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.