Woo Hoo - Redskins Rule!

Math: Tonight's homework is very important. Please review your student's quiz from last week because we spent a lot of time with it today in class. This isn't to say we bombed it; rather, collectively we are a group of "process-dependent" students so we worked quite a bit on answering the question, "what does MEAN mean to you?" Our purpose was to develop an understanding of the "why" when it comes to calculating mean. In essence - when they think about "mean," they should instantly think about EQUAL GROUPS and FAIR SHARES. This concept is particularly tricky since they haven't learned/practiced/applied division skills until this year...

Language Arts: We are officially in the midst of reading for information. Despite the obvious notion that text features rule this world, we spend a considerable amount of time with questioning and structures. With that said, this week we will be exploring how understanding the cause/effect structure helps us to comprehend the content more clearly.

JGB - They should reread the story, take directed notes focusing on "tricky" parts, and complete their focus question. We will have discussion on Wednesday.

Wednesday Surprise - They should read this for the first time tonight. We will work on questioning in small group with this...

Sly Fox... - In their RRJ, "what did the fox do that was "sly" in the story?"

Social Studies: We took the economics assessment on Friday and we will begin geography tomorrow.

Science - We are winding down the crime lab unit with an additional experiment on chromatography later this week.