Thursday, January 26, 2012

January 26, 2012

‘Legend says A young Sparta boy once stole a live fox, planning to kill it and eat it. He noticed some Spartan soldiers approaching. In ancient Sparta, students were encouraged to steal, but the trick was that you could not get caught stealing. If you were caught, you were severely beaten. As the soldiers approached, the boy hid the fox beneath his shirt.
While the soldiers quizzed him on why he was not in school, the boy let the fox chew into his stomach rather than confess he had stolen it. He did not allow his face or body to express his pain.
That was the Spartan way. Lie, cheat, steal, and get away with it, or else (you would be in big trouble!)’


Homework:

Read 20 minutes and record your time.
Planner signed

Reading:  Seasons 28-31 Apollo 36-39

Language Arts:  No homework.

Keyboarding:  Practice your keyboarding skills 5 minutes each night or 25 minutes each week.

Math:  pg. 178

Science:  Work on your Science Fair project.

Art/Integrated Studies:  Prepositional Phrase Poster. This is NOT homework yet, but a project that students should work on in class.  Write a complete sentence that includes a prepositional phrase in each box. Underline the prepositional phrase. Draw and color an illustration with each sentence. There should be no white space. Do not use stick figures. Make sure that your poster is free of spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes. Include some of the ancient Greece vocabulary into some of your sentences. Strive to have a QUALITY project. This project should be finished in about two weeks.

Social Studies:  Symposium on Monday! Bring cleaned grapes to munch on while listening to speeches. Work on your challenges and QUESTS for XP.  All of the Challenges and QUESTS can be found on Edmodo right now. To find the QUESTS/Challenges follow these directions:

1.  On the left side of the page, under your picture, click BY TEACHERS or LATEST.
2.  On the right side of the page, you'll see the word, TAGS. Click on Tags.
3.  Find the word SHARED and click on the word.
4.  You will see QUESTS/Challenges. Click on that and all of the posts with QUESTS and   Challenges will show on your page.
5.  Make sure to follow the directions for each QUEST or Challenge carefully for XP.