Mrs. Sanford

Week at a glance...

Reading students will be working on CRCT warm-ups the first half of each class period.  We continue to look for patterns in testing, and to work on reviewing skills in isolation.  Students should be reading 5 nights a week for 30 minutes.

Social Studies students have a test Monday over religions of South-East Asia.  They should study their yellow study guides tonight!  Tuesday we will look at graphs that display information about the the basic terms we have covered: life-expectancy, infant mortality, literacy... and many more!  We will look at different forms of government Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Many GREAT reading projects have still not been claimed!!!!! Please see me if your project grade does not come-up on I-parent!  

Problems with Projects!!!

Many of the projects turned in on Friday DO NOT include names!  Please see me by Wednesday to confirm that you receive credit for your hard work!

Week at a glance... March 23-27

It's hard to believe that we have 2 short weeks left before Spring Break!!!!

We will be spending this week working on reviewing the reading skills and terms we've studied this year.  Next week we'll talk about reading strategies. 

Wednesday I'll be collecting READING LOGS!  I've had many questions about these logs.  We are keeping them on notebook paper.  Some people write a summary of what they have read.  While this is not required, I will give extra points as a bonus for this.  I'd like to thank parents in advance for not signing these logs if you know your child hasn't read.  Your support of this assignment is essential!  I appreciate all the thoughtful questions you've asked about this assignment.  If for some reason your child has not been keeping a log, please let me know.  We'll need to discuss something they can do to earn these points and avoid a zero on a major assignment.

Social Studies-

We will continue our 'mad-dash' through Asia this week.  We'll have a political map quiz on Tuesday. We will only be covering the countries that were in color on your map.

By Wednesday we should have completed our brown religion sheet covering the four major religions of this region.  We will review this material Thursday and have a quiz on Friday.  I'll be looking for basic information.

READING LOGS DUE WEDNESDAY!

Week at a Glance...

What a BUSY week we have to look forward to...

Reading students must finish The Killing Sea by the 18th (Wednesday).  If they need extra time to read, they may come in at 8:15 Tuesday and Wednesday.  I can not stay late on these dates.

Monday- Read (Received final response sheet)

Tuesday- Read/ work on response or project

Wednesday- Read/ work on response or project

Thursday- Review for test/ Final response due

Friday- Test over book/ Projects are due

Here are some important papers- just in case the originals are misplaced!

Response-Download Killing Sea last response

Project list-Download Novel projects 

I was FLOORED at the amazing projects that came in as a result of our research!!!!! They were GREAT!  This project is designed to allow for a more creative response to this book.  ENJOY!

Graph-It Project!

Today we are going to focus on making (and understanding) graphs for Social Studies!

Countries list-Download All Countries for Social Studies

We will be going to building 5 graphs using CultureGrams. 

Assignment-Download Graph activity