NEXUS: “...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.” ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

"Why, what's the matter,

That you have such a February face.

So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

~William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

DO WE DETECT A PATTERN HERE?
AHHH, WINTER IN THE NORTHEAST!
I thought it would be interesting to document this
persistently cold and snowy start to 2015 courtesy of www.weather.com.
Scroll down for lessons/activities.
UPDATE (02.12.2015):

As if this "Arctic Blast" isn't enough. . .

A Valentine's Day snowstorm/blizzard called NEPTUNE is on the way!
Boston & the coast of Maine to be hit the hardest.

And here comes OCTAVIA--more snow on the way for Tuesday (February 17)

Winter Storm Marcus, Projection for Monday, February 9

Winter Storm Linus, the way it was on Monday, February 3

Winter Storm Kari, on January 29-31

WInter storm/blizzard Juno on Monday, January 26

And then there was Iola on January 17-18

NOW, AS FOR LAST WEEK . . .Remember Linus?

Looks like our neighbors to the north were equally affected by it!

Check out THIS crazy video shot on February 3rd

Hey guys,

MEGA ARCTIC BLAST TO

FOLLOW MARCUS!

Check HERE for more information.

Stay safe!

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Now on to our regularly
scheduled assignments. . .

ASSIGNMENTS FOR
THE WEEK OF
(BRR. . .)
FEBRUARY 9-13

SOCIAL STUDIES

Monday-Friday: Use any free time to work on your Ancient Egypt Book Independent Project. Use the Ancient Egypt link to the left of this blog for more information on any topic!

Clipart pages, Hieroglyphics, Coloring Pages, Make Your Own Cartouche
ALSO:

We will begin work on our extremely awesome mummy/sarcophagus project. (Remember last week's video.)

Just an amazing discovery I wanted to share with you--

LANGUAGE ARTS
Getting Started on Your Research Project

Monday: February's Center Square activity

Tuesday: Complete the "Start & Stop Poem" activity

Wednesday: Writers' Notebooks need to be "neat and complete" -- be inventive, imaginative, creative.

Thursday: Switching to Ancient Egypt Book project--lots of additions to consider. (Look above!)

Friday: Watch this short interesting piece from the Discovery Channel. An Egyptian gods activity for our books will follow.

SCIENCE

Tuesday: Scientific Method Vocabulary.
Understanding Independent and Dependent Variables activity.

Lab #1 Hearing Change: The Powers of Observation

Thursday: Scientific Method

Lab #2 Paper Cup Pyramid Group Observation Activity

The kind of Science that makes you just break out into song. . .

Find the words HERE.

MATH

Monday: Mid-Chapter Checkpoint, Pgs. 167-168

Tuesday: Pgs. 171-172 & 4.6

Wednesday: Pgs. 175-176 & 4.7

Thursday: Pgs. 179-180 & 4.8

Friday: Ch. 4 Review/Test, Pgs. 181-184

~WHAT IS UNIT RATE?~

~EQUIVALENT RATIOS AND GRAPHS~

~~VOCABULARY/WORD STUDY~~

KEYBOARDING

We usually try to accomplish keyboarding and word study in this time block, but for this week, we'll focus all our attention on our Typing Pal program.
Data is due by Friday.

READING

DON'T FORGET! You have filled out the "Planning Ahead" form for your Independent Book for February. Take it home with you and keep track of your reading. Summarize each day's reading in just a couple sentences on your chart. This completed chart will be part of your grade for this month.