9/29

Hope you all have a restful weekend. Many of you missed school today. I hope you are feeling better and that the following is helpful in explaining what you missed and what you need to do this weekend.

The HW assignment due Monday is related to our choice fiction novels. You can access the assignment here: Choice Fiction Novel Assignment #2. You should work on this while you are reading y

HW due Monday:

1. Choice Fiction Novel Assignment #2

2. If you were absent, check out the Camp Collins Creative Reflection that we worked on today in class. It is not required work this weekend, but it will help ease your transition back to school if you spend 15-20 minutes working on this creative reflection this weekend: Camp Collins Creative Reflection 2017

Check out the service opportunity at Mt. Tabor tomorrow at our service blog: servicesunnyside.blogspot.com

Post Camp Collins HW

Thanks for an amazing 3 days and 2 nights together as a community at Camp Collins!!! Enjoy family and being in your own bed tonight!!!

HW due Friday:

1. Rest
2. Relax
3. Share a positive surprise, proud moment, and highlight from Camp Collins with someone from your family

ALSO, bring your choice fiction novel to school tomorrow.

Camp Collins

HW due Tuesday:

1. Get ready for our Camp Collins overnight trip!!!
Here is the packing list: Camp Collins Fall Overnight Packing List
Bring a daypack tomorrow that has a lunch (you can get a lunch from the cafeteria if you need), water bottle, and appropriate layers.
Please make sure you have your name on all your gear, especially your main bags!


When you get to school tomorrow, drop your stuff in the auditorium in our core area then come up to core class. We will get settled together and be on the bus and out the door at 9:15.

We will be back Thursday around 2:00 and will dismiss at normal school dismissal times at 3:15

9/22

Happy weekend folks.

Here is the homework that is due Monday:
1. Mt. Tabor Field Study Assignment: Mt. Tabor Field Study Itinerary + Assignment Doc
-essential question (be sure to use specific examples and evidence from the field study in your response)
-geologic vocabulary card (pick a word from your list of vocabulary words you had on your back at Mt. Tabor. On a 1/2 sheet of paper, write out the word, define it in your own words, and add an image)
-Thanks to Emmett, Manu, and Tony and my basketball loss you do not have to do assignment questions 3, 4, and 5. Completing #4 is worth extra credit

If you lost your sticky vocabulary words, pick from the following:
Columbia River Gorge, Cinder Cone Volcano, Layers of the Earth, Fault, and Continental Drift

2. Read 20-45 minutes daily

If you were absent, here is the make-up field study assignment:
Fall 2017 Make Up Field Study Assignment

We are going to Camp Collins from Tuesday - Thursday. Plan to be at school Tuesday around 8:30 (we won't leave until 9:15) and know that we will be back Thursday before 3:15.

Here is a packing list: Camp Collins 2017 Fall Overnight Packing List

9/21

HW due Friday:

Thanks to Manu, Tony, and Emmett L beating me in basketball today during our field study our homework tonight is cancelled. CANCELLED. The only thing you have to do tonight is read. You should read your choice fiction novel for 20-45 minutes tonight.

Share one highlight from Mt. Tabor and one geological observation or wonder you had today with someone in your family.

Bring your Camp Collins form tomorrow if you have it

9/20

HW due Thursday:

Come prepared with appropriate clothes and shoes for a Mt. Tabor field study. Bring a lunch, water bottle and positive attitude.

Read the Geology of Mt. Tabor Brochure (Mt. Tabor Geology Brochure)
a. underline at least 4 vocabulary words that you think are related to geology
b. put a ??? next to anything in this handout you don't understand
c. Write 3 important details you learned from this brochure

Bring in your Camp Collins forms if you haven't already done so

9/19

REMINDER: Tomorrow is a late start!!! School starts at 10:45.

HW due Wednesday:

1. Choice Fiction Novel Assignment #1 Choice Fiction Novel Assignment #1 - Google Doc
...Read your "Just Right Choice Fiction Novel" that you have not read before and that you think you can finish in a month for 20 minutes. While reading, work on completing your first reading assignment. This is an assessment of your thinking while you read, not your writing. If you want to type your answers or verbally record yourself responding to the questions, you can so long as you get your responses to me before 10:40 AM (because it is a late start) tomorrow. Your work should end up in your Reading Journal.

6th/7th graders, question #7 is optional (but you will eventually have to do it later).

Please make sure you have turned in your Camp Collins forms

Thursday = Field Study to Mt. Tabor