Half day today! We finished watching the Luther movie. We talked about the metric system in math and in English we did some practice sentences.

Math: set 32
Science: notes and ws 11-3
Geo: Mexico test 11-3
English: nothing
Lit: nothing
Spelling: nothing
CL: ws 11-2
Cat: sermon summary
CE: nothing
Health: 73-74 girls 11-2 boys 11-3
Music: nothing

Evening! I apologize for the lateness of this blog, but at least it is on the right day this time! We are done with conferences and I thank all of you for taking time out to come and discuss your child's education. I can't do it with out you!

I hope you are enjoying the small homework load this week, but don't get too used to it!

Math: set 31
Science: ws 11-3
Geo: test
English: ws
Lit: nothing
Spelling: nothing
CL: ws for next week Monday
Cat: sermon summary
Health: 73-74 girls Mon. boys Tue
MW: none for this week
Music: nothing

Good Morning! My apologies for not blogging last night, but my thanks to you as well. With your help we got through 17 Parent-student-teacher conferences without getting too far behind.

With the short week there will be no spelling. However, students are welcome to work ahead if time allows. I would also encourage students to do some reading over their long weekend and get a jump start on those AR points.

Pastor will not be in this week, but students still will write some memory work for him first thing this morning.

We took our spelling test and math test today. The math test went well, hopefully the spelling test went as well.

Math: took test
Science: nothing
Geo: Mexico test
English: nothing
Lit: nothing
Spelling: nothing
CL: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: review Monday and Tuesday
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Cat: Sermon Summary and memory for next week

Today we took our science test. Since we didn't have as much time to reveiw as I wanted yesterday, I allowed the students to take the test with an assigned partner. Some groups did very well, and the class averaged a C. We also took the math pretest with partners today, and that went very well, so we should be good to go for the real thing tomorrow. Please remind your student to take his time and avoid simple mistakes. The daily work seems to be filled with simple addition mistakes and the like.

You should have received a note letting you know when your student - parent - teacher conference time is. If you haven't please ask your student for it. As you can see, it is a very tight schedule, so we will need to keep the conferences to 15 minuets. If we need more time to discuss anything, an additional meeting can be arranged.

Math: test tomorrow
Science: test today
Geo: Mexico test
English: ws for tomorrow
Lit: nothing
Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: passages tomorrow
CE: nothing
Health: review from the book for Monday (girls) Tuesday (boys)
Music: nothing
Art: ws for tomorrow

Today we got lots of time to work on subjects so that tonight we can wrap up doing a fantastic job on our research papers. Hopefully this helps us when the academic fair comes around.

CL: The passages are due on Friday and the hymn will be postponed.

Math: set 30
Sc: ws and test tomorrow
Geo: 192-196 ws, quiz
English: final copy of everything
Lit: nothing
Spelling: p. 64-65
CL: ws
Cat.: passages for tomorrow
Art: ws for Friday
Music: nothing
Health: p. 72 + 73

It was a bit of a mixed up day today, but we did manage to do some rounding and look at different kinds of maps. I looked over all of the rough drafts today and got all most all of them back to the students with comments. Hopefully that will help improve the overall final quality. There was some discussion of having the final copy of everything due tomorrow, but we will stick with the original plan of Thursday. I had also planned to have our Christ Light passages due Thursday but with pastor having some due for Catechism, I think it wise to move those to Friday in place of the hymn.

Math: set 29
Science: ws and note sheets
Geo: nothing
English: ws Wed, Final Copy Thursday
Lit: nothing
Spelling: p 63
CL: ws for Thursday
Art: Van Gogh for Friday
Music: Brahms for Wednesday
Health: pp 72 + 72

Today we finished talking about Euthanasia. We also did some two step story problems. Encourage your student to be very careful. We are getting too many wrong due to simple mistakes. We also learned about latitude and longitude.

Math: set 28
Science: nothing
Geo: study guide
English: rough draft Tuesday, final copy Thursday
Lit: nothing
Spelling: p. 62
CL: ws, passages Thurs, hymn Fri
Cat: ws, sermon summary
Music: Brahms for Wed
Art: nothing

Today we finished A Christmas Carol. We look forward to getting to see it performed.

Math: set 27
Music: Brahms next Wed
Geo: nothing
Lit: vocab ws for Mon
Sc: ws on section 1 for Monday
English: ws for Monday, rough draft for Tuesday.
Spelling: nothing
Cat. ws and sermon summary memorize address and 1st petition
Art: Vincent
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Today we discussed Euthanasia, pattern 6 and 7 sentences, and multiplying mixed fractions. We also are still working hard on our musical. Come see it Nov. 4th.

Math: set 26
Music: Brahms for next Wed
Geo: Physical map test 10-16, ws quiz 10-16, A1ED8A2E84
Lit: nothing
Sc: vocab sheet
English: Outlines for Fri, rough draft for Tue
Spelling: test
Cat. sermon summary
CL: Hymn 391
Art: Cassatt ws
CE: nothing
Health:nothing

Today we took training on CPR and using the AED. The student will now be certified in both. That took a big chunk of our day, but we did manage to get Scrooge to the ghost of Christmas Future, and work on our musical. We also corrected part of our science test and some music.

Math: nothing
Geo: 2 ws Thurs
Lit: nothing
Spelling: p 58-59
English: notes are due tomorrow, outlines are due on Friday and the rough draft is due on Tuesday
Health:nothing
Science: ws
CE: nothing
CL: Passages and ws for Thursday, Hymn for Fri
Music: Brahms for next Wed
Art: ws for Fri

Today we took our science test and math test. Encourage your student to work carefully on math to avoid simple mistakes. The students got a packet today that describes how to make bibliography references for many different kinds of sources. This will be useful for future papers including the academic fair.

Math: nothing
Science: nothing
English: take notes by Thursday, have both draft outlines done by Friday, have a rough draft by Tuesday,
Lit: nothing
Spell" pg 57
Christ Light: ws for Thurs., passages for Thurs., hymn for Friday
Cat: Passages
Music: Chopin ws for TOMORROW
Art: Cassatt ws for Friday
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

MUSIC PROGRAM AND AR ARE DUE NEXT THURSDAY.

Today we went through the study guide for the science test. We also worked through a math pre-test. Some of the class practiced for the play while the rest of the class got some lab time to work on their English paper. In Christ light we finished our discussion on abortion. In literature we got to see Scrooge's Christmas present.

AR and music cd are due next Thursday!
A note went home today for Parent/Student/Teacher conference. Please fill out and return. If it is possible with your schedule, please sign up for Monday and Tuesday rather than Wednesday. Thanks.

Math: test tomorrow
Science: test tomorrow
Geo: Physical map test 10-16
English: 2 ws for tomorrow, keep working on the research paper
Lit: nothing
Spelling: p. 56
C.L. ws for Thursday, passages for Thurs and Hymn for Fri
Cat: sermon summary
Music: Chopin ws for Wed
Mem: 3rd Article and meaning for Tue
Art: Cassatt ws for Friday
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

We learned a bit about impressionism today. We also had practice for the musical. We finished act one of The Christmas Carol and finished our science section. Busy day! As for the behavior, while it wasn't perfect (they are 7th graders after all) there certainly was an effort made to improve it!

Math: set 25
Science: two ws, one for section 1 and one for overview
Spelling: none
Lit: none
English: get resources for paper
Geo: province test 10-12
Cat: sermon summary ws
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: Chopin

Behavior today was much better. Unfortunately, it was very much a law based change. I pray that the behavior can stay improved but that the motivation will move to a gospel motivation. In other words, I hope we will behave because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of because we are afraid of punishment.

The students got their geography maps back today. It seems that the results were mixed. Some students did a great job and knew where most things were, while some, unfortunately, did not put in the same effort. Let's all use our God given talents to the best of our ability!

Today we talked about renewable and non-renewable resources. We discussed the pros and cons of each. We also heared a little of The Christmas Carol but Scrooge is still a miser, so far. We also heard more about the war in Afghanistan and the earth quakes that happened last night. On top of all that we learned that NASA has discovered a new, huge ring around Saturn.

REMEMBER THERE ARE FOUR VERSES OF HYMN 469 DUE TOMORROW!

Music: Chopin due Wed 14th
Math: set 24
Science: ws on Ch 1+2
GEO: ws 1-10 pg 152-153, provinces test
English: WA 33 part 2 student need to have a list of things they will write about for their paper, and they need to find some sources. Encyclopedias and the Internet are fine, but if possible, make a trip to the library.
Lit: nothing
Spelling: test
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
MW: hymn 469
Art: nothing

I am very sad to report that today we hit a new low for behavior, including disturbing several other classes. We also continued to miss vital information because we were not listening during class. The saddest part was that the behavior continued through out the day and failed to improve despite repeated discussions and consequences. Good thing the Lord forgives these sins of disrespect and selfishness.

Music: finish up the music program
Math: set 23
Science: ask your student how he or she did on the science test, no assignment
Geo: province test 10-2
English: pic a topic for the next paper. Choose one of the nine from the book and narrow it down.
Lit: nothing
Spelling: p 52-53
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Memory for pastor Wed, CL Thurs, and hymn Friday

We took the science test today. I look forward to seeing how we did! We reviewed some sentences in English, but today they weren't all pattern one. In health we discussed emotional needs and how people sometimes act in undesireable ways when their emotional needs are not met. We looked at how we can improve our own behavior. We also discussed that our self worth is founded on Christ's love for us.

Music: Schubert due tomorrow
Math: set 22
Science: took test
Geo: ws quiz 10-7
English: wa 31 parts 1-4 (entire paper is due tomorrow)
Spelling: 51
Lit: nothing
CE: nothing
Health:nothing
Art: nothing
Cat: Sermon Summary, 2 Cor. 13:14, Ex. 34:67, 2nd article

Today we started reading a Christmas Carol in preparation for our field trip Dec. 1st. We also reviewed the entire test and answers for science.

Music: Schubert for Wed
Math: set 21
Geo: 135-141 ws quiz
English: we did sentences and jingles in class, keep working on the report for Wed
Lit: read in class
Spelling: p.50
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
MW: passages for Thurs, hymn for Fri
Art: nothing

We started the day hearing about singing praises to God in all school devotion. We then did an investigation about using a compass to make circles, hexagons, triangles and so on. We learned lots of vocabulary. Be sure to review. We also spent some time working on a fall picture using different media. We used water colors, tempera, and crayon.

Music: Schubert
Math: review terms on the investigation
Science: ws for Monday, test Tue
Geo: nothing
English: report for Wednesday
Lit: picture due Monday
Spelling: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Today we suffered from testing backlash. Now that the tests are done, the behavior deteriorated unfortunately. We did have a chance to look over the last research papers and review what can be done better. Students should look in their books back at unit 17 for help with the papers. Clearly, some are not doing some. However, there were some very good papers as well. Keep up the good work. The next paper is using three sources and everything will be due next Wednesday.

We also finished our section on rocks. We will do some review tomorrow and will take the test next week.

We also finished our Christ Light book on how we can get along better with other people. Today we discussed how to respond to people who think creation is foolish, and I got a lot of blank stares. This would be a good discussion to continue at home.

Music: Schubert ws 10-7
Math: we did test 3b today
Science: ws on sections 3+4
Geo: test tomorrow
English: WA #32 parts 1-4 10-7
Lit: picture for 10-5
Spelling: test tomorrow
CE: nothing
Health:Nothing
MW: Hymn 573 verse 4
Art: Monet due tomorrow