Current Event #1 DUE FRIDAY

 For your first current event (CE) assignment, you will need to have an article (not a tv program or video) but if you are looking for a way to get started, you can watch student news and get an idea...then look for an article on one of topics you saw. If you need a great site for actual articles, check out the links below.

CE Links

CNN
C-SPAN
White House Press Release/Weekly Radio Broadcast
NPR
MSNBC
CBS
ABC
Fox News
C-SPAN in the Classroom
Associated Press
KOIN TV
KATU
Oregonian
BBC
Bloomberg Business News

Time for Kids

CNN Student News

The Week in Rap

Scholastic News Zone

Wall Street Journal Classroom

Lost your CE form? Want to print a new copy from home or library? Here:

Keyboarding Practice

Looking to practice your keyboarding skills?

Try these sites:

1. Learning Games for Kids
2. Keybr
3. Fingerjig

This Week in Room 101 10/29-11/2

Notes for the week:
- MV does not have a Halloween costume day (please keep your costume at home on Wednesday)
- Miss B will be attending a training on Thursday and Friday, email replies to parent concerns may be lagging as a result of this absence
- Novels for CORE need to be finished by November 6th

Core
Monday: New vocab (phobia), intro CE #1 (due Friday), Chapter 3, Reading Log (due Nov 6)
Tuesday: Chapter 3 packet, edit setting paragraph
Wednesday: Chapter 3 packet, library to type paragraph, commas
Thursday: work time (CE, spelling, and typing), commas
Friday: CE due! Spelling&Vocab test, commas, Chapter 3 packet DUE

Reading
Tuesday: Spooky Reading part 1
Thursday: Spooky Reading part 2

Wildcat Pride
Monday: Community 101 Mission Statement
Tuesday: Yearbook Theme
Wednesday: Boundary Breaking
Thursday: Oregon Pride signs
Friday: Oregon Pride sign DUE

Cultural Exploration
Monday: Prep QUESO board
Tuesday: Day of the Dead
Wednesday: Play QUESO
Thursday: Day of the Dead
Friday: Day of the Dead

Spelling & Vocab October 22-26

Test on FRIDAY! Study. Study.

deport (v) to carry or send away from a country; to banish

export  (v) to carry out of the country

import  (v) to carry into the country

portable  (adj) capable of being easily carried

portage  (n) the route over which boats and supplies are carried overland from one lake or river to another

porter  (n) an attendant who carries travelers' luggage for them

portfolio  (n) a case for carrying loose papers

report  (n) a collection of writing that carries information to be shared again with someone new

support  (v) to carry the weight of something

transport  (v) to carry something from one place to another

This Week in Room 101: 10/16-10/19

Core
Monday: New spelling/vocab (root=sect), Create a Country planning sheet
Tuesday: Create a Country Rough Draft
Wednesday: CaC RD due, Final draft work time, nouns review
Thursday: CaC work time, spelling sort it
Friday: CaC work time (due Monday), spelling and vocab test, fun write Fri.

Reading
Tuesday: Finish American Slurp
Thursday: American Slurp QUIZ

Wildcat Pride
Monday-Friday: prep for incentive
***Wednesday: run through

Cultural Exploration
Monday: Picasso Monsters
Tuesday: Mi Vida Loca ep 11 & 12
Wednesday: PIcasso Monsters
Thursday: Mi Vida Loca ep 13
Friday: Picasso Monster (due at end of class)

Mi Vida Loca VIDEO for 10

Mi Vida Loca PRACTICE for 10

Landform TEST on Oct 11th

If you missed the landform notes.  Here is the presentation we used in class.  Each student should be able to identify these landform definitions, names, and pictures.  There will be a landform and mapping quiz on THURSDAY OCTOBER 11th.  Landform notes will be collected before the test.
Landforms

Landforms

Assignment:

1. Choose a lanndform from your notes.
2. Complete the "Required Landform #1" box on research sheet using the links below
3. Using the Wikipedia landform list choose a landform that is not on our required list.
4. Complete the "Required Landform #2 and #3" box on the research sheet
5. Done? Turn your assignment in to Miss Bryant
6. Challenge yourself with the landform game.

Landform Resources:

Wikipedia Landform List

Enchanted Learning: Landform Glossary

Landform Picture Gallery from about.com 

Challenge yourself: Landform Game

Picasso

Click HERE to make your own Picasso

Mi Vida Loca Ep 8

Episode 8 VIDEO

Episode 8 PRACTICE

This Week in Room 101: October 1st - 5th

Core
Monday: Atlas work, writing notebook warm up (weekend topic), latitude & longitude review
Tuesday: Latitude & Longitude QUIZ, Detectives (I promise!), subject & predicate, begin plot, ***BOOK LOG DUE!
Wednesday: Earth & Sun (SS reading activity)
Thursday: Plot diagram as a class, detectives, subject & predicate NOVEL DUE
Friday: Novel TEST

Notes: No spelling this week (we are taking a week off to catch up on other things)

Reading
Monday: Ta-Na-E-Ka
Wednesday: Finish Ta-Na-E-Ka
Friday: Ta-Na-E-Ka Quiz

Wildcat Pride
Monday & Tuesday: First half = what type of leader are you, second half incentive brainstorm
Wednesday & Thursday: Incentive brainstorm
Friday: Team building

Cultural Exploration
Monday: Mi Vida Loca episode 7
Tuesday: Seasons art DUE, seasons writing
Wednesday: Mi Vida Loca episode 8
Thursday: Family
Friday: Family

Reading Lab
See Miss B for details