Today in Core: November 30th

Welcome to the final week of Trimester numero uno. EEK!

I hope that each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, filled with family, friends, food and fun.

Today's Class:

Language Arts

• Final novel project presentations (for those that used homework coupons, were absent or have turned it in via MDF)
• 10 Minute free-write (AM only)
• Planner check

Social Studies

• Finish political systems chart
• Political systems slide notes 

Today in Core: Nov 25th

Language Arts

• Finish novel project presentations
• Turkey writing: What are you thankful for?

Social Studies

• Political Systems Chart:
  
• Absolute Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy

Have a wonderful 4 day holiday weekend!!! I am thankful for having each and every one of you in my class!

Turkey

happening today!!!

Today in Core: November 24th

 Social Studies

Begin political systems chart...complete ONLY the following:

• Direct Democracy
• Tribal Rule
  
• Absolute  Monarchy

Language Arts

• Novel project DUE!
• Begin turkey writing
  

Random Fact of the Day

Today (Nov 23) is National Eat-A-Cranberry Day

Some cranberry facts:

• Cranberries are native to North America
• There are 350-400 cranberries in a pound
• Cranberries do not grow in water, but float, so marshes are flooded during harvest time
• Native Americans used the cranberry as a symbol of peace
• 2008's cranberry crop in Oregon was valued at over $36.6 million
• Oregon is ranked 4th int he United States for cranberry production
 

photo from Wikipedia

facts from Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom http://AITC.oregonstate.edu

Quiz Your Noodle: Thanksgiving

How much do you know about Thanksgiving? Click HERE to "quiz your noodle"

Today in Core: November 23rd

Social Studies

We've spent a lot of time discussing the economy and today we look at borrowing, saving and investing money.  Check out the three videos we watched in class today during our discussion.

You can see the investing video in Friday's post.

Language Arts
Final day for Novel Project work time...NOVEL PROJECT DUE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009 (THAT IS TOMORROW)!!!!!!!!! 

Percy Jackson

Check out the new Percy Jackson trailer HERE

Today in Core: November 20th

Language Arts

• Spelling Practice Sheet: DUE
• Spelling Sort-it: DUE
• Reading Log: DUE (AM only...PM to turn in on Monday)
• Spelling Test: word cards
• Novel Project work time (due Nov 24th)
  
• DOL (there are 15 errors in the paragraph below, record and correct the paragraph on your DOL sheet)

Social Studies

• Economic Systems Review Videos

**Novel Project is due on NOV. 24th**

from today's lesson

Virtual Music

3 great virtual instruments for you to play around with:

Click here for the virtual keyboard

Click here for the virtual piano

Click here for the virtual drums

Enjoy!

Today in Core: November 19th

AM Core

• Novel project work time (due Tuesday, November 24th)
• Spelling Sort-It 
• Private Ownership/Government Ownership/Mixed Ownership REVIEW

*Spelling practice sheet due Friday!
**Spelling test on Friday

PM Core

• Novel project work time (due Tuesday, November 24th)
• Spelling sort-it DUE
  

*Spelling practice sheet due Friday!
**Spelling test on Friday

Today in Core: November 18th

AM Core:

• What is Capitalism? (movie clip and discussion)
• What is Communism? (movie clip and discussion)

PM Core:

• Spelling sort-it
• Silent Reading
• What is Capitalism? (reading and discussion)
• What is Communism? (reading and discussion)

Today in Core: Nove 17th

AM Core

1st period

• New spelling words (see below)
• Spelling practice sheet due Friday
• What is Capitalism?
• What is Communism?

3rd period

• Novel project work time (due Nov 24)

PM Core

4th period:

• Novel project work time (due Nov 24)

Turkey Anagrams

Click HERE to play the turkey anagram game!! Each anagram is about turkeys! To play an anagram game players rearrange the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase.  It's fun and educational. Here is a picture of the game:

Today in Core: November 16th

We're back to testing in Reading this week, which means that our Core schedule is a little tight. 

Language Arts

1. Students went to the library to get a science fiction or fantasy book (needs to be read by Dec 16th)
   
2. New spelling words: 

• delicious
• squash
• stuffing
• Tofurky
• vegetables
• thankful
• yams
• turkey
• pilgrim
• potatoes
• cranberries
• pumpkin
• casserole
• cornucopia
• Plymouth
• dessert
• Thanksgiving
• harvest

**Spelling practice sheet due Friday, November 20th
***Spelling Test on Friday, November 20th

Today in Core: November 13th

This is our blog's 200th blog entry!!

Language Arts

• Novel Project Work time
• Spelling Test
• Spelling Sort-It DUE
• Spelling Practice Sheet DUE
• Reading Log DUE

Social Studies

• Economics: Producers and Consumers
• Click THIS link and complete interactive activity #1 and #2 

Dates to Remember:

• Novel Project Due: November 24th
• No School: November 26th & 27th
• Last day to turn in late work/make up work/extra credit for Core: December 1

Have a FABULOUS weekend!!!

GO BEAVS!

Today in Core: November 12th

Language Arts

• Introduced the 100 point novel project: Due November 24th. 
• Spelling Sort It: sort words 4 times, see words on last week's posting

Social Studies

• Introduction to Economics: click HERE for the lesson (we will finish this lesson tomorrow)
  
• What are producers?
• What are consumers?
  

Today in Core: November 5th

Language Arts 

The following reflects assignments turned in ONLY...not everything that we did in class today

• View THIS verb presentation.  As you view the presentation, follow the directions/take notes on a piece of notebook paper.
• Review your spelling words (test on Friday Nov 13th)
• READ! Mystery/Adventure book is due November 12th

Today in Core: November 5th

Guy Fawkes Day.

Last day of OAKS testing for a couple of weeks!

Back to our regular schedule tomorrow!

Language Arts

• Verb charades...praciced our verb skills by playing verb charades
• Just a Minute...worked on our speaking skills by playing Just a Minute
• HOMEWORK: Reading log due FRIDAY
• HOMEWORK: Spelling Test due Friday, Nov 13th
• HOMEWORK: Mystery/Adventure book read by Nov 12th

Social Studies

• AM- did not have SS today
• PM- talked about population and the census

5 day weekend on the horizon.

Today in Core: November 4

Language Arts: AM please see yesterday's PM LA post for video assignment.

• Watched "Pendamonium" verb video
• Recorded the verbs that we saw and heard in the video
• Discussed what verbs are, what our favorite verbs are and why verbs are important.

Social Studies

• Finished Population & Planning packet.
• Turned packet in before leaving class

Hope you had a great day!

Today in Core: November 3

Due to OAKS testing, one period of CORE has been compromised for Reading each day...please pay close attention to the "am" and "pm" labels.

Language Arts
AM- did not meet for Language Arts today.
PM- Verb Review

• Read "If I were a Verb"
• Listened to song about verbs (on your paper, record as many of the verbs as you can)...I can't find the exact song, but this video can be a substitute.

Social Studies
Finished the Population and Urbanization packet, reading and slideshow.

Today in Core: November 2

Hello!

The blog is going to be changing this week.  Instead of giving you everything on Monday, I am going to do my best to recap each day as it happens in hopes to help those students that are home sick to stay up to date on what they missed.

Language Arts:
New Spelling words today. Please record the following words onto your spelling practice sheet.  Words will be sorted on Thursday and the spelling test will take place on Friday.  These words tie in to our unit on Population and the Census that we are working on in Social Studies. Click HERE for a copy of the spelling practice sheet.

1. population
2. census
3. demography
4. density
   
5. birthrate
6. urbanization
7. rural
8. urban
9. privacy
10. allocate
11. enumerator
12. tabulate
13. mean
14. median
15. range
16. household
17. campaign

Social Studies
Students received a population and planning reading packet.  Today we read pages 60-63 in the purple SS book and answered the corresponding questions in the reading packet.