Week 9 Day 2

RLA
Complete Unit 1 from this link. You must do this exercise. I have checked in with some of my websites and can see that some students have not been doing the online practice. YOU are losing out if you don't practice the skills we are learning!
As the famous quote goes: "Be careful not to fool yourself becasue you are the easiest person to fool"
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/tsent4.html

Then create your powerplan outline as described on the 'Week at a Glance' sheet. Use your notes from the Jane Reyonlds talk to create your powerplan. Read back what you have created after you have finished. Do the P3s relate to the P2s? Do the P2s all relate to the P1?  - Have you repeated the same word/phrase/used banned words? Next week will be your first official expositiory paper. Practice the skill now!

Math Study Link 3.9
Optional: For those who like a challenge - Review this link and answer the questions below
http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/polygons.html

BookClubs
Make sure you are ready for your bookclub tomorrow

Week 9 Day 1 Tessallations

Use this blog as a model to design how you will create your own blog.
http://mrbuxtonstudent.blogspot.com/
Add some links to your blog. I will show you tomorrow how to create posts and add images/videos to a post.
Important - Copy your blog url into a comment window tonight. I will then add a link from my blog to your blog. (e.g. http://marysmith.blogspot.com)

Learn More About Tessallations below:



Math Study Link 3.9 and Math Box 3.9
Check your 'Week at a Glance' sheet for your other H/w tasks tonight. (Book Club tasks are postponed until Wed. as we have a special speaker presentation tomorrow)

Make sure you have at least one topic sentence and two power 2s for that topic sentence for tomorrow's class.

Next Week

Week 8 Day 5

Congratulations to the Watsons Go to Brimingham - Book Club Presentation Today.  We all learned how to conduct an effective discussion. Well done.

Student of the Week:  ALEX

Next Week
Make sure your announcements are ready. You will audition on Monday. Keep it simple but make it interesting! Make sure you practice the delivery beforehand. Use a vocaroo file to listen to how you sound.

SMART Targets - Due Monday. Think specifcally about what you want to improve.

Optional IXL work
B4, B29, B31, S10, S14
Sammy Snakes for the first three people to master  UNIT K

Check the H/W sheet above to make sure you are ready for the short, but busy week ahead!

Enjoy the first Friday Message again

Week 8 Day 4

Social Studies Assessment - Review Material
Make sure you clearly know these facts or can locate these palces on a map.

• 7 Continents    4 Major oceans   North and South Pole    Equator
• Know basic facts about these places (e.g. city, country/captial city, continent)
• USA   Russia   Italy   Spain  Mexico   Argentina   Canada   Iraq   Kenya
• South  Africa  London  Holland

Clayton class - next Tue.

Buxton class - next Wed.

Use these links to master the basic geogrphical facts that you are expected to know for continents, oceans, major countires and major cities of the world - You are NOT expected to know all these cities and capitals just what we covered in class

Easy
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/world_G1_drag_drop.html
Hard
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_G4_name_input.html
harder-cities
http://www.mindjolt.com/games/world-cities

Optional - This is hard! Try for fun...I couldn't get past level 1
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/worldcapitals


H/W

Vocaroo - due: Fri (make sure you are creating accurate fluency). Copy your vocaroo link into a blog comment window. Next week- We will upload these to you own  blogs!

SMART Targets - Due: Next Monday - BE REALLY SPECIFIC

Kudos to all those people who have been using the vocabulary link to extend their  knowledge of words. Bravo!

Thank you to you all for my first gecko... that was sooooooooo sweet!