Homework
Week of November 9, 2009
Welcome to Noble House!! 
LA/SS:
• Please read for 30 minutes and record the title and pages in your planbook.
• Please be sure you bring the book you are currently reading and your planbook home and back to school EVERY DAY. After you complete your evening reading, be sure to put them into your backpack so you remember to bring them to school the next morning.
• Optional: Please memorize the poem by e. e. cummings from “Impressions VI” by Fri. 11/13.
• Our Tenement Museum and Lower East Side Walking Tour is Tues. November 10. Yay! You will need to bring $25 dollars (small bills are preferred) for lunch, snacks from all over the world and souvenirs.
Schedule of Lower East Side Trip:
9:10 Leave Dalton. Parents who are going to the Tenement Museum are welcome to travel on the bus. Please in the lobby by 8:55. Otherwise you are welcome to meet us at the Tenement Museum (97 Orchard Street) at 9:45.
10:00 Program at Tenement Museum.
11:30 Sharp! Walking Tour of Lower East Side. Parents meet at The Tenement Museum 982-8420- 97 Orchard Street, between Broome and Delancey. See www.tenement.org for directions. The bookstore, across the street, is 108 Orchard Street. Each group of children will have a portable camera provided by Ms. Noble and a folder with a map and checklist of places to stop. They will have prepared a tour plan beforehand. They should follow their map, take photographs as they go, and collect business cards, menus, and other such materials. The objective of the walking tour is to discover signs of the immigrant experience in the neighborhood: how many different cultures can they find? How many different types of food can they sample?
1:55 Sharp. All groups must be at Chrystie and Grand Streets in order to board the bus back to Dalton. Please make every effort to be on time because these busses must be at Little Dalton by 2:45 for their regular pick-up. Thanks very much!
UPCOMING DATE:
• Ellis Island Simulation at Dalton: Tues. November 24.
Interesting Links:
• 2009 Notable Children’s Book List Link
WRITING SKILLS AND SPELLING:
Click here http://blogs.dalton.org/associates/ for Mr. Andre and Ms. Gordon’s homework assignments.
• Two excellent typing websites are:
MATH:
• As assigned by your math teacher and recorded in your planbook. It is up to you to record all assignments in your planbook and if you have lost your homework please go to your math teacher’s blog or moodle! Please do not work ahead.
SCIENCE:
• Observational drawing of a tree is due Nov. 4 in your science journal.
• Here is a link to the Observational Drawing Rubric. Please take a look at it.
• The Science Journal
Your Science Journal is a place for you to explore scientific topics, concepts and skills outside of school. It is an opportunity for you to delve more deeply into an area of study we are investigating in class, or to explore a new and different topic that is of interest to you.
Science Journal entries can take many forms. They can include:
- Detailed observational drawings of things you observe.
- Detailed written descriptions of things you observe.
- Conducting experiments and writing a Lab Report.
- Researching and writing about topics related to science, technology, or the natural world.
We will discuss and practice each of these individually first, and then you may choose which form you would like to use for each entry from that point on.
Throughout the year, you will:
- Complete 1 or 2 entries in your Science Journal every few weeks.
- Record Science Journal due dates in your planner to help you manage your time. Due dates will differ for each class.
- Follow the directions for each type of entry and use the rubric to help you assess your own work.
Begin each entry on a new page with a heading that includes the date and an appropriate title of your choice.
MUSIC:
• Assigned by the music teachers. It is up to you to write all assignments in your planbook!
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