Rules, by Cynthia Lord. No Toys in the Fish Tank!

Answer these questions in CSAs.  Give me YOUR ideas, thoughts and feelings.  Use word talk to proof read your answers before posting. COPS is important...

1. Give two reasons that Catherine enjoys going to occupational therapy with her mother. 
2. Name one person with whom you enjoy spending quality time. Describe your fondest memory. Why is this time alone so special to you? 
3. Who is Jason? Describe him. 
4. In what ways does drawing help Catherine? What activities do you like to do in your spare time? 
5. Catherine’s says, “Mom doesn’t understand how not everyone is on David’s side.” What might it mean to be “on David’s side”? Why wouldn’t people be “on his side”? 
6. On page 43, Catherine wonders how it would feel, “…to have to wait for someone to make a word before I could use it. And to have all my words lying out in the open, complete strangers able to walk by and see everything that mattered to me, without even knowing my name.” Imagine you were Jason. How would you feel? 
7. What fears does Catherine have when she is around Jason? Do you think her fears are reasonable? How might you help her to get over her fears if you were her friend? 

Grade 6 Only: Classification - The Animal Kingdom, Vertibrates and Invertibrates

Take these quizzes and improve your knowledge of the Animal Kingdom...

Read the instructions first.

Vertibrates

Invertibrates

The Animal Kingdom

1)Post details on an answer you got incorrect.  
2)What was the question, what did you answer and what is the correct answer? 
You may have to use your Science text book or Google to help you discover WHY...

For Grade 5's ONLY: SImple Machines-Levers

1) Please go to this website and spend at least ten minutes there reading and understanding the information about the three different classes of levers.  Pay attention to the where the load is in relation to the fulcrum and the effort force: that will help you understand the three classes of lever. 

2) Then take this quiz.  You must click the blue START button on the top of the page to take the quiz. 

3) When you have finished the quiz please comment on one question you got wrong.  Then comment on one thing  you learned.  You must not have the same comment as a previous poster...

Motion Geometry: Translations, Reflections and Rotations...

1)Check your math motion geometry skills by doing three multiple choice practice quizzes for this chapter. 

2)Post details of one question from one of the quizzes that you got wrong.  

3)Tell why you got it wrong and whether you understand how to solve that problem now.

Grade 5's 
Lesson #1: Performing Translations
Lesson#3:  Performing Reflections on a Grid
Lesson#4:  Performing Rotations

Grade 6's
Lesson#1: Translating Shapes
Lesson#2: Reflecting Shapes
Lesson#3: Rotating Shapes

When You Reach Me...Some Questions

1) On pages 95–96, Annemarie admits to having epilepsy and needing a special diet. Why do you think she ignored her special diet while she was with Miranda and Colin?

2) . On page 106, the laughing man turns and runs when he sees Marcus. Then Marcus says this has happened before. Why do you think the laughing man runs from Marcus?

Do all your answers in complete sentence answers  in Microsoft Word and check it with WORD TALK.  Use all your COPS skills and include as many dressups as you need to make your answers as interesting to read and as descriptive as possible. 

Things That Bounce- Balls, Friendships...

1. Does Miranda bounce back at all from her hurt about Sal?
2. The girls at school are quite expert at being unkind to each other. Is this usual for twelve-year-olds?
3. What causes this nastiness?
4. If you had to describe Julia as person (not just what you think she looks like) what words and phrases would you use? 

Remember be appropriate with your feelings and words; don't use real names of people in your examples. 

Do all your answers in complete sentence answers  in Microsoft Word and check it with WORD TALK.  Use all your COPS skills and include as many dressups as you need to make your answers as interesting to read and as descriptive as possible. 

When You Reach Me: Things that...

Miranda carries around a battered book that she has probably read a hundred times.

• Do you have books that you like to read over and over?
• What is the best book you have ever read?
• Why has the author included Markus in the plot?  Why do you think he punched Sal?
• We have learned a lot about Miranda’s mother. Would she make a good mother? What little details tell us so much about her?

Do all questions in Microsoft Word and check it with WORD TALK. Use all your COPS skills and include as many dressups as you need to make your answers as interesting to read and as descriptive as possible.

Double Bar Graphs

We have been learning about double bar graphs in class.  



What are the 5 items every double bar graph should have?
What is the letter of the vertical axis?  
What is the letter of the horizontal axis?
Why do we use double bar graphs?

Compose your answers in MS Word.  Use Word Talk to proof read your work.  Make sure you answer in complete sentences, using the COPS rules.

When you have posted (remembering to only use your first name), please complete the following quiz on double bar graphs.