Mr. González' Classes Homework/ Daily Activities Week 9, 3/28 to 4/1

Math Monday - Today we will resume our study of Covering & Surrounding Inv 5 with problem 5.1 on p. 46. HW - ACE #12, p. 53. If you have not fixed your Inv 1-4 quiz yet, you need to do so quickly or the quarter will be over! Tuesday - Problem 5.2, p. 48. HW - ACE #'s 8 and 15, pp. 52 and 54. Wednesday - Problem 5.3, p. 50. HW - ACE #'s 1-7, and 9-11, pp. 51-52. Thursday - Problem 6.1, p. 56. HW - ACE #7, pp. 60 and 61. Friday - Today we will correct all the homework and finish the binder check. HW - None Future plans: We will work through as much of Covering & Surrounding by the end of the week. We will finish the book after Spring Break.

Science Monday - The people in charge of the Hood Canal Youth Summit on June 2 will pay for a bus to take us to the summit at Fort Flagler! They also will pay for a bus to take us down the west side of the canalhttp://hood.hctc.com/~hcwater/HCYS.html so that our students can test the water quality during the Snapshot of the Hood Canal week (4/11 - 4/18)! Today we will concentrate on finishing our movies and websites! HW - None Tuesday - Today we will have Americorps Members visit to teach the kids about wetlands and macroinvertebrate identification! It was a blast! Students got to pick insects out of samples of marsh water and then they identified them using a dichotomous key. The lesson was ended with a great tag game that taught the kids how pollution gets the sensitive insects first leaving only the most tolerant insects in the water. HW - None Wednesday - Today kids will have time to fix their Water Quality Final Tests! HW - None Thursday - We will use today to make any finishing touches to our water quality movies and websites. HW - None Friday - Last chance to fix and complete water quality websites and movies! This is it!! (Maybe.) HW - None Future plans: This week we will score the websites and the movies! At the Hood Canal Youth Summit planning meeting that I attended Thursday night, I worked out a day for our students to take a field trip to the West side of the Hood Canal to test the water quality. The data we collect on that day, April 13, will be what students share at the youth summit on June 2. The people who are putting together the summit will pay for our bus on 4/12 and on 6/2!

Language Arts Monday - Today we will study the trait of Word Choice by looking at the tone of vocabulary. HW - Get your Reading Logs done, make-up any missing weeks by reading extra! Tuesday - Today we will take a look at Word Choice by studying the use of Adjectives and the use of Imagery (we will see how similies and metaphors are not just used in poetry). HW - None Wednesday - Today we will finally score our Big6 research reports. Students will score the work of one or two other students looking at their Ideas, Organization and Word Choice (that's what we've been studying). Then I will read them all over Spring Break and see how well the kids scored each other. HW - Get your Big6 research report done if you haven't written it already. Thursday - During this time, I am going to give kids another chance to score a Big6 report and or get their Big6 scored by others. I will also offer their science tests so that they can finish correcting those if they didn't get a chance to finish yesterday. I told kids yesterday that those who made me a deal to make up missing work when they got to go to on the Ballard Locks field trip, that if they flunk this quarter they will not be able to go on the water quality testing field trip on April 13. I can't in good conscience let kids go back on their deal to do their job as students in my class. HW - You still have one more day to complete and submit your Big6 research report. Tomorrow is also your last chance to submit any third quarter Reading Logs. Friday - Project Alert with Heidi Dodd. HW - Have a relaxing and exciting Spring Break! Future plans: This week we will score our Big6 research reports on the traits of Ideas, Organization, and Word Choice.

Social Studies Monday - Panama Canal brochures will be scored today. If we have time, we will start the Canadian Vacation project pre-test today. HW - None Tuesday - Macroinvertebrate identification continued. HW - None Wednesday - Today we will begin the Canadian Vacation Project! HW - None Thursday - Canadian Vacation Project phase 1 continued. HW - None Friday - Canadian Vacation Project phase 1 continued. We saw a movie on the Physical Geography of Canada. HW - None, have a great Spring Break. Future plans: This week we will begin the Canadian Vacation project! This project will prepare students for the Victoria field trip coming in May 13 and for the Canadian Trading Post coming in May 27.

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