All Grades:
Attention Parents: The Georgetown SEPAC is hosting a Parent Coffee hour with State Representative Barbara L'Italien, this Friday, January 9 at 12:00, at the Georgetown Library. Rep. L'Italien is a strong advocate for special education and any parent wishing to learn more about special education in our state or voice their concerns or opinions are encouraged to join us. For more information, parents are encouraged to visit our website at www.georgetownspedpac.org
Bye Bye Birdie rehearsals this week will be Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for all cast and crew, from 2:30-4:30 in the auditorium. Please make sure all your lines are memorized! Also, if you have left the play for any reason, you must return your music and script binder to Mrs. Viera or Mrs. Laflamme by the end of THIS WEEK.
From Mr. Kaminsky: Middle school jazz band will not meet this week. The first middle school jazz band rehearsal will be next Wednesday, January 14 @ 2:30 PM.
Grade 8:
Mrs. Bailey: All students must have a book report book in class by tomorrow, Wednesday. This month it is a free choice book and should be brought back and forth to school as the students will be given some class time to read. All exercises for lesson 13 in vocabulary are due to be corrected on Thursday. We are currently working on our “Achieving the American Dream” course of study. It is a smooth follow up to the Overcoming Adversity topic that we just finished. If any families have an immigration story to tell, please feel free to contact Michelle Bailey and maybe we can arrange a visit to share your story with the students.
Mrs. Mongeau: Read and highlight worksheet on Feudalism/answer questions
***Quiz on Chapter 13 sections 1 & 2 on Friday*** Study guide will be given tomorrow
Mrs. Rydbeck: A Block- Practice 5-10 Pythagorean Theorem: do it all. E block- review equivalent fractions, decimals, and percent. Quiz tomorrow. F and G Blocks- Study for the quiz on 5.1-5.4
Mrs. Reed: pg. 266 2 – 32 evens
Mrs. Sheridan: Text page 15: #2 a,b; #3 a,b,c, #4
Grade 7:
Mrs. Schauerman: SCIENCE - Complete the cell worksheet that you began in class; MATH - E-block -- Reteach 5-5 worksheet # 4 - 21; B-block -- No homework.
Ms. DiFruscio: Great job on your quizzes today! What a nice way to start the New Year!
Tomorrow we will be in the computer lab and media center working on our project. If you want to get a head start you can do some research tonight online. Try these websites:
Judaism 101: http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm
Nutrition and Wellbeing: Religion and Dietary Practices: http://www.faqs.org/nutrition/Pre-Sma/Religion-and-Dietary-Practices.html
Akhlah: The Jewish Children's Learning Network: http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/jewishholidays.php
United Religions Initiative: http://www.uri.org/kids/world_juda.htm
Mrs. Morrison: A and B – Weekly Voc. assignments; E and F – Be prepared to work on your project in class tomorrow.
MRS. HUSAK: A- PAGE 198 # 2-22 EVEN- QUIZ THURS ON SECTIONS 5.2-5.3; B & E- PAGE 244 # 2-42 EVEN- CUMULATIVE TEST CH 1-4 THURSDAY (CUMULATIVE TESTS DO NOT HAVE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN ADVANCED SEE CLASS EXPECTATIONS HANDOUT); F- PAGE 211-212 # 2-22 EVEN – QUIZ FRIDAY ON SECTIONS 5.1-5.8
Mrs. Weldon: Vocabulary from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry- Section I (Chapters 1-3); Due Thursday: Vocabulary Lesson 13—Note Cards and Exercises
Mrs. Hickey: I returned a number of assignments to students in all classes. Students are to check to see which assignments they did not receive back graded or checked. If they failed to turn the assignment in, it will be accepted tomorrow. If the assignment was not done, they have tonight as an opportunity to do the assignment for full credit. The assignments were listed on the board, and students were supposed to copy the list into their notebook and check these assignments against those that were returned today.These assignments represent work done between December 11th and December 16th. The only assignment that has not been corrected is the animal cell model that we worked on in class on December 17, 18, 19, and 22nd. These should be graded by the end of the week.
Grade 6:
Mrs. Carminito: A Block: practice 5-8 worksheet #17-25; D Block & E Block: complete 6-3 worksheet, quiz Thursday; F & G Block: complete 6-5 worksheet.
Mrs. Harrington: Due Wednesday—try your best to complete the questions in the volcano/earthquake packet. Have your parents sign-off on any questions you are unable to answer. Begin to think about the layout for your table of contents. (I recommend using part of your questions as headings for the table—for example, Location of volcano……………page 1, Date or Dates of eruptions……..page 2, Type of volcano………….page 3). Also, begin to locate some pictures that you would like to include in your booklet.
Mrs. Lamoly: 1. Vocab Lesson 20 pp. 130-131Rdg. Comp.; True or False; and Finish the Thought; 2. Summarize Myth, Legend, Folklore or story about earthquake/volcano for Science project.
Mrs. White: Read 20 minutes and record in log; C Block- Write 5 sentences using “ity” or “ize” words. Each sentence must have 12 words in it.
