Wednesday - Sep 7, 2016

Civics

• Start the project: 
• Research Richmond City on a FSP (fresh sheet of paper):
• How many square miles is Richmond City?
• When was it founded?
• What are voter districts? How many does Richmond have? What are they like (type of people there, kinds of houses and businesses?) - see dad for this information
• Look at the Richmond City website - what services does the city provide it's people?
• Prepare a tourism poster describing the city of Richmond. Include facts and information, pictures and maps - anything that might get someone excited about visiting Richmond. 
• Lets walk down to the tourism office at the convention center to gather materials for your poster.
• This is due Friday Sep 9, 2016

Math

• Graphing in Science - download and print the WS 
• https://go.hrw.com/resources/go_sc/hst/HSTSW261.PDF
• Do the WS
• Practice solving equations - WS

Language Arts

Pretend you are running for mayor. Pick 5 issues from yesterday (not including the bike thing). What are your ideas for Richmond? How would you tackle these issues? (this is called a politician's platform)

Write up your platform and make a campaign poster - Lilah for Mayor!

Spelling

• Review your flashcards
• Quiz on Friday

Spanish

• Review vocab cards from Tuesday (pages 8 - 11)
• Write a sentence for each vocab word above (in Spanish)

Science

• Complete the KWL Chart
• https://go.hrw.com/resources/go_sc/bpe/HA8CDKWL.PDF
• Topic: Planets
• Make sure you can log into Discovery Learning and go to:
• Grade 6 - Space Science (this sin't really grade 6 stuff, their Earth Science stuff is all jumbled)
• Do the Inner planets lesson - Session 1
• On a FSP - 
• Take notes on the lesson (have me look at them)
• List the inner planets
• Which planet is most like Earth (the surface)?
• Which ones have an atmosphere?
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• Watch the video - Phoenix Mars Landing: Nerves and Joy
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH5pNFROlYU 

Writing

• On a FSP -->
• What is your favorite city that you have visited? What made it a great place to visit? What would make it a great place to live?

Other

• Gardening -
• Take notes on what we can grow this fall/winter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzU0x9zmxE
• watch the first 10 minutes on how to make a hoop house for the garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkLjtM-CwE
• Make a list - what seeds could we order? You have a budget of $25
• http://www.johnnyseeds.com/
• http://www.johnnyseeds.com/v-74-recommended-for-winter-harvest.aspx?source=Home_Slide2_082016-v1

Homework

• Finish Math WS
• Review spelling flashcards