Can't Come

I can't come. You see i am fasting where i can't eat or drink till aroung 8:00 today. It will be kind of hot so i will get thirsty. i will see some people later at pinoak. if there could be another time i could come. i have peoples emails so there could be another time at karl young. sorry.

Place Value: Hundred Thousand Million Billion

Place Value: Hundred Thousand Million Billion

Last Time Together

 Mrs. Zamarripa-Hicks Class of 2010

Send off to Middle School

Mark your calendars

Friday, August 20th

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Karl Young Park

Everyone bring a little something :)

hello

Hello class.
I dont have much to say, but what a have to say, i will say it quickly.
Hi

henry

Time

hey everyone!
it turns out i will be able to go, but i dont really know what time the class get together is...
does anyone know?
we are meeting at karl young park right?

Heyy!!!

hi guyz
how are yall

me my self is not doin so well while everyone is on vacation im at home alone most of the day and bored too death but im hopeing that will soon change

well hows vacation for yall
i bet yall went to awsome places
well guyz summer is almost over i hope yall remember everything yall learned jk jk jk i know yall will
lalala im bored
well i dont wanna bored yall so ill be going now plzz i comment i wanna know how yall are doin well goodbye

:(

what is wrong? no one is posting!!!!!!!!! WHY?!! please post!
OLIVIA

Welcome Back Alina/Hello Middle School Shin-Dig

Hello our celebration will be held the Weekend of August 20th...perhaps on Friday the 20th at Karl Young Park...check back for more details...it will definitely be afternoonish around 3:30.

Vacation

anyone going on vacation or already gone on vacation? i am going to conneticet on july 8th.
OLIVIA

Hi, This is Henry. Long time, no see on this blog. Hi!
Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Don't have any news - just Hi!

Music

have you guys been listening to your mixpods. i have, and i have also listen to others on the exhibition blog.
OLIVIA

???????

where are you people?! i have not seen any new post or comments and i check the blog twice a day! it is very disappointing when i come on the blog to see nothing has changed. i want to know about your summer and i bet other people do to. you people are like family please post or comment. DON'T FORGET THE BLOG.
OLIVIA

Happy :)

Hey peoplez how are you guys doing? i was just wondering if you guys have gotten stuff this summer. well i have, i don't mean to brag but i got a mini laptop! i am so happy. its red. i was also wondering if you guys have done any thig exiting besides the fifa world cup. and speaking of that my dad missed a few days of work just to watch it! but my mom finally told him he should go to work so yesturday we went to target to get my dad a mini tv to watch the games while he is working. can you belive it! okay i got to go but type to you guys later
OLIVIA

FIFA World Cup

really, your wacthing the world cup? me, my brother and my siste hav wacthed every game. i lost my voice a little bit because i screamed to the top of my lungs when usa scored the luckiedt goal ever against England. we kinda felt bad for the goalie. me and my other brother had a bet that usa would. if they did i got 5 bucks. if they lost my brothr got 5 bucks. but they tied so o well. we are going for.......

Argentina
USA
Spain
Portugal
Ivory Coast
Netherlands

and we are just wacthing th rest of the games becausse they are on.

Stuff

I just realized something. Its that when Ms.Hicks brought a huge computer, we could have just all those songs to a flashdrive then brought the flash drive here. When you go on files and you click music, you go on the music file and click on the flashdrive thing and it would be saved. Also, things are going good in Pakistan. I am watchin the FIFA cup. I still have jet lag and many people might not know what this is. Its when you go to the other side of the world, it is night there when it is day in America. That means that I stay awake the whole night and sleep during the day. Its gotten better. I still would rather stay in Houston than come to Pakistan. If anything happens in America, can you email me at ssidiq101@gmail.com.
:) Sameer

Hello!

Hi guys,

I just wanted to post that I finally...moved out of the music room, and actually took all the books to the women's shelter.  They were soooooooo appreciative of all the childrens' books.  I even insisited I take pictures as proof that I did deliver them, all 190 books...

Here is Orion posing with the man and all the books.

Notice, Olivia, Odin  is guarding my summer purse, which I have received so many compliments on as I run my errands.

You guys have a great summer! You know you all could start a book club with one book (off the list) and all discuss it via the blog....give you all something to do :)

I miss you all too!
Mrs. Zamarripa-Hicks

:-(

Are you guys dead not many post or anything. Please don't forget this blog! I and maybe other people want to know about summer! DON'T FORGET THE BLOG!!!
OLIVIA

HI GUYS!!!!

 hi guys how summer im am so bored theses few weeks i think i like it better in school!!!
i miss y'all so much

Summer Reading List Suggestions

HAISLN RECOMMENDED READING LIST 2010 Grade 6 

 Any available unabridged edition of a title is acceptable. 

Allen, Thomas B. Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War. National Geographic, 2006. Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and other slaves and free African-Americans who risked death to gather information about the Confederacy for the Union during the Civil War. 

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever, 1793. Simon & Schuster, 2000. In 1793, Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, who is separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. 

Avi. The Seer of Shadows. Harper Collins, 2008. In this intriguing historical ghost story, which is set in New York City in 1872, Horace Carpetine becomes an apprentice to a local society photographer and learns more about deception, ghosts, and photography than he could ever have imagined. 

Barry, Dave. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. Hyperion, 2007. Fearing that the sinister Lord Ombra was not destroyed, Peter and Molly travel to the land of Rundoon, which is ruled by the evil King Zarboff. Series 

Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks, A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy. Knopf, 2005. Four lovable sisters and their father spend their summer vacation in the Berkshire Mountains. While there, they share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. 

Burg, Shana. A Thousand Never Evers. Delacorte, 2008. Addie Ann Pickett, an African-American girl in 1963 Kuckachoo, Mississippi, journals about her family, the racial injustices they face, and her fears for her older brother Elias when he goes missing due to her own carelessness. 

Casanova, Mary. The Klipfish Code. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Sent with her younger brother to an island to live with her aunt and grandfather after the Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit finds a way to help the Resistance. 

Compestine, Ying Chang. Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: A Novel. Holt, 2007. During the Cultural Revolution in China, Ling struggles to make sense of severe losses of freedom and injustices that both she and her well-educated family must endure. 

Connor, Leslie. Waiting for Normal. Katherine Tegen, 2008. Addie would like a normal life. Not only does she live in a trailer in Schenectady, New York with her mother, who is not at all responsible or parental, but also she is separated from her kind and loving stepfather and younger half-sisters. Schneider Family Book Award. HAISLN RECOMMENDED 

READING LIST 2010 Grade 6 

Curlee, Lynn. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Atheneum, 2002. This book explores the mystery and wonder associated with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and other incredible structures from ancient times. 

Dakin, Glenn. The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance. Egmont, 2009. Thirteen-year-old Theo, who has lived in seclusion his entire life, discovers he is the descendant of the Candle Man, a Victorian vigilante with the ability to melt criminals with a single touch. First of The Candle Man Series. 

Dee, Barbara. Solving Zoe. McElderry, 2009. Zoe worries that she lacks the talents of her siblings, her best friend Dara, and the other kids at her elite private school, but then she becomes friendly with a strange new student named Lucas who introduces her to his obsession with codes and ciphers. (Answer key for the ciphers are at the back of the book). 

Dowd, Siobhan. The London Eye Mystery. David Fickling Books, 2008. When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim. 

Dubosarsky, Ursula. The Word Snoop. Dial, 2009. Brimming with humor, puzzles, and more, this book offers an entertaining look at the English language, from the origins of the alphabet to today's sometimes cryptic text. 

Durrant, Lynda. My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier. Clarion, 2006. Jennie Hodgers, a poor Irish immigrant girl, disguises herself as a boy to survive in the New York City of the 1850s. She escapes from New York to go to Ohio, enlists as a Union soldier in the Civil War, and lives to draw her soldier’s pension. 

Engle, Margarita. Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba. Holt, 2009. Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away. 

Fleming, Candace. The Great and Only Barnum : The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum. Schwartz & Wade, 2009. Filled with reproductions of old photographs, circus posters, and museum flyers, this fascinating biography of the life of showman Phineas Taylor Barnum will both engage and entertain readers. 

Flanagan, John. The Siege of Macindaw. Philomel, 2008. Will, who has become a protector of his first fief after many years as a Ranger's apprentice, is faced with many challenges when Keren, a renegade knight, takes over Castle Macindaw and forges a secret alliance with the ruthless Scotti. Rangers Apprentice Series HAISLN RECOMMENDED 

READING LIST 2010 Grade 6 

Fleischman, Sid. Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini. Greenwillow, 2006. Born Ehrich Weiss into a poor and struggling family, Harry Houdini sought out fame and went on to perform some of the world’s most astonishing magic tricks. Houdini’s story is a classic rags to riches story with plenty of personality to spare. 

French, S. Terrell. Operation Redwood. Amulet, 2009. In northern California, Julian Carter-Li and his friends old and new fight to save a grove of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut them down. 

George, Jessica Day. Dragon Slippers. Bloomsbury, 2007. Creel, a poor but brave and clever orphan, befriends a dragon and selects a pair of remarkable slippers that lead her into the center of a struggle between longtime rivals. 

Hahn, Mary Downing. Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story. Clarion, 2007. When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years. 

Hesse, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge. Feiwel and Friends, 2008. Joe, fourteen, is the first member of his Russian-Jewish family born in the United States. He wonders if he will ever get to go to Coney Island, but in 1903 his life changes when his parents turn their apartment into a teddy-bear factory. The story alternates, and eventually becomes linked, between Joe’s life and the lives of vagrant children who live under the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Hiaasen, Carl. Scat. Knopf, 2009. Nick and Marta are determined to find what happened to the biology teacher after she disappears on a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp resulting in a fast paced ecological mystery involving the Florida Panther and a cast of unique characters. 

Horvath, Polly. My One Hundred Adventures. Schwartz & Wade Books, 2008. Twelve-year-old Jane lives in an old beach house with her mother and three younger siblings. She has a busy summer meeting her mother’s old boyfriends, helping a neighbor deliver Bibles, and being talked into baby-sitting a neighbor’s rambunctious children. 

Jackson, Ellen. The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes. Houghton Mifflin, 2008. A fascinating and mysterious look at the universe with beautiful photographs, this book discusses various space phenomena. 

Jackson, Donna M. Phenomena: Secrets of the Senses. Little, Brown, 2008. This overview of sensory perception explores the myths, facts, and controversial topics related to such issues as psychic powers and animal intuition. 

HAISLN RECOMMENDED READING LIST 2010 Grade 6  

Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-Kira. Atheneum, 2004. This is the story of a close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s and the despair they feel when one sister becomes terminally ill. Newbery Medal 2005 

Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Holt, 2009. Calpurnia struggles with growing up as she spends more of her free time with her grandfather, an avid naturalist, examining the beauty of nature, while at the same time her mother wants to teach her the responsibilities of a young woman during the turn of the century in Central Texas. Newbery Honor, 2010 

Klages, Ellen. The Green Glass Sea. Viking, 2006. In 1943 when her grandmother is incapacitated by a stroke, Dewey must move to “The Hill,” now known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, because her father is a brilliant mathematician working there on a secret army project. 

Lester, Julius. Day of Tears. Hyperion, 2005. This powerful and engaging historical novel is told in dialogue and through monologues by various fictional characters as they look back at the largest slave auction in United States history. Coretta Scott King Award 

McCaughrean, Geraldine (retold by). Odysseus. Cricket, 2003. Odysseus begins his long journey home after years of fighting during the Trojan War, but he and his men encounter monsters and ghastly creatures, are imprisoned, and face raging seas that threaten their safe return. 

McClafferty, Carla Killough. Something out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. This biography of Marie Curie covers her childhood in Poland, her studies in France, her happy marriage, and her discovery of radium which led to two Nobel Prizes. 

Mebus, Scott. Gods of Manhattan. Dutton, 2008. Rory, thirteen, discovers a spirit world which exists in contemporary New York City. It is peopled with “gods and goddesses,” famous and infamous people from the past who have chosen Rory for a special mission. 

Miller, Sarah. Miss Spitfire. Atheneum, 2007. This is Annie Sullivan’s story of challenge and determination as she tries to become a teacher of the child Helen Keller, who is blind, deaf, and overindulged by her desperate parents. 

Napoli, Donna Jo. Bound. Atheneum, 2004. In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child’s feet so that she alone might marry well. 

Neff, Henry H. The Hound of Rowan. Random House, 2007. After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him. Series 

RECOMMENDED READING LIST 2010 Grade 6

Nye, Naomi Shihab, ed. Is This Forever or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas. Greenwillow, 2004. Full-color artwork accompanies a collection of poems by 140 Texans. 

Papademetriou, Lisa. Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me. Hyperion, 2005. Allie Kimball discovers that middle school is a very different place than fifth grade and struggles to learn ways to fit in. 

Olson, Tod. How to Get Rich in the California Gold Rush: An Adventurer’s Guide to the Fabulous Riches Discovered in 1848. National Geographic, 2008. Presents a fictional account of the adventures and experiences of young Thomas Hartley as he and his two companions set off in 1850 for the California gold fields. 

Prineas, Sarah. The Magic Thief. HarperCollins, 2008. Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply. Series 

Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday. Hyperion, 2007. Aliens called “The Boov” abduct Gratuity “Tip” Tucci’s mother, leading Tip to begin a wild adventure to rescue her mother with the help of her cat named Pig and a friendly Boov named J.Lo. 

Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Becoming Naomi Leon. Scholastic, 2004. When Naomi’s absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father. 

Shearer, Alex. Canned. Scholastic, 2006. Fergal Bamfield has a unique hobby: collecting tin cans without labels. He meets Charlotte, a fellow can collector, and they find some gruesome things inside the cans, like an ear and a human finger! Together, Fergal and Charlotte set out to learn the origins of these mysterious cans. Despite the macabre subject matter, Canned is a funny, quirky read. 

Smith, Roland. Tentacles. Scholastic, 2009. After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on what soon becomes an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid. 

Stanley, Diane. The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy. HarperCollins, 2008. Zoe and her twin brother J.D. and big sister Franny are all accepted to Allbright Academy, an elite boarding school training the country’s future leaders, and while everything appears perfect, Franny uncovers a mystery involving the students’ perfection. HAISLN 

RECOMMENDED READING LIST 2010 Grade 6 

Stone, Tanya Lee. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Candlewick, 2009. A chronicle of the thirteen women who tried to become NASA's first women astronaut trainees in the early 1960s. All were pilots; all earned high scores in preliminary tests; one had more hours in the air than John Glenn or Scott Carpenter. They were not accepted, but the story is riveting. 

Thor, Annika. A Faraway Island. Delacorte, 2009. Living with two separate host families on a small island off the coast of Sweden in order to escape the Nazis, two German Jewish sisters, Nellie and Stephanie, face daily life without their parents. Each sister adapts differently to their challenges, not knowing if they will see their parents as planned or when the war will end. 

Velmans, Hester. Isabel of the Whales. Delacorte, 2005. On a whale watch trip with her class off the coast of Cape Cod, Isabel, who has always had an affinity for whales, falls overboard and discovers, as she finds herself swimming underwater with whales all around her, that she is one of the Chosen who can change shape from human to whale and back again. 

Warren, Andrea. Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004. Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned half-Vietnamese, half-American boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon, through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift, and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio. 

Wilson, Nathan D. The 100 Cupboards. Random House, 2007. Twelve-year-old Henry York and his cousin Henrietta discover one hundred hidden portals to other worlds in the bedroom wall of his aunt and uncle’s house. 

Winthrop, Elizabeth. Counting on Grace. Wendy Lamb, 2006. After twelve-year-old Grace is forced to leave school to work in a textile mill, she and her friend Arthur work with their teacher to have the laws changed. 

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Compiled by: 

Dorcas Hand (Chair), Annunciation Orthodox School; 

Aria Tatelman, Duchesne Academy; 

Jamie Williams, St. Francis Episcopal Day School; 

Jenny Filardo, Presbyterian School; 

Melanie Wallace, St. Francis Episcopal Day School; 

Susan Gerding, John Cooper School. 

Copyright ©2010 Houston Area Independent Schools Library Network 

2010 Texas Lone Star Reading List: 

The Texas Lone Star list is a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians from the Young Adult Round Table. The purpose of the list is to encourage students in grades 6, 7, or 8 to explore a variety of current books. The Lone Star list is intended for recreational reading, not to support a specific curriculum 

• Alexander, Jill S. The Sweetheart of Prosper County. Feiwel and Friends, 2009. 
• Beil, Michael D., The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 
• Burg, Ann E. All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse. Scholastic Press, 2009. 
• Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. 
• Chima, Cinda Williams. The Demon King. Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009. 
• Clayton, Emma. The Roar. Chicken House, 2009. 
• Dashner, James. The Maze Runner. Delacorte Press, 2009. 
• Headley, Justina Chen. North of Beautiful. Little, Brown, 2009. 
• Kantor, Melissa. Girlfriend Material. Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009. 
• Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Henry Holt, 2009. 
• Korman, Gordon. Pop. Balzer + Bray, 2009. 
• MacLean, Sarah. The Season. Orchard Books, 2009. 
• Morton-Shaw, Christine. The Hunt for the Seventh. Katherine Tegen Books, 2008. 
• Potter, Ellen. Slob. Philomel Books, 2009. 
• Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. Wendy Lamb Books, 2009. 
• Taylor, Greg. Killer Pizza: A Novel. Feiwel and Friends, 2009. 
• Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Carolrhoda Books, 2009. 
• Williams, Suzanne Morgan. Bull Rider. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009. 
• Zielin, Lara. Donut Days. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. 
• Zink, Michelle. Prophecy of the Sisters. Little, Brown, 2009. 

Texas Bluebonnet Award (Grades 3-6)

2010-2011 Master List

1. Applegate, Katherine. 2007. Home of the Brave. New York: Feiwel and Friends.

2. Brown, Don. 2008. All Stations! Distress!. New York: Roaring Brook Press.

3. Rutkoski, Marie. 2008. The Cabinet of Wonders. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

4. Claflin, Willy. 2008. The Uglified Ducky. Illustrated by James Stimson. Atlanta: August

House.

5. Crowe, Ellie. 2007. Surfer of the Century. Illustrated by Richard Waldrep. New York:

Lee & Low Books, Inc.

6. Deedy, Carmen Agra. 2009. 14 Cows for America. In collaboration with Wilson Kimeli

Naiyomah. Illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers.

7. Graff, Lisa. 2009. Umbrella Summer. New York: Laura Geringer Books.

8. Rollins, James. 2009. Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow. New York:

HarperCollins.

9. Harrison, David L. 2008. Pirates. Illustrated by Dan Burr. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong.

10. Henson, Heather. 2008. That Book Woman. Illustrated by David Small. New York:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

11. McDonald, Megan. 2008. The Hinky Pink. . Illustrated by Brian Floca. New York:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

12. Jenkins, Steve. 2009. Down Down Down. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for

Children.

13. Klise, Kate. 2009. Dying to Meet You. Illustrated by M. Sarah Klise. Boston: Harcourt.

14. Mass, Wendy. 2009. 11 Birthdays. New York: Scholastic Press.

15. Moser, Lisa. 2007. Squirrel’s World. Illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev. Cambridge:

Candlewick Press.

16. Park, Linda Sue. 2007. Tap Dancing on the Roof. Illustrated by Istvan Banyai. New

York: Clarion Books.

17. Pennypacker, Sara. 2009. Sparrow Girl. Illustrated by Yoko Tanaka. New York:

Disney-Hyperion Books.

18. Paulsen, Gary. 2009. Mudshark. New York: Wendy Lamb Books.

19. Salisbury, Graham. 2009. Calvin Coconut Trouble Magnet. Random House.

20. Yaccarino, Dan. 2009. The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau. New York:

Alfred A. Knopf.

Whats up?

what up peoplez I've just been kind of board so I've been on the blog. not alot of posts. but i just want to know whats up? I've been on the computer alot and listening to music. have you guys found any thing interesting, any books you have read, any really cool music, are any of you got any injures during this summer? bye.
OLIVIA

Hows summer?

hey guys i just wanted to tell you we got 3rd place in my soccer tournament! and i also want to know how your summer is going. i am a little board but i'm also haveing fun. today(june 1) is my first swim meet hopefully i get first even though i am not the best at swimming.
Have an great summer.
OLIVIA

ShutterFly

The Shutter fly things has really good pictures. Now Alina should know what Regal Ranch looks like. I took many pictures. Unfortunately, many of the pictures got deleted for no apparent reason. I still have some pictures.

ShutterFly

Hooray! This is the 200th post. I did the 100th and the 200th post. No, I didn't count. It says that on my dashboard.
The shutter fly thingy worked for me. Maybe Alina made a spelling error.

UH OH

When I tried to log into the shutterfly account, it did not work for me.. What happened? Has anyone else had problems? Maybe it was just me typing the letters incorrectly. Mrs. Hicks, could you please check it again? If it doesn't work, I'm perfectly fine.

Shutterfly Website for Pictures

I have created a shutterfly account so that you all might add pictures you might have taken that you would like to share with others and so that you can print pictures that I took this year. Give me this weekend to upload all the pics...please..

You can access it at shutterfly.com

The user name is an email I created for the account: 

User name is: zhicks5th@gmail.com

Password is: musicroom

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER- MRS. ZAMARRIPA-HICKS :)

Graduation Program- May 26, 2010

Mark Twain Elementary Graduation Ceremony Program

Mrs. Zamarripa-Hicks Fifth Grade

May 26, 2010

Subhya Abdul-latif- Citizenship Award, Perfect Attendance

Mikayla Blalock- Citizenship Award

Bayley Carmichael- Citizenship Award, Honors Award, Perfect Attendance

Tanny Carmona- Citizenship Award

Sam Cramer- Citizenship Award

Alina Cherepanova- Citizenship Award, Principal’s Club

Felicia Dang- Citizenship Award

August Dickens- Citizenship Award

Kevin Domingo- Citizenship Award, Music Award, Honors Club, Inventor’s Showcase 3^rd Place

Hector Duque- Citizenship Award, Principal’s Club

Phillip Goldman- Citizenship Award

Celia June- Citizenship Award

Angela Liu- Citizenship Award, Music Award, Principal’s Club, Perfect Attendance

Olivia Lopez-Parsons- Citizenship Award

Amrith Lotlikar- Citizenship Award, Music Award, Principal’s Club

Henry Martin- Citizenship Award

Eric Orduna- Citizenship Award

Drayton Prator- Citizenship Award, Perfect Attendance

Sameer Sidiq- Citizenship Award, Principal’s Club

Chris Tellison- Citizenship Award

Maya Waterland- Citizenship Award, Music Award, Principal’s Club, Perfect Attendance

Alex Young- Citizenship Award

Highest Academic Achievement

Alina Cherepanova

Amrith Lotlikar

Angela Liu

Most Improved

Chris Tellison

August Dickens

Certificate of Excellence- Valor in the Face of Adversity

Henry Martin

Twainberrry Nominees

Angela Liu

Twainberry Medal

Alina Cherepanova

Spelling Bee Participation

Maya Waterland

Alina Cherepanova

During the summer and on to middle school, we should keep doing the blog to see how everyone is doing and stuuf. just so we have a way we can talk. this way we can communicate since i wont be able to see yall again. i will miss the laughter the class had. and the football. but its all good. HAVE A GOOD SUMMER. AND A GOOD EXPERIENCE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!

I WILL MISS YOU

HEY GUYS I DIDN'T SAY BY TO ALL OF YOU TODAY AND STUFF AND SO BYE. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS AT PIN OAK WELL SOME OF YOU AND OF COURSE I AM GOING TO VISIT PERSHING SO I WILL SEE SOME OF YOU THERE. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER. YOU GUYS ARE LIKE FAMILY.BYE:( OLIVIA

Party

Since tomorrow is the 5th grade party, I have two questions. The first one is that, do we have to bring our lunch, will lunch be provided? My second question is that Since we are supposed to bring something, what should I bring? The sheet said desert or drinks. I might bring cookies, cupcakes or popsicles. What should I bring?

School

I am just volunteering because I have nothing to do over the summer. I could make a fifth grade survival guide for the upcoming fifth graders. I'll get bored.

Regal Ranch

I am confused. What is the EXACT list of stuff that we have to bring to Regal Ranch.

Regal Ranch Questions

ok. i have some questions about regal ranch.

1. do we bring a sack lunch?
2. do we wear our swimsuit under our clothes or bring them to vhange into? or does it not matter?
3. it is free dress, right?
4. do we bring our backpack to school?

thanks

Bayley :)

HW 5.24.2010

no homework!!!

 bring towel, change of cloths(if swimming) and apply sunscreen on for tomorrow regal ranch!!!
(buss leaves at 9 o'clock)

Hw 5-21-10

•  Bring over due books if you have them
• wear middle school t-shirt you will be attending
• bring regal ranch forms if havent done so
• bring regal ranch swimming forms if swimming

HW 5.21.2010

No homework.
Remember to bring regal ranch feild trip permission slips on monday (if you haven't already done so)!
Monday is middle school t-shirt day....wear a t-shirt from the middle school you will be attending!

5-20-10 homework

math: none
social; studies: finish chapter 15 lesson 1,2,3,4 reviews! remember this is due tomorrow
reading: none
language arts: none
science: none


 Extra: reminder Monday is the due date on regal ranch forms1 and remember to have your middle school t-shirt to wear Monday!

Math Project

The time on my watch is 5:11. I am done with the project. What is Ms. Hicks email adress so i can email it to her. Again, it is 5:11 and I am done.

Angela'a Blog

Mrs. Hicks, I just got my 3rd math project done (yeah) , here is the link:
http://funwithgeometryangela.blogspot.com/
ENJOY!!!

HW: 5.18.2010

Math: Math projects are due on Thursday. Make sure you put your best effort in it!
Reading: None.
Social Studies: Social Studies Chapter 15 Lessons 1, 2, 3, and 4 are due on Friday. There is no review.
Science: None.
Language Arts/Exhibition: No Language Arts, but there is stuff that we need to do for exhibition. Blog books are due tomorrow morning at 8:20. If you haven't done parts of your blog, (i.e. collage, posts....) then you might want to. I think Ms. Hicks said that she might take a completion grade. You might want to practice the dance....our presentation is tomorrow.

Do not forget to bring a white or black t-shirt and jeans tomorrow in a bag for our dance.tomorrow in a bag for our dance. If you have Converse, then you might want to have those too.For those who have more than one pair, it might be nice to bring another pair for others who do not have Converse.

Exhibition Book

I have a question about the exhibition book. Does the dedication page go before or after the table of contents? I am also wondering because Ms.Hicks said something about this at school. Do we illustrate a picture on each page related to the post? THANX :-)

HW M 05 17

Math: Final Math Project due this Wednesday, May 19th.

Social Studies: Chapter 15, Lessons 1-4 due by Friday

Language Arts: Finish your Exhibition Journal.  It needs to have the following

• Cover Page- this should be pics/images from your digital collage
• Dedication and why you dedicated to person..
• Table of Contents (date, page number, title of entry)
• At least 13 posts...refer to the handout I gave today

It also needs to be visually appealing, revised spelling and grammar :)

Turned in no later than Wednesday morning, May 19th. 

Homework Check

Um... guys? Isn't the 3rd math project due Wednesday? I'm just making sure...

5-14-10 homework

math: finish 3rd math project due monday
Social Studies: finish chapter 14 lesson 1,2,and 3 and the chapter review all due monday
science: none
language arts: none
reading: none

 Extrs: thanks you for all the people who came to the exhibition dance and the class dance was awsome so have and great weekend everyone!!!!!! :)

Today is field day, we learned the class exhibition dance!

Math Project

Now I am done with my project. Here is the URL:
http://www.sameerprobabilityandstatistics.blogspot.com

Math Project

I am not done but the URL for my math project is:
www.sameerprobabilityandstatistics.blogspot.com

HW for 5/11/10

math: Work on math project due may 14

social studies: W ork on chapter 14 lesson 1,2,3

Go to ms. Gilboa's exhibition thing! posted by Olivia and Angela

Homework

Math: Finish up the first math project. Due Monday.
Social Studies: Finish up all of Chapter 13. Due Monday.
Extra: Family breakfast tomorrow!

Exhibition Dance

i have a question. are we still doing that thing where we can bring invite one 5th grader from another school to the dance? because we really have not talked about it much. in the news letter it never said if we can bring our siblings. cause my sis wants to go. BAYLEY :)

My blog

The URL for my math project blog is http://alinaprobabilityandstatistics.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-is-probability-statistics.html

Exhibition

Dear Mrs. Hicks ,

If its possible can you please send the class pictures and the individuals to my email adresss which is adrianna987654@gmail.com.

      Thank You :)

Math Objectives 1-6

Math Objectives for Fifth Grade

Objective 1 : Numbers, Operation, and Quanatative Reasoning

• 5.1A and 5.1B - use place value to read, write, compare, and order whole numbers through the 999,999,999,999/use place value to read, write, compare, and order decimals through the thousandths place.

• 5.2A - generate a fraction equivalent to a given fraction such as 1/2 and 3/6 or 4/12 and 1/3

• 5.2B - generate a mixed number equivalent to a given improper fraction or generate an improper fraction equivalent to a given mixed number

• 5.2C - compare two fractional quantities in problem-solving situations using a variety of methods, including common denominators

• 5.2D - use models to relate decimals to fractions that name tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.

• 5.3A - use addition and subtraction to solve problems involving whole numbers and decimals

• 5.3B - use multiplication to solve problems involving whole numbers (no more than three digits times two digits without technology)

• 5.3C - use division to solve problems involving whole numbers (no more than two-digit divisors and three-digit dividends without technology), including interpreting the remainder within a given context

• 5.3D - identify common factors of a set of whole numbers/this site also includes multiples as well.

• 5.3E - model situations using addition and/or subtraction involving fractions with like denominators using concrete objects, pictures, words, and numbers.

• 5.4 - use strategies, including rounding and compatible numbers to estimate solutions to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.

Objective 2 : Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic Thinking

• 5.5A - describe the relationship between sets of data in graphic organizers such as lists, tables, charts, and diagrams

• 5.5B - identify prime and composite numbers using concrete objects, pictorial models, and patterns in factor pairs.

• 5.6 - select from and use diagrams and equations such as y equals 5 + 3 to represent meaningful problem situations.

Objective 3: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning

• 5.7 - identify essential attributes including parallel, perpendicular, and congruent parts of two- and three-dimensional geometric figures.

• 5.8A and 5.8B - sketch the results of translations, rotations, and reflections on a Quadrant I coordinate grid/identify the transformation that generates one figure from the other when given two congruent figures on a Quadrant I coordinate grid

• 5.9 - locate and name points on a coordinate grid using ordered pairs of whole numbers.

Objective 4: Measurement

• 5.10A - perform simple conversions within the same measurement system (SI (metric) or customary)

• 5.10B and 5.10C - connect models for perimeter, area, and volume with their respective formulas/select and use appropriate units and formulas to measure length, perimeter, area, and volume.

• 5.11B - solve problems involving elapsed time.

Objective 5: Probability and Statistics

• 5.12A, 5.12B and 5.12C - use fractions to describe the results of an experiment/use experimental results to make predictions/list all possible outcomes of a probability experiment such as tossing a coin.

• 5.13A and 5.13C - use tables of related number pairs to make line graphs/graph a given set of data using an appropriate graphical representation such as a picture or line graph.

• 5.13B - describe characteristics of data presented in tables and graphs including median, mode, and range

Objective 6: Problem Solving

• 5.14A-D and 5.15A-B and 5.16A-B - applies Grade 5 mathematics to solve problems connected to everyday experiences and activities in and outside of school/communicates about Grade 5 mathematics using informal language/uses logical reasoning.

Grading Rubric for Math Project

Grading Scale 4-1 (4 being the highest :)

Comprehension
4:: The student demonstrates an excellent understanding of topic supported with explanations/details.
3: The student demonstrates an understanding of topic with explanations and details.
2: The student demonstrates a fair understanding of topic with explanations/details.
1: The student seems to need help in understanding topic.

Concepts
4: The student explains several concepts related to topic; resources have been utilized to aid the student in covering topic in depth.
3: The student explains some concepts related to topic; a resource was utilized to aid the student in covering the topic. The student explains few concepts related to the topic.
2: The student would have benefitted from the use of a resource. The concepts related to the topic are very minimal.
1: Not much time and effort was given in creating the book.

Attractiveness

4: Makes excellent use of color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the Math Project.
3: Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to Math Project
2: Makes little use of color, graphics, and effects for the Math Project
1: No use of color graphics, or effects was attempted for Math Project

Organization
4: Content is well organized
3: Organization of topics appears O.K.
2: Content is logically organized for the most part
1: There was no clear or logical organizational structure

Mechanics
4: No misspellings or grammatical errors.
3: Few misspellings and/or mechanical errors.
2: Some misspellings and/or grammatical errors.
1: Many errors in spelling or grammar.

Math Projects for Objectives 1-6

Your task is to independently complete three math projects on objectives 1-6. Each project must cover one objective from the following: I recommnend you venture to objectives that perhaps are not your strongest…

- Objective 1: Number, Operation, and Quantative Reasoning

- Objective 2: Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic Thinking

- Objective 3: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning

- Objective 4: Measurement

- Objective 5: Probability and Statistics

- Objective 6: Problem Solving

You must choose 3 different type products…not all books, etc. You are to choose to do whatever product you would like, but please make sure that it follows the requirements below. Examples of products are below:

- Book

- Game (digital or hard copy)- make sure to include instructions on how to play..

- Model

- Play (make sure it has written component)

- Test (make sure they are your own questions, not ones that are not unique to you….)

- Flashcards

- Wow Me with your own creation

YOU WILL BE GIVEN CLASS TIME TO COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS. THEY ARE DUE NO LATER THAN MAY 20, 2010

hi this is august my computer would not  let me save my playlist so i was wondring if i could do it at school

Homework for 4.30.10

Social Studies: Finish Lesson 1(which should already be finished), Lesson 2, Lesson 3, and Review. This is all due on Tuesday. Also, the Chapter 11 test is on Monday (or a possibility that on Tuesday). You better study! :)

My group, Music

Right now my group is working on adding music and deciding what songs will go on the CD that will be played at the fith grade dance. The people in my group is Chris, Bayley, Celia, Mikayla, and me. Our responsibilities to the dance is to have good music that reprasents us (who we are). So far we are getting songs at a fair pase because we are working togethar. This dance will rule.

HELP ME MIXPOD

HI I really need help with the my mixpod. I want to take off a song but how? I need help OLIVIA:(

Bowling Rides

Are anyone's parent's volunteering to ride kids over to the bowling alley? I would like to go, and I only need a ride there. My mom said that she would pick me up afterwards at the bowling alley. Otherwise....um...Ms. Hicks? Are you offering rides?

HW 4.28.2010

No homework. Science TAKS is tomorrow. If you wish, then you may do Chapter 12, Lesson 1 on Social Studies. It is not obligatory.
Your shell story must be turned into Ms. Hicks by tomorrow morning.

Shell Story Clarifications

Ms. Hicks, did you say that it was alright to type our final drafts for the shell stories?

4-27-10 Homework

Math: none
Social Studies: Chapter 12 ,Lesson 1 question review 1-5
Science: Science flashcards for 15 mins ( remember Science Vocabee is tomorrow)
Reading: none
Language Arts: Brainstorm,Rough Draft, and Final draft of weathering and erosions due tomorrow. Be sure to have a good lead.

HW Clarifications

Language Arts- Yes...it has to be a shell's story.  You are the shell or you heard about the shell.  It is a story of weathering and erosion. Tomorrow we will talk about leads using examples from the spring break essay. The essay is due on Wednesday as I cannot give you all hw on Wednesday night.

Social Studies- Just fix lessons 1-3 as they will be graded tomorrow.  Your chapter review is due tomorrow.  We will work on Lessons 1 from Chapter 12 for HW on Tuesday night. 

S.S. HW

Wait, do we have social studies Lesson 1 Chapter 12 for homework. Some of us did it in class, so I'm just wondering, you know, just to make sure.
                                                                      Thanks :)

Story

Is the shell story supposed to be creative and is it supposed to be make belief? i heard ms.hicks say something about that.

HW 4.26.2010

Math: None.
Science: TEK by TEK packet pages 51-64 (20 questions). It may be for a grade. Show your work!!
Language Arts: Erosion/weathering shell story due Wednesday. Make sure you have a good lead.
Reading: None.
Social Studies: We are checking lesson 3 and the review tomorrow. Make sure they are done.

what our class name should be

We should be the zengers because we are independant people who share our thoughts with the world (a k a, school). Henry Martin

Science Flashcards

Do we have any flashcards for homework?

Science Packet Homework

I was packing on Friday, and I couldn't find my science packet. I had it before the last 2science rotations, but it wasn't there when we came back. The YMCA line was leaving, and they needed me to go. Ms. Hicks, did you find that packet on the internet? Can I just copy the questions and do it on a seperate piece of paper?

I didn't find it on the internet. They said that you had to buy it. I will come in early tomorrow and look for it. Maybe I will be able to finish it all.

vote for

I vote for Hollywoods

My vote

i don't know if this is how i am supposed to do it but i vote for hasslehoffs. am i supposed to do it in a comment?

Field Day

Today, we had a discussion about our field day name:

• Zamarripa-Hicks's Hollywoods (cool b/c we are all stars or like the spotlight)
• Zamarripa-Hicks's Zengers (because we speak out...risk-takers)
• Zamarripa-Hicks's Zorro-Hee-Hees (Zorro is kind of a super-hero (can wear black capes, masks) and Hee-Hees b/c we love to laugh
• Zamarripa-Hicks's Hasslehoffs (a movie Star that was on Bay-Watch..not a great actor who got a role in the Spongebob Movie- kind of comical....but does he represent us? or is it just funny...to some...)
• Zamarripa-Hicks's Hippies (been this before)
• Zamarripa-Hicks's Awesome Z's
• Z-Horses

Remember we need a logo....Which one is feasible for a logo or an easy design?

• Hollywoods could have a star?
• Zengers a mouth???
• Zorro-Hee- Hees a Z b/c he drew Z's everywhere
• Hasselhoffs????
  Hippies...a peace sign
• Awesome Z's.... ?
• Z-Horses ( a horse)

You all decide...but do not choose a name b/c people are trying to convice you..
Sign your post...with your name and reason....not just b/c someone told me too....

Have a great weekend and thank you for being so well-behaved.  Only 4 more school days for TAKS...you all have been working so hard and I greatly appreciate it.

Mrs. Zamarripa-Hicks

The only homework is sciece. Do science flashcards for 15 minutes.TEK by TEK packet pages 39-42 are due. Social Studies Review is due Monday.

Oh No!!

it has happend again. someones name is has been changed to caitlan marsh. I think it might be kevin. and tanny's has been changed to gravity guy. that one is easy cause it has a picture.

Look post below this one

I fixed it.

My name switched to Mustafa

Its me Amrith. On the followers thing my name is not there. It is Mustafa's. What happened?

Hw today @ the 21 of 2010

Science: Pages 23-31
flash cards 15mins.
Social studies: Lesson 1,2,and 3 due tomorrow
ch11 review due on monday
social studys: test on monday

HW 4.20.2010

Math: Make sure that the 2 pages in your EMJ (that were for homework yesterday) are finished. We didn't get to check it today. They are pages 172 and 179.
Reading: None.
Language Arts/Exhibition: Make sure that you have your posts on the blog. They are the three where we were supposed to write what we thought about the personal essays and exhibition. The contents of the posts are on the exibition blog. Also, make sure that you have your collage/slideshow posted on your blog. Ms. hicks may be taking a grade.
Science: Do science flashcards for 15 minutes. The TEK by TEK packet pages 16-22 are due tomaorrow also. Show your work! Ms. Hicks may be taking a strategy grade.
Social Studies: Chapter 11, Lesson 2-Read and do questions 1-5.

HW

Wasn't it only 6-9 for the TEk packet?

HW 4.19.2010

Math: We will be checking page 172 in the EMJ tomorrow. Make sure it is finished. Also, page 179 in the EMJ is due tomorrow.
Reading: None.
Social Studies: Read Lesson 1, Chapter 11 in the Social Studies textbook. Answer questions
1-5.
Science: Do science flashcards for 15 minutes. Do the TEK by TEK packet pages 6,7,8,9, and 10.
Language Arts: None.

HW 4.12.2010

Math: EMJ pages 162 and 172.
Science: Do science flashcards. If you didn't do them at all over the weekend, then you are to do 30 minutes. If you already did 30 minutes over the weekend, then there is no science flashcards that you need to do.
Reading: None.
Language Arts/Exhibition: No language arts. If you haven't finished your collage, or haven't posted it on your blog, then please do.
Social Studies: None.

Camp: Pack your bags for camp. Make sure that you have a letter explaining why it is important to be quiet in the line. THAT IS YOUR TICKET TO BOARD THE BUS.

Collage

I have an account on photo bucket but when I try to upload my pics it won't work. So is it ok that i can just bring my pics 2 school on a piece of paper in a collage form?

HW 4.9.2010

Math: None.
Reading: None.
Science: None.
Language Arts/Exhibition: Make a collage to represent your personal essay. If it isn't inyour personal essay, then don't put it in your collage. Your collage is de Monday. It should be digital, but if you can't make on e that is on the computer, then just bring a bunch of pictures, drawings, or poems to school on Monday. You can include poems, pictures, or drawings in your collage. If you don't want to get really technological, then you can just make your collage on a poster board, and take a picture or it. That way, you can just upload the picture to the computer, instead of arranging and saving photos.
Social Studies: None.

Science Flashcards

Is it ok that i do my flashcards and then write it on a strip of paper and put it in my journal?? Because i forgot mine.

Election

Am I able to go last for the presidential speech? I feel better at the end.

Info on Class Elections

Here are all the notes that Ms. Hicks took on the board. They might help the people that are running for president or vice.

• Ms. Hicks will assign cops when she is out of the room or absent.
• The cop's job will be to write students' names down on the board if they are misbehaving, talking, etc.
• The table leaders will be the judges.
• Court is every Wednesday.
• The table leaders, president, and vice president will all be chosen by the popular vote of the class.

The requirements for speeches are in the homework post (below).

HW 4.8.2010

Math: None.
Reading: None.
Language Arts/Exhibition: If you still haven't posted, finished posting, or haven't created a blog yet, then you should make sure it is posted.
Science: Do fifteen minutes of science flashcards. Make sure you log it in in the back of your science journal.
Social Studies: None.

Class Elections: If you are running for class president, or class vice-president, then campaign posters and a speeches are due tomorrow. Your speech should include:

• Any extra-curricular activities you do after and/or out of school.
• Any community service that you do.
• Any leadership skills you have or have had.

Here is a list of all the people who put their name on the board:

Running for President:

• Sameer
• Angela
• Amrith

Running for Vice-President:

• Alina
• Olivia
• Drayton
• Felicia

Can I come in early?

Sorry Ms. Hicks if I am always saying this...but,
I wasn't able to be on the computer long enough to read through all the blogs and comment and take notes on them. I think I have about 3 more to read through. Is it ok if I come into the classroom tomorrow morning and finish up? Otherwise, I could go to the library. Do you think the library (at school) would be open (in the early morning) so I could use the computers there??

HW 4/7/10

Finish commenting and taking notes on other people's blog
science flashcards 15 minutes

HW 4/6/10

Science flashcards: 15 minutes (optional)
2 reading passages(optional)
Brown folder

Homework 4/5/10

Math: none
Reading:none
Science: flashcards for 15 minutes (optional)
Also do exhbition posts if yopu haven't done so

TAkS is tomorrow and wednesday!

HW 4.1.2010 (April Fools Day!)

Math: None.
Reading: None.
Science: Study science flashcards for thirty minutes. It doesn't matter if you do two sessions of fifteen minutes each, just make sure everything totals up to thirty.
Social Studies: None.
Language Arts/Exhibition: No Language Arts. If you are not done (or haven't started) with your exhibition Who We Are passage, then finish it and type it on your blog. The final draft typed on your blog is due Monday. If Ms. Hicks commented on yours, and you want to change it a little, you may.

HW Problems

Mrs. Hicks: I didn't get the math sheets that were handed out. Can I come in early this morning and work on it? Also....I was the one who took my group's comstitution home. We were close to finishing, but when I took it home, I forgot to bring along the notes that we took (to guide us on what it would be about). Can I come early and work on that too? I think I might see if I can get to school by 7 or 7:15. About what time will you be at school tommorow?

3.31.10 HW

MATH-The 2 pages of Obj.2 pages.
Science-NONE
language Arts-NONE
Reading-funny business and a Modern Wonder ( Next 2 passages)
Social Studies-NONE

EXHIBITION- essay about yourself due tomorrow in handwritten form. Write it on your blog by Monday. Everything should be in your IB folder.

W: HW 03 31

Math: Check your objective 1 questions, and complete the 2 objective 2 worksheets
Reading: Check your passage, "Ganges River," and complete" No Funny Business" and "A Modern Wonder".  You will have until 8:20 tomorrow morning to  finish these passages.  Make sure you verify your answers by returning to the text and writing Q1, etc.  Make sure you highlight the main idea/inference in each paragraph or write side notes (snippets).  Most questions can be verified, some cannot but make sure you show some work at each paragraph.  You had this morning to complete, " No Funny Business"
Social Studies: You had 1 hour to complete the constitution in classn today, and  you should have completed your part in class.  If you did not, make sure you complete it for homework. You all have had 4 hours class time to work on this project.
Language Arts/Exhibition: Complete your personal essay.  You should have finished your brainstorm in class and had time to work on it in class.  Thank you to those who took their recess today to work on it to ensure it would be done.  Your rough draft essay is due tomorrow in your IB Folder.  The written essay should be posted on your Exhibition Blog by Monday. 
Science: Study your flaschards for at least 15 minutes and give it a percentage correct.  Do not forget to get your log signed tonight. 

Extra: Conduct cuts get signed :( and your report card. 

HW 03.30.10

Math: The two objective one math worksheets and the rest of the packet from yesterday are due.
Reading: Do the next two passages in your reading packet.
Language Arts: None.
Social Studies: None.
Science: Study science flashcards for fifteen minutes. Have your mom/dad sign the page in your science journal.
Exhibition: Exhibition paragraph is due on Thursday. It has to be handwritten. Include what we discussed in class.

Exhibition

For the story/essay for who we are, are we supposed to have a rough draft in sentences in our journal?

HW 3.29.2010

Math:Do the rest of the packet. (The next 18 questions)
Reading:Do the next section of the reading packet. There are two stories, but they are linked together. Do the 12 questions following that.
Language Arts:None. Word explorer will be passed out tomorrow.
Social Studies: None.
Science: None.
Exhibition: Write notes on Spiritual Health and Human Relationships. Write a story/essay about yourself using the notes you took about the different parts of Who We Are. The story/essay is due on Wednesday.

HW F 03 26

Math: Finish next 12 questions in packet.  I can be wrong here...so check with a friend...( I cannot remember if I said 6 or 12).
Science: Finish flashcards if you have not done so./ Study vocabulary words.
Language Arts: Your spring break essay (make sure you have gone through five stages of writing).  I definitely need your brainstorm, rough draft, revise, edit, in  your language arts folder.  Your final copy must have a handwritten form before you begin to type it :).  This will be a classwork grade for final copy and classwork grade for all the other four stages.  I am also interested in the process than just the final product.

Reading: None

Social Studies: None

HW

Also remember to make sure you posted your thoughts and feelings about exhibition on your blog.

HW: 3.25.2010

Math: Next 12 questions on problem solving. (2 sets of objectives 1-6)
Reading: Do the next passage in packet.
Social Studies: None
Science: FLASHCARDS DUE TOMORROW!!!!
Language Arts: Work on your spring break artifact story. It is due monday.

Reading Passage HW

Do we read the next 2 passages or just 1?

HW: 03-24-10

Math:
Do the math packet, the 2 pgs. Obj. 1-6

Science:
Do the science vocab flashcards

Language Arts:
Do your artifact essay.

Reading:
Read the next passae from the reading packet.

SS:
Work on Exhibition Blog

HW 2/23/10

Tanny and Maya didn't enter hw so here it is-
Math-
Finish the packet if you have not done so as it still will be a homework cut.
Science-
Work at least 30 minutes on the flashcards as they are due on Friday at 8:20
Reading-
Read and the 12 questions for A San Creation Myth.
Socail Studies-
Bring the artifact if you have not done so.
Language Arts-
None
Extra-
Get the homework deduction sheet if you have not done so.

Hw: 03-22-10

Math:
If you didn't finish Friday's math packet, finish it b/c it might be graded.  One page of the TAKS packet  (Objectives 1-6 ) questions.
Bring your fraction book that was due on Friday before Spring Break if you have not done so.

Science: 
Work 30 mins on the science flashcards; they are due on Friday @ 8:20.

Reading:
Finish the City of Ember 10 question quiz if you haven't done so
Read WARM WINTER WIND and do the questions 7-12

Language Arts:
One small artifact that you symbolizes what you did over spring break

Extra:
Don't forget to get your homework deduction page signed.

City of Ember

Ms.Hicks, is it ok that i come in early on on Monday and do my 10 questions for City of Ember? Because i forgot my LA journal and i need it for my ?'s. Is it possible that I do that?

Science Flashcards

Ms. Hicks.....You know that part of the vocabulary packet where it just gives things that we have know...but they are not exactly vocabulary?? Do we still make flashcards for them???

Friday Absent

  I just remembered that on Friday we recorded speeches and I was absent because I had a stomach ache. When do I record?
-Amrith

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Drop off 6:15, movie starts at 6:45, pick up is 8:45 as movie lasts 2 hrs.

Movie Time

Does anyone know how long the movie is on Friday? Because my dad needs to know when to pick me up.

Science Flashcards

Side 1 of your notecard:
Step 1: Write out the definition (this can be copied straight from your handout)
Step 2:  Draw or find a picture (document website below) picture
Step 3: Use the word in a sentence below the picture. 

Side 2 of your notecard:
Step 1: Re-read the definition to make sure you understand and come up with examples or non-examples
Step 2: Read about the word on website or your science book.  I have attached the link for your science book that gives summaries of the topics if you do not have your science book.
Step 3: Come up with a question (your own) for the word.
Step 4: Give it four possible choices A, B, C, D
Step 5: Make sure there is an answer or you know it...

This is due on March 26th. 

I will give you a grade of 4, 3, 2, 1 based on 

Science: Neatness, Accuracy of picture, Accuracy of question= Total Possible Points 12

Language Arts Grade: CUPPS = Total Possible Points 4

Side 1: 

Recycle: to use again

I was able to recycle my water bottles so that the plastic could be used again and not thrown in a landfill.

 

Side 2:

Which of the following can be recycled?

a. hamburger

b. kleenex

c. aluminum cans

d. television

Spring Break Movie

Diary of  a Wimpy Kid: Friday, March 19th @ 6:45 Edwards.  Be there by 6:15, but please send me an email so that I know to expect you :)

Spring Break HW Clarification

Math: Both Math Packets (from Wed. and Fri.) You should have finished these in class. 
Science: Vocabulary Flashcards: definition, picture, sentence, question (with answer choices)
Reading: 10 questions for City of Ember with choices

You will have time in the morning Monday-Friday from 7:50-8:20 to work on the Science Flashcards.  They will be due at 8:20 on Friday morning...but this does not mean you procrastinate :).  For those that do finish by Monday, you get 5 bonus pts, Tuesday, 4 bonus pts, Wednesday, 3 bonus pts, Thursday, 2 bonus pts, Friday: no bonus pts. We will have a mock Vocabee on Friday, the 26th...girls vs. boys. Winners eat in the classroom. 

Spring Break HW

Hello all,

All you need to do is 10 questions....for the City of Ember.

Thanks and Have a Great Spring Break..
Mrs. Zamarripa-Hicks

Homework

Isn't there 10 questions on the sheet of paper? I just want to make sure.

HW: 3.12.2010

Math: Finish Math Packet.
Language Arts:
Science: Science vocabee words due Friday, March 26.
Social Studies:
Reading: City of Ember. Fnish the book. Write 20 questions that you created on the sheet of paper.