Ms.McLemore’s blog

NEWS: (1) We have adopted an angel who is a two year old boy. He wears size 2T clothes and size 6 shoes. He needs clothes and a coat. He wants a bike and a teddy bear. Do you have any jobs your child can do for you or someone else to earn money to help donate for this worthy cause? Bring in money or unwrapped new gifts by Monday, December 8th. We will meet & shop that evening. Time & place to be determined later. (2) A note came home from our room moms – THANK YOU room moms! – about our holiday party on Thursday the 18th. Please see the note for details.

Science 11/24-11/25

Mon. 11/24 CW: Test Chp. 6 & puzzle. HW: none

Tues. 11/25 CW: Recognizing tides, currents, & animal adaptations in movie HW: none

Wed. – Fri. HAPPY THANKSGIVING – NO SCHOOL!!

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General News: (1) We only have 7 school days before Thanksgiving Break. That means MANY tests & quizzes that will overlap so that we have all testing completed before the break. PLEASE work on studying a little every night for every subject so you don’t get overloaded at the end of this week and beginning of next week. (2) Kids Kan food drive ends Tuesday of this week (3) My homeroom, you elected to adopt a little boy for Christmas. His needs and wants are coming home on Tuesday. All money & items to donate must be here by Monday 12/8/08. (4) Interims go home Wednesday – you have seen these grades on Power Grade if you have been checking.

Science 11/17 – 11/21

Mon. 11/17 CW: Begin chp. 6 on Waves. Lesson 1 – what we focused on today covers surface & deep currents, and el nino. We watched the brain pop on Ocean Currents. Read & discussed all of lesson 1 pp. 142-151. Students had 30 minutes or more to work on workbook pp. 44-47 which are due Wednesday. HW: This is ALL homework for the whole week so you know when it is due. (1) wkbk. pp. 44-47 are due Wed. (2) Wkbk. pp. 48-49 are due Thurs. (3) textbook pp. 166-167 # 5-8, 9, 10, 14-17, & 24-26 are due Thurs. (4) definitions for all of chp. 6 vocabulary including a picture for each definitition are due Fri. (5) Vocab. QUICZ over chp. 6 is Fri. (6) TEST over chp. 6 is Monday 11/24

Tues. 11/18 CW: (1) Waves – lesson 2 pp. 152-157. Read & discuss. You will NOT be responsible for memorizing the definitions on pp. 154-155 for the quiz or test. All other vocabulary from the chapter IS on the quiz & test. Be sure you can draw & label the parts of a wave. If you weren’t here today, be sure to see Brainpop on tsunamis. We also watched the Bill Nye video on water cycles. If you weren’t here, you need to look up what the water cycle is & how it works – do some research on the internet. Ask a classmate about the water cycle who was here today. (1) wkbk. pp. 44-47 are due tomorrow (2) Wkbk. pp. 48-49 are due Thurs. (3) textbook pp. 166-167 # 5-8, 9, 10, 14-17, & 24-26 are due Thurs. (4) definitions for all of chp. 6 vocabulary including a picture for each definitition are due Fri. (5) Vocab. QUICZ over chp. 6 is Fri. (6) TEST over chp. 6 is Monday 11/24

Wed. 11/19 CW: (1) Check wkbk. pp. 44-47 (2) Talk about tides – chp. 6 lesson 3. (3) Brainpop on tides. (4) wkbk. pp. 49-51 HW: Wkbk. pp. 48-49 are due Thurs. (3) textbook pp. 166-167 # 5-8, 9, 10, 14-17, & 24-26 are due Thurs. (4) definitions for all of chp. 6 vocabulary including a picture for each definitition are due Fri. (5) Vocab. QUICZ over chp. 6 is Fri. (6) TEST over chp. 6 is Monday 11/24

Thurs. 11/20 CW: (1) Review game for vocabulary (2) Check wkbk pp. 48-49 (3) group competition sheet  HW: (1) textbook pp. 166-167 # 5-8, 9, 10, 14-17, & 24-26 are due tomorrow (2) definitions for all of chp. 6 vocabulary including a picture for each definitition are due Fri. (3) Vocab. QUICZ over chp. 6 is tomorrow (4) TEST over chp. 6 is Monday 11/24

Fri.  11/21 CW: (1) check textbook pp. 166-167  (2) vocabulary quiz  (3) vocabulary review sheet for chp. 6 – will finish Monday after test if you didn’t in class today.  HW: STUDY FOR TEST MONDAY OVER CHP. 6 – all parts of chp. 6 EXCEPT pp. 154-155 are on the test.

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General News:  Veteran’s Day Holiday Monday & Tuesday.  We are collecting cans for Kids Kan.  Our homeroom has mixed vegetables.  They’ll take any cans, though!  The Fall Dance is Friday after school.  Tickets are $5.  All proceeds go to autism charities.  It is from 3 – 5:30.  Students must have permission slip to buy ticket at lunch.  If they lost the permission sheet, write on paper their name, your name, your phone number, & give them (1) permission to stay for the dance and (2) if you want, permission for them to be in photographs.  For only $10 students may buy a CD which will have pictures of them from the dance.

Mon. & Tues. – Holiday

Wed. 11/12 CW: Owl pellet note taking & writing up lab.  Begin on definitions for chp. 6 – they are all due next Friday.  You must write the word, definition & draw a picture – you don’t have to color it.  HW: dress for lab tomorrow & Friday.

Thurs. 11/13 CW: Dissecting an Owl Pellet.  HW: dress for lab tomorrow

Fri. 11/14 CW: Finish owl pellet lab.  HW: defintions & picture for all vocabulary words in purple ink in chapter 6 are due next Friday.

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General News: (1) Green colored cards entitled Parent-Pupil Survey cards came home Monday & need to be completed & returned on Tuesday. Please follow the directions on the white sheet sent home with the green card. Be sure to sign it before returning it. Students in my homeroom returning the card by Tuesday will receive a treat. (2) Our homeroom is to collect for the food drive mixed vegetables in a can. Whatever you have here by next Friday 11/14, I’ll match on  Monday 11/17. For example, if you all bring in 20 cans, I’ll buy 20 more which means our class will have 40! (3) Veteran’s Day Assembly is Friday – wear red, white, & blue to HONOR the veterans – this is NOT a dress up wacky day

We are collecting items for soldiers in preparation for the Veteran’s Day Program!
CMS is collecting items for soldier care packages.
Please go to www.msprojectpackage.org <http://www.msprojectpackage.org> <http://www.msprojectpackage.org> to see the list of items needed .
You can send items in now thru Nov 12th.
Mrs. Higginbotham’s room and the CMS library are drop off points.
Please help us with this great cause!
Science 11/3 – 11/7

Mon. 11/3 CW: (1) Look at the textbook on line for chp. 5 visual concepts for both geologic column & index fossil. (2) Look at brainpop on erosion & geologic time. (3) Discuss fossils, geologic column, index fossils, erosion, & eons, ephochs, eras, & periods. (4) Students finish lab on pp. 134-135. If you didn’t finish it in class today, you need to finish it at home tonight. HW: Read pp. 129-133. Write vocabulary words & their definitions on a piece of paper. On the SAME piece of paper answer the questions on p. 133. This is due Wednesday.

Tues. 11/4 CW: (1) Check Geologic column lab questions (2) Review all that is going to be on Friday’s chapter 5 test. We made a list of what to know for each section in their agenda books on this week’s page under Saturday. IF YOU WEREN’T HERE, GET IT FROM SOMEONE!!!!! (3) Workbook pp. 38-40 for lesson 4 due tomorrow. HW:(1) finish wkbk. pp. 38-40 if you didn’t in class today. (2) Read pp. 129-133. Write vocabulary words & their definitions on a piece of paper. On the SAME piece of paper answer the questions on p. 133. – assigned yesterday & due tomorrow.

Wed. 11/5 CW: (1) Homework collected. (2) Check wkbk. pp. 38-40. (3) Vocabulary review sheet you may use the book. It must be turned in before you leave class. (4) textbook pp. 138-139 # 6-8, 11, 12, 14-16, & 22-25 answers only due tomorrow (5) Extra credit sheet called Science Puzzlers, Twisters, & Teasers due Friday. Correct answers will be extra credit points on Friday’s test. GROUP COMPETITION TOMORROW! HW: (1) finish pp. 138-139 if you didn’t in class. (2) Chp. 5 test is Friday – study what we wrote on the board Tuesday. Get it from someone if you weren’t here Tueday!

Thurs. 11/6 CW: (1) check pp. 138-139 (2) check vocabulary review sheet for chp. 5 (3) Pop quiz on vocabulary for chp. 5 – you wrote the list of what to know in your agenda book on Tuesday. Lab groups with the highest average on their vocabulary quizzes received the most bonus points on tomorrow’s test. (4) Study guide for chp. 5 – COMPLETE & STUDY THIS STUDY GUIDE – IT IS EVERYTHING ON TOMORROW’S TEST. Bring the study guide to class with you. HW: (1) Test tomorrow chp. 5. (2) Bring completed study guide (3) Bring extra credit sheet if you want extra credit points.

Fri. 11/7 CW: (1) Turn in your study guide.  If you didn’t have it today, be sure to bring it next Wednesday to replace the “0″ you received for your grade.  It is 20 points off for each day it is late.  (2) Chp. 5 test – Did you notice it matched the study guide exactly?  HW: There is a dance next Friday after school.  Bring your permission slip & $5 to buy a ticket at lunch next Wednesday – Friday.  If you want to get pictures, both formal & candid it will only cost $10 for a CD of your pictures!  There are door prizes and a dance contest with a prize, if you want to compete.  Concessions will be sold for $1 to $2.  ALL the money goes to charity!  See you next Wednesday – have a safe Veteran’s Day holiday!

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