No more blogs until further notice.

Dear Students,

If you have been completing these assignments along with your daily exercise, you are champions!!!

There will not be any more blog assignments until our next break.  Please take the time to go back and check your work, reread your responses, and bring your work to school.

A few suggestions:  

• Exercise is important for everyone, so don't skip!  

• Read daily, and check out books from our amazing public libraries.  It's free and it's fun!  

• You may complete your Scholastic Counts tests at school, because school is open while the other tracks are in session.

• Get plenty of rest, and be prepared for when you return!

Hiking trip, 2013.  Sweetwater Trail, Folsom, CA.

Wednesday 1/14/15

According to the Gregorian Calendar, we have just turned into a new Century.  There have been many types of calendars, and there are currently many that are in use today.  Maybe you celebrate the new year at different time with your family and community.  In our school lives we mostly go by the Gregorian Calendar which starts with January 1.  Please answer the following questions that will help you in your goals.  These are also known as resolutions.  Happy New Year!

My best memory of 2014 was ______________________.

In 2015 I will learn to _____________________________.
In 2015 I will get better at _________________________.
In 2015 I will try to _______________________________.
In 2015 I will make a difference by __________________.
In 2015 I will promise to ___________________________.
In 2015 I will help by ______________________________.

Tuesday 1/13/15

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying your time with your family and friends!  Here is a fun and interesting assignment.

When we are at school we learn character traits.  The ones that we have talked about in school are:  responsibility, respect, justice, and fairness.  These character traits are always important wherever we are.

Please write the word, responsibility, from top to bottom on the left side of your page (see picture below).  Then use each letter to write a word that shows responsibility.  This will make an acrostic poem.  An example for the letter "r" might be "ready."  Someone who does their job on time, is "ready."  Have some fun with this and get some help from your family!

Monday 1/12/15

SWBAT (student will be able to) use homophones in a sentence and understand what a homophone is.

Lesson:  Homophones are two or more words that sound the same, but they have different meanings.  You might think of a phone that you listen to.  That would give you a hint.  When you listen to the words, they sound the same.

Directions: Please write the homophone of the words listed below.  
The first one is done for you.

1)  hear and here
2)  cell and ______
3)  two and ______
4)  see and ______
5)  buy and ______
6)  peace and ______
7)  four and _______
8)  hair and _______
9)  grown and ________
10) hoarse and ________
11) brake and _________

Now, please write sentences using the words you came up with.  You should have 10 sentences, because the first one was given to you.

Sunday 1/11/15

Today you will find a magazine or an advertisement that came in the mail.  Find something that is being sold.  For example, it might be a pizza ad, or a furniture ad.  Ad is short for advertisement.

Use the pictures and the words in the ad, to write a paragraph about who is selling the item, how much will it cost, where the item is being sold, note the web address if the store or company has mentioned it in the ad.  Also, explain how the company uses color, bold writing, exclamation points, language, to try to have you buy the item.  Finally, write a conclusion that explains the purpose of the ad, and if you would be convinced to purchase the item.

Here is an example for an ad for Crayola

Have fun with this assignment!  Three more weeks left before we return C track!  Don't forget to stay active and continue to get your exercise in!