WELCOME BACK!!

The classroom were full of wonderful moans and groans today. WE have a lot to do in a short amount of time.

5th Grade- Vocabulary- Chapter 6 Lesson 4.

We will have a quiz on Friday on Water Cycle, Carbon Cycles and Nitrogen Cycles. We covered two of them today.

Extra credit information tomorrow.

7th Grade- Vocabulary Test on Wednesday Unit 5 ( rollover from last week- definitions and complete the sentence)

Make sure you have the recipe you want to use for your descriptive writing.

Book reports due on December 14. Format will be given tomorrow. You may turn it in early!

8th Grade- Vocabulary homework- Completing the sentence- unit 5. Vocabulary Test on Monday.

Book report due December 14. Format will be given tomorrow. You may turn it in early! Remember you have exams starting the 15th. I will put together a study guide to help you focus on the important stuff.

Get some rest, we will hit the ground running again tomorrow!

Two more days!! I know everyone is looking forward to the long break. But we still need to wrap up a few things before we relax..

5th Grade-

Chapter 5 Test on Monday. Below is a copy of the study guide again.

Study Guide Chapter 5

Test format: 10 matching, 11 short answer with word bank, 5 essay questions. 3 diagrams with questions (food chain, food web, and food pyramid)

Things you should give attention to:

Vocabulary - Know the definitions along with examples if noted in book. (you should have note cards)

· Know the difference between producers, consumers and decomposers.

· Understand niches and how they affect a community

· Know the difference between and habitats, population and a community.

· Understand and be able to write about how people change the environment (growth, pollution,

· Understand and be able to write about “what happens when habitats are changed”

· How does a change in one population affect two other populations in the same ecosystem?

7th Grade-

Your test has been moved to Tuesday due to our poetry reading and College of Charleston visitors. Below is a copy of your study guide as well.

REMEMBER you must complete and have a final draft of your poems by Monday.

Poetry Study Guide

Things you need to know:

Definitions:

· Sound devices Rhyme scheme

· Alliteration a-a-a-a, a-b-a-b, a-b-c-b-

Onomatopoeia

Assonance

Consonance

Figurative Language

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Define and identify

· Narrative poetry- tells a story

· Lyric poetry- expresses the authors thoughts and feelings; often has a

· Haiku-

· Ballad- a song or song like poem that tells a story often dealing with romance or adventure

Be able to interpret and discuss the following poems:

Lochinvar- (727)- Ballad

The Cremation of Sam McGee- (736)- narrative poetry

Three Haiku- (756)- haiku

Annabel Lee- (774)- lyrical poem

Abraham, Martin, and John (774)- lyrical poem

Full Fathom Five- (782)- alliteration

Onomatopoeia- (783)- onomatopoeia

8th Grade-

No homework! We completed all your assignments last week.

Before Thanksgiving I want to wrap everything up so we can start all new material when we return on the 30th.

*** Your permission slips for the field trip are due tomorrow.

5th grade- We will have your chapter 3 test on Monday. I'm sorry it has to be on a Monday, but your Friday is FULL! Use the study guide I gave you today as a guide.

7th Grade- Your poetry test will be on Monday as well. I will have a study guide prepared for you later in the week. Your vocabulary quiz will be on Tuesday.

Homework for tomorrow- Write one sentence for each vocabulary word.

8th Grade- Your Anne Frank test will be on Friday. You will have vocabulary, reading comprehension, stage direction, and elements of drama on the test.

Homework for tonight- Vocabulary- Anne Frank Act II.

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Glee Club &Upper School Drama Performance

Tonight at 6:30. Good luck everyone!

Do not forget your permission slips for our field trip next week. WE NEED DRIVERS!! Check with the office for current paperwork.

Due to performance homework is minimal tonight.

5th Grade- NO HOMEWORK yeah!!!

7th Grade- Subject/verb quiz tomorrow. Hopefully you studied over the weekend.

8th Grade- Punctuation quiz tomorrow. Hopefully you studied over the weekend.

Don't forget your permission slips for the field trip on Tuesday November 24.

5th Grade- No Homework!

7th Grade- Grammar quiz on Tuesday.

Simple subjects, verbs, compound subjects, compound verbs.

8th Grade- Punctuation quiz on Tuesday.

Reading- page 343 Anne Frank Responding to the selection, analyzing literature, and critical thinking.

Gobble! Gobble! Homework

5th Grade- Complete your "food chain" worksheet and read pages 20-23 in your textbook.

7th Grade- Graded papers have gone home, please have your parents look at them sign the folder and return both papers and folders to me tomorrow.

Grammar- Page 403 exercises 18 and 19 (yes you have to write the sentences)

8th Grade- Glad you had a good time at BE. No homework tonight.

How about the football this weekend?? Homework for tonight

5th grade- Please have notecards tomorrow. We will use these for vocabulary. This is not new news!

7th Grade- Grammar Page 394-395 Exercises 3,4, and 5.

See you tomorrow

Yeah! It's the weekend! But we still have a little work to do.

5th Grade- Quick lab on page 13 Research a wild animal and make a Shutter Fold.

7th Grade- The Giver Test on Monday Chapters 11-23 (end of book)

8th Grade- Hopefully you don't have much left to finish! The Ultimate Gift is due on Monday. I can't wait to see them.

Be safe and have a great weekend.

5th Grade- No homework

7th Grade- Cans Cans please! Capitalization quiz tomorrow Reading test on Friday.

8th Grade- those of you who did not exempt your verb test will have one tomorrow. Project due Monday!

5th grade- No homework

7th Grade- Finish reading The Giver. Reading Test on Friday. Make sure you have completed the grammar exercises from Monday night. Bring in CANS for our homeroom.

8th Grade- Grammar exercises 15, 16, and 17.

Verb Quiz on Friday. The Ultimate Gift project due November 9th.

Welcome to November! Hope everyone had a safe and spooky Halloween. This is a busy week for all grades, so please check your child's assignment book daily to make sure they have all their assigments.

5th Grade- Chapter 4 test tomorrow. Re-read the chapters. There will be a chart on the test that list the major groups of animals ex. amphibians, reptiles, mammals, etc.. you need to list an example, tell me where they live, and what they eat or how they eat or if they are a flatworm/roundworm, what they feed off of. There are 10 short answers. Most of these come from questions pertaining to our discussions and the captions by the pictures. You will also have 15 fill in the blank. Be confident! You know this stuff!

7th grade- Short story paper due tomorrow. Love the one's I have read so far. Vocabulary Test Unit 4 tomorrow. I need to know what book you are reading on your own by Wednesday. Friday Reading test on The Giver.

8th Grade- Vocabulary unit 4 test tomorrow. I need to know what book you are reading this quarter by Wednesday. The Ultimate Gift project due November 9.

That's all for today. Have a great one!