For 10/30-11/2

Monday FreeRangers

Tuition due on 11/5.

I sent out an email last week with the BrainPOP username and password.  If you didn't receive the email, please let me know! I may have the wrong email address and I need to correct it to make sure you get future emails.  Thanks!

This school year has been created around books of nature/geography/survival.  At the end of the year, I have planned for a big field trip to Rock Eagle 4H Center in Eatonton, GA.  I will be choosing classes and creating our program around topics that we will have learned this school year.  There will be a one day field trip for our Monday classes, and our Wednesday classes will have an option to stay overnight.  Dates for the trip are April 25th (Monday Classes) and 25th-26th (Wednesday Classes).  If you have students in both classes, we can talk about option to help make it work for your family!

Language Arts

• You did a great job with the state of being verbs.  Keep practicing your grammar cards (often!), and work on memorizing the definitions and the state of being verb list.
• Read chapters 9-13 in Lost!
• Here is a link to the new vocabulary list.  We do activities and review of these words in class, but it really only works if the kids study them at home during the week.
• Here is the Quizlet page to help you study and practice!
• No need to worry about your field guides this week.  I took them up for the first "Field Guide Check"!  (You'll get them back next week.)
• I love your book report/review cards!!!  Keep up the amazing work!  

★Diving Deeper (optional)

• How hard was it to build the Panama Canal?  With a parent's' help, research it and tell us what you learned!
• In our book, Carter uses his trash bag for many things.  One of the things that he makes is a water filter.    With a parent's help, research how to make a water filter at home.  Bring it to class to show the class, and be sure to be ready to tell how it works!

Geography

• While watching this video, think about what the different countries in Central America look like.  If you don't want to watch the video, check out books or other sources!
• Think about what it looks like there.  Are their forests? Deserts? Mountains? What is there?)  Choose a country and draw/paint/or create an image of what it looks like there.  You can be creative!  If you don't want to draw/paint/etc., then you can describe it with words.  
• Practice pointing out the different countries in Central America.  You can go back and look at the videos from previous weeks if it helps!

Science

• Unfortunately, only two students completed their science notebook  assignment last week.  Before we move on, we need to full understand the six kingdoms.  Scroll down to last week's assignments and follow the directions to add information to the Six Kingdoms page.
• In class, you learned that viruses aren't actually classified as living things!  Weird!  Click here to go to the BrainPOP page on Viruses.  Watch, click, read, play, and learn!

Next week, if you have a Jack-o-Lantern that you are finished with, bring it and "chuck it" to the pigs!  They'd love the treat!  

Farm Fusion Journal Assignment  Choices

• In class, we talked about facts and opinions.  Tell the class about your favorite farm animal.  Why do you like them?  Explain. This will be full of opinions, and we will talk as a class about the fact and opinion sentences that you write.

THINGS TO BRING TO CLASS

• Tuition
• Snack
• Lunch
• *WATER BOTTLE*
• Yellow Folder with assignments to turn in
• Green Field Guide Notebook
• Black Science Notebook
• Red Writing Journal
• 3-Ring Binder with paper
• Lost! Book
• Pencil
• Grammar Cards