April 15, 2008

Good evening parents and students!

I have wonderful news...Here is a link to the Earth Science textbook online. Students, you no longer have to bring your textbooks home if you have access to the Internet.

Classwork

Today students worked out of their Guided Reading books pages 158-160 questions 1-14.  When they finished they began a new vocabulary table over "Ocean Topography."  The sections that will be covered with this topic are chpt 13 section 3 and chpt 14 section 1.  Below you will find the list of new vocabulary words for this topic.  I also passed out the students vocabulary quizzes from 4/4/08 and updated iParent. 

Homework

Finish "Ocean Topography" vocabulary defining them from the back of the book and NOT in your own words.  The vocabulary words are: sonar, fathom, seamount, continental slope, continental shelf, abyssal plain, salinity, density, and topography.  Fathom is not in the textbook so it will have to be defined from another source such as a dictionary, encyclopedia, or internet.

Thank you very much,

Mr. Mathews