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Chelsea Morning

May30

For my students who want to see Joni performing “Chelsea Morning,” here it is. 

“Chelsea Morning”

by Joni Mitchell

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I heard

Was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words

It came ringing up like Christmas bells and rapping up like pipes and drums

Oh, won’t you stay

We’ll put on the day

And we’ll wear it ’till the night comes

 

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw

Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall

Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, crimson crystal beads to beckon

Oh, won’t you stay

We’ll put on the day

There’s a sun show every second

 

Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today

And the streets are paved with passersby

And pigeons fly

And papers lie

Waiting to blow away

 

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew

There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too

And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses

Oh, won’t you stay

We’ll put on the day

And we’ll talk in present tenses

 

When the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away

I will bring you incense owls by night

By candlelight

By jewel-light

If only you will stay

Pretty baby, won’t you

Wake up, it’s a Chelsea morning

Homework for the Week of 5/30/17

May30

homework

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.8.
  3. Practice reciting your poems and practicing your songs.

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.9.
  3. Practice reciting your poems and practicing your songs.

Thursday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete the unit 9 math study guide.
  3. Practice reciting your poems and practicing your songs.
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Homework for the Week of 5/22/17

May23

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.5.
  3. Complete spelling lesson 32.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.6.
  3. Practice your poems for the poetry reading. Remember to work on PETVIBE (pace, eye contact, tone, volume, inflection, body language, and enunciation).

Wednesday

  1. Practice your poems for the poetry reading. Remember to work on PETVIBE (pace, eye contact, tone, volume, inflection, body language, and enunciation).
  2. Complete math study link 9.7.
  3. Log onto Spelling City from any computer or mobile device, login, and access your spelling words for practice. There are games and practice tests. Make sure you don’t take the real test. If you would like to practice another way, here are some of the options we discussed in class:
    • Use your spelling worksheet to make flashcards and practice quizzing yourself.
    • Write each word five times.
    • Practice spelling words verbally with a parent.
    • Practice with any other method that you already know and use.

Thursday–No homework due to Santa Cruz Island trip

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Homework for the Week of 5/15/17

May15

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.3.
  3. Complete spelling lesson 31.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.4.
  3. Practice giving your speech for the Citizenship Breakfast. 

Wednesday–All-Day Field Trip to La Purisima Mission

  1. Practice giving your speech for the Citizenship Breakfast.

Thursday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Practice giving your speech for the Citizenship Breakfast.
  3. Log onto Spelling City from any computer or mobile device, login, and access your spelling words for practice. There are games and practice tests. Make sure you don’t take the real test. If you would like to practice another way, here are some of the options we discussed in class:
    • Use your spelling worksheet to make flashcards and practice quizzing yourself.
    • Write each word five times.
    • Practice spelling words verbally with a parent.
    • Practice with any other method that you already know and use.
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Homework for the Week of 5/8/17

May7

 

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Study for unit 8 math test.
  3. Work on your citizenship essay.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete test corrections for unit 8 math test.
  3. Work on your citizenship essay.

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.1.
  3. Work on your citizenship essay.

Thursday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 9.2.
  3. Work on your citizenship essay.
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Homework for the Week of 5/1/17

May1

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete math study link 8.8.
  3. Finish your spelling lesson for unit 29.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. 
  2. Complete unit 8 math study guide.
  3. Log onto Spelling City from any computer or mobile device, login, and access your spelling words for practice. There are games and practice tests. Make sure you don’t take the real test. If you would like to practice another way, here are some of the options we discussed in class:
    • Use your spelling worksheet to make flashcards and practice quizzing yourself.
    • Write each word five times.
    • Practice spelling words verbally with a parent.
    • Practice with any other method that you already know and use.

Thursday–No Homework due to Spring Concert

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Homework for the Week of 4/24/17

April24

homework

Monday–NO SPELLING THIS WEEK

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.5.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.6.  Due to a special science guest, math class was cancelled.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.6.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Thursday–No homework due to early departure for Santa Cruz Island on Friday!

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Homework for the Week of 4/17/17

April17

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.1.
  3. Finish your spelling lesson for unit 28.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.2.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.3.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Thursday

  1.  Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 8.4.
  3. Log onto Spelling City from any computer or mobile device, login, and access your spelling words for practice. There are games and practice tests. Make sure you don’t take the real test. If you would like to practice another way, here are some of the options we discussed in class:
    • Use your spelling worksheet to make flashcards and practice quizzing yourself.
    • Write each word five times.
    • Practice spelling words verbally with a parent.
    • Practice with any other method that you already know and use.
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Homework for the Week of 4/10/17

April10

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 7.12.
  3. Finish your spelling lesson for unit 27.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete the first page only of the unit 7 math study guide.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete study guide for unit 7 math test.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Thursday

  1.  Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Study for unit 7 math test.
  3. Log onto Spelling City from any computer or mobile device, login, and access your spelling words for practice. There are games and practice tests. Make sure you don’t take the real test. If you would like to practice another way, here are some of the options we discussed in class:
    • Use your spelling worksheet to make flashcards and practice quizzing yourself.
    • Write each word five times.
    • Practice spelling words verbally with a parent.
    • Practice with any other method that you already know and use.
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Homework for the Week of 3/20/17

March20

homework

Monday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 7.8.
  3. Finish your spelling lesson for unit 26.

Tuesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete  math study link 7.9.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Wednesday

  1. Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 7.10.
  3. Practice your math facts using flashcards, having someone quiz you, or using one of the math websites on the blog under Websites for Kids–Math Web Links.  

Thursday

  1.  Read for 20 minutes and record it in your reading log. Your nightly reading should be a book that you are reading for your next book report. Remember that you must choose a different genre each time, and graphic novels count as a genre. When you finish it, you can choose any book you would like to read.
  2. Complete math study link 7.11.
  3. Log onto Spelling City from any computer or mobile device, login, and access your spelling words for practice. There are games and practice tests. Make sure you don’t take the real test. If you would like to practice another way, here are some of the options we discussed in class:
    • Use your spelling worksheet to make flashcards and practice quizzing yourself.
    • Write each word five times.
    • Practice spelling words verbally with a parent.
    • Practice with any other method that you already know and use.
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