CVHS 9th grade email update

CVHS 9th grade email update for October 10th, 2008

General Info:

All 9th graders will be going on a field trip to the Museum of Natural Science on Wednesday, October 15th. Students must bring a sack lunch. There will be no where for them to purchase a lunch.
Grades are online for most 9th grade classes : https://snapgrades.net/login/school.php?16527
RECYCLING: Please bring all paper recycling (we only do paper) to school and either drop it in the green and yellow dumpster in the back of the school or ask your child to bring it to the dumpster or to Mrs. Matsu. In order to keep our wonderful recycling dumpster, we have to hit our quota. Thanks for helping us.

Mrs. Matsu is sponsoring a 12 day trip to Australia and New Zealand during July 2009. This will be her 6th trip with students and her 3rd trip with students to Australia . If you are interested in this trip please see this website for a detailed itinerary and price information: www.gradientphil.com/matsu/index.htm Students, Parents, and siblings are welcome to join us. Prices go up on October 8, 2008. So if you are interested, please let me know, or sign up to lock in the current price.
The English department is planning a literary tour of Dublin and London next summer. For more information and to sign up, please visit www.educationaltravel.com and login. The username is carnegie and the password is rhinos

From Mrs. Bibeau (Theatre):

From Mr. Swenson (World Geography):

From Ms. Bullis (English I):

From Mrs. Matsu (Biology):

Read 87-97 by Monday (students should have already read ch 3)
Video quiz on Tuesday over Monday’s video
Remember that there is a field trip on Wednesday – bring a lunch!
Read 98-105 by Thursday
Lab on Friday (tennis shoes and girls should not wear skirts as we’ll be outside bending a lot)
Class website: www.gradientphil.com/matsu

From Ms. Alcoriza (IPC):

Mon - Test on Chapters 4-6, Pendulum Lab report due, Chapters 4-6 packet due
Tues-Fri – Start of the second half of Unit 3 (Chapters 7-10)

Reminders:
Do your online quizzes! Last day is tomorrow. These quizzes will be pulled down by evening and then new ones will go up.
If you haven’t done so yet, start researching on your solar egg cookers. Brainstorm with your partners (if applicable) and start gathering your materials.

From Mr. Li (Geometry):

From Mr. Barnes (Algebra I):

Quiz on Friday 10/17 – Solving Linear Equations
Project due on Thursday 10/23 (assigned Tuesday 10/7)
Next test (last one for this grading cycle) is Friday 10/24 (Chapter 3 in the book plus some supplemental content)

From Mr. Smith (Spanish I):

We will be hot and heavy into TPRing vocabulary ALL WEEK! Please encourage you student to practice at home. The results of the Mandinga & mas test were not what I expected.
However, now they know what to expect from me. They all have the graded test back and should still have it as I told them to keep it because some of the questions they will see again.

From Mr. Falco (Spanish 2):

Students will learn affirmative and negative words on Monday and will be given a packet on chapter 2 of A Succinct History of Mexico. They will have a quiz on Chapter 2 of A Succinct History of Mexico on Friday. We will also review for their test of chapter 1A on Tuesday. Their test for chapter 1A will be on Thursday. We will begin chapter 1B on Friday

From Ms. Huffman (Latin/Psychology/Yoga):

Ms. Huffman will be out on Tuesday and Friday. Latin 1 will have the Stage 3 assessment this week.

From Ms. Heno (French):

From Mr. Rodriguez (Art):

From Mr. Lamane and Ms. Terry (P.E.):