2.3: December 4-8, 2017
Counselors Questions: How are stereotypes harmful? What about positive stereotypes? How are they harmful as well?
Important Dates
December
8: Japan On the Road, 8:45-12:05
16: Winter break begins
January
1: New Years Holiday, No School
15: Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday Celebration, No School
*25: Science Fair, 5:00-7:00
29: Teacher Planning Day, No School
*Science Fair Pacing Schedule →Info Link↵
Part 1: Question, hypothesis, background, due 12.8
Part 2: Materials list and procedures, due 12.15
Part 3: Data and observations, due 1.5
Part 4: Analysis and conclusions, due 1.12
Part 5: Board completed for judging, due 1.19
Science Fair 2017-18 Pacing Schedule PDF
This week in….
MATH
Module 3: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
Topic B: Making Like Units Pictorially
Lesson 5 Objective: Subtract fractions with unlike units using the strategy of creating equivalent fractions. Homework Due Tuesday
Lesson 6 Objective: Subtract fractions from numbers between 1 and 2. Homework Due Wednesday
Lesson 7 Objective: Solve two-step word problems. Homework Due Thursday
Khan Academy Topic B: Making like units pictorially
Khan Academy Topic C: Making like units Numerically
READING
December’s Independent Reading Genre
-Classical Fiction
Class Sets
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Stave 1
• Stave 2
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
The Eighth Night:
1. Permutations and combinations
2. Factorials
3. Circle diagrams.
4. Use of number pyramid for solving problems such as teams of 3, 4, 5 etc
The Ninth Night:
1. Number sequences
• Cardinal
• Odd
• Prime
• Fibonnaci
• Triangular
• Exponents
• Factorial
2. Sum of fractions on a number line ( ½ + ¼ + 1/8 + 1/16 …never equalling 1)
The Tenth Night:
1. Hexagons
2. Fibonacci numbers ÷ them by their neighbours. Recurring decimals
3. 1.618 – the divine proportion
4. Platonic Solids
WRITING
Research: Biography of a Plant
(Choose a plant from our native garden or food forest)
Thesis statement:
1. Plant needs
2. Plant yields
3. Interesting facts or a story about your plant
Geography
USA
• Regions
• States
日本語
Friday’s katakana quiz 2.3 (December 8)
Katakana Tested↓
アイウエオ と カキクケコ (review: week one)
サシスセソ と タチツテト (review: week two)
ナニヌネノ と ハヒフヘホ (new: week three)
Real Kana Practice
katakana_writing_practice_sheets pdf
Blank Paper for Writing Japanese pdf
| カタカナ | romaji | カタカナ | romaji |
| se | ヌ | ||
| ソ | ホ | ||
| シ | na | ||
| チ | hi | ||
| tsu | ヘ | ||
| te | no | ||
| ト | ハ | ||
| su | ni | ||
| サ | ネ | ||
| ta | hu |
