Friday, September 10, 2010

Weekly Update 9/10

Science:

In science, we will be starting our unit on Weather and Climate. The first chapter we will be looking at will be The Air Around Us. We will be focusing on the elements that make up our atmosphere.


Language Arts:
 
We will be reviewing comma rules and rules for punctuating quotes.  We will be reading another short story by Roald Dahl.  In writing we will continue our focus on “Ideas and Content”.
 
Math:
 
Next week we will be working with decimals in Math 7. add/sub/mult/div them.  Next week we will be working with combining like terms and solving algebraic equations in Pre –alg.

Social Studies:

We will begin Egypt, chap.4, including geographical influences, relationships with surrounding civilizations and lasting contributions to future civilizations. Egypt map quiz on Thursday and don’t forget the pop quiz surprise.

RICA:

This week we went to the media center and worked on our making connections to reading projects.  The students got a partner and had to make an online poster on glogster.com.  The poster is due on Monday.  Next week we will focus on the power of asking questions reading strategy.  Study Island:  Author's purpose is also due today.

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