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