March 13-17

Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour on Sunday!




Monday -
Tuesday - Reading Log
Wednesday -
Thursday -Spelling Sort and Definition Quiz; Precept Paragraph; Climate and Seasons Quiz (study guide will be given to all students on Monday)
Friday - Buzzwords Quiz #1 - Nouns (study cards); Happy St. Patrick's Day wear something green

SS ch 14 - The Constitution (target test date is March 21 - study guide & notes)

Buzzwords are words that are critical for students to understand in order to be successful on EOGs.  These are words that they have learned over the years but sometimes "forget" when they are actually faced with a question using these terms.  I recently had a lot of students asking me what they were suppose to draw when the question asked for them to "draw conclusions" about the text. The quizzes for these will consist of matching definitions with the correct terms.

Science Weather Unit - the target test date for this Unit is Wednesday March 29.  This is a big unit and I strongly recommend that students be studying the notes on their study guides a little each night rather than waiting until right before the test.  We have covered most of the key concepts but still have more to learn before the unit test.  Students have put lots of notes/reflections in their Science journals.  This should be used to study too! We have been reviewing concepts covered on multiple days so if they missed one day that shouldn't be too big of a problem.  If they have missed multiple days then they may need to touch base with me to make sure they understand the concepts.