An email for Wednesday and Thursday -- 2/23 and 2/24

Sorry for the super late email....

It has been two days of extracurricular technology based activities after school.  On Wednesday we had our first district mandated collaboration day followed by me teaching Microsoft Word to about 15 district employees over at the Nielsen Computer Lab.  Today we had a 2.5 hour monthly technology meeting to begin planning our March and August Staff Development days.  

The last two days......
We participated in a district and city writing exercises about our monthly attributes.  Many of the students wrote about family members or friends that they felt best personified the ten various attributes.  

Division with decimals -- most students have completed their test.  Some students due to a truncated Wednesday, the big band rehearsal and their less than fast ways are still completing the test.  

We also reviewed the Theme 4 Study Guide.
If it has been lost,  CLICK HERE FOR THE DOCUMENT
Students should spend time studying the concepts outlined on the study-guide and memorizing words, grammar rules or syllabication prior to next Wednesday’s theme test.
 
The large grammar packets were handed out on Wednesday.  Students were strongly encouraged to  try and complete 4 pages per school day and/or night time.

We also discussed and took notes on ratios and converting fractions into percentages.  
Brainpop.com has great videos explaining these concepts.
Also you can CLICK HERE  in order to have your child watch great descriptive videos about ratio and percentages.

Also school site council has asked me to create and produce some www.pearsonsuccessnet.com tutorials for parents and students.  I offered to have the students write up the script and they can have their voices and script used.  

The rough draft of the short story is due tomorrow.

Students should be working nightly for at least 15 minutes on their Famous American reports.  

Next Friday is Read-In-Day.  Students should bring their books or magazines, comfortable and appropriate clothing, and pillow, blanket, or whatever.  We will literally try to read the entire time, except for when Wells Administrators show up to read a story and answer their questions regarding next year.    

Kind regards,
Mr. Hubbard

Math:
Page 388-389 all due on Friday

Grammar:
Getting ready for the Theme 4 test next Wednesday
Due on 3/1

Theme 4 Study Guide:
The test will be on 3/2

Free-Write due Friday:
Complete your short story (near 1,000 words)

Famous American -- rough draft due on March 18th.
I strongly recommend that students put forward about 15 to 20 minutes every Monday-Thursday evening so this will not become a huge nightmare circa March 16h.  (15 evenings x 20 minutes = 300 minutes).  

Famous American Report:
http://www.box.net/shared/4idhdcrbhs
Here are the high level due dates:
Rough Draft due                                                                Friday, March 18,  2011
Final copy due                                                                    Friday, April 15, 2011