Knowledge

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Discovery

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Mission: Working together as a team we will utilize our varied experiences, styles, skills and resources to foster a learning environment that allows for high level thinking and understanding.

K.I.D.S. World Ms. Devine and Mr. Ernest

Vision: Our plan is to provide an environment where all students can learn. Students will be active participants in their education. They will be responsible for their own learning and they will be able to construct meaningful relevance from the curriculum.

Welcome back - September 2008 - Welcome Letter-August 2008

WELCOME TO THE TEAM OF DEVINE AND ERNEST - LETTER

Scroll down the page for a preview of the CLASSROOM PROCEDURES.

http://grades.salineschools.com Click on the link above to access the eSembler portal. Beginning the second marking period assignments for each subject will be listed on-line. Grades are not updated everyday. Generally I update the grade book once a week.

Weekly Schedule of Assignments:

Week 1 9/4	Week 2 9/10	Week 3 9/17	Week 4 9/24	Week 5 Oct. 1	Week 6 Oct 8	Week 7 Oct. 15	Week 8 Oct. 22	Week 9 Oct 29
Week 10 Nov. 5	Week 11 Nov 12	Week 12 Nov 19	Week 13 Nov. 26	Week 14 Dec. 3	Week 15 Dec. 10	Week 16 Dec. 17	Week 17 Jan. 7	Week 18 Jan 14
Week 19	Week 20 .	Week 21	Week 22 Feb 11	Week 23 Feb. 18	Week 24   Feb. 25	Week 25 March 3	Week 26 March 10	Week 27 March 17	Week 28 March 24
Week 29 April 7	Week 30 April 14	Week 31 April 21	Week 32 April 28	Week 33 May 5	Week 34 May 12	Week 35 May 19	Week 36 May 26	Week 37 June 2	Week 38 June 9

Current Project(s) and long term assignments	-science portfolio -self-evaluation KWL chart	Study the countries of South America http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/Samerica.html Check out the link listed below to study the flags of Latin America
SSR log: Connections SSR log: Literary Elements SSR A/R test make up book report/story summary

General Classroom Information	Team Schedule Overview
SNACK TIME: Please be sure that your child is bringing in a nutritious snack. If they want candy in their lunch that is fine, but I ask that at snack time they do not eat candy, chips or cookies(junk food). Thank you!	Daily Schedule
Welcome Back Letter Welcome	Memorization Strategies

WELCOME BACK SEPTEMBER 2008

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CLASSROOM PROCEDURES

CLASSROOM PROCEDURES	Expectations for written responses	Grades and Report Cards	After-school Field Trips
Welcome Everyone Daily Planner	Silent Reading (SSR)	Guidelines for Student Behavior	Other Items Curriculum Overview
Late Homework Policy	Tardy Policy	Internet Communication	Parent Information Page
Reasonable Best Effort	Assignments missed when absent	Journal	Acknowledgement for Classroom Procedures

Science

Biomes Biome portfolio menu

Atoms and Matter

Electricity and Magnetism Electricity terms

Astronomy Planet poetry Alien creation

Check out the gallery of pictures from the eclipse, and the northern lights! http://www.spaceweather.com

MATH	Everyday Math http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/ Make your own set of flash cards and practice math facts on this site: http://www.aplusmath.com

Social Studies

Language Arts

Check out www.unitedstreaming.com -This is a great resource that you can use for projects! (e-mail me if you need the user id and password) United Learning: http://www5.unitedstreaming.com Latin America Click on th is site to see what Latin America is all about. http://lanic.utexas.edu/ Ballad of Magellan lyrics http://oh-darling.net/stuff/panamacanal.mp3 Check out these sights for flags and national anthems for any country. http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ http://www.imagesoft.net/flags/anthems/htmflagsl http://www.thenationalanthems.comanthems Listen to the national anthem of your country! Spanish Resources Click here to learn how to pronounce some colors in Spanish: http://www.jvlnet.com/%7Eliliana/flashcards/abccolors.html Click here to learn how to pronounce numbers in Spanish http://www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/numbers30.html Practice with online flash cards: http://www.x-omega.com/cgi-bin/flashcard2.cgi?filename=arley1-2.txt Canada Find out more about who lives up there! http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563379/Canada.html

Writing and Conventions Curriculm for Sixth Grade English Check out this site for helpful information about adjectives and adverbs (an other parts of speech) http://www.grammarbook.com/default.asp Parts of Speech: http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/english.html Nouns Verbs Study guide Adjectives Adverbs -Tom Swifties Capitalization Punctuation http://www.grammarbook.com/default.asp Parts of speech definitions and practice quizzes Chompchomp.com - more definitions and practice quizzes http://www.chompchomp.com/ Writing Collins Writing 6 + 1 Traits of Writing http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/department.asp?d=1 Nouns, Nouns, Nouns Developing a paragraph using details Use Your Senses Explanatory writing - ----How to Parody Spelling Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary Literature Zlateh questions Pigman and Me - questions Becky and the Wheels and Brake Boys Dragon, Dragon Novels: Diving Bell Grab Hands and Run Far North Frozen Fire Jason's Gold Independent Reading Log Biography book report Book report conference Language Arts Portfolio ---Menu ---Assessment record sheet Literature/History Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Listen to his speech) I Have a Dream (picture) Five score years ago...(words) Preamble to the Constitution Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Ms. Devine

(734) 429-8000 X3635

mail to: devinek@saline.k12.mi.us

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