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General News Don’t forget your small gift items (27 items NO NUTS) for the class treat bag.  Holiday Parties are Thursday 11:15 – 12:30.  Thank you room moms for coordinating this!!!!

Science 12/15 – 12/19

Mon. 12/15 CW: Work on scripts for Podcasts we’re doing Wednesday.  HW:  CALL your classmates you are doing podcast with & practice your script

Tues. 12/16 CW: Continue podcast script  HW:  CALL your classmates you are doing podcast with & practice your script

Wed. 12/17 CW: Podcast in the computer lab  HW: none

Thurs.  12/18 CW: Make up work – Holiday party 11:15 -12:30  HW: none

Fri. 12/19  CW: Holidays Around the World  HW:  Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  See you Monday, 1/5/09!

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General News…We are going angel shopping Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Walmart. Meet at the grocery entrance at 6:30 & be picked up at the same entrance at 7:15. Ho Ho Ho…… it will be so much fun to make 2 year old Darryl’s Christmas merry!! THANK YOU to all who helped shop. Darryl will have a GREAT Christmas! We will wrap the presents during science on Thursday.

26 SMALL ITEMS NEEDED BY NEXT THURSDAY – This is for you to put in fellow classmates holiday “treat bags.”  Examples of items are red pens, pencils, erasers, small candy – remember NO NUTS we have folks with allergies.  Please don’t wait to ask mom to get this for you.  We have 26 students in our homeroom.

Science 12/8 – 12/12

Mon. 12/8 Moons & Eclipses – (1) lesson 2 chp. 9 pp. 243-250. (2) We added the moons that you need to know for your test to your manilla sheet about the planets. If you weren’t here be sure to get the moons added to your manilla sheet. (3) Brainpop on the moon & eclipses. (4) Workbook pp. 72-75 over moons. HW: textbook pp. 260-261 # 1-9, 11-19, & 24, 25, 28, & 29 due Thursday. TEST CHP 9 FRIDAY

Tues. 12/9 CW: (1) Check wkbk pp. 72-75. (2) Pop Quiz over checked workbook pages – if you checked your workbook correctly, you should have made a 100 on the quiz. (3) Bill Nye on Planets, Earth’s moon Luna, & eclipses HW: textbook pp. 260-261 # 1-9, 11-19, & 24, 25, 28, & 29 due Thursday. TEST CHP 9 FRIDAY

Wed. 12/10 CW: (1) Lesson 3 on other bodies in outer space like comets, meteroids, meteors, meteorites (2) Workbook pages on lesson 3 (3) Review sheet HW: textbook pp. 260-261 # 1-9, 11-19, & 24, 25, 28, & 29 due tomorrow. TEST CHP 9 FRIDAY

Thurs. 12/11 CW: (1) check wb. pp. lesson 3 & textbook pp. 260-261 (2) Magic School Bus on comets, asteroids, meteors, etc.(3) group competition HW: TEST TOMORROW ALL OF CHP 9

Fri. 12/12 CW (1) Test (2) assignment for podcast scripts HW: none

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General News: We have $44 for our angel (thank you Brandi, Claire, Peyton, & Joseph D.) and 1 outfit (thank you Emily) for our toddler – he wears size 2T in clothes and a 6 in shoes. PLEASE ask to earn money by doing extra chores/jobs for your family members. We will shop next Monday 12/8 evening 6:30 p.m. at Walmart. Meet at the grocery entrance. We should be finished shopping no later than 7:15.  A Yearbook order form reminder went home Thursday.  Yearbooks need to be ordered & paid for on line.  See the sheet that came home Thursday.

Science 12/1 – 12/5

Mon. 12/1 CW: Read pp. 230-242 chp. 9 lesson 1 on planets & do wkbk. pp. 70-72 over section 1. Students did this throughout the day while taking their Think Link Test. HW: defintions for all of chp. 9 with a COLORED picture right beside the word/definition are due Friday.

Tues. 12/2 CW: Review planets – make chart for identifying characteristics of planets. ALL planets revolve and rotate and have mass. Otherwise, they are different. Watch Magic School Bus on planets and add notes to chart about each planet. HW: YIPPEE!!!! I got the lap top computer lab tomorrow. We will finish our Power Point presentations. Be sure & bring anything you need to complete your project tomorrow! defintions for all of chp. 9 with a COLORED picture right beside the word/definition are due Friday.

Wed. 12/3 CW: Power Point presentations – finish. HW: defintions due Friday You will have a QUIZ on Friday over planets – know the distinguishing traits & characteristics of each planet.

Thurs. 12/4 CW: Rotation & Revolution pp. 207-208 (2) Eyewitness video on planets – Which planet was light enough to float in a giant bath tub? HW: HW: defintions due tomorrow You will have a QUIZ tomorrow over planets – know the distinguishing traits & characteristics of each planet.  USE your MANILLA sheet to study – the one where you wrote all the facts about the planets.

Fri. 12/5 CW: (1) Quiz over planets (2) Review sheet on planets HW: Test over chp. 9 will be next Thursday or Friday.

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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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General News: My room is on an outside northern wall & gets chilly at times. Students probably need to be in long pants & have a sweater or jacket.  We have a HUGE Vetrean’s Day Assembly Friday, 11/7.  We will be sending care packages to soldiers serving overseas.  Please see the yellow letter about this that came home Wednesday of this week.  Veteran’s Day Holiday is 10/10 & 10/11 Thanksgiving Break is 11/26-11/30

Science: We FINALLY get to make our Power Points this Wedesday through Friday. On Friday, you will need a CD, jump drive, or $.25 to buy a CD from me so that you may take your Power Point home to share with your family.

Mon. 10/27 CW: (1) Investigating Symbiotic Relationships lab. All students completed this lab today. HW: (1) Be sure wkbk. pp. 31-35 are finished. (2) On Friday, you will need a CD, jump drive, or $.25 to buy a CD from me so that you may take your Power Point home to share with your family.

Tues. 10/28 CW: Geologic column lab – pp. 134-135. HW: (1) Read pp. 124-128. On paper write all vocabulary words in purple & their definitions. On the same paper answer # 1-4 p. 128. This is due Thursday. (2) On Friday, you will need a CD, jump drive, or $.25 to buy a CD from me so that you may take your Power Point home to share with your family.

Wed. 10/29 CW: Begin Power Point for Environmental Project HW: 1) Read pp. 124-128. On paper write all vocabulary words in purple & their definitions. On the same paper answer # 1-4 p. 128. This is due tomorrow. 2) On Friday, you will need a CD, jump drive, or $.25 to buy a CD from me so that you may take your Power Point home to share with your family.

Thurs. 10/30 CW: Work on Power Point  HW: you will need a CD, jump drive, or $.25 to buy a CD from me so that you may take your Power Point home to share with your family.

Fri. 10/31 CW: Finish Power Point  HW: Be safe if you go trick or treating – don’t go alone & let an adult examine your candy before you eat it.

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General News: Open House is this Tuesday from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. All families are invited to attend. The Book Fair will occur in the library & pizza will be sold in the cafeteria. The Book Fair & the cafeteria will open at 5:00 and classrooms will be open at 5:30. Report Cards will go home on Wednesday. There are MANY things in the report card cover – the report card, a health screening form which MUST be signed & returned, an Accelerated Reader requirement sheet which also must be signed & returned, a letter about Ms. Smart being out on medical leave from 10/31 – 1/5, and a letter about the new requirements for honor roll – students must have at least 4 A’s, no C’s, no N’s, no U’s & the MAPS classes are included in these requirements.

Just Say No/Drug Free Week Monday – wear red Tuesday – wear favorite cap for Putting a Cap on Drugs Day Wednesday – Sock It To Drugs- wear your favorite crazy or mismatched socks Thursday – Staying Away from Drugs is No Sweat – wear your favorite sweats Friday – Drugs are Just Tacky – wear your favorite tacky outfit

Mon. 10/20 CW: Today was a drug free assembly from 11:50 -12:40 and a Pep Rally from 2:00 – 2:50. So for those classes that met, (1) Students completed workbook pp. 31-33 (2) Students worked on getting some things ready for a lab later in the week. HW: (1) dress for a lab that will be outdoors on Wednesday (2) Project information is due next Monday

Tues. 10/21 CW: We looked at the cost of smoking in terms of dollars and our health. It costs $1,440 per year to smoke if you smoke a pack a day. Then we drew pictures of smokers & non-smokers in terms of the health cost & material possessions cost. HW; (1) dress for lab outdoors tomorrow (2) Project information due Monday (3) Open House is tonight. Classrooms are open at 5:30

Wed. 10/22 CW: Due to the 8th graders taking a standardized test this morning, several science classes were not able to go outside for the lab since we would have been right by their windows. The classes who were inside worked on the Geologic Column Sandwich activity & will go outside tomorrow. Those outside will do the Geologic Column Sandwich activity tomorrow. HW: There are MANY forms to sign in the report card cover (1) the report card cover (2) the AR letter (3) Health screening letter. Also is the letter explaining the Honor Roll procedures – this is for your information & does not have to be signed & returned.

Thurs. 10/23 CW: (1) Class A & Class B couldn’t go outside for the lab due to the weather. We will try again tomorrow. (2) Class C & D got to complete the Geologic Column sandwich activity. HW:the environmental project information is due Monday. We will make Power Points in class next Wednesday – Friday.

Fri. 10/24 CW: (1) Students read chp. 5 lesson 2 pp. 115-119 & completed workbook pp. 33-35 while reading it.  We will check it together on Monday.  We had our E S celebration today for all students who made E’s & S’s on their report cards.  HW: Your environmental project information is due Monday.  We will make Power Points next Wednesday – Friday.  Bring your own jump drive or CD, or bring $.25 to me to buy a CD next Friday so you can take your Power Point home.

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General News: (1) THANK YOU if you have sent in a $5 gift card for our nine weeks drawing NEXT Friday. We are going to have a recognition for all students who maintained all E’s & S’s in conduct for the first nine weeks of middle school. Report cards are being issued next Wednesday, so we have our reward next Friday. If you would still like to send one in, please send it with your student no later than next Friday morning 10/24. (2) Open House is next Tuesday 10/21 in the evening from 5:00 -7:30. (3) Report cards go home next Wednesday 10/22. You can see the grades on Power School now.

OPEN HOUSE NEWS: TUESDAY 10/21 5:00 -7:30 P.M. All areas of school are open. Pizza will be sold in the cafeteria. The Book Fair is in the library. Please join CMS Counselors, Mrs. Butner and Mrs. Kelly, along with our SRO, Officer Landers, in the CMS Auditorium during OPEN HOUSE to view current DVD’s on Huffing and Drinking. This is information that you NEED to know! Handouts will also be available. The Huffing DVD will be shown on the half-hours at 5:30 and 6:30. The Drinking DVD will be shown on the hour at 6:00 and 7:00. Please make time in your Open House schedule to view this material.

Science 10/13-10/17 We need colored toothpicks for a lab by Monday, if you can help, please send a tube of them by Monday 10/20. ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT IS DUE MON. 10/27. We are making Power Points in class that week.

Mon. 10/13 & Tues 10/14 – Fall Break

Wed. 10/15 CW: (1) Thank you note to Mrs. Justis – Wolf River Conservancy (2) pictures of creatures – they went home to stay (3) finish the AWESOME webquest using the science textbook in the mobile lap top lab. HW: Project information due Mon. 10/27

Thurs. 10/16 CW: (1) Animal adaptations film – watch and take notes on 5 animals & their adaptations for survival. If you missed this, be sure to talk to a responsible student and ask what we discussed about animal adaptations & how they allow an animal to survive changes. (2) On 1/2 piece of manilla paper name an animal, draw the animal, & list at least 2 – 3 adaptations that help is survive. Put your name in the lower right corner. (3) Wolf River puzzle sheet HW: Project information due Mon. 10/27

Fri. 10/17 CW: (1) finish animal adaptation sheet (2) read together aloud & discuss pp. 112-114 (3) do wkbk. pp. 31-33 # 1-12 all. HW: Project information due Mon. 10/27

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