Friday, April 1

Happy April Fool's Day!

I hope everyone had a good time at SeaWorld yesterday!

Today is OPEN HOUSE! The rules for Open House are:

• You are required to stay inside the classroom unless you are participating in your conference.


• Your assignments for the day MUST BE COMPLETED before you are allowed to go home. If your assignments are completed by the time your conference is over, you will be able to go home with your parent/guardian.

Your assignments for today are as follows:

1) Vocabulary Quiz.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts

Go to - Written & Oral Conventions

Assignment - Tenses of Irregular Verbs

3) PLATO - Mathematics

Go to - Number Sense

Assignment - Converting a decimal to a fraction of a percent

4) Animoto

On Wednesday, we started your animoto projects. Today, they must be finished. Your animoto is about YOU.

If you haven't created an account yet, go to:

animoto.com/sign_up

Enter promo code: A4EApril2011

Include the following:

- Images

- Favorite things

- Goals

- Important family/friends

- Anything that defines you

When you create your video, you can add music. The music selection on Animoto is a bit small, but try to make it work.

Wednesday, March 31

Good morning!

Important Notes:

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  Did you bring your $6? Tomorrow is SeaWorld! You need to be at school by 9AM and we will return by 2-2:30PM. There are water rides, so keep that in mind. And no, Ms. S is not going to hold all your cell phones/ipods/headphones/etc. when you want to go on a ride. So bring a plastic bag or something to keep them safe in.


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  Friday is Open House! You won't have any grades/report cards until then.


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  There are many of you who I do not have your blog URL's for! Today is the last day that I will ask for your URL's for your grades this quarter. Check Edmodo because I sent you a message there if I don't have it...

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT BLOGS -

You can check your Edmodo today to see how many points your vocabulary blogs are actually worth - 200 points! Most of you do about one entry a week and are earning a failing grade for that assignment. Due to this, everyone must show me their blog posts daily.

As you come in, here are your assignments -

1) Vocabulary - Week 1 Sentences

In your blogs, complete the following assignment -

Blog Title - Quarter 4, Week 1 Sentences

Assignment - Write TWO (2) SENTENCES for each of your vocabulary words: Achieve, Compute, and Specific

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts

Go to - Written & Oral Conventions

Assignment - Matching Verbs with Compount Subjects

3) Is your resume done? Your career worksheet?

At 8:45ish, we will begin working on our cover letters so make sure everything is ready to go so you are on track.

Tuesday, March 29

Good morning! Remember that today is EARLY RELEASE at 11AM (as long as your work gets done) so it is very important that you stay focused and work hard. Important notes - - If you have not yet joined all the new Fourth Quarter Edmodo classes - DO SO! Otherwise, you will be missing important assignment links, notes, and the like. The codes are: Language Arts: hf549r Biology: d9d7gx Algebra: 2futdi Math Lab: ed5hva World History: 2r6dz5 US History: i21yut Career Exploration: aq396 - Remember, most you are in World History so will not need to join the US History course. - SeaWorld is Thursday! If you want to go, you owe me $6. Okay, and now for the assignments this morning: 1) Vocabulary - Achieve, Compute, Specific In your blogs, complete the following post: Blog Title - Quarter 4, Week 1 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences Assignment - **Copy the following synonyms for each of your vocab words: Achieve - Attain, accomplish Compute - Calculate, figure, total Specific - Exact, precise, definite **Find an image that represents each of your vocabulary words. **Write a sentence that describes how your image depicts your vocabulary word. 2) PLATO - English/Language Arts Go to - Written & Oral Conventions Assignment - Confusing Verbs 3) Resume completed? Make sure that it is. At 8:30, Stephanie will be here to begin your career exploration!

Monday, March 28 - Welcome to Fourth Quarter!

Hello students! Welcome to Fourth Quarter!

Important notes as you come in this lovely Monday morning...

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  You need to join all your new Edmodo classes.


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  Language Arts - hf549r


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  Biology - d9d7gx


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  Algebra - 2futdi


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  Math Lab - ed5hva


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  World History - 2r6dz5


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  US History - i21yut


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  Career Exploration - aq3896


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  Tomorrow (Tuesday) is early release! Yay!


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  SeaWorld is Thursday! Yes, it's back on. New quarter, fresh start. Just keep it that way. The cost is $6. Remember, the first 14 are guaranteed and I am working on taking 21.


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  Open House is Friday!

Here are your assignments as you come in...I will give you until about 8:30(ish) to complete the following. We will then begin work on our new Career Exploration course.

1. Vocabulary

Your vocabulary words for the week are: Achieve (verb), Specific (adj), and Compute (verb).

In your blogs, you need to -

Blog Title - Fourth Quarter, Week 1 Vocabulary Definitions and Examples

Assignment -

Find the definitions for each of the vocabulary words.

Copy the following example sentences for each word.

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  Achieve (verb) - You can achieve a lot in life when you focus and work hard.


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  Specific (adj) - When trying to achieve your goals, it is helpful to be specific in the steps you will take to achieve that goal.


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  Compute (verb) - Using a calculator makes computing decimal problems much easier.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts

Go to - Written & Oral Conventions

Assignment - Tenses of Regular Verbs

3) Glogs! Make sure that your glogs are completed, posted on the science blog, and you are ready to present!

Friday, March 25

Today is the last day of the quarter! So if there are any last minute PLATO's you want to make up, today is the last day!

1) Vocabulary Quiz.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts
Go to - Written & Oral Conventions
Assignment - Semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens and quotation marks

3) Endangered Animal Projects - Glogster
Finish your Glogster! Remember to include ALL the information from your worksheet.
You will eventually need to post to the new Main St Science Blog

Thursday, March 24

Happy Thursday!

Here are your assignments as you come in:

But first, some important notes -

• Weather permitting, tomorrow is park/running club day! Make sure to wear comfortable clothes and shoes in order to participate.
• Tomorrow is the end of the quarter. Do you have any PLATO's you still need to make up? It's your last chance!

1) Go to my new blog: http://umojascience.blogspot.com and start following it!

2) Vocabulary

In your blogs, complete the following post -

Blog Title - Week 10 Vocabulary Paragraph

Assignment - Your vocabulary words this week are: Compensate, Initial, and Interact. Using those three words, respond to the following quote in PARAGRAPH FORM (this means COMPLETE SENTENCES) from Malcolm X:

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts

Go to - Written & Oral Conventions

Assignment - Colons and Semicolons

3) Biology - Endangered Species Projects

Your completed worksheet/research on your endangered species needs to be done by today at 10:30!

4) Social Studies - Mini-Biography: Rosa Parks

Answer the following questions for the mini-biography on Rosa Parks. Post in your blog.

Blog Title: Mini-Biography - Rosa Parks

1. When was she born? Where?

2. When does the Civil Rights Movement unofficialy start? How did Rosa Parks ignite this?

3. Why was Rosa Parks arrested? Under what charge?

4. Where did she go to school? What did she study to become?

5. What is the NAACP?

6. When did she die? How?

7. Find an image.

Wednesday, March 23

Happy Wednesday!

Today is early release so we are going to be busy, busy, busy!

• This is my new blog. Follow it! http://umojascience.blogspot.com
• Please start to bring in shoe boxes or other small boxes from your home for an upcoming project that we will have.

Here are your assignments as you come in -

1) Vocabulary

Your vocabulary words this week are: Interact, Compensate, Inital

Assignment: In your blogs, complete the following assignment -

Blog Title - Week 10 Vocabulary Sentences

Assignment - Write TWO (2) SENTENCES for EACH of your vocabulary words this week.

2) PLATO - English/Language Arts

Go to - Written & Oral Conventions

Assignment - Using Commas with Linking Words like Because

3) Social Studies - Eyes on the Prize (Episode 4)

In Microsoft Word, create a timeline of the following events. You will be adding more events as we continue to watch the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize.

For today, the events you need to include are (Episode 4):

· Campaign begins in Birmingham

o What campaign? For what?

o Why was this campaign in Birmingham?

o What were the goals?

· Dr. King goes to jail in Birmingham

o Why? What charges?

o For how long? How did he get out?

o What were the letters he wrote during this time called? What did they preach?

· March on Washington

o When did it take place? Where?

o What were its goals?

· Bombing of the 16^th Street Baptist Church

o Where? Why?

o What happened as a result of the bombing?

o Who was responsible for the bombing? What happened to them?

For each event, you need to include the following information:

· Date of event

· Answer the listed questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES

· Image for EACH event (total of 4)