Winter Break Life

Happy winter break folks. I hope your time away from school is filled with family, friends, relaxation, smiles, and reading.

Your homework over winter break is to continue reading daily for at least 20 minutes.

If you are having a hard time finding a good fit book during break, check out some of these options on either of these two links:

Books Middle Schoolers in Michael's Class Should Read!!!

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/the-30-best-young-adult-novels-of-2018.html

If you send me an email (mjansa@pps.net) over break telling me what you read and what you thought about it, you can get some extra credit. Otherwise, that will you be your first homework assignment once we are all back at school. 

Michael's Winter Break Survey

Michael's Winter Break Survey

12/12

HW due Thursday:

***No more than $4.99 TOTAL
***Get creative. It doesnt have to cost money!!!
***Share something on Friday or Thursday + Friday

Secret Snowflake (Things We Enjoy)
Michael → Artistic creativity + chocolately peanut-butter stuff
Neamia → basketball + hot cheetos + sprite
Lalo → drawing + dr. pepper
Livy → basketball +chocolately peanut-butter things
Max → funny things + any sort of beverage
Owen → comics (marvel better than dc) and penguins + doritos (cheeesy) and don’t give Owen dust. He is allergic to it. He is actually also a no soda person.
Joseph → basketball + arizona green tea
Rowan → soccer + arizona sweeet tea (like the white bottle one)
Kai → jerky + and whatever else you want to give me… go ahead with hand-made stuff
Maya → painting + hot cheetos and any type of drink
Hannah → artistic things + any type of sweet tea + chips (allergic to peanuts)
Jo Jo → art and music (write me a song or draw me a picture) + peanut-butter chocolatey things + soda
Tallulah → art and music (a playlist would be cool) + lemonade
Violet → writing and art and something actually personalized, though I will be happy with whatever I get and 3 Musketeers
Winter → music (playlists) + any candy
Poppy → art. I like art. I don’t actually really eat that much candy so anything
Olivia → ART. Any candy. Peanut-butter cups!
Nico → art + baseball + any candy
Henry N → basketball and any type of Arizona tea
Annabel → music and anything with sugar that does NOT have peanut-buter
Alisha → painting + softball + any type of candy
Cooper → board games + card games + lime tortilla chips + sour cream and cheddar chips
Hazel → stories and writing and reading and chocolate
Henry E → soccer and the most sour candy thing you can find (steer clear of all things hazelnuts… I’m super allergic)
Chaim → music and video games (playlist would be cool) + barbeque chips and any sort of soda
Sasha → small mini-things and painting and m & m’s (carmel?)
Eva → little art stuff and those candy canes that are different flavors (especially bigger ones)
Marley → battlepass + any soda or candy + singing songs while default dancing
Levi → comic books + arizona peach ice tea + takis
Ezra → reading and cooking (desserts especially) and anything with chocolate
Elliott → pillows + any sort of soda (maybe dr. pepper) and big bags of dyanmitas
Jade → soccer + hot cheetos + caramel

Lane → foxtrot comics + mint chocolate m and m’s

12/11

My apologies for the delayed blog post today. We have meetings every Tuesday until 5:15.

HW due Wednesday:

1. Read for 20 minutes!
a. Write down 1 connection you made and 1 question you had while reading

Assuming we have a healthier and more respectful morning in PE tomorrow, we will enter into the world of Secret Snowflake tomorrow afternoon.

12/10

HW due Tuesday:

***We will figure out details for Secret Snowflake tomorrow in class***

Reading
1. Bring in silent reading material for class tomorrow

2. Over winter break the expectation is that you continue reading daily (something you should also be doing right now!). What book are you going to read over winter break??? Come to class tomorrow with a list of 3 books that are interesting to you that you could read over winter break.

Here are some places you can access some list of engaging books:
Books Middle Schoolers in Michael's Class Should Read!!!
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/the-30-best-young-adult-novels-of-2018.html

12/6

Tomorrow is the Riparian Festival from 5:30 - 7:30!!!

If you want to get some service hours, it would be lovely to have you commit to helping out with any of the following:

3:30 - 4:15 - ROOM SET-UP!!!
5:30 - 6:15 - Room Tour Guide Round 1
6:15 - 7:00 - Room Tour Guide Round 2

You can also sign up to help out in other community spaces here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0844aeaa29a3fc1-2018

HW due Friday: How Does Our Earth Work Interactive Project
a. Interactive Project
b. Connections Web
c. Project Write-Up

Use the rubric linked above for guidance!

12/5

KEEP WORKING ON YOUR How Does Our Earth Work - Individual Interactive Project. 

Tonight spend 21 minutes continuing your work on your project. 

This is going to be due Friday. You should try to have much of the interactive part of the project done by Thursday. We will spend time in class tomorrow working on our projects and everyone will get enough teaching and time to do the write-up and connections web in class Thursday. 

12/4

Awesome job with your work on your Writing For Justice personal narratives and preparing our class for the Riparian Festival today.

Within all the work, I forgot to talk about tonight's homework... You can probably guess what it will be.

KEEP WORKING ON YOUR How Does Our Earth Work - Individual Interactive Project. 

Tonight spend 20 minutes continuing your work on your project. 

This is going to be due Friday. You should try to have much of the interactive part of the project done by Thursday. We will spend time in class Thursday working on our projects and everyone will get enough teaching and time to do the write-up and connections web in class Thursday. 

12/3

HW due Tuesday:

1. How Does Our Earth Work - Individual Interactive Project - work on this tonight for 26 minutes.

a. Complete Step 2: Planning + Research Organizer... You can fill this page of your green sheet out, write it down elsewhere, including a GoogleDoc. The important thing is that you know your response to these questions:
-What is my geology concept?
-What is my research question?
-How can I share my learning in an interactive way?
-What materials do I need?

If you have completed that, then move and get started with  making your interactive project! Again, we will do the write-up and connections web at school. Focus on the creating at home during your 26 minutes tonight if you get beyond step 2.