5/31

Thanks for an awesome last field study up at Mt. Tabor, where it all started this year.

HW due Friday:
1. Mt. Tabor Field Study Assignment (last field study assignment of the year!!!)

2. Finish your narrative nonfiction book and bring it into class tomorrow.


EXTRA:

If you are interested in participating in the Creative Cooking Challenge take a look at the ingredients in the SES garden, the guidelines, and bring in a potential recipe that you think we could use. People who demonstrated interest in this process will be considered for the cooking with Steph next week.

5/30

HW due Thursday:

1. LAST FIELD STUDY OF THE YEAR to MT. Tabor!!!
a. Look through your e-core... All of it! Write down your 3 favorite field study memories and why
b. Bring appropriate clothes like you would for P.E... We will definitely be doing some running tomorrow
c. Since it is our last field study of the year, if you want to bring any snacks that can be shared with everybody in our class to help celebrate, please do so.

2. Bring in your narrative non-fiction book for silent reading tomorrow (you need to be finished with your first book by Friday).

3. We will be finishing our ancient cultures post-assessment in class tomorrow, make sure you come prepared with your blue folder and e-core journal to finish up this assessment!

Be thinking about what you are doing for your Term 4 service learning experience. You should have your hours complete by Monday. 

Ancient Cultures Unit - Post Assessment

Ancient Cultures Unit - Post Assessment

5/29

Welcome back to the world of our core class blog. There are two weeks left in the school year!!!

You have no specific homework due tomorrow. Your homework is to check in and catch up based off the following details that we talked about during our planner time. Starting tomorrow you will get nightly week day homework through next Tuesday.

Here is a link to the grades I sent home to your families yesterday:
Updated Grades 5-29

Thursday, May 31st - Final Field Study - Mt. Tabor

Friday, June 1st - Narrative Nonfiction book complete

Monday, June 4th - 6th + 7th grade has finished their term 4 service hours and 8th grade has finished their portfolio

Tuesday, June 5th - Term 4 Service Reflection due (we will work on these all afternoon Monday).

Wednesday, June 6th = Last day to turn in work!!!

5/17

HW due Friday:

1. Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project
... After working on this in class for over 2 hours you should be close to done (if not done already) by now. This is due tomorrow morning. Come in ready with any of your work and with anything you need printed shared with me before 8:30.

8th Graders, we are doing your official Catalina portfolio check-in tomorrow. Everything (except for the 2 letters) that is due before May 18th should be completed by tomorrow.

5/16

HW due Thursday:

1. Narrative Nonfiction book in school
2. Work on Ancient Cultures project for 21 minutes

a. Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project PROPOSAL
b. Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project
c. Bring in any materials needed for your project to class tomorrow!!!

8th graders... As a reminder, I am giving you until Friday to be able to show all of your 8th grade portfolio work. You will get between 39 minutes to an hour to work on portfolio stuff in class on Thursday.

5/15

HW due Wednesday:

1. Late opening!!! School starts @ 10:45. You will be starting the day tomorrow in Library.

2. Narrative Nonfiction Assignment #4 ... Complete what you didn't finish in your 20 minutes of class work today as homework. Work on this assignment WHILE you read.

8th graders... As a reminder, I am giving you until Friday to be able to show all of your 8th grade portfolio work. You will get between 39 minutes to an hour to work on portfolio stuff in class on Thursday. 

Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project!!!

Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project PROPOSAL

Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project

5/14

HW due Tuesday:

1. Bring narrative nonfiction book to class for silent reading

2. Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project Proposal (green sheet)
a. Spend 16 minutes working on your project proposal, which asks you to choose to ancient cultures to focus on, 1 element of culture to further research, and 1 artifact from each ancient culture that could connect to that element of culture. Your main note-sheets in your blue folder will help you with this! You do not need to finish this, just spend 16 minutes on it as HW

Wednesday = Late Start @10:45

Ancient Cultures - Learning Extension - Resources:

Student View - Updated Term 4 Grades

Ancient Cultures - End of Unit Project - Proposal

Ancient Cultures - Learning Extension - Resources:

Ancient Cultures - Pathfinder

The Ancient World - History Alive
Use the following chapters from History Alive to support your learning

Ch. 1-6: The Rise of Civilizations
Ch. 7-12 - Ancient Egypt
Ch. 13-18 - Ancient India
Ch. 19 - 24 - Ancient China
Ch. 25-31 - Ancient Greece
Ch. 32-37 - Ancient Rome

Australian Aboriginal Resources:

Myths of Australian Aborigines

History and Culture

Legends

Aboriginal Culture

The British Museum - Indigenous Australians

PBS Australia - the First 4 Billion Years

Ancient Sub-Saharan West Africa Resources:

The Age of Pre-colonial Civilization

Timeline of Sub-Saharan Africa

The History of Sub-Saharan Africa

Ancient Sub-Saharan Africa

Native Cultures in Sub Sahara Africa

British Museum - Kingdomof Ife

Mr. Dowling - Ancient Africa

Ancient Egypt Resources:

The British Museum - Ancient Egypt

PBS - Golden Empire

Mr. Dowling - Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Culture and Traditions

Explore the Pyramids

Pharaohs

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Ancient Mayan Culture Resources::

Guide to Mayan Culture

Ancient Mayan Facts

Mayan Culture

Maya History

Maya History and Maps

The British Museum

BBC - The Fall of Mayan Civilization

National Geographic

Ancient Greece + Rome Resources:

Ancient Greece for Kids

Ancient Greek City-States

BBC Primary History - Greece

BBC History - Rome

Ancient Rome for Kids

Roman Life

Mr. Dowling  Rome and Greece

Ancient Gods and Goddesses - Greece

The British Museum - Greece and Rome

More sites about Greece here, here, and here

More sites about Rome here, here and here

Ancient Roman Clothing

5/11

Happy weekend folks!

Your weekend homework is to read your narrative nonfiction book each day for 20 minutes. You don't need to write anything down. You need to have finished your book by June 1st.

If you have not already brought in the $5 for our Japanese Garden field study, please do so on Monday.

5/10

HW due Friday:

1. Japanese Garden Field Study Assignment
a. You have no Essential Question due tomorrow!!! However, you do need to make up an essential question based off your experiences that will you can make me answer
b. Complete your 4 assignment questions based off your experiences

2. EARLY DISMISSAL @ 11:45

5/9

HW due Thursday:

1. Ancient India - Elements of Culture Notetaking Worksheet
a. Using your learning, previous worksheet, and History Alive textbook (Ch. 13-16) find an artifacts related to Ancient India that can connect with each element of culture. In addition, list 2 things that stood out you in your learning, 2 vocabulary words from the unit, and 1 question about Ancient India you still have or what you want to learn more about

2. We are going on a field study to the Japanese Gardens for our field study tomorrow. Bring a lunch, water, and appropriate clothing. The trip costs $5. If you can bring that in tomorrow great, otherwise I will collect next week when I have given you more support/communication around that

EXTRA CREDIT: 3 facts about the Japanese Gardens (https://japanesegarden.org/)

Ancient Cultures - Learning Extension - Resources:

Ancient Cultures - Learning Extension - Resources:

Ancient Cultures - Pathfinder

The Ancient World - History Alive
Use the following chapters from History Alive to support your learning

Ch. 1-6: The Rise of Civilizations
Ch. 7-12 - Ancient Egypt
Ch. 13-18 - Ancient India
Ch. 19 - 24 - Ancient China
Ch. 25-31 - Ancient Greece
Ch. 32-37 - Ancient Rome

Australian Aboriginal Resources:

Myths of Australian Aborigines

History and Culture

Legends

Aboriginal Culture

The British Museum - Indigenous Australians

PBS Australia - the First 4 Billion Years

Ancient Sub-Saharan West Africa Resources:

The Age of Pre-colonial Civilization

Timeline of Sub-Saharan Africa

The History of Sub-Saharan Africa

Ancient Sub-Saharan Africa

Native Cultures in Sub Sahara Africa

British Museum - Kingdomof Ife

Mr. Dowling - Ancient Africa

Ancient Egypt Resources:

The British Museum - Ancient Egypt

PBS - Golden Empire

Mr. Dowling - Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Culture and Traditions

Explore the Pyramids

Pharaohs

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Ancient Mayan Culture Resources::

Guide to Mayan Culture

Ancient Mayan Facts

Mayan Culture

Maya History

Maya History and Maps

The British Museum

BBC - The Fall of Mayan Civilization

National Geographic

Ancient Greece + Rome Resources:

Ancient Greece for Kids

Ancient Greek City-States

BBC Primary History - Greece

BBC History - Rome

Ancient Rome for Kids

Roman Life

Mr. Dowling  Rome and Greece

Ancient Gods and Goddesses - Greece

The British Museum - Greece and Rome

More sites about Greece here, here, and here

More sites about Rome here, here and here

Ancient Roman Clothing

5/8

ADRIAN!!! Happy Birthday!!!

HW due Wednesday: 

1. Narrative Nonfiction Assignment #3
a. We ended up working on this for 20 minutes in class today. Complete the rest of this assignment while you read tonight

Thursday = Field Study to Japanese Gardens
Friday = 1/2 Day Early Dismissal

5/7

I hope you all enjoyed that no homework life (except for daily reading of course) over the weekend!

HW due Tuesday:

1. History Alive
a. Read ch. 14
b. List 4 artifacts from the chapter that you read about and 1 element of culture it could connect to

Elements of Culture:
Social organization/language
Religion/beliefs
Arts/Literature
Forms of government
Economic systems/technology
Stable food supply

Friday = 1/2 day early release @ 11:45

5/3

HW due Friday:

1. Ancient India on Hawthorne - Field Study Assignment
a. Complete the essential question only. Make sure you use R.A.C.E. (re-state, answer, cite evidence, explain) and within it have at least 2 pieces of specific evidence, 1 connection, and 1 observation.

5/2

Due Thursday:

1. Narrative Nonfiction Assignment 2
2. Bring your narrative nonfiction book to school tomorrow. We will be going on a short walking field study tomorrow after lunch starting at 12:15.

5/1

HW due Wednesday:

1a. Student Led Conferences Guide complete
1b. Are you signed up for Student Led Conferences? Sign up with your families here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f44afa82fa0fd0-michaels2... If you need to schedule an alternative time to have your conference reach out to Michael