Homework for March 21 -27

Posted on March 22, 2011 by chris618

Weekend

  • 6th math: pg 406 ff: 7-27 odd; 30-40 even
  • 5th math: pg 97 ff: all problems; pg 101: 1-11 all problems
  • English: be finishing all of your non-fiction book

Thursday evening

  • 6th math: pg 398ff: 9-19 odd; 22-44 even
  • 5th math: pg 89ff: 1-15 odd; 17, 18, 19; 24-30 even
  • Read your non-fiction

Wednesday evening

  • No math tonight: test today
  • You should be finishing your non fiction book with one week to go.

Tuesday evening

  • Math test tomorrow!
  • 6th Math: pg 389 all
  • 5th Math: 9-5, 9-6, pg 58 review from workbook
  • Read your non fiction book
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Homework for March 14-20

Posted on March 14, 2011 by chris618

This is the last week to sell raffle tickets for your Yosemite trip fund.

Weekend

  • No math. Enjoy!
  • Be reading your English non-fiction book. You should be at least half way through.

Tuesday evening

  • 6th math: pg 367 even problems; pg 368 all problems
  • 5th math: pgs. 32, 33 in workbook
  • There will be no math test tomorrow. I changed my mind and will do it later.
  • Read your non-fiction book

Monday evening

  • 6th math: pg 364ff: 9-17 odd; 23-31 odd; 35-43 odd
  • 5th math: workbook page 51
  • math club: page 36
  • English: read your non-fiction book
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Homework for March 7-13

Posted on March 7, 2011 by chris618

Important Notice: Directora Linda mentioned to me after school on Friday that she was supposed to collect the raffle ticket money on Friday because the drawing is supposed to be this Wednesday March 16. Sell all you can this weekend, and bring your money in on Monday!

Weekend

  • Read your non-fiction book.
  • No other homework: you’ve worked hard this week!

Thursday evening

  • 6th math: pg 353ff: 2-16 evens; 19-37 odds
  • 5th math: worksheet pages 29, 30, 31
  • English: Biography final copy due tomorrow
  • English: Read 1/2 hour your non-fiction book

Wednesday evening

No math, but study your area formulas for the retake test if you are taking it.

  • English: Final copy in ink (blue or black) is due tomorrow of the classroom description that you have been working on.
  • English: The final copy of the Biography Report is due on Friday. You may use either a biography form that you used for the draft copy, or lined white paper.
  • Read 1/2 hour or more.

Tuesday evening

I’m writing from home and don’t have the math in front of me due to conferences. I hope you copied it into your planner.

  • Math: find the appropriate section and questions in your planner for the topic Percent of a Number.
  • English: Paragraph 3 of your descriptive essay. How the room you described makes you FEEL. Use adjectives, verbs, literary devices. Add a concluding sentence to wrap-up the essay. We will read them in class tomorrow.
  • Read your non-fiction book.

Monday evening

  • No math: we had a test today.
  • English: paragraph 2 of descriptive essay is due tomorrow. We will read in class. Use descriptive language to describe the sounds, touch, and smell of the same room you described visually.
  • Biography report is due on Friday with corrections from the draft. In ink on a new form, computer, or lined paper.
  • Read your non-fiction book 1/2 hour or more.
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Homework for Feb 28 – Mar 6

Posted on February 28, 2011 by chris618

Weekend

We have a math test on Monday. You must memorize formulas for:

  • pi, circumference of a circle, area of a circle, area of a parallelogram (square, rectangle, rhombus), area of a triangle, 6th – area of a trapezoid. If they’re not in your notebook, they are also in your math book.
  • 6th Math: pg 627ff: 8-28 all problems
  • 5th Math: section review 11-2, 11-3, 11-4, 9-4
  • English: draft copy of paragraph 1 of your visualization essay: the visual description of a single classroom from this year or last year. We will read them in class.

Thursday evening

  • If you did not turn in your biography draft today, be sure to turn it in tomorrow.
  • 6th math: pg 598 ff: 7-23 odds
  • 5th math: worksheets 76, 77, 79, 81

Wednesday evening

  • 6th math: page 595, all problems
  • 5th math: finish your 3 worksheets if you did not finish in class.
  • English: The draft copy of the biography report is due tomorrow.
  • Read your non-fiction book.

Tuesday evening

  • 6th math: Do the section on area of a circle, all odd problems 1-47
  • 5th math: enrichment, and not an official standard. Enjoy your night off of math.
  • Everyone: Draft copy of biography report.
  • Read your non-fiction book for 1/2 hour or more.

Monday evening

  • Math: pg. 586 ff: 2-24 evens, 30; 33-43 odds
  • English: Write your 1 paragraph description of an object on a separate piece of paper. I will read them in class tomorrow.
  • Read your biography or non-fiction book for 1/2 hour or more.
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Newsletter for Feb. 24

Posted on February 23, 2011 by chris618

* Welcome back from the President’s Day holiday! I hope you are rested and ready for our final 32 school days before state testing begins on April 11.
* I have mapped out all of math units that we need to cover before state testing. This year we don’t have as much preparation time due to the Spring Break schedule, so our math time will be aggressive. It will occasionally mean covering two sections a day, so please make sure your child stays current in math.
* We will be having a math test on geometry on Thursday Feb. 24. It will count toward the third trimester grade.
* In order to help students who need a little more help in some math concepts, we are starting a lunch time and after school program. Beginning Thursday, some students will be required to go to the computer lab during lunch time to work with our aide, Aida.
In addition, I will be reteaching some key concepts after school to students who need some extra help. The session will run from 2:40 to 3:40 on Mondays and Tuesdays, and you will need to provide transportation to pick up your child at 3:40. If your child needs to be at the after school session, I will send home an information sheet for you to sign and return. Our first session will be on Monday Feb. 28 covering negative numbers.
* Next week students will begin working on their book report on the biography they have been reading in February. For March, the book assignment is any full length non-fiction book (including another biography, if desired).
* Conferences begin the week of March 7. Anyone may request a conference, but we will only be requiring conferences for students with a grade less than C-. Everyone will get a conference sheet from me, so look on it to see if you need to attend. E-mail me if you’re not sure if you need to come or not.
* Students need to bring their math compass to school next week.
* We need some old magazines for an English project we will be doing soon, so any donations of magazines with advertisements will be appreciated!
* Yosemite. We need to give our 90-day student count to the Yosemite Institute on Monday Feb. 28. Directora Linda sent home update sheets on Wednesday Feb. 23 for the amount each student has in their account toward the trip.
Please be sure you have paid at least $260 in any combination of cash, checks, and raffle ticket sales for your child by Feb. 28. Please make checks payable to Adelante School and turn them in to Margarita in the office. Thanks!

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Homework for Feb. 23-27

Posted on February 23, 2011 by chris618

Weekend

  • 6th math: pg 586 ff: 1-31 odd; 32-50 even
  • 5th math: worksheet
  • English: finish your biography. Report next week. Start a non fiction book.

Thursday evening

  • Math: It’s my birthday, so there’s no homework!    😉
  • English: Semicolon worksheet is due tomorrow.
  • Finish reading your biography. Get ready to write a descriptive paragraph tomorrow.

Wednesday evening

  • Math test tomorrow!
  • 5th math: Test preparation: sections 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-7, 9-2, 3-4
  • 5th math: Pg. 601 1-23 odds (23 is optional)
  • 6th math: test preparation: pg. 567: all problems, except 13, 15, 16.
  • 6th math: Pg. 580 ff: 1-19 odds; 22-30 all
  • English: semicolon worksheet is due on Friday
  • English : read your biography. It is due to be finished on Monday.
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Homework for Feb 14 – 20

Posted on February 14, 2011 by chris618

Long Weekend

  • Be reading your biography book. Many of you started late, so you will need to read extra to catch up so you are finished by the end of the month.
  • 6th math: pg 543 ff: 5-31 all problems
  • 5th math: no homework!
  • Do you think you know vocabulary? Check out the Ultimate Word List on the lower section of the Downloads page!

Wednesday evening

  • No math tonight — we’ll do it this long weekend!
  • Keep reading your biography book.

Tuesday evening

  • 6th math: pg 574: 7-21 odd; 26-38 all (27 optional)
  • 5th math: pg 593 ff: 1-15 odd; 16-26 all
  • Read your biography book

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Monday Evening

  • Math: pgs. 564-565: Sections 10-1 thru 10-6: all problems
  • English: You should be half way through your biography. Read at least 1/2 hour.
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Crispin Cross of Lead Word List

Posted on February 11, 2011 by chris618
  • Sin – separation from God
  • Taunt – to tease and coax
  • Bracken – plants and bushes
  • Shroud – large burial cloth
  • Gallows – a place to hang people
  • Rut – a depression in the dirt formed by wheels
  • Garment – generic term for clothing
  • Pauper – very poor person
  • Shun – to intentionally ignore and leave along
  • Deign – to lower yourself to do something
  • Cloying – smothering
  • Contempt – to think something is worthless
  • Astride – to straddle between your legs
  • Scorn – to show contempt, to ‘dis’
  • Stately – large, solid, majestic, important
  • Transgression – to break a law against someone else
  • Poach – to illegally hunt animals
  • Sorrow – intense sadness
  • Burden – a heavy item that causes you to get tired
  • Decay – to rot
  • Executioner – the person who legally kills a prisoner
  • Bramble – thorn bushes
  • Entomb – to put into a tomb
  • Stag – a male deer
  • Engulf – to surround (and bring down)
  • Welt – swelling on  your body
  • Ensnare – trapped
  • Transfixed – to stare and watch in facination
  • Hurtling – flying through the air
  • Sought – past tense of seek
  • Bowels – intestines
  • Curfew – the legal time you must be inside
  • Kin – your relatives
  • Avail – to be of use or value
  • Affix – to attach
  • Relentless – never stopping
  • Clasp – an attachment for closing something
  • Parchment – animal skin used for writing
  • Wrath – anger
  • Cast – looked
  • Mock – to make fun of
  • Haste – hurry
  • Wince – facial gesture in pain
  • Plight – a bad situation
  • Reside – to live in a place
  • Vault – a high place above you that arches
  • Millstone – a donut shaped stone used for grinding grain
  • Serf – a peasant
  • Jibe – practical joke
  • Impoverish – poverty, poor
  • Grazing – cattle moving from place to place eating
  • Pike – pole weapon
  • Ablaze – on fire
  • Christendom – Christian countries
  • Untoward – stubborn
  • Thatch – a roof made from grass
  • Emerge – to come out
  • Erected – to build up
  • Wattle – sticks and mud house
  • Tolling – ringing
  • Infidel – someone not from my religion
  • Conceal – to hide
  • Bailiff – a law man who works for the sheriff
  • Haste – to go fast
  • Meandered – to move in a non-direct manner
  • Daub – mud
  • Croft – small kitchen garden
  • Trestle – saw horse
  • Decree – law by voice
  • Babble – an onomatopoeia of a bubbling sound
  • Pinnacle – tip top of a mountain
  • Archery butt – target
  • Strident – loud and harsh
  • Canonical hours – church hours
  • Apprehension – fear of what might happen’
  • Peal – to ring
  • Dismount – to go off of a horse
  • Assemble – to put together
  • Rhythmic – having to do with rhythm
  • Clamor – loud confusion
  • Stoop – bent forward
  • Cease – to stop
  • Lawful – legal
  • Undone – to be ruined or destroyed
  • Sow – to plant
  • Glaive – a pole weapon
  • Longbow – large long bow
  • League – 3 miles
  • Moot – something that doesn’t matter any more
  • Treason – to betray your country
  • Wiry – built like wires
  • Vespers – #6 church hour
  • Incomprehension – you can’t understand
  • Perch – a ledge to sit/stand on
  • Petition – a request
  • Henceforward – from now on
  • A Judas – a person who betrays
  • Siege – blockade, to surround
  • Scrutinize – to look closely
  • My fancy – my imagination
  • Sullen – gloomy silence and being irritated
  • Utterly – completely
  • Rafter – wooden beam holding up a roof
  • Wayward – to go off on your won
  • Porridge – oatmeal
  • Exile – to be forced to be sent away
  • Reluctant — unwilling, hesitant
  • Crone – old witch-like woman
  • Pondering – to think
  • Carcass – dead body of an animal
  • Aye – yes
  • Foreboding – evil prediction of the future
  • Thong – an attaching strap
  • Shilling – 12 pennies
  • Disquiet – to feel uneasy
  • Skirt – to go around the outside edge
  • Loomed – to come into view as a large but indistinct image
  • Lumbered – to move slowly and heavily
  • Westerly – direction to the west
  • Abide – to bear patiently
  • Proper – that exact place
  • Raucously – harsh sounding
  • Boundary – a division on land
  • Uppermost – in or into the highest permanent position
  • Shrewd – having a sharp mind
  • Evasive – to get away (or avoid) by skill or trickery
  • Corrupt – influenced by bribes; dishonest
  • Glutton – person who never seems to have enough of anything
  • Sneer – to smile with a facial expression of scorn or contempt
  • Doddering – to be unsteady, shake, tremble, totter
  • Treason – the betrayal of a trust
  • Martyr – a person who suffers death rather than give up his religion
  • Elation – high spirit, joy, pride
  • Belied – to show to be false
  • Mocking – ridicule
  • Prudent – discreet, cautious
  • Warily – caution or careful
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Homework for Feb 11-13

Posted on February 11, 2011 by chris618

Weekend

  • Read your biography book. Read as much as you need to in order to be half way through, since we are about half way through the month.
  • Vocabulary test on Monday from words in the Crispin book. See the other post for the list of words. You should already have them in your notebook.
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February 7

Posted on February 7, 2011 by chris618

Hello Students!

I am healing nicely and making good progress in my recovery from surgery. I am able to sit, stand, and walk (for a short time), but it will be many weeks before I am able to run or lift objects. (The heaviest thing I’m lifting these days is my teacup.) My doctor assures me that all of this is normal, and that I am not to get impatient with the process.

I have been able to get out of the house and walk around my neighborhood for a few minutes every day since last Thursday. I’ve even seen a couple of you on my walks, which was great! Today I may even try to drive to the store for a few minutes. Wow, what next? By the time the school year is over and we go to Yosemite, I should be able to do all hikes and activities.

Because the healing process takes time, I will probably not be with you at school until Friday or so. I am eager to see you all again, but if I were to be at school today or tomorrow, I would probably be spending most of my time talking to you sitting from my desk! (I may even do that when I get back, who knows?!)

I have had long phone conversations with Mrs. Deal and Directora Linda, and feel that I am caught-up with everything that is going on. They tell me that most of you are doing wonderfully, and keeping up with all of the work while I am gone. I am very proud of you!

Since I won’t be at school until Friday at the earliest, there will be very little time (only about 5 days) for makeup tests before the end of the trimester. People who want to take makeup tests should make a list of what they need to take, and the order that they will do their makeups in — that way when I get back you can just walk up to me and say “Math mid -4” or “Chapter 5 final.” You must do your studying now while there is time, because there won’t be much time when I get back. Practice tests are in your math book. As I wrote last week, if you need help, you can see Mrs. Deal at recess or Maestro Ramiro. You can also email me!

Do your best on the benchmark tests this week, and don’t let the abnormal schedule distract you. Oh, and have fun on the field trip to Kennedy on Thursday, even if you don’t plan to go there. In the past they have had snacks for people taking the tour.  (Parents are invited on the trip too, so tell them.)

Be well, and I look forward to seeing you soon!

– Maestro Chris

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