Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Important Reminders

- next Wed. 9/30 we will have materials distribution at school just for Village A — your parents received an e-mail about this — make sure to sign up for a 15-minute time slot

- bookmark epic! and Scholastic Science World websites

• for epic! make sure to join with our class code: cmm9087
• for Science World, click on "Join with Google Classroom"

- sign-up for next Wednesday's Village A Social Sessions (optional)

- you can start borrowing books from the KMS Library!

Language Art

- don't forget TOMORROW we will not have a live, synchronous class for Language Arts — check Google Classroom for your asynchronous assignments for that period AFTER you have taken the NoRedInk quiz

- flash-draft for 10 minutes on your writing project in your Language Arts notebook (keep adding onto Session #6 Writing; if you need more space — keep duplicating the slides)

Sample digital notebook (your digital notebook should look exactly like this one starting on Slide 10)

DUE this Fri. 9/25 @ 1:15 p.m.

- Newsela article: Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87

- NoRedInk Assignment #3: Identifying Nouns and Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns

OPTIONAL: 

- work on iReady self-paced/adaptive system for Reading (about an hour a week)

- NoRedInk Quiz #1 TOMORROW!!! 

Covers the following topics:

• Identifying the Subject of a Sentence
• Identifying Simple Subjects
• Identifying Pronouns as Subjects
• Identifying Complete Subjects
• Identifying Clause Subjects, Verbal Subjects, and Subjects of Questions
• Checkpoint: Identifying Different Types of Subjects
• Identifying the Verb in a Sentence
• Identifying Action and Linking Verbs
• Identifying Progressive and Perfect Tense Verbs
• Checkpoint: Identifying Different Types of Verbs

Math

1.  Homework #9 (MAKE SURE YOU put the appropriate heading as shown in class). Due Thurs. 9/24

• read the directions in the classroom assignment 

• See which problem(s) you need to take a picture of and turn in
• take birds-eye view and clear picture of your homework
• upload to your google drive into the appropriate folder
• rename files to appropriate file names
• attach to Classroom homework assignment
• Turn in

2. Correct past homework

Social Studies

1.  Early Hominins test on Friday 9/25 

• will be a timed test
• check Classroom assignments for the study guide

2. Complete TCI Online Lesson 3, sections 1 - 6 by Friday 9/25

• go through Clever
• in TCI online, click on "Assignments" 
• click on the + for Early Hominins
• there will be a dropdown of all the sections you have to do
• REMEMBER to click "turn in" after you complete each section

Science

- this Friday's potato lab requires parental supervision; if your parent is not available you may complete the investigation after class on your own time

- print the Potato Investigation handouts (there are two pages) for Friday's lab; make sure you have all the containers ready necessary for the four pieces of potatoes

- make sure your pages 1-17 (slides 11-27) of the Earth Science Digital Notebook matches Ms. Sun's example one

Exploratory

- "Track Due Dates and Tasks in Gmail" due next Mon. 9/28

- "Create a Presentation All About a Topic" presentations continues on Thursday