6th grade students leave for Outdoor School on Sunday at 3pm and return Tuesday at 7pm! While the 6th grade students are gone, the 7th and 8th grade students will be participating in health rotations. Things will resume to 'normal' on Wednesday.

***Reminder: The end of the term is November 9th! All late work must be turned in by Nov. 4th!!!

HOMEWORK:
Due Thursday:
- Jean's Farm Field Study (students should complete on a separate sheet of paper to turn in since they do not have their ECore notebooks)
- Character Development Chart for Choice Novel (novels due today)

Due Friday:
- Evidence of Characterization (large 11x17 sheet) -- started in class gathering quotes from story, complete for Friday

Due Monday, Nov. 7:
-Service Reflection for Community, School, or muliticultural project

HOMEWORK:
Due Tuesday~- Do one thing you have been wanting to do and write down what you did and 3 sentences about it. (we brainstormed ideas for this today in class -- students have some great things they are going to be doing this weekend!)

Due Wednesday
- Finish 'Discovering Character Through Change' worksheet for your short story character if you did not finish it in class
- Find a current event relating to earthquakes or some other geologic event - write a 3 sentence summary, be able to identify the location of the event on a world map, and highlight (or write down) all the terms in the article that are ones we have learned in class (for example: magnitude, epicenter, etc.)

6th grade math:Due Wednesday~- ACE #25-45, extra credit 49-58. If students completed this for Monday, choose once problem and follow the LEAP steps to demonstrate your thinking on solving the problem

The classroom was abuzz with extra energy today! Perhaps everyone is excited for the Harvest Faire tomorrow or knowing that Halloween is just around the corner has everyone a little giddy...or maybe it was just Friday!

The Harvest Faire is from 4-7 tomorrow. Our class is helping to run a little hay rides station. Students have signed up for hour-long volunteer shifts. Participation at this event counts towards school-based service.

We will continue our exploration of earthquakes next week. Students completed their final drafts of their Scar Story narratives...I was super impressed with the students' ability to incorporate feedback into their drafts and make some awesome revisions.

Homework:
Due Monday~
- Short Story Sequence Chart (choose short story you want to write character analysis about and complete the chart for that story)

Due Tuesday~
- Do one thing you have been wanting to do and write down what you did and 3 sentences about it. (we brainstormed ideas for this today in class -- students have some great things they are going to be doing this weekend!)

6th grade math:
Due Monday~
- ACE #24 (25-45 should be attempted but we didn't get to cover that concept in class yet-- we will on Monday)

The Reed Field Study work is due Thursday. Here is the link to the Reed Canyon website. http://www.reed.edu/canyon/index.html

Due Friday-
- Complete page 3 or 7 in Service Notebook (choose one to do)

6th Grade Math:
ACE problems 12-23, extra credit: 65-69

It was a beautiful, sunny, windy day at Reed Canyon. Students created their scientific inquiry in small groups and will be collecting data throughout the year to learn about one of the following topics: soil/erosion, decomposition, water, or plants. A highlight of the day was eating in the Reed cafeteria and playing a game called "Meet a Tree". Students also used the Pojar book to identify and learn about native plants. It was a full day.

The Reed Field Study work is due Thursday. Here is the link to the Reed Canyon website. http://www.reed.edu/canyon/index.html

Tomorrow is a late opening.

Tomorrow we are going to Reed College to begin working on our year-long inquiry project. Students have the option of bringing money to purchase lunch from the cafeteria on campus.

HOMEWORK:
Due Tomorrow-
- Turn in your Scar Story if not turned in Monday!!!
- Present Creation Myth project if not done last Thursday!!!

Due Friday-
- Complete page 3 or 7 in Service Notebook (choose one to do)

Due in two weeks - complete reading "silent reading book" (as we keep referring to it in class) and the character/event response sheet.

6th Grade Math:
Due Wednesday: ACE problems from section 2.2 (page 28) #4-11, extra credit: 59-64

Today each student shared a creation myth from a different world culture. They brought fantastic projects to illustrate the myths. These stories, many of which were confusing and strange on the first read, became easy to understand with the students' simple and clear retelling.

Students began a reading log in their reading notebook today, and are asked to log the daily reading they do at home. They should read the same book each night, and complete the book in two weeks, by Oct. 27th. A character response sheet that describes the main character and the events that change the character is due on Thursday, Oct. 27th.

HOMEWORK:

Due Monday - geology vocabulary
- final draft of the scar story

Due in two weeks - complete reading "silent reading book" (as we keep referring to it in class) and the character/event response sheet.

Due Thursday
- Gorge Field Study Assignment
- Creation Myth Project
- Group Picture forms
- plot volcanoes using latitude/longitude

Friday -- NO SCHOOL

Due Monday
- Vocab list from Missoula floods
- Final draft of Scar Story

6th Grade Math:
Due Monday:
Pg. 28 ACE #1-3, extra credit 46-48

Tomorrow we go to the Columbia Gorge! Looking forward to seeing all that rock!

Due Tuesday:
- complete tectonic plates map and worksheet if didn't finish in class


Due Thursday

- Creation Myth Project
- Group Picture forms
- plot volcanoes using latitude/longitude

Due Monday
- Vocab from Missoula floods

Today the students taught their 1st/2nd grade buddies about volcanoes. They showed the buddies the model volcanoes they built yesterday, explained some of the highlights of what they've been learning about plate tectonics and what makes a volcano erupt. Then together with their buddies, they built a little volcano and made it erupt!

HOMEWORK:

Due Monday

- Scar story 2nd draft

- Mt. St. Helens field study assignment

- Complete plotting the earthquakes on the world map

Due Thursday

- Creation Myth Project

On Tuesday we go to the Columbia Gorge! Looking forward to seeing all that rock!

Homework due Monday 10/3

- Service Interview (p.4)

- Pangaea flip book: colored, cut and stapled

- Geology Vocabulary

- Scar story rough draft highlighted (character description, setting, dialogue, and blocking, each in a different color) and revised in at least 3 places