Weekly Update 3/6/18

Hello, Families! 3/6/18

We hope you had an opportunity to enjoy time with your students during this much needed break!

This week will be a busy one, as it is the conclusion of the second trimester.  
Report cards can be expected in the mail sometime next week. Students will start their
new UA classes today as well as enjoy a a new mix of classmates in their core classes.

We are so very proud of our Annie actors, singers, stage hands, prop masters and artists!  
What a wonderful performance by a talented group of individuals!

Please note that the middle school athletes meeting has been postponed.  
The new meeting time is TBA.

Social Studies:  This week we are starting a new unit called "Westward Expansion".  
The focus will be on how the United States expanded to its current size post American Revolution.  
This will include how a state becomes a state, the ways in which the U.S. acquired land, and many
of the challenges with expansion.  The assignments this week:

1.  Definitions / Sentences (5 vocabulary words) - due Wednesday

2.  Map of US acquisitions - due Wednesday

3.  Questions for 1 assigned acquisition - due Friday

Language Arts: students have two assignments due this week.

1. Sign of the Beaver book summary

2. 300 word story, research or skit with script- to be practiced for a public
speaking grade next week.

3. Past due assignments that must be completed by Friday:  

• Sign of the Beaver Reading assessment (received by students on February 16 and officially   

assigned February 19)

• Sign of the Beaver informational paragraph (received by students on February 16 and

officially assigned February 20)

In Literacy, students will need to read through the end of chapter 4 in A Wrinkle in Time and
complete the visualization close read sheet that accompanies chapters 3 & 4. These are both
due tomorrow, therefore, need to be finished tonight.  
Chapters have been copied so that students may take them home.

Have a great week!

Team Independence