Merry Christmas!
Please remember to dress up for church tomorrow.
Please remember to keep working on the academic fair project. We spent some time today talking about how to evaluate if a source is a good one or not.
Tomorrow is our class party, please remember your gift labeled "boy" or "girl". You may put a "from" tag on it. Everyone should bring a few snacks or treats to share.
Math was set 60. We are doing the "practice" problems a-g and then 8-10, and 13-14, 17-21
Boys CE will be due the Thursday we get back.

Today we reviewed faults in preparation for our study of earthquakes. We also reviewed our jingles, cleaned up our voice threads, and started writing down our project plan for our academic fair. We also looked at working with negative numbers on a number line. We also checked our reviews for the geography test tomorrow.

Spelling: nothing
CL: nothing
Math: set 58 skip 2,3,4,6,10,11,14,l5,16,17
Algebra: set 63
English: nothing
Geo: test
Science: quiz on section 1 study guide due 1-5
Lit: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: notes for boys
CE: nothing

We finished reading A Christmas Carol today. We also took our science test and started a new section in Geography. We also had a good study time as well.

Memory: none
Cat: none
CL: none
Math: set 57 5,8,12,26,28
Algebra: set 61
English: ws 12-2, 12-3
Geo: Notes and quiz for Friday, study guide for Monday
Sc: we took a test
Spelling: test
Music: nothing
Art: ws

Today we cooked peas for science! We also did some average problems, but with a twist. We also went over our review for geography. We are working on practicing how to write to persuade people. Perhaps your student will persuade you to get them another present for Christmas.

Spelling: Unit 17 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: set 55
Algebra: 60
English: rough draft on 3 paragraph persuasive paper
Geo: test
Science: study guide
Music: nothing
CE: ws
Health 517
Art: nothing
Lit: nothing
Memory: review recitation for service

Today we finished our tall tales. They are published on www.voicethread.com. While some were working on this, the rest of the class got lots of time to work.Your student can show you how to get there. We also had our first group practice for the Christmas Eve service, and the students did well. We need more work on our longer paragraph, but that will come.

Memory: "Jesus Christ is Born" for Monday
Spelling: Unit 17 for next Thursday, no sense putting it off.
Math: set 53
Algebra: set 58
English: ws for Monday
Geo: quiz on Monday, study guide for Tuesday
Sc: quiz on Monday, study guide for Wednesday
Lit: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: 517
CE: boys ws
Art: ws for Friday

Well, fancy meeting you here. Thanks for joining me in the adventure we call educating your child.

We started working on a website called Voice thread today in connection with our tall tales. We are working on the unfamiliar aspect of it, but it should be fun once we get the hang of it. We also learned about Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. We reviewed our novel and Christmas service and even had time to take and correct a geography test.

Tomorrow will be our first all school practice for the Christmas service.

Spelling: test 16
Memory: "My Soul in Stillness Waits"
Math: set 52 skip 1,2,6,9,11,17,19
Algebra: 58
English: we did it in class
Geo: we took and corrected a test
Science: quiz Monday, study guide Wed
Lit: double sided ws
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: 517
CE: boys ws

Hello again! Sorry about no blog yesterday, but our visits at Children's took much longer than anticipated.

Today we reviewed for our Geography test. We also reviewed "The Tree of Life" that we have for memory work tomorrow. We spent some time using scientific notation for very large numbers. We had a nice short section in science talking about continental drift. For English we tried to look at the next stage of our tall tales, but ran into some technical issues that may delay us.

Spelling: Unit 16 tomorrow
Math: set 51 skip 8,9,11,14,15,16,17,19,24,27,28,29
Geo: TEST!
English: nothing
Lit:nothing
Health: 517 1-9
CE: girls nothing, boys ws
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Memory: The Tree of Life
Algebra: 57 even
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide next wed

Welcome to Monday. I pray yours is going well. How was ours you ask? Well, in real life is was pretty laid back, but in our literary worlds, it was pretty rough. Johnny, Dallas, and Old Dan died today. It remains to be seen how each character deals with these tragedies.

We also learned some more about Russia, graphs, and floods. We spent some time talking about fact verses opinion and how propaganda is often used, especially in politics and advertising.

Memory: "The Tree of Life" Thursday, "My Soul in Stillness Waits" for Friday, and "Jesus Christ is Born" for Monday
Math: Inv 5 questions 5 and 6
Algebra set 55
English: ws 11-1
Geo: study guide for Wed
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: nothing
Spelling: unit 16
Music: working on the Christmas service
Art: nothing

Today we had an excellent presentation/devotion on our mission for 7th grade, Calvary Academy. Let's work at remembering to bring our offerings to school.

We took an incredibly brief look at Russian history today. Ok, ok, I admit it, I made it a bit longer than the book, but it is fascinating stuff. We also worked on illustrating our tall tales. More will be done with those in the future. We also worked on a pre-test for math so we are good to go for the test on Tuesday. We are also getting into the Christmas service pretty heavily.

Please remember we sing in first service on Sunday.

Spelling: Unit 16 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: pretest for Monday, test will be Tuesday
Algebra: set 54
English: final copy and 3 illustrations
Geo: quiz Monday, study guide Wednesday
Science: Test Monday
Lit: nothing
Health: page 516 1-7
CE: girls ws
Art: houses should be finished, finish illustrations for English
Music: nothing
Memory: recitation from the Christmas service  pages 3 and 4 for Monday.

Today we took a geography test and reviewed for a science test. We also looked at unit multipliers and heard some more about Billy's dogs. Add to that some musings on tall tales and we had a pretty full day.

A couple of reminders for you today. Don't forget we sing in the first service on Sunday. We are also collecting for needy families. We have a box in our room for the collection. We are also having all school devotion tomorrow. We will have a guest speaker talking about our 7th grade mission, Calvary Academy. Please remember any mission offerings as well.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: song for church tomorrow
Math: set 50: skip 4,6,7,9,10,12,13,17,22,24C,26,30
Algebra: logic puzzle
Geo: we took our test
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: 516 1-7
CE: ws
Art: we will finish our houses tomorrow

Happy Advent!  Church tonight at 3:30 and 6:30.

We sing in the first service on Sunday.

We will take our geography test tomorrow. We wrapped up the chapter yesterday and looked over the study guides today. We finished our chapter on water as an agent of erosion in science today. We will check over the study guides for that tomorrow and take our test on Monday.

Spelling: Unit 15 for tomorrow, test Fri
Memory: song for church due Friday
CL: nothing
Math set 49, skip 5,6,8,9,15,26,28
Algebra: test
English: ws 10-3
Geo: test
Science: quiz and study guide
Lit: nothing
Music: we are working on the Christmas service
Health: 156 1-7
CE: worksheets
Art: finish the house picture