due Monday)
*Mini quizzes were graded and should also go home

2. Reading goals are due Wednesday, March 9 by mid-morning
*Remember that day is a 1/2 day of school

3. If you wanted to take home your Fiction story to work on drafting over the long weekend that would be great!

That's all folks.

Mr. K

Wednesday, March 2

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Wednesday night:

1. Social Studies: Test tomorrow
*A study guide and a "matrix" in the red hard cover book

2. Math: pages 183 and 184 for Thursday
*Mini quiz over multiplication with decimals

3. Reading: 20 minutes
*AR goals are due one week from today! (9th)
*If you didn't finish your journal entry with Text to Self connections, finish it

4. Peach Conference note with your conference time
*If it doesn't work return it immediately tomorrow
*Students will attend this conference

5. If you receive your Middle School sheets return those

*Tuesday Grand Rapids Symphony! Lunch and dress nice

*Words Their Way tomorrow!

That's all folks

Tuesday, March 1

Greetings one and all,

Here is the homework for a Tuesday:

1. Math: pages 177 and 178 (due Wednesday)
*Mini quiz Thursday over multiplication with decimals

2. Writing: our fiction unit is in full swing and the fictions stories tend to be the longest ones of the year. You may need to take these home occasionally. No due dates yet, but the more work you put in on this rough draft they easier it will be as those due dates approach.

3. Social Studies: The Test is officially Thursday this week.
*The kids have things to study and those should go home tonight.

4. Reading: 20 minutes
*Remember that the AR goals due dates have been moved up to Wednesday, March 9 instead of the 11th

*Next week Tuesday is the Grand Rapids Symphony performance. You will need to bring a sack lunch that day. NO PEANUTS/PEANUT BUTTER may be used in that lunch.
*YOU ARE EXPECTED TO DRESS SHARP THAT DAY!

Thanks folks.

Mr. K