Immaculate Conception Academy

 

 

 Spelling/Vocab: Synonyms and Antonyms due Tuesday. Choosing the Right Word due Wednesday. Vocab in Context due Thursday. Vocab unit 4 test on Friday. 

 

Need help with spelling or vocabulary? Forgot your vocab book in class? Check out the links on my link page to visit Sadlier-Oxford's website: CLICK HERE for games, puzzles, and flashcards to help you study.

Still need help with vocabulary? Check out this website for help with studying the definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It even creates sample tests for you! Go to www.vocabtest.com and scroll down to the section labelled:  VocabTest.com material based on words found in Vocabulary Workshop® Choose the level and unit, and you're ready to go!

 

English: 

Rough draft of research paper with in-text citations and bibliography due Wednesday, October 17th to be submitted through GoogleClassroom by 9:00am.  For bibliography help, see handout from class or research paper packet guidelines. 

Final draft of research paper with in-text citations and bibliography due Wednesday, October 24th to be submitted through GoogleClassroom by 9:00am. 

 

Reading:    

Literature Circles time! Remember: for each meeting, you have to have read your book up to the page your group agreed on, choose two questions below to answer in six sentences (minimum), and write a question of your own. Your own question will be answered during the group discussion. You do not need to answer it. 

Tuesday: Hatchet

Wednesday: Stormbreaker

Thursday: Heat

Miss Beyer's questions:

1. Explain how a character is acting and why you think the character is acting that way.
2. Pick one character and explain why you would/would not like to have him/her as a friend.
3. Explain a character's problem and then offer your character advice on how to solve his/her problem.
4. From what you've read so far, make predictions about what will happen next and explain what in the text makes you think it will happen.
5. Describe and explain why you would/would not like to have lived in the time or place of the story.
6. Do you have any unanswered questions about the story? Explain.
7. What real-life people or events are you reminded of by characters or events in the story? Explain why.
8. Write about what would happen if you brought one of your characters to school or home for a day.
9. Pick a scene in which you disagreed how a character handled a situation/person and rewrite it in the way you think it should have happened.
10. What quality of which character strikes you as a good characteristic to develop within yourself over the years? Why? How does the character demonstrate this quality?

 Literature circle project due Friday, November 2nd. 

 

Math: text pg 103  #10-21

 

                                                                                             

 

 

Science:  Science Fair collection dates  click here

 Collection 2 due 10/24- research

 

Social Studies:   

     Wednesday, October 17:  Chapter 1 Test (Study Guides were sent home on Friday, October 12.)

 

Religion: Chapter 5 Quiz 10/19

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spelling/Vocab: Synonyms and Antonyms due Tuesday. Choosing the Right Word due Wednesday. Vocab in Context due Thursday. Vocab unit 4 test on Friday. 

 

Need help with spelling or vocabulary? Forgot your vocab book in class? Check out the links on my link page to visit Sadlier-Oxford's website: CLICK HERE for games, puzzles, and flashcards to help you study.

Still need help with vocabulary? Check out this website for help with studying the definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It even creates sample tests for you! Go to www.vocabtest.com and scroll down to the section labelled:  VocabTest.com material based on words found in Vocabulary Workshop® Choose the level and unit, and you're ready to go!

 

English:  

Rough draft of research paper with in-text citations and bibliography due Wednesday, October 17th to be submitted through GoogleClassroom by 9:00am.  For bibliography help, see handout from class or research paper packet guidelines. 

Final draft of research paper with in-text citations and bibliography due Wednesday, October 24th to be submitted through GoogleClassroom by 9:00am. 

 

Reading: One day of reading comprehension packet due each day we practice in the gym. This week - Week 3. Due Friday 10/17

Costumes are due by Monday, 10/22.

Thank you to all of seventh grade! We raised over $450 through the Bake Sale! Woohoo!!

The Enchanted Bookshop  will be performed Tuesday, November 13th at 1:00 in the gym. Please join us!

Reading contract projects are due by Friday, November 17th. Choose projects from Miss Beyer's collection in her classroom. 

 

 

Math: Gray worksheet on ratios and unit rates....multiples of 4 on both sides

             Maroon- complete worksheet.  Quiz on Thursday will cover material on worksheets

         

 

 

 

Science: Science Fair Collection 2 due 10/24 Science Fair collection Dates click here

Research 

Field Trip to Angora Farms 10/17

Permission forms for Philadelphia Art Museum Trip on 11/2 due this Friday 10/19

 

 

Social Studies:  index card quiz on naming the 5 Themes of Geography

 

Religion: Chapter 6 Quiz 10/19

 

 

 for music:  find 3 songs that would be your theme song.

                      imagine ....every time you walked through the door....this song is being played to let people know that you're coming

 

* BRING in the lyrics to those 3 songs

 

Spelling/Vocab: Synonyms and Antonyms due Tuesday. Choosing the Right Word due Wednesday. Vocab in Context due Thursday. Vocab unit 4 test on Friday. 

Need help with spelling or vocabulary? Forgot your vocab book in class? Check out the links on my link page to visit Sadlier-Oxford's website: CLICK HERE for games, puzzles, and flashcards to help you study.

Still need help with vocabulary? Check out this website for help with studying the definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It even creates sample tests for you! Go to www.vocabtest.com and scroll down to the section labelled:  VocabTest.com material based on words found in Vocabulary Workshop® Choose the level and unit, and you're ready to go!

 

English:  

 

Rough draft of research paper with in-text citations and bibliography due Wednesday, October 17th to be submitted through GoogleClassroom by 9:00am.  For bibliography help, see handout from class or research paper packet guidelines. 

Final draft of research paper with in-text citations and bibliography due Wednesday, October 24th to be submitted through GoogleClassroom by 9:00am. 

 

Reading: 

Reading contract projects are due by Friday, November 17th. 

 

 Math: GRAY :  worksheet and one problem

              MAROON: get quiz signed, text pg  77  1-12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science:

Science Fair Collection 12 Due 10/24  Science fair collection dates click here

Research

 

Social Studies: quiz on Friday  21 vocab terms   matching

 

 

 

 

Religion:  10/19 Chapter 5 Quiz in Confirmation Book- Use review guide on pg. 60 to prepare

 

Immaculate Conception Academy

School Supplies List for grades 6-8

2018-2019

Dear Parent/Guardians:

 

Welcome to the 2018-2019 school year! Below is a comprehensive school supply list for the upcoming school year. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact one of your child’s teachers. It will be extremely helpful if your child has all their supplies for the first day of school.

 

• Milk crate (6th grade homeroom only - check Staples and Wal-Mart for sales)
• 5 jumbo sized book socks
• Binder (zipper style preferred)
• Binder tabs for organization of classes: Religion, Math, Science, English, Reading, Social Studies
• 3 Wide-ruled filler paper
• Soft pencil case with binder holes to hold in binder
  • Sharpened pencils
  • Black pens
  • Red pens
  • Highlighter
  • Dry erase markers
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Small pack of colored pencils
  • Glue stick
  • Rosary
• 3 two-pocket folders for binder
• 5 college ruled marble copy book
• Small scientific calculator (Ti=30xa)
• Package of graph paper
• Index cards
• Package of colored construction paper
• Clear contact paper- to cover workbooks. Please do not send in.
• Box of tissue
• Roll of paper towels
• Hand sanitizer and/or antibacterial wipes (These are greatly appreciated. Thank you!)

 

ICA has ordered an assignment book for your child. A small fee will be charged. The fee will be sent home in September.

 

Thank you and God bless you,

Mrs. McGrath, Mrs. Reber, Miss Beyer, Mr. Mangan