Friday! Yay,

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Meredith Macon Katz
5th Grade Teacher
Kannapolis Intermediate School
525 East C St.
Kannapolis, NC 28083
704-932-4161ext128
meredith.katz@kcs.k12.nc.us

Summer Science Camps in NC

These camps are in the Raleigh Durham area.  

Join North Carolina Science Olympiad for camp this summer at NC State University!   Camp themes include: Putting the arts in STEM, the science of fitness and exercise, and building bridges, rockets, and cars.   Register online now!  We are offering 6 weeks of camps from June through August.  Our camps are open to all students in rising 3rd through 6th grade.  Visit our website and camp registration page for more details.   Visit the Wolfpack STEM Camps page on The Science House website to find links to even more camps at NC State University this summer. Contact Kim Gervase for more information at kdgervas@ncsu.edu.

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Meredith Macon Katz
5th Grade Teacher
Kannapolis Intermediate School
525 East C St.
Kannapolis, NC 28083
704-932-4161ext128
meredith.katz@kcs.k12.nc.us

Tuesday 1/28/14

Monday 1/27/14

Help KIS earn Ca$h by using this App!

It is safe, secure, & Free!

http://app.shoparoo.com/share/t78w0vuo

Directions for Easy CBM for Wednesday 1/29/14

1.  Go to internal page:  https://sites.google.com/a/kcs.k12.nc.us/grade-level-links/

2.  Select Easy CBM

3.  Enter Class Code 93967785

4.  Select Your Name

5.  Select Math 5 Winter

6.  Begin Test & Do your best.  You are allowed to use a calculator if it shows up on the screen.

7.  When you finish Read!

1/24/14

Wednesday 1/22/14

RIP Mr. Colors

http://howtowrite.weebly.com/how-to-write-an-obituary.html

Our class fish, Mr. Color, died today.  I am offering extra credit for an obituary to be written about him.  I have included a link above to a helpful site.  It will be included in the 3rd quarter grades.  The end of the quarter is tomorrow so all missing and late work is due tomorrow. 

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Meredith Macon Katz
5th Grade Teacher
Kannapolis Intermediate School
525 East C St.
Kannapolis, NC 28083
704-932-4161ext128
meredith.katz@kcs.k12.nc.us

Fun Stuff in February

Tuesday 1/14/14

Quiz on 13 colonies tomorrow. Students have a study guide in their notebook with a pneumonic device to help them remember the location each colony. Students also need to correct their body systems unit test that was talked and scored today.

This week is makeup reading log week

White reading log this week will replace a missing or low reading log grade.

Next week is very busy!

VoiceMail not working!

I figured out yesterday that I can not access my voicemail at school.  Something is wrong with our phone system right now.  If you have tried to contact me this week and left me a voicemail message I have not received it. Please leave a message with Mrs. Garver (receptionist), email, or write me a note.     

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Meredith Macon Katz
5th Grade Teacher
Kannapolis Intermediate School
525 East C St.
Kannapolis, NC 28083
704-932-4161ext128
meredith.katz@kcs.k12.nc.us

Thursday 1/9/14

Girls in Science Camp Opportunity 2014

Girls interested in science have an opportunity to spend a week this summer in Great Smoky Mountains National Park at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont.  

• expanded this year to two one-week sessions (6 days and 5 nights)
• ages expanded to include girls ages 12-15
• cost is a sliding scale from $100 - $608
• Sessions are June 9 -14, 2014 or July 28 - August 2, 2014
• completed applications are due to Tremont on Feb. 14
• for more information, visit http://www.gsmit.org/girlscience.html

The camp will include outdoor exploration throughout the park and participation in citizen science projects alongside real scientists and park rangers, with a goal of keeping girls excited about science as they move through their middle school years. Highlights of past Girls In Science Camps include snail studies in a temperate rainforest, evenings spent investigating insects in Cades Cove, and mornings working with specialists capturing and banding songbirds. 

Questions can be emailed to Dawn Dextraze at dawn@gsmit.org or call her at (865) 448-6709.

Susan Sachs

Education Coordinator, Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

PO Box 357

Lake Junaluska, NC 28745

(828) 926-6251

Tuesdays HW 1/7/14

Students were given progress reports today. Missing assignments need to be turned in ASAP

Monday 1/6/14

Friday 1/3/13

Students voted and have chosen to change reading logs due date. They will be handed out on Friday and due on the following Friday.

Thursday's HW

Figurative Language Homework for Thursday Night!

Your assignment:

Create a comic strip that expresses a figure of speech literally through pictures.  Your comic strip will be graded on these requirements:

• Rough draft is written and drawn in pencil
• Idiom stated in strip
• 3-5 frames
• grammar and spelling

You may draw your comic or use a website to create your comics.  You are responsible for having a hard copy to hand in on Friday!  

http://mashable.com/2010/10/24/create-your-own-comics/

More neat Figurative Language Stuff:
http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphoplanguage/
http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphopmetaphors/
http://www.timeforkids.com/homework-helper/study-helper/figurative-language
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/20-educational/language-arts/343-figurative-language.html

Body Systems Research

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/index.htm

Go to http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/index.htm.  Select the topic Human Body and navigate through all the body systems except Immune System to complete your chart. 

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/organ.html