Elder Middler Happenings
Elder Middler Happenings
Week
of December 10, 2001
• Writing... Everyone will be final drafting a Thankyou to someone
in the class, a parent, or Rose Passak, the woman who donated plants
to the class. Also for home, working on the beginning of a short story
about a topic of your choice.
•Reading-
This week we will be final drafting, into book jackets, our summaries
and character descriptions. Projects are due on Wednesday.
• Math – More problem solving. We will be working on spread
sheets. Worksheets due on Tuesday.
•
Unit Study- Weather/Global warming. This week students are beginning
more formal notetaking, answering questions. A web-based list of the
questions can be found at http://www.ashlandschools.org/lincoln/blenders/pages/change/weather.htm
Also, the following page has a great set of links on weather…
http://www.ashlandschools.org/lincoln/blenders/pages/change/global.htm
•Poetry…Check-out
student Poems
http://www.ashlandschools.org/mark_sherbow/poemweb/
• VideoUpdate…Loving the BCN News reports. The kids are getting
very skilled at making short videos.