Arthur Rackham, Author and illustrator of such classic tales as "Alice in Wonderland", "Mother Goose", and "Gulliver's Travels".

HW: Review Worksheet Lesson 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 even numbers only, Study for Quiz on Tuesday

SOCIAL STUDIES: (B-Class) Class: - CNN Student News ; -Newspaper Activity ; -Discuss & Collect Time for Kids Worksheet

(A-Class) Class: Blue Book Chapter 1 read silently and complete Open Book Test

ELA: (B-Class) Class: Writers' Workshop - Peer/Teacher Conferencing "Summer Vacation" & "Autobiography" ; -Read aloud Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

(A-Class) Class: Writers' Workshop "Summer Vacation" Complete Graphic Organizer and Rough Draft

MATH: (A-Day): Practice 7-1 #s 1 – 11 ODDS only, Practice 7-2 Due Wednesday, 9/19. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Friday, 9/21

(B-Day): Practice 7-1 #s 1, 5 and 7-11 ODDS only Due Tuesday, 9/18. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Thursday, 9/20

SCIENCE: (A-Day): Ancient Model of the World with written description. Final draft due Wednesday, 9/19..

(B-Day): Ancient Model of the World with written description. Final draft due Tuesday, 9/18.

SOCIAL STUDIES: (A-Day) Study the EUROPE map and capital packet, as well as your flash cards for your quiz next Friday. TRAIN YOUR BRAIN!

(B-Day) Study the EUROPE map and capital packet, as well as your flash cards for your quiz next Friday. TRAIN YOUR BRAIN! Latitude and Longitude Activity is due on Monday. FIND Sue & Lou...they stole Mrs. Fortna's Reese's PB cups!

ENGLISH: We took a reading placement test today in class. This test will not count as a grade, although the score will be use to assess student abilities in ELA. There is no new homework.

SCIENCE: Paragraph describing a problem that you have always had/wanted to know an answer to.

GENERAL ENGLISH: Finish GWOAC questions for Chapter 3. Remember to echo the question.

SCIENCE: read pp. 16-22; p. 22 #3, p. 39 #1-5 - do this all on one piece of paper; finish SG#2 w/ book- you will need to use a dictionary to look up the word experiments

SMT (Science): Read pp. 14-18; On p.15, do MP#1-2; EHomework early bird special: look up the term Fall Equinox. Write down as many facts as you can about this date. Be sure the information you use is scientific.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Read "The American Land" on pp. 15-21 and answer questions (2-6) on p. 21.

Mrs. Coelho's GENERAL ENGLISH: Find the definition, synonym, and antonym for each vocabulary word. Vocab quiz on Monday 9/24

SOCIAL STUDIES 8: Worksheet #40, Chapter 10 flash cards (definition and illustration), check pencil pouch

ENGLISH: Rec. Reading is Thursday September 20 th . Pg 422, #'s 1-6 in complete sentences. Quiz Friday on "Rikki Tikki Tave.

8 th Grade: Team Total: GILDERSLEEVE, IRVINE, JACKSON MOFFRE, ROMERO, SWIFT

ENGLISH: Get Rec Reading book

ENGLISH: 7H:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. BORDELL:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. DEMATTEO:

Physical Education: Mr. LETO

HW: Review Worksheet Lesson 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 even numbers only, Study for Quiz on Tuesday

SOCIAL STUDIES: (B-Class) Class - Time for Kids (9/14/07) Magazine, Quiz, Worksheet

(A-Class) Class: Blue Book Chapter 1 read silently and complete Open Book Test

(A-Class) Class: Writers' Workshop "Summer Vacation" Revise & Edit ; Discuss punctuation, capitalization and spelling

MATH: (A-Day): Practice 7-1 #s 1 – 11 ODDS only, Practice 7-2 Due Wednesday, 9/19. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Friday, 9/21

(B-Day): Practice 7-5 #s 1, 4, 7-9, Practice 7-7 #s 1-8, Practice 7-8 #s 3-4. Due 9/20. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Thursday, 9/20

SCIENCE: (A-Day): Ancient Model of the World with written description. Final draft due Wednesday, 9/19.

(B-Day): We began to practice metric measurement and made and learned about sun clocks.

SOCIAL STUDIES: (A-Day) Finish "Sue and Lou" packet; Current events due Wednesday 9/19

MATH: Due Tuesday 9/18, worksheet 1-5 Reteaching and Practice. No update for Tuesday 9/18

SCIENCE: We started talking about Scientific Inquiry today. Students need to think of a problem they can use scientific inquiry to investigate.

GENERAL ENGLISH: Finish GWOAC questions for Chapter 3. Remember to echo the question.

SCIENCE: read Pgs. 16-22 ; Pg. 22 #3, Pg. 39 #1-5 - do this all on one piece of paper; finish SG#2 w/ book- you will need to use a dictionary to look up the word experiments No update for Tuesday 9/18

SMT (Science): Read pp. 14-18 ; On p.15, do MP#1-2 ; E Homework early bird special: look up the term Fall Equinox. Write down as many facts as you can about this date. Be sure the information you use is scientific. No update for Tuesday 9/18

MATH: 1-4; #'s 3-10 in check point quiz, 1-1 #'s 59,60; 1-3. #'s 40-42. Quiz tomorrow, 9/20

SOCIAL STUDIES 8: Finish section 3 notes, chapter 10 vocabulary quiz tomorrow

ENGLISH: Rec. Reading is Thursday September 20 th . Finish Simile WS. Quiz Friday on "Rikki Tikki Tave.

8 th Grade: Team Total: GILDERSLEEVE, IRVINE, JACKSON MOFFRE, ROMERO, SWIFT

English 8 Honors: Mrs. Napolitano - No update for Monday 9/17 or Tuesday 9/18

ENGLISH: Inner Voice WS

ENGLISH: 7H:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. BORDELL:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. DEMATTEO:

Physical Education: Mr. LETO

Wednesday <back to top>

Wednesday September 19, 2007. A-Day

In 1819, poet John Keats wrote "To Autumn".

"Slimy the Worm" from Sesame Street was "born".

6 th Grade: CERRITO, CASELLA (6-1)

TEAM TIME: Review/Preview, Essential 55, School/Class Guidelines

MATH: (A-Class) Class: Review Worksheet Lesson 1-1, 1-2, 1-3

HW: No Homework

(B-Class) Class: Lesson 1-5, Adding and Subtracting Decimals; Go over quiz

HW: Practice 1-5 evens due Thursday

SCIENCE: (A-Class) CLASS: Revisit Organism Sort; Start "Is It Alive?" Lab

HW: Bring in SMALL baggie of sticks, leaves, grass, rocks, bark, etc for class pond...PLEASE NO LIVE ANIMALS! Thanks!

HW: None

(B-Class) Class:

SOCIAL STUDIES: (B-Class) Class - Time for Kids (9/14/07) Magazine, Quiz, Worksheet

HW: Independent Reading; Time for Kids (9/14/07)Worksheet due Thursday

(A-Class) Class: Time for Kids (9/14/07) Magazine, Quiz, Worksheet

HW: Independent Reading; Time for Kids (9/14/07)Worksheet due Friday

ELA: (B-Class) Class: Complete Reading Test ; Read aloud Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

HW: Independent Reading

(A-Class) Class: Reading Test

HW: Independent Reading

OTHER

6 th Grade: AYERS, FORTNA, HERZOG (6-2)

MATH: (A-Day): Practice 7-5 #s 1, 4, 7-9, Practice 7-7 #s 1-8, Practice 7-8 #s 3-4. Due 9/21. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Friday, 9/21.

(B-Day): Practice 7-5 #s 1, 4, 7-9, Practice 7-7 #s 1-8, Practice 7-8 #s 3-4. Due 9/20. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Thursday, 9/20

SCIENCE: (A-Day): We began to practice metric measurement and made and discussed sun clocks.

(B-Day): We began to practice metric measurement and made and discussed sun clocks.

SOCIAL STUDIES: (A-Day) Finish "Sue and Lou" packet; Current events due Wednesday 9/19

(B-Day) Study flashcards; Current events due Tuesday 9/18

ELA: (A-Day): "Miss Cusak" letter due Tuesday 9/18

(B-Day): Final copy of "Miss Cusak" letter due Tuesday 9/18

OTHER Daily reading log due Monday 9/24

6 th Grade: MORGAN, SWAIN, BROOKS (6-3)

MATH: 1-6 worksheet; due Thursday 9/20

SCIENCE: None

ELA: None No update for Monday 9/17 or Tuesday 9/18

SOCIAL STUDIES: No update for Monday 9/17 or Tuesday 9/18

SPECIAL ED MATH: Miss Brooks: Worksheet 1-7

6 th Grade: BOGUE, CARDENELLI , MORTENSEN , FELLNER (6-4)

We have block scheduling today and Thursday. On Friday we will have periods.

ENGLISH: Locating Subjects in the Sentences worksheet #23

MATH: we had a quiz today. No homework tonight.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Name the Country worksheet

SCIENCE: Planning an Experiment worksheet - due Friday

GENERAL ENGLISH: Finish GWOAC questions for Chapter 3. Remember to echo the question.

7 th Grade: Blue Rockets: BURKE, COELHO, CUMMINGS, DEWALD, TRIBLEY

ENGLISH: Read pp. 408-413 ; Study vocabulary p. 413 ; Recreational Reading day tomorrow

SCIENCE:

SMT (Science):

MATH: "Little Milli Metric and Star"; go step by step

SMT: (Math): 1-5; #'s 5, 8, 9, 17-22, 25-29, 38-44, 52,53

SOCIAL STUDIES: Read Climates of the Americas on pp. 22-25 and answer questions (1-5) on p. 25.

Mrs. Coelho's GENERAL ENGLISH: Journal entry - What are your thoughts on the new Wellness Guidelines adopted by our school district. Vocab quiz on Monday 9/24

7 th Grade: MSP Mrs. Maggs

ENGLISH 7: None

SOCIAL STUDIES 7: 3 flash cards -Illustrate

ENGLISH 8: None

SOCIAL STUDIES 8: Chapter 10 vocab quiz tomorrow

7 th Grade: Stingray Team: COOTWARE, FLYNN, MARQUIS, MATTHEWS, MCCLOUD

MATH: Pg. 684 #1-12 ; Pg. 702 #1-4; #13-16; #25-28; #31-34 ; Quiz tomorrow

SOCIAL STUDIES: Longitude and Latitude WS in packet

ENGLISH: Rec. Reading is Thursday September 20 th . "Rikki" quiz on Tuesday 9/24.

SCIENCE: Study for test on Chap. 1.

8 th Grade: Team Total: GILDERSLEEVE, IRVINE, JACKSON MOFFRE, ROMERO, SWIFT

MATH: Text Pg. 42 #8-32, #35-40 Pg. 43 #56-

MATH ENRICHMENT: Chapter 1 Test Thursday; Chapter 1 Vocab Quiz Friday

GENERAL MATH: (Irvine)- Solving multiplication and division equations; Quiz tomorrow!

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: Rec Reading tomorrow- BRING YOUR BOOK!

SOCIAL STUDIES: Finish Causes of Civil War Worksheet

SCIENCE: backwork and signatures

UPCOMING: Accelerated Math Test Friday; Social Studies Quiz Monday

MSP 8: Mrs. JACKSON

No postings yet

MATH 7:

MATH 8:

SCIENCE 7:

SCIENCE 8:

ELA 8: Mrs. Markham

English 8 Honors: Mrs. Napolitano -

8 th Grade: Team YODA: BOBO, DIEPIETRO, DUCHARME, KIRWAN, MONTY, PUTORTI

ENGLISH: 10 Spelling sentences

SCIENCE: None

BIOLOGY: None

SOCIAL STUDIES: Complete Election 1860

MATH: Pgs. 36-37; #'s 2, 4, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 30, 32, 42-46 (ALL)

ENGLISH: 7H:

ENCORE TEACHERS:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. BORDELL:

FRENCH 7: Practice ABC's

SPANISH 7: Practice ABC's

SPANISH 8: Finish unit 5

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. DEMATTEO:

SPANISH 7: ; Finish "Introductions" WS

SPANISH 8: Finish Review Packet (meal time)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. FIESENGER:

GERMAN 7: - Pgs. 3 & 4 in "Greetings" packet

GERMAN 8: - Write a note of 5 sentencts and tell a friend what you take in achool. Also ask what your friend takes.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. ROBBINS:

FRENCH 7: Write vocabulary #'s 6-10 5x each in French and English

FRENCH 8: Write vocabulary #"s 6-10 5x each in French and English

FOREIGN LANGUAGE 6: None

HEALTH: Mr. ELLIOTT:

HEALTH: Mrs. COLYER:

6 th Grade:

8 th Grade:

Physical Education: Mr. LETO

Thursday <back to top>

Thursday September 20, 2007. B-Day

In 1519, Megellan set sail to search for the "Spice Islands".

In 1829, the first passenger railroad station, operated by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company opened.

6 th Grade: CERRITO, CASELLA (6-1)

TEAM TIME: Review/Preview, Essential 55, School/Class Guidelines

MATH: (A-Class) Class: Review Worksheet Lesson 1-1, 1-2, 1-3

HW: No Homework

(B-Class) Class: Lesson 1-5, Adding and Subtracting Decimals; Go over quiz

HW: Practice 1-5 evens due Thursday

SCIENCE: (A-Class) CLASS: Revisit Organism Sort; Start "Is It Alive?" Lab

HW: Bring in SMALL baggie of sticks, leaves, grass, rocks, bark, etc for class pond...PLEASE NO LIVE ANIMALS! Thanks!

HW: None

(B-Class) Class:

SOCIAL STUDIES: (B-Class) Class - Purple Book Vocabulary Cards ; Set the Scene with Literature Boy of the Painted Cave; Blue Book Chapter 1 Read and complete Open Book Test

HW: Vocabulary Cards and Quiz 9/26

(A-Class) Class: Time for Kids (9/14/07) Magazine, Quiz, Worksheet

HW: Independent Reading; Time for Kids (9/14/07)Worksheet due Friday

ELA: (B-Class) Class: Writers' Workshop "Summer Vacation" Revise, Edit, Teacher/Peer Conference ; Library Media Center Book Fair Book Talks

HW: Independent Reading

(A-Class) Class: Complete Reading Test ; Read aloud Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

HW: Independent Reading

OTHER

6 th Grade: AYERS, FORTNA, HERZOG (6-2)

MATH: (A-Day): Practice 7-5 #s 1, 4, 7-9, Practice 7-7 #s 1-8, Practice 7-8 #s 3-4. Due 9/21. Quiz on Chapter 1 lessons 1-3 and Chapter 7 all but lesson 7-6 on Friday, 9/21.

(B-Day): We took a quiz today. No homework.

SCIENCE: (A-Day): We began to practice metric measurement and made and discussed sun clocks.

(B-Day): Work on Sun Shadow lab. Measure shadows and complete observation page. Due Monday 9/24.

SOCIAL STUDIES: (A-Day) Study the EUROPE map and capital packet, as well as your flash cards for your quiz next Friday. TRAIN YOUR BRAIN!

ELA: (A-Day): "Miss Cusak" letter due Tuesday 9/18

(B-Day): NO HW GIVEN ; OTHER- DRL is due on Monday- focus is SUMMARY

OTHER Daily reading log due Monday 9/24

6 th Grade: MORGAN, SWAIN, BROOKS (6-3)

MATH: 1-7 Reteaching; #'s 3-15(all)

SCIENCE: None

ELA: None

SOCIAL STUDIES: Locating cities in the U.S. and Canada - Due: Mon. 9/24

SPECIAL ED MATH: Miss Brooks: Worksheet 1-7

6 th Grade: BOGUE, CARDENELLI , MORTENSEN , FELLNER (6-4)

We have period scheduling tomorrow. Students will have all 4 Core classes.

ENGLISH: Library Presentation today. No homework.

MATH: Exponents worksheet due Fri; Have Unit 1 Quiz signed by Monday

SOCIAL STUDIES: Start studying European map and capitals. The tests will be at the end of next week. Name the Country worksheet, omit #s 11, 32, 35-37, 39, & 44.

SCIENCE: Exponents worksheet due Fri; Have Unit 1 Quiz signed by Monday

GENERAL ENGLISH: Went to Library Media Center for Book talk.

7 th Grade: Blue Rockets: BURKE, COELHO, CUMMINGS, DEWALD, TRIBLEY

ENGLISH: Study vocabulary p. 407 ; Read pp. 408-413

SCIENCE: No posting

SMT (Science): No posting

MATH: 1-6; #'s 3-51 in multiples of 3 and 56-57

SMT: (Math): 1-6,#'s 24-37, 41-44, 51-53, 66-68, 77

SOCIAL STUDIES: Handout 1-4 and the picture questions on pp. 23 and 24.

Mrs. Coelho's GENERAL ENGLISH: Vocab. chart,Vocab quiz on Monday 9/24

7 th Grade: MSP Mrs. Maggs

ENGLISH 7: None

SOCIAL STUDIES 7: 3 flash cards -Illustrate

ENGLISH 8: None

SOCIAL STUDIES 8: Chapter 10 vocab quiz tomorrow

7 th Grade: Stingray Team: COOTWARE, FLYNN, MARQUIS, MATTHEWS, MCCLOUD

MATH: Pg. 684 #1-12 ; Pg. 702 #1-4; #13-16; #25-28; #31-34 ; Quiz tomorrow No posting

SOCIAL STUDIES: Longitude and Latitude WS in packet No posting

ENGLISH: "Rikki" quiz on Tuesday 9/24.

SCIENCE: No HW for tonight, Test today.

8 th Grade: Team Total: GILDERSLEEVE, IRVINE, JACKSON MOFFRE, ROMERO, SWIFT

MATH: Worksheet on Distributive Property

MATH ENRICHMENT: Chapter 1 Vocab Quiz Friday

GENERAL MATH: (Irvine)- Solving Equations WS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: None

SOCIAL STUDIES: Finish map

SCIENCE: backwork and signatures

UPCOMING: Accelerated Math Test Friday; Social Studies Quiz Monday

MSP 8: Mrs. JACKSON

No postings yet

MATH 7:

MATH 8:

SCIENCE 7:

SCIENCE 8:

ELA 8: Mrs. Markham

English 8 Honors: Mrs. Napolitano - No posting

8 th Grade: Team YODA: BOBO, DIEPIETRO, DUCHARME, KIRWAN, MONTY, PUTORTI

ENGLISH: Quiz tomorrow

SCIENCE: Metric practice

BIOLOGY: None

SOCIAL STUDIES: None

MATH: Pg. 42, #'s 4, 8-36(even)

ENGLISH: 7H:

ENCORE TEACHERS:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. BORDELL:

FRENCH 7: ABC song project

SPANISH 7: ABC song project

SPANISH 8: Crossword; Draw all countries and label them in Spanish.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. DEMATTEO:

SPANISH 7: ; Finish "Introductions" WS

SPANISH 8: Finish Review Packet

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. FIESENGER:

GERMAN 7: - Pages 2 & 3 in packet.

GERMAN 8: - Fill in your schedule on page 1 in the Education packet.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mrs. ROBBINS:

FRENCH 7: Write vocabulary #'s 11-14 5x each in French and English; Quiz Tuesday

FRENCH 8: Write vocabulary #"s 11-14 5x each in French and English

FOREIGN LANGUAGE 6: Learn first half of the Alphabet

HEALTH: Mr. ELLIOTT:

HEALTH: Mrs. COLYER:

6 th Grade:

8 th Grade:

Physical Education: Mr. LETO

Friday <back to top>