11/7/18
Happy Wednesday,
There will be Homework Center next week on 11/13 and 11/15.
Math club is underway! Meetings are held on Wednesdays after school in the cafeteria.
BLUE science camp packets have been sent home. PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE PACKET. ALL FORMS ARE DUE BACK BY FRIDAY, 11/30 (or sooner). ALL FORMS NEED TO BE RETURNED TO YOUR CHILD’S 1ST PERIOD TEACHER. The week we are attending camp is January 15, 2019 - January 18, 2019.
The GREEN form is ONLY NECESSARY if your child will be taking ANY medications to camp (this includes over the counter medications). The green form will need to be completed by your child’s pediatrician.
Per our camp coordinator PARENTS CAN CROSS OUT AND CHANGE THE PRE-SLUGGED INFORMATION ON THEIR CAMP PACKETS
- NON-BIANARY GENDER ON PAGE TWO
- THEY DON’T NEED TO FILL OUT ETHNICITY ON PAGE TWO
- PHOTO RELEASE ON PAGE TWO
- HEALTH INFORMATION PAGE 3: MARKED NO FOR MEDICATION — THIS WILL NEED TO BE CHANGED FOR THOSE BRINGING MEDICATION
There will be a choir concert next Thursday, 11/15 at 6:30 pm. Everyone is welcome!
COLLECTING ALL BOX TOPS!! If you have been collecting BOX TOPS, Please bring then to your 1st period teacher. PLEASE put the BOX TOPS in a baggie and write your child’s name/# of BOX TOPS on the baggie. We will be collecting BOX TOPS throughout the year, so if you can start saving them now, that would be great!! Thanks for your support.
Homework for 11/7/18:
Reading/Literature: READ 20 mins. every night including weekends! A reminder that all students must meet their AR goal by next Friday, 11/16 (end of trimester 1).
Language Arts:
*Study grammar worksheet (5 mins.)
*Study figurative language notes (15 mins.)
*Figurative language quiz TOMORROW (may be postponed if I don’t think students are ready for it).
Examples of figurative language:
1. Alliteration - Peter Piper picked some plums on his way to the play.
2. Onomatopoeia - The bee buzzed around the boy's head.
3. Idiom - It’s raining cats and dogs.
4. Simile - Her face was as red as a tomato.
5. Metaphor - The night sky was a loom threaded with darkness. (Metaphors are direct comparisons.)
6. Hyperbole - If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times. (exaggeration)
7. Personification - Their trumpets crying, their white plumes flying, and their sabers flashing in the sun. (giving “person-like” qualities to an inanimate object — trumpets can’t cry — people cry).
*Grammar quiz on Friday, 11/9
Math: No homework
Science: No homework
Social Studies: Egypt map is due TOMORROW.
Have a great night.
Ms. Perris/Ms. Harrington