Tuesday, August 30th

Writing - Students received the guidelines, rubric, and schedule for their writing summative assessment.  It is due next Friday and if you would like a copy of the rubric, please email me and I'll send it to you.


Science -  Today's lesson was titled, Animal & Plant Cells and the learning targets were:
•I can describe the basic organelles and their functions in animal and plant cells.

•I can identify the similarities and differences between an animal cell and a plant cell.
We read and discussed the first section of Enjoy Your Cells, by Fran Balkwill and students viewed a University of Utah website that compared the sizes of various microscopic things.  The links to the book and the site are below.  We concluded science by drawing plant and animal cells and labeling some of the basic organelles.  

Reading - Ms. Bowden read aloud from A Tale Dark & Grimm and after that, students read silently.


Math / Math Mania - Students had some more practice with circle graphs and percents.  Links students had additional time to finish their formative assessment since they were with the Links group on Friday when I originally had students begin working on the assessment.


Announcements
--Students brought home the book order form for A Tale Dark & Grimm.  All of the students are enjoying the book so if your child wants one, please send it in by Thursday.
--The Bill of Rights assessment on Wednesday.  Study.