Tiff on violin

Elle on violin

Brandon on violin

Samuel on violin

Good day one and all. A special thanks today to Dr. Schani, our musical guest teacher, who showed us how to play the violin and did some Christmas songs with Charlie. We also reviewed (yea, I taught ahead again) how to use scientific notation for really small numbers. (Who wants to write 0.0000000000000000000000000000734 after all?) We watched some of one of the many versions of Treasure Island as well.

Math: 57: skip 5,8,12,26,26
Geo: packet of worksheets is due tomorrow

Welcome one and all to the Monday edition of your favorite blog! We used our boxes today, but I am still not going to tell you why! We also re-learned how to subtract mixed measures. (I can't help myself sometimes and I teach things early.) We got to check out most of our tall tale Voice Thread projects. We had a nice service practice as well. We also got to see the end of the Patrick Stewart version of A Christmas Carol. Some students said it was a little weird to see Macbeth playing Scrooge, but he is still Captain Picard to me!

Spelling: nothing
Art: nothing
Memory work: nothing
English: nothing
Math: set 56 skip 5,13,14,27,28,29,30
Geo: worksheets for Wednesday
Lit: "test" worksheets for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing

Greetings one and all. It is Friday! Although the week is not done. Please have your student at WLA by 8:20 for our practice tomorrow. We may be done early, but please allow until 10:15 for us to be finished.

Today in math we learned how to work average problems in reverse. (You'll have to ask your student about that one.) We also finished Treasure Island and started watching A Christmas Carol staring the one and only Patrick Stewart who, as some students noticed, also stared in our movie version of Macbeth.

Spelling: no unit next week
Memory: nothing
CE: nothing
Art: bring a box and wrapping paper on Monday, some tape would be nice as well.
Music: nothing
Math: set 55 skip 5,6,7,16,17,23,27
English: nothing
Literature: chapter worksheet is due on Monday, the other worksheets are due on Tuesday
Geo: packet of sheets is due on Wednesday
Science: nothing
Health: nothing

Thursday's school day is in the books. The power outage last night wrecked some havoc with our equipment, again, but we still got another full day of education in. We Took our science test today and we averaged a B, yea! We also looked at some story problems involving ratios. We worked diligently on our English worksheets. We also heard about an interesting negative consequence of the war in Iraq. Ask your student about the difficulties Christians have in Iraq and why, in some ways, they are worse now than they were before the war. We also crammed a lot of Russian history into a small time. We are coming along well with our Christmas service material as well. We just about finished with Treasure Island but ran out of time right at the end. We will finish it off tomorrow.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Art: bring a box and wrapping paper
Music: nothing
Math: set 54 1,2,17,18,29,30
Geo: nothing
English: two ws from Tuesday for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: nothing
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing
Memory: Silent Night for tomorrow

Tuesday time again. We had a bit of a topsy turvey day today as Mrs. Kemnitz needed to borrow the class for a bit. At first it was going to be three short times, but she managed to get it all in in one long time slot. What for you ask? Ah ha, I shall not tell, but your student does need a box, a shoe box or similar will do, and enough wrapping paper to cover said box. Please bring those tomorrow! Thanks.
We did manage to get our geography test in despite making time for Mrs. Kemnitz. We even managed a B average! Hurrah! I let the students read Treasure Island on their own this time. In math we discussed how to follow the proper order of operations when doing math problems. As your students about my Dear Aunt Sally.

Spelling: unit 15 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: Invocation for Thursday, Silent Night for Friday
Math: set 52 skip 1,2,6,9,11,17,19
Geo: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
English: rough draft tomorrow, final copy Thursday, ws Friday
CE: nothing
Science: study guide tomorrow
Literature: read the chapters and do the worksheet for tomorrow

Spelling: unit 15 for Thursday, test for Friday
Math: 81 8,9,11,14,15,16,17,19,24,27,28,29
Memory: Invitation for Thursday
Geo: test tomorrow
Music: nothing
English: rough draft by Wednesday of 3 paragraph persuasive essay
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, Study guide Wednesday
Lit: ws for tomorrow
Art: nothing

Welcome to Friday! Come on in the classroom is warm, at least compared to the weather outside! Today we took a spelling test, wrote memory work, matched all of the countries of Europe (the bodies of water were extra credit - the class average was 102.5% YAHOO!), went through the Christmas service, took a math test, worked on voice thread, got through another chapter in Treasure Island and still had time to learn about how cold Russia is and how the sea floor actually spreads out. On top of all that, we moved desks! What a day.

Art: nothing
Spelling: unit 15 for next week
Math: took a test
English: finish the voice thread
Geo: study guide due on Monday
Memory: "Oh Come All Yea Faithful" Monday
Music: learn memory work!
CE: News Quiz for this week
Science: quiz on Monday, Science Study guide for 12-14
Literature: extra credit 281 1-8, 303 1-9
Health: none

Happy Thursday! Today we started our new geography (Russia) and science (Plate Tectonics) units. For literature we didn't make it today but we will be heading back to Treasure Island.  We also worked on making graphs for math and got a few more people done with their voice thread project.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory Work: "Joy to the World"
Art: nothing
Music: learn "Joy to the World"
Math: investigation
Geo: we did the sheet in class
English: we worked on it in class
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Literature: nothing
Health: nothing

We had a great trip!

Hidey Ho neighbors. My technology workshop this morning was informative and I was glad I went!

Remember we want to LEAVE at 7:30 tomorrow so everyone needs to bring a cold lunch and be here before 7:30.

7th grade serves for the Advent supper tomorrow night.

Today we took the geography test. We also started our voice thread projects for our English tall tales. We read some more of A Christmas Carol and we worked through the pretest for math.

With the field trip tomorrow please remember that memory work and spelling are still due on Thursday. Please don't forget!

CL: "Grace Gift" for Thursday, "Joy to the World" for Friday
Math: pretest with a partner in class
Geo: study guide
Music: study memory work
Spelling: Unit 14 for Thursday test Friday
CE: nothing
Science: study guide
Literature: nothing
Art: nothing

Good day one and all.  Just a couple of reminders. On Wednesday we want to leave school at 7:30 so please be here before then. Everyone will also need to pack a cold lunch that we will leave on the bus during the tour and performance and then eat on the ride home. Thanks! Also, I will be gone to a technology conference tomorrow morning but will be back for the afternoon.

Today 13 out of 16 people got A's on their memory work. Keep up the good work!

Memory: "Grace Gift" for Thursday, "Joy to the World" for Friday
Spelling: unit 14 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: set 50 skip 4,6,7,9,10,12,13,17,22,24,26,30
Geo: test tomorrow
Music: work on learning the words for memory work
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: took a test
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing

Happy weekend everyone. Just a note to let you know that all of the due dates for Christmas service memory work are typed right in the service. We had a handful of students today that seemed to miss the due dates on the sheets, the note on the board, my reminder and the blog letting them know that there was memory work due today. There is another hymn due on Monday and a repeat of today's on Monday as well.

Spelling: Unit 14 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: set 49 skip 5,6,8,9,15,26,28
Geo: study guide is due on Monday, test Tuesday
Music: nothing
Art: work on English illustrations
English: work on illustrations
CE: news quiz worksheet
Science: test on Monday
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing
Memory work: "Oh How Joyfully"

Happy Thursday! We are making good progress working on our Christmas Service. (O Little Town of Bethlehem is due tomorrow don't forget.) We also discussed Easter Europe. Many of the countries in this region didn't even exist when we were in school! We also had a review of how to change a number from a decimal or fraction into a percent. English we worked on our sheets for tomorrow and in science we had a quiz. The Ghost of Christmas Past is now through with Scrooge and we are awaiting the arrival of Present.

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: O Little Town . . . for memory work
Math: set 47 skip 6,8,11,13,14,17,19,24,29
Geo: worksheet for tomorrow, study guide for Monday
Music: vocab ws for tomorrow
English: worksheets for tomorrow, illustrations for Monday
Art: work on illustrations for English
CE: nothing
Science: study guide due tomorrow
Lit: nothing

Happy Advent!

Happy Advent everyone. It was great to be able to worship with most of the class tonight.

Today we kept going with our discussions on erosion and Europe. In math we talked about powers of ten in preparation for dealing with scientific notation.

Don't forget recitation from the Christmas Eve service is due tomorrow.

Spelling: unit 13 for tomorrow, test Friday
CL: recitation from CE service tomorrow, O Little Town . . . for Friday
Math: set 47 skip: 6,8,11,13,14,17,19,24,29
Geo: section 3 ws, map test for Friday, study guide for Monday
Music: vocab ws for Friday
English: 2 worksheets for FRIDAY
CE: nothing
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: Mona Lisa for Friday

Hello friends! I had the blog open and ready to go and then life took over and I never got it done. My apologies to my faithful readers! Yesterday we talked about dividing decimal numbers again. We also started discussing Northern Europe and how surface water affects erosion. We also started working on the Christmas Eve service. Please note that there will be Thursday, Friday and Monday memory work while we learn our parts and songs for the service. Please also note that Wednesday Advent services start tomorrow. Pastor has sent home a sheet explaining a service opportunity the students will have to host one of the meals for after the service. Additionally, we are taking a break from Treasure Island and have started a play adaptation of A Christmas Carol in preparation for our trip next week.

We had a nice quiet morning so far today. Many students were working hard to get some things done. Disappointingly, some of them were working on things that were due today. As life gets busier, it is even more important to encourage your student to stay on top of his or her assignments. (Like remembering to do a blog for example ;-)

Spelling: unit 13 is due for Thursday, test Friday
Memory Work: Christmas service recitation for Thursday, hymn for Friday
Math: set 46 skip 3,4,5 do but skip the diagram, 12,15,16,17,22,25,30
Geo: section 2 ws, map test Friday, study guide Monday,
Health: nothing
Music: vocab ws for Friday
Art: Mona Lisa for Friday
English: ws 11-1A
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on section 9-2, study guide for Friday, test Monday
Lit: reading in class

Check out http://vimeo.com/24586045 for a promo for A Christmas Carol at the Pabst Theater.

Happy Thanksgiving! I pray for safe journeys for all! We tied up some loose ends today and talked about the different ways to present an answer to a division problem, based on what kind of a problem it is. (If the question asks how many students would go in each class, you can't say 23 and 1/4 students. There you would use the remainder, but if it asked how long each piece of rope would be, then you could use a fraction or a decimal.) We also spent time talking about how to do the bibliography cards and note cards. Then had a nice long chunk of time to work on putting that into practice.

Spelling: Unit 13 for next Thursday, test Friday
Music: vocabulary ws for Monday
Art: Mona Lisa for next Friday
Geo: We will do the 2nd half of Europe map test late next week
Science: nothing
English: work on the paper, note cards are due December 13th
Health: nothing
CE: nothing
Literature: nothing
Math: set 43, skip 6,7,13,16,22,24,25,26,27
CL: memory from lesson six for next week Friday

Hello friends. To start off with I'd like to share a little personal news. Thaddeus came in at 50th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight. We are very pleased. We are having an echo cardiogram done in December to see how the heart is doing.

Now, back to work! We discussed what to do when someone puts us down for our faith today. We also spent some time turning fractions into decimals and decimals into fractions and decimals into percents and percents into decimals. Round and round she goes where she stops nobody knows! Jim has cut the ship loose and could now be in some serious trouble. We are also going to try our hand at writing a tale tale. We also are looking at some musical terms and what they mean.

Spelling: none!
CL: lesson 6 memory work for next week Friday
Music: three worksheets for Monday, but I suggest you get them done before break so you can't forget them
Art: Modern day Mona Lisa
Science: nothing
Geography: fill out Easter Europe study guide, the map test will be late next week
Literature: ws for tomorrow, we read in class
English: tall tale rough draft, bring sources and note cards to work on tomorrow
Health: nothing
Math: set 43 skip 6,7,13,16,22,24,25,26,27

Friday is here once again, but you probably already knew that. What you may not have know though is that the pirates attacked the stockade, but the good guys won the battle. The little line that goes over repeating decimals is called a vinculum. You may also not have known that we took a science test and just missed averaging a B-. We also took our map test on one half of the countries of Europe. We also got the map for the other half. We will take that test after Thanksgiving.


Spelling: Unit 13 will be due Thursday December 1st
Art: Mona Lisa 2.0 due Friday December 2nd
CL: nothing
Math: set 42 skip 4,8,11,13,17,18,21,22
Geo: Eastern Europe map study guide, study it
Music: ws due on Monday
Literature: ch 19-21 ws for Monday
English: journal
CE: ws for Monday
Science: took a test
Health: nothing

Hey everybody! Rejoice with me. Yesterday I managed to bring two computers back from the dead. I don't know for how long they will stay that way, but for now I am pretty excited. Now, add to that that we all got to see Winnie the Pooh today and what more can you ask for? Current events, Meet Math, Phy Ed and a corrected science study guide with some study time and vision testing on the side? Well you got it! Plus we added some pirates on the end as well. Beat that!

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 5 tomorrow
Geo: map test on Easter Europe tomorrow
Math: nothing although set 42 will be assigned tomorrow and we will skip 4,8,11,13,17,18,21,22 in case anyone needs to get a head start
English: two worksheets from today for tomorrow
Science: test tomorrow
Art: Artist Monthly worksheet for tomorrow
Music: Composers Monthly for Monday
Literature: we read two chapters in class, I handed out the worksheet in case anyone wanted to get started on it but it won't be due until Monday since we still have one chapter to read yet tomorrow.

I hope you have had a good Wednesday. I have had a slew of technical issues culminating in my main computer dying! I will not be very responsive by email until I can get that taken care of. Please bare with me in my time of grief. Anyhow, despite that catastrophe, we managed to do some more work with direct objects, take our geo test (we averaged a B yea!), learn about how wind erodes, and even use the distributive property of multiplication over addition. As if that wasn't enough we got Jim reunited with the other folks despite the mutiny going full blast.

The WLA play is tomorrow. If you are driving please be here before 9. Thanks!

Spelling: unit 12 for Thursday, test is Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 5 for Friday
Math: set 41 skip 2,5,10,11,15,17,18,20,22,26,29
Geo: map test on Easter Europe tomorrow
Music: ws due on Monday
Art: ws due on Friday
English: sources due tomorrow
CE: nothing
Literature: ws tomorrow
Health: nothing

Another whirlwind of a day is over, well half over is probably more accurate unless your life is a lot more sedate than I think it is! Today we talked about glaciers. We also learned that a Moraine is more than a state park and a high school. We discussed direct objects as well as reviewing for the geo test tomorrow. 

Spelling: unit 12 for Thursday and test on Friday
CL: memory work for Friday
Art: Da Vinci worksheet for Friday
Music: Chopin worksheet for Monday
Math: test
Geo: test tomorrow, Eastern Europe map on Thursday
English: no new assignment, sources are due on Thursday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on 8-2
Literature: read ch 16 I handed out the worksheet for ch 16-18 right before choir. All they need to do is read Ch 16. They may fill out any ch 16 questions on the sheet but the sheet does not need to be done and they do not need to read past ch 16. We will read in class tomorrow.

Where do the weekends go? Well we are back at it again. We started talking about erosional forces, box and whisker graphs, the cultures of Europe and personification. We also got Jim ashore and a new friend, but don't know why the other "good guys" are on shore. We also listend to Chopin, our latest musician.

Spelling: unit 12 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: Investigation 4 #'s 5-12
Geo: study guide tomorrow
Music: Chopin sheets for next Monday
Art: Da Vinci ws for Friday
Health: nothing
English: sources are due for Thursday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Thursday
Literature: read in class, ws due for tomorrow

Happy Friday! There is a busy weekend ahead! We took our science test today and we averaged a B. We also started to learn about Renaissance artists to go along with learning about the Renaissance countries in geography. It all ties together!

Spelling: unit 12 for next week
CL: Lesson five memory work for Next Friday
Math: pretest for Monday
Geo: ws for Monday, study guide for Tuesday
Music: nothing
English: journal
CE: news quiz
Science: took test
Health: nothing
Lit: nothing

Hello again. Snow is back! Well, come on, it is WI after all! Gotta love it! We looked at angles today and how to figure out a bunch of angles based on the measurement of one of them. We also started a look at European history, but as expected, this took more than one class period, so we will wrap that up tomorrow. We also corrected the geo test and the science study guide so we are ready for the science test tomorrow. We averaged a B- on the study guide which is an improvement. I have to finish the essay question on the geo test but hope to have that entered before I go home tonight.

Spelling: test 11 tomorrow, unit 12 for next week
CL: memory work from lesson is due tomorrow
Math: set 40: skip 15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29
Geo: study guide is due 11-15
Music: Schubert is due tomorrow
Art: tree pic is due tomorrow
English: 3 ws from yesterday are due tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: ws on 10-12

What a wet day! Good thing that doesn't stop learning. We talked about proportions today like 3/4 = 6/8 for example. We also discussed how to find a missing number in a ratio. We learned about the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union and how to make complex sentences. We also learned that Jim heard something that may have saved all their lives. Of course we have no idea what that is. We also talked about carbs and sugars, but ran out of time to talk about fats.

Spelling: unit 11 due tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 4 due Friday
Math: set 39 skip 3,4,6,9,10,11,12,
Geo: study guide is due the 15th, countries map test part one is due on the 16th
Science: quiz and study guide tomorrow, test Friday
Music: Schubert due on Friday
Art: tree picture due by Friday
CE: nothing
Lit: we read in class, nothing due
Health: nothing
English: story or stories due tomorrow, 3 ws due for Friday

I hope your wet and dreary Tuesday was a decent one. We had issues today with technology as we tried to take the geography test, but we were able to overcome them. It was shortly after we decided to go old school and do it computer free, but I did end up showing those machines who was boss. We also looked at soil and charts, but we didn't get any charts about soil.

Spelling: unit 11 is due on Thursday. Don't wait to start until tomorrow! Test Friday
CL: memory work is due on Friday, don't wait to start that until Thursday!
Math: set 38: do #7 but skip the diagram part, also skip 9,10,17,19,28,29,30
Geo: map test on the geography of Europe TOMORROW!!!! 
Music: Schubert is due on Friday
English: ws 901 for tomorrow, final copy or copies for Thursday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on section 2 tomorrow
Literature: ws on the chs 7-9 for tomorrow
Research paper: sources are due next week
Health: nothing
Art: fall picture is due by Friday

Monday! A field trip form was sent home today. I need it back ASAP please. I had already reserved some additional tickets for adults, but based on the response to Macbeth, I realized I way under ordered. I am going to try and add more tickets. The sooner I can do that the better chance we have of being able to accommodate everyone. Thanks for your help.

Spelling: Unit 11 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Lesson four memory work for Friday
Math: set 37: skip 4,5,9,14,19,20,23,24,29
Geo: test tomorrow
Music: Schubert for Friday
English: final copie(s) for Thursday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Thursday
Lit: read ch 9
Art: finish tree pic
Health: nothing

Hey! It's Friday! We took our science test today. We averaged about a C+ which is a bit lower than our normal average, but we did have several A's as well, so well done. We talked about simple probability. We also looked at the climate regions of Europe.

Spelling: Unit 11 for Thursday, test Friday
Music: Schubert for Friday 11-11
Art: finish tree project
Math: set 36 skip 6,12,13,15,16,19,30
Geo: Study guide Monday
Science: Study Guide Thursday
Health: nothing
CE: worksheet
English: story elements outline and rough draft
Literature: chapters 4-6 and worksheet
CL: lesson 4 memory work for Friday

It was good to get back to the routine today. We started learning more about Europe and decimals. We also went through the study guide for the science test tomorrow. We started reading Treasure Island today as well. On the right hand side under links is a link to a favorite web site of mine. It is called Librivox. People take books that are in the public domain and read them out loud. They then make a recording of that available for free download. Treasure Island is one of the books that is available. If your student would like to follow along and listen to the book, or if you want to listen to it yourself, it is available for you. I would ask that any students who listen to it also read along as they do. Thanks!

On another note, our prezis went well. I have given the students their next country but we won't be doing those until some time next year. Some students are very excited and have been working on them already, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knows that they are not due for a long time yet.

Spelling: Unit 11 is due next Thursday, unit 10 test is tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 3 is due tomorrow
Art: have the painting available to finish tomorrow
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: read chapters 2 and 3 and finish the worksheet
Geo: Study guide due for Monday, test Tuesday
English: 3 worksheets from yesterday are due for tomorrow (today we had study time to work on them)
Math: set 35: skip 1,5,6,23,25,30

Happy Musical Day! We had a good show this afternoon and look forward to doing it again with an even bigger crowd tonight! The show starts at 6:30. We will meet in the room before and then head into the gym together.

Spelling: Unit 10 tomorrow, test Friday
CL: Memory work from lesson 3 for Friday
Geo: study guide for some time next week
Music: nothing
Art: nothing
Health: nothing
English: 3 worksheets for Friday
Math: set 34 skip 1,3,4,6,7,9,14,17,20,22,24,26
Literature: nothing
Science: study guide tomorrow, test Friday

Long time no see! It has been a very busy few days since we last talked. Conference was interesting and I came back with several useful things. I have also been hard at work with some special visual for our musical. Remember it is tomorrow! Lots of student and teacher hard work has gone into it so come and enjoy!

Spelling: unit is due Thursday, the test is Friday
English: final copy is due tomorrow
Math: set 33 skip 1,7,20,22,24,26,30
Geo: we are going though our prezi's on Europe
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
CL: memory from lesson 3 due for Friday
Science: study guide due for Thursday
Literature: nothing

Thanks everyone for coming in this week. It was good to meet with all of you. Another big thank you to the 6th grade parents for supplying some food for the teachers.

Today we took our geography test, finished The Outsiders, and looked at decimal numbers.

Math: set 31 skip 5,6,15,17,21,22,25,26,30

everything else remains the same as before.

Another busy day! We took our Math test today. We also finished up talking about South American countries. We also corrected our study guides for our test tomorrow. Remember the study guides are open book so please take advantage of the book. We looked over our story outlines and touched them up where needed. We also learned about metamorphic rocks. We are working on understanding ship vocabulary for Treasure Island.

Spelling: none
Music: none
Art: none
Math: took test
CL: lesson 3 memory work for next week, nothing for tomorrow
English: story rough draft for Monday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on section 3 for Monday
Literature: worksheets for Monday
Health: nothing

Greetings! Thanks for your patience. With conferences tonight I didn't get a chance to blog until now. Today we started our study of Treasure Island. We continued our travels though South America and learned how to plot things on a coordinate plane. We are also continuing to work on out musical numbers.

Spelling: none this week
CL: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Art: nothing
Health: nothing
Math: number 9 from the investigation. Make a pattern with a series of coordinate planes for a classmate to plot.
English: make a story elements outline based on one of the story elements
Science: quiz
Lit: nothing
Geo: study guide

Thanks to everyone who drove to our field trip today to keep the cost down. We apprecitate it. Our plan to take a walk to get to our lunch spot didn't work out so well so we headed back right away instead.

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 1 tomorrow
Art: nothing new
Music: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: we will correct the worksheet from yesterday
English: two ws from Tuesday
Health: nothing
Literature: one page essay about the different plays we watched pointing out 5 things that were done differently and what impact that made. due for Monday
Math: we will correct set 30 from yesterday
CE: nothing

Tomorrow is field trip day! We plan to have our morning devotion, use the rest rooms and leave. I hope to be on the road by 8:15. We will park across the street from the theater. The play should be done around noon. We then plan to get our lunches and walk to the city center to eat. I am asking the students to bring cold lunches, but there are some restaurants located there is someone wanted to purchase something additional. We hope to be back on the road by about 1:00 so we can get back in plenty of time for Youth Praise.

Please note that spelling is still due tomorrow despite the field trip.

Spelling: unit due Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson one is due on Friday
Math: set 20 skip 10,11,17,18,19,20,29,30
Geo: worksheet on Ch 9 section 2 Study Guide due Tue 10-25
Music; nothing
Health: nothing
English: two ws due for Friday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz Friday Study guide due Tue 11-1
Art: nothing new

Thanks for dropping by. Today we watched a short version of Romeo and Juliet. We also didn't never talk about double negatives. We took our science test and averaged an A-. Yeah! We also continued to learn about Mexico. In math we talked about how to round off and then estimate. A full day!

Spelling: Unit is due on Thursday, test Friday
CL: lesson one memory work due for Friday
Math: set 29 skip 2,5,7,11,13,14,15,27
Geo: ws on section 1, study guide due Tuesday
Health: review of CH 3 is due tomorrow
English: ws 7-2 and 7-3 due FRIDAY
CE: nothing
Art: fall pic part 1
Music: nothing
Science: we took a test
Lit: nothing

Welcome, welcome!

Spelling: Unit due Thursday, test Friday
Art: fall picture part 1
Music: nothing
Math: 28: skip 4,15,16,18,19,20,21,25,30
Geo: Europe prezis
Science: test tomorrow
CE: nothing
Lit: nothing
English: nothing
Health: review from Ch 3 for Wednesday

Happy Friday! Today we started to paint a fall scene. We took our geo test and had 3 A+s and a pretty good over all average. We also learned about LCM. In connection to that I introduced the students to the Kahn academy. It is a web site that has a lot of free educational videos. Many of them are on math topics, including LCM. They come with no guarantees, but it is nice to be able to watch them on your time table as many times as you would like.

Spelling: Unit 9 for Thursday, watch out for the second page, test on Friday
Art: part one of the painting
Music: we are working on the songs for the musical
Geo: Latin American countries map test on Monday
Health: review from ch 3 for Wednesday
Science: study guide for Monday, test Tuesday
English: final copy for Monday
Math: set 27, skip 4,5,8,11,14,15,16,21,23,25
Literature: nothing
CE: worksheet, transcripts were once again made available
CL: lesson two memory work for Friday

Wow. I forgot another one. That lets you know what the past two weeks have been like. Sorry about that!
Today we had the opportunity to spend the morning learning CPR and how to use an AED. We learned how to do it for adults, children, and infants. The entire class is now certified for CPR and using an AED. Did you know we have two AEDs in our building? There is one in the lunch room and one in the coat room. In the afternoon we talked more about minerals and practiced some of our songs for our musical.

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 1 for tomorrow
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: review of unit 3 for next week Wednesday
Geo: test tomorrow
English: rough draft moved from today for tomorrow, final copy due on Monday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Literature: AR tests need to be done by tomorrow!
Math: nothing 

Well we had some excitement today. Things got thrown for a loop when the power went down for some time. The class got treated to some extra Pastor Weigand time while I tried to mitigate some of the damage the power outage did to our computers. Eventually the power was restored and things got back near to normal. Now if only I could say the same about the computers . . .

Spelling: unit 8 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 1 for Friday
Geo: read through section section one of chapter 8, study guide do on the 13th
Music: nothing
English: 3 more journal entries by tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Literature: crossword puzzle
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Math: set 25, skip 1,3,4,5,8,10,22,23,27

Did you miss me? Well, I am back. Today we got through our tests in geography and science. We also ended up taking a Meet Math quiz. The nice part is, that is three classes with no assignments! So get working on Spelling and keep working on those English papers from Friday.

Spelling: Unit 8 for Thursday and test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 1 for Friday
Math: nothing
Geo: nothing
Science: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Literature: nothing
English: ws 6-2,6-3

Well it is Friday again. What a busy weekend ahead of us! I look forward to celebrating the 50th anniversary with all of you on Sunday! We had a busy day again. The highlight was our guest speaker. (Good thing since I am having her come back again in March.)

Spelling: Unit 8 for Thursday, test Friday
Art: nothing
CE: ws for Monday
Music: nothing
English: 2 worksheets due for TUESDAY
Science: test on Monday (we used extra time for our speaker)
Geo: test on Monday
Lit: nothing
Math: set 24 skip 1,3,7,9,10,12,29
Health: nothing
Cat: test Tue

Another Thursday has arrived. (Did this one take a few extra days or is that just me?) Today we worked on subtracting fractions when you have to borrow. We also looked at the climates of Latin America. There are more than you would think. We played some soccer and enjoyed an incredibly beautiful day. We discussed that 'not' is an adverb and not part of the verb phrase. We corrected the science study guide and checked out a bit more of "Macbeth".

We will have a guest speaker coming tomorrow. Watch for details.

Spelling: test 6 is Friday, unit 7 will be due for next week
Art: self portrait due for tomorrow
Math: set 23 skip 1,2,3,4,15,17,24,25
Geography: study guide is due tomorrow
Music: Beethoven sheet is due tomorrow
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: test
Literature: nothing
Health: nothing
CL: nothing

It is Wednesday! Congrats, you have survived this long! Today we started working on our songs for our musical. We also learned how to use a graphic to help us work with fractions. We also got to learn about the physical geography of Latin America. We did some editing on our papers. For science we studied the periodic table. Ok, we watched a video of how alkali metals react with water.
(They go pop! or even boom.)

Spelling: Unit 6 for tomorrow (We did 1/2 of the first page in class) test Friday
Art: self portrait for Friday
Math: set 22 skip: 7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,28
Geography: study guide due 10-7
Health: nothing
English: final copy
CE: nothing
Science: study guide due tomorrow, test Friday
Literature: nothing
Sermon summary due tomorrow

Greetings again! It occured to me that I never did blog yesterday. I appologize. I had a quick computer audi fix to do after school which turned into a two day power supply replacement. In the process the blog was left undone. Today I am back!

Yesterday and today we started looking at our Prezi presentations on Latin America. So far they are fairly well done. We also started talking about 3 prargraph essays. We have also been talking about molucules and compunds and such. Today we reviewed how the mass number and the atomic number of an element let us decide how many protons, electrons and nuetrons their are. In math we took our test yesterday and today started talking about prime factorizations. It has been a busy week!
Subject for academic fair is due tomorrow.

NO HOT LUNCH TOMORROW!

Spelling: Unit 7 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: open book test was today
Art: faces due for Friday
Music: Beethoven ws for Friday
CE: nothing
Literature: nothing
Science: study guide for Thursday, test Friday
Geo: nothing (keep going on Prezis)
English: three paragraph essay, rough draft due tomorrow
Math: set 21skip 5,8,10,12,17,19,20,25,26

It's Friday again. With no testing or trips today, we got to have more of a regularr day. We worked on self portraits, things we can do with a compass (and we learned some other things about circles), and our prezzis. We discussed what really is classical music anyway and finished this version of Macbeth. Phew!

Spelling: Unit 7 for Thursday, Test Friday
Art: self portrait for Friday
Music: Beethoven ws for Friday
Geography: Latin America prezzis for Monday
English: two worksheets from yesterday for Monday
CE: news quiz for Monday, use the web site to replay the videos or read the transcripts to get the answers http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Science: quiz on section 2-2
Literature: nothing

Hello again. We had a great trip to the lab over at UW Fond du Lac today. We got some great hands on time and a slew of concepts that we will cover through out the year were introduced. We also talked about collective nouns and how to decide when they are plural and when they are singular. We spent a lot of time discussing atoms and the periodic table as well.

Spelling: Test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 5 tomorrow
English: 2 worksheets for MONDAY
Art: face due tomorrow
Math: pre-test from yesterday is due tomorrow
Geography: keep working on the prezzi
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Literature: nothing

Hi. The first page of spelling is a bit confusing because some of the words have short vowel sounds and double consonants. So as a special bonus for my faithful blog readers here is some help.

17. harass
18. appendix
19. confess
20. vanilla

Aren't you glad you checked the blog tonight? Don't forget it can be emailed to you every night between 5 and 7. Look at the bottom of the page and you can have this delivered. And unlike a pizza, you don't even have to tip!

Today we finished Terra Nova testing! We also went though half of the pre-test in class. The students will have the next half due for Friday since we will have our trip tomorrow. Please remember that we are walking, possibly in rain, so help your student be prepared for the weather. We also had our map test today. Some of the students took the extra testing time to study their maps. Good for them! We also took a look at some irregular verb forms. Lots to remember there.

Spelling: unit 6 due tomorrow, test Friday
CL: lesson 5 memory work due for Friday
Art: face due Friday
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
English: nothing
Math: pretest 2a do 2,4,6,7,10,12,14,16,18,20 for Friday
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Geo: nothing
Science: nothing

Hello again! Today we spent much of our day testing. We did go through some sentences for English and discussed possessive nouns and pronouns. We also took our geography test.

Remember our walking field trip is on Thursday. Please encourage appropriate shoes and clothes. The last forecast I saw no includes some rain on Thursday. Please keep that in mind.

CL: memory work from lesson 5 due on Friday
Spelling: unit 6 for Thursday, test Friday
Health: review due tomorrow
Art: face due on Friday
Geo: map test tomorrow
Music: nothing
Science: nothing
English: nothing
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Math: nothing

Happy Monday! Today we did a lot of Terra Nova tests. We did get to talk about square roots and area though. We also watched a bit more of Macbeth.

A note was sent home today about our UW field trip on Thursday. We will walk over and it doesn't cost us anything. We will get to play in the lab of one of their earth science professors.

Spelling: Unit 6 for Thursday, test Friday
Geo: test tomorrow
CL: Lesson 5 memory work for Friday
Science: nothing
English: journal due tomorrow 3 more entries min.
Lit: nothing
Math Set 20: skip 5,7,10,13,24,27
Art: face for Friday
Music: nothing
Health: review for Wednesday
CE: nothing

Another week down. Today we drew each other. We also talked about perimiter, worked on our paragraphs, and corrected our study guides.

Spelling: Unit 6 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Memory work lesson 5 for next Friday
Art: partner's face for Friday
Music: nothing
Geo: test Tuesday, Map test Wednesday
English: final copy paragraph due Monday
CE: ws due on Monday
Science: nothing
Literature: nothing
Health: reveiw of chapter 2
Math: set 19 skip 5,6,11,15,18,21,22

Today Macbeth was killed. We will start watching some productions of the play tomorrow. We took our science test today and we averaged a B-. We also averaged a B- on our geography test yesterday.
CL: memory work due for tomorrow
Spelling: test tomorrow
ART: face
English: rough draft paragraph
Math: set 18: 5, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 26, 29
Geo: study guide
Science: took test
CE: nothing
Literature: nothing
Health: review from section 2

Today we found out that the English are comming with Macduff and Malcom to take care of that pesky Macbeth. We also found out where Johnny and Pony Boy are hiding out. We looked over our study guide for the science test tomorrow. We also looked at Canada and America today.

Science: test tomorrow
Spelling: unit 5 tomorrow, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 4 for Friday
Art: face due for Friday
Music: instrument and Mozart music due for Friday
Health: review from chapter 2 due next week Wednesday
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Math: set 17, skip 12,16,19,28,29,30
Geo: ws on section one for tomorrow, study guide for Friday

Don't forget about our presentation on bullying tonight at 6:30. Students are welcome!

Today we covered working with US standard measurements, the academic fair project part two, more on Prezi.com, the scientific method, and Malcom and Macduff plotting the demise of Macbeth!

Look for midterms tomorrow and remember you can check your student's grades 24/7 at engrade.com

Math: set 16 skip 5,8,12,13,15,16,25
Spelling: unit 5 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory work: lesson 4 for Friday
Art: face for Friday
Music: instrument and Mozart ws due on Friday
Geography: we took our test today. The class averaged a B- with 2 A+ and 2 A's! Way to go!
English: same two ws from yesterday, academic fair topic by Friday the 30th.
CE: nothing
Science: study guide is due tomorrow remember this is open book and notes!
Literature: nothing
Health: nothing

Welcome to Monday! The weather sure improved as the day went on! Today we started talking about the animal rights movement. We then moved into equivalent fractions and followed that up with subject verb agreement. We learned some more about Mozart. We than checked in with Macbeth and found out what extremes he is willing to go to. We finished off hearing about the trouble Johnny and Pony Boy are in.

Spelling: unit 5 for Thursday and test for Friday
CL: memory from lesson 4 for Friday
Math: set 15, skip 5,11,13,14,15,16,17,21,23,25
Geography: test tomorrow
Music: Composer Monthly sheet due Friday, instrument ws due on Friday
English: 2 worksheets due for WEDNESDAY
CE: nothing
Science: study guide due WEDNESDAY
Literature: nothing
Art: face due for FRIDAY

Happy Friday! We drew another face today, heard and read about Mozart, did some more story problems, reviewed geography and even read an article in an actual print newspaper.

Spelling: unit 5 for Thursday, (Watch the directions on the first page!) test on Friday
Art: Face for Friday
Math: Set 14 skip
Geography: study guide due on Monday
Music: Mozart ws due on Friday
English: final copy paragraph due on Monday. In pen and cursive or typed.
CE: news quiz due on Monday
Science: quiz on Monday
Literature: nothing
Health: nothing

Here is the video from all of your pictures.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=U0&Dato=20110914&Kategori=FON01&Lopenr=109140808&Ref=PH

Check out this link for pictures from our Fun and Fitness day!

CL: memory work from lesson 3 is due tomorrow

Spelling: test tomorrow

Art: nothing

Geo: worksheet

Music: instrument quiz

English: writing assignment 1

CE: nothing

Science: quiz on chapter 1 section one

Literature: enjoy Shakespeare
Math: Set 13: skip 6,7,8,11,19,27,29,30

We had a great turnout for Grand parent day. It was awesome. The video turned out very well thanks to all the pictures I got. Thanks! Our afternoon was a lot of fun as well. God blessed us very much.

Spelling: unit 4 due tomorrow, test Friday
Math: Set 12 skip 5,8,11,14,26,28
Music: quiz on Friday
CL: memory work for Friday
Geo: worksheet on chapter 5 section 1

Come on in! Thanks for dropping by. Today we looked at story problems in math. We also took our map test in geography. I posted on the board the proposed (subject to change) due dates for geography for the next month or so. Hopefully that doesn't have to change too much. We also heard more about Macbeth starting to lose it over his guilt for killing his king.

Spelling: unit 4 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Lesson 3 memory work for Friday
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: quiz on Friday
Science: we took our test, nothing
English: write in your journal
Math: set 11 5,7,19,20,21,22,28,29,30

Happy Monday everyone! Today we finished up our discussion of abortion. We also took a math test. We had a surprise not quiz! I moved the map test to tomorrow and we reviewed today. We also took some time to sing some fun songs.

Spelling: unit 4 for THURSDAY and test for Friday
Math: we took a test
Geo: map test tomorrow
Music: instrument quiz Friday
English: ws 3-2, 3-3
CE: nothing
Science: test tomorrow
Literature: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing

Welcome to Friday! A full week next week oh my! Today Pastor Boggs had all school devotion with us. It got our day off to a great start, but we did have to do some creative schedule rearranging the rest of the day! We got our geography test taken after a little rescheduling. We went over the science study guide and tested out a website we will be using for geography. We also did some more sentences for English. We got a little farther in Macbeth as well.

Spelling: Unit 4 for THURSDAY and test on Friday
CL: Memory work from lesson 3 due for Friday
Music: matching the instrument with the picture ws due for Monday
Geography: map test for Monday
English: nothing
CE: worksheet on the week. Videos and transcripts can be found on CNN's student news page.
Health: nothing
Science: test will be on Tuesday
Math: investigation 1, test will be on Monday, look over the pre-test.

Literature: did in class

Hey everybody. Did you know you can now have this blog delivered to your email between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM? Just click on the follow by email link at the bottom. The link to follow the blog in your RSS reader (like Google Reader) is still there.

Grandparents day is next week! We will be working on our project for it tomorrow. We really need those pictures of grandparents (with the grandchild if possible.) 7th grade is also responsible for the plates and napkins for the meal as well. We need enough for about 175 grandparents! How cool is that? If you would also like to bring some sloppy joes, please talk to Mrs. Lauber or Mrs. Albrecht.

Tomorrow is all school devotion with Pastor Boggs from WLA. Join us if you are able!

Spelling test, memory work, and geography test are all tomorrow!

Spelling: unit 3 and test
CL: memory work
Math: pretest with a partner
geography: test Friday, map test Monday
Music: Haydn worksheet should be done by now
Art: nothing
English: 3 sentences
CE: nothing
Science: quiz, study guide due tomorrow
Literature: nothing

I pray you all had a good holiday weekend. We spent our day getting back into the routine. We did have some trouble with following directions on some assignments. Students have the ability to redo the assignment with the correct directions. Not everyone has taken this offer, but many have.

Spelling Unit 3 and test are due on Friday,
CL: memory work from lesson 2 is due on Friday
Math: set 9 skip 10,11,12,13,14,15,21
Geo: ws and study guide due for tomorrow
Music: ws was due today
English: journal entries at least one per week, redo sentences and today's worksheets if needed.
Science: section 1 quiz tomorrow and study guide for Friday
Literature: nothing
Art: nothing

Please send picutres of your student's grandparents, perferably with you student if possible, to school as soon as is possible. Please make sure to label them so I can get them back to you. Thanks!


We talked about quite a bit today, but did carve out some good study time as well. We worked with measurements and percents. We also looked at the physical features of Canada and the US. We worked in non-renewable resources, a spelling test, and memory work among other things.
 
CL: lesson 2 memory work for next Friday
Math: set 8 skip :3,13,14,15,18,21,22
Art: nothing
Music: Haydn ws for next week.
Geography: ws for Tuesday, study guide for Wednesday
Health: nothing
Spelling: unit 3 for next week and test on Friday
English: two worksheets 2-2,2-3 for Tuesday
Literature: we did it in class no assignment

Please send picutres of your student's grandparents, perferably with you student if possible, to school as soon as is possible. Please make sure to label them so I can get them back to you. Thanks!

It took me a few hours but I did figure out the technical glitch with our geography test that we took yesterday. As usual, it was user error. I did have to have the students take the geography test again, but it got them out of having an assignment today. The science test went off without a hitch. The rest of the day was a bit unusual as well. We had our pictures taken today and we got a little long on our current events class, but in the end we got done with what we needed to.

Spelling and memory work are due tomorrow! Don't forget!

Spelling: test and unit tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson one, all but the commandment
Math: set 6 skip 4, 13, 16, 20, 21, 23, 26
Geography: took the test, try 2
Health: nothing
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: took the test (grades for this and the geo test are online at engrade.com)
Literature: Rude Dude worksheet
Art: face is due tomorrow
Music: ws on Haydn is due next week

Hey there, how ya doing? We are doing ok. The students are trying to adjust to a new teacher and a new way of doing things and I am adjusting to the abilities of a new group of kids. We took our first geography test today. Due to a technical issue, I don't have the grades for those yet, but I hope they went well. We also talked about metaphors and looked at a few of Shakespeare's. We also reviewed how to do the question and answer flow for English.

Spelling: unit 2 and test for Thursday
CL: memory work from lesson  for Thursday
Math: set 6 skip: 3, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19, 27, 29
Geography: study guide for next week Wednesday
Music: ws on Haydn for Monday
Art: Face ASAP
Health: nothing
English: nothing
CE: nothing (I added a link to the website we use on the right. Check it out or use it for review.)
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: Metaphor ws for tomorrow

Welcome to Monday! Today we started a discussion on abortion. We also worked with expanded notation, the four kinds of sentences, and Shakespeare's language.

CL: Memory Work for Thursday. Lesson 1 everything but the commandments.
Math: Lesson 5 skip 8,14,17,18,23,24
Geography: test tomorrow
Spelling: unit 2 and test for Thursday
Music: we looked at different musical instruments and the sounds they make
English: 2 of each kind of sentence.
Current Events: nothing
Science: 3 worksheets for tomorrow and test on Wednesday
Lit: Out of Order ws

Happy Friday!

Today we learned about Joseph Haydn. We also looked at number lines, what our geography and science tests will look like, and work on drawing faces. We also discussed more about Shakespeare's life and times.

Spelling: Unit 2 and test next week Thursday
CL: lesson one memory for next week Thursday
Math: lesson 4 skip 1,2,4,10,18,20,22
Geo: study guide is due on Monday
Science: study guide is due on Monday
Music: Haydn ws due Monday September 5th
Art: Face picture due on Monday
English: journal entry
CE: ws for Monday
Science: study guide due on Monday
Literature: nothing
Health: nothing

Well hello again! Nice to see you once more. Today we talked about how to treat people living a sinful lifestyle. We also did some easy review in math. In geography we talked about how technology and trade are making the world a smaller place. We talked a lot about maps and how different maps are used for different things. We also talked about what it meant to be a Duke in Shakespeare's time.

Spelling: unit 1 due tomorrow and test
CL: memory work due for next week Thursday
Math: lesson 3 due skip: 20,21,22,26,28
Geography: ws on section 3
English: ws 1-3
Science: quiz tomorrow
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Hey, welcome back! Hopefully by now you have gotten your invitation to make an account on Engrade. This is what 7th and 8th are trying out for grades this year. It gives you the chance to check in anytime and see how your student is doing. If you didn't get your email invite or are having issues, please let me know.

I sent home a slip today regarding our upcoming field trip. The trip isn't until the 20th of October (NOT THE 10TH THAT WAS A TYPO) for a while but I need to get the exact number of tickets sent to the PAC sooner rather than later. I also need to make sure that we have enough drivers. If you would like to drive us and see Macbeth live please let me know!

Today we talked about latitude and longitude, sequences, and culture. We even talked about mental health.

Spelling: Unit 1 and test due for Friday
Health: no assignment
English: worksheet 2-1
Math: lesson 2 skip 7,8,14,18,22,23
Geography: Worksheet on section 2
CL: memory work passages and hymn verses from lesson one. Due on 9/1 Not the 6th commandment.
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Science: notes for quiz tomorrow

Happy First Day of School! Enough planning already, let's do some learning!

We had a great opening devotion by Mr. Zunker today reminding us that when we hurt each other, we hurt Jesus. We pray that we serve each other in love this year and always.

We took a look at our first math lesson of the year which was mostly review. We looked at why people live where they do. We got rained out for soccer so we did some basketball instead. We also learned some jingles and learned about landforms. We ended the day discussion why we are going to study Shakespeare and started listening to The Outsiders.

CL: nothing
Math: lesson 1, skip 10,14,15,19,27,30
Geography: one worksheet
English: no assignment
Current Events: nothing
Science: notes for quiz tomorrow
Lit: nothing

HAPPY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL (for the kids). Keep them reading over the summer and we will see you next year.

I'll be having meetings and working on next year until we take Thaddeus in for surgery. That is still on for the 6th and 7th. The average recovery time is 7 to 10 days. Keep up the prayers! Thanks!

Happy last full day of school! We watched the Hobbit movie today. Not quite the best version, but since it is the only version so far . . . We also learned about how NASA fixed Hubble and talked about space stations. We finished going though our voice thread projects and also went through our fairy tales. All in all an entertainingly educational day.

Please remember to send bags along tomorrow so that students will be able to carry their stuff home.

We stayed dry and cool today. We had some fun, but we also learned the importance of listening to each other.

The English final copy is due tomorrow and the literature essay questions are also do. Please don't forget! Have a great night.

Field tomorrow! Please remember a lunch and there will be no cooler.
We started watching our geo projects on Voicethread. Check them out. Your studnet can show you how.

Spelling: nothing
Religion: nothing
Math: review sets 75 and 82 on page 776
Geo: we watched our voice thread projects. Check them out.
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
English: fairy tale final copy
Science ws 25 3+4
Lit: 3 essays
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

Good news update!  Wautoma is predicting 65 and partly sunny for Tuesday! (So far at least.)

We have had some blog problems this week, the problem being I got so busy after school I forgot to do it! So sorry! (On the plus side I did get the computer virus removed.) Anyhow, so ends the last complete week of school. We got to watch the lower grades play entitled "I Need a Vacation!" That got our minds thinking about summer, that and the beautiful weather. Speaking of weather, I will keep an eye on the weather forecast for Wautoma, but as of right now they are predicting a slight chance of rain and a high of 57. Last year it was in the 90s. We shall see, but keep an eye on it so we dress appropriately.

Today we started chapter six of Romans. We also finished up our geography projects. Those that were done already worked on building a model of a lunar lander. We are starting our fairy tales for English but reviewing for math.

Spelling: nothing, we are all done!
Lit: read in class, we will finish the book on Monday and have our essays due for Wednesday.
Science: ws on 25 1+2
English: Fairy Tale rough draft for Monday, final copy for Wednesday
CE: nothing (President Obamah thinks Israel should give back all the land they got in the 6 day war? WOW!)
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Math: two review sections from page 776
Romans: ws we did in class

Happy Wednesday! Today we took some more verses in Romans. We had a bit of a technical difficulty, but we were able to try out some different technology which worked out well indeed. We also did some review in math and English, kept hammering away on our projects for geography and got Smaug killed in The Hobbit.

Spelling: unit 36 due tomorrow, test Friday
Lit: read in class
Science: two wshs
English: ws 31-2b
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Geo: project
Math: 111,114 page 777]
Art: color window picture
Music: nothing

Well, we had some technological difficulties today, but we eventually got our science test taken. We also did a math test, worked on our geo projects and did some more work on words that are often mixed up. The principal reason our principal is here is to uphold our principle of Christian education.

Anyhow . . .

Spelling: unit 36 for Thursday, test Friday
Lit: read in class
Science: took a test today
English: ws 31-a
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: color
Music: nothing
Geo: project
Math: end of the year test
Romans: nothing

Today we got Hubble launched but oppps it has a problem! We also took our math test, worked on our geography project, and did most of our English reports.

Spelling: Unit 36 for Thursday, test Friday
Lit: in class
Science: test tomorrow
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Geo: project
Math: test
Romans: ws in class
Art: color the picture
Music: nothing

Happy Friday everyone! Today we looked at a movie version of Treasure Island. It is interesting how with a few small twists you can change the nature of the characters and thereby the story. Is Silver a bad guy or a good guy?

Spelling: Unit 36 for next week
Lit: nothing
Art: color window picture
Music: nothing
Science: test on Tuesday
English: word pairs report for Monday
CE: nothing
Geo: country project
Math: nothing
Religion: nothing
Health: nothing

Wow its a warm one out there! I am sending home the paper work for our field trip today. (It got handed out during Youth Praise, so some of you may not get it until tomorrow.) There is your standard information sheet, but there is also a registration form from Camp Phillip. I need both back, with the $15 as soon as you can work it. Thanks!

Today we started our project for geography. We also reviewed for our science test for next week. We did some math and English work, and talked more about the book of Romans. We also watched the Road to Emmaus video. Ask your child about it. I think it is very well done.


Spelling : Test 35 tomorrow
Lit: in class
Science: test next week
English: ws 30-3c, 30-4d
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Geo: project
Math: set 120 all but 19
Romans: in class
Art: window picture
Music: nothing

Hey, it's Tuesday! Today we saved the crew of Apollo 11, took a math pretest, reviewed for the geography test, tired to figure out if the dependant clause was an adj or an adv, and we got the dwarfs out of the barrels and they are all alive, for now!

Two weeks from today  we will take our trip to Camp Philip! There will be a sheet coming home soon, but the entire trip will be accomplished within the confines of a regular school day. The cost will be $15 thanks to some help from the school to cover the cost of the bus.

Track meet tomorrow, weather permitting. Dress appropriately. 

Spelling: unit 35 due Thurs, test Fri
Lit: read in class
Science: quiz
English: ws 30-1A, 30-2b
Geo: test
Health: nothing
CE: ws
Math: pretest
Romans: nothing
Art: window picture
Music: nothing

Happy rain filled Monday. Today we learned about how we can't divide by zero. We also continued to study Romans. We looked at the moon some, but will study it more tomorrow. We also wrapped up our study of Antarctica.

Spelling: Unit 35 for Thurs, test Friday
Lit: in class
Science: quiz on section 2 review due Thurs
Health: nothing
CE: ws
English: nothing
Math: 119 skip 5,12,15,23-30
Geo: quiz and study guide tomorrow
Romans: in class
Art: window picture by Friday, not colored.
Music: nothing

Thanks PSF for the lunch! I had a toasted club sandwich and the Backyard grill and it was good! Thank you also to those who gave gifts. It is especially nice at this time of year, when the students would rather be outside then trying to learn, to get a little pat on the back to let us know our long hours are appreciated. The thing is, we appreciate your long hours with your children, too!

Spelling: Unit 35
Lit: nothing
Art: window picture, b+w we will color next week
Music: nothing
Science: quiz on Monday, review for Thursday
English: ws 29-5 F
CE: ws
Health: review on pages 438-439
Geo: quiz on section 2 review due on Tuesday
Math: 118 skip 3,7,12,14,15,20,21,24,25,27
Religion: nothing

Today we bowled! We had a good time, got some exercise and raised some much needed funds. We also learned about slope intercept form, heard Paul speak to us about our hypocrisy, spent some more time in Australia and New Zealand,  and we saw that dependant clauses can be used as adjectives. Whew! What a day.

Spelling: test 34 tomorrow
Lit: read in class
Science: quiz on Monday
English: nothing
CE: ws
Health: 438-439 review
Geo: quiz on ch 30 section 1
Math: 117 skip 2,3,5,10,11,12,14,16,22,30
Romans: ws we finished in class
Art: nothing
Music: Joplin ws

ACCELERATED READER IS DUE MAY 13TH!

What a beautiful day! Today we heard the Apostle Paul speak to us about thinking we are better than others just because we seem to lead a more moral life. We also did some factoring of binomials and trinomials. We also looked at why we have seasons and learned lots of vocabulary words.

Spelling: Unit 34 for Thursday, test Friday
Lit: Hobbit, in class
Science: Chapter 23 section 1 quiz, study guide will be due next Thurs.
English: ws 29 4 D and E
CE: ws for next week
Health: review 438-439 for next week
Geo: took test
Math: 116 skip 1,6,7,11,18,22,28,30
Romans: ws we did in class
Art: nothing
Music: Scott Joplin ws for Friday

Welcome to Tuesday! Today we landed on the moon! Well, we watched some guys land on the moon while Micheal Collins orbited the moon so they would have some place to go back to. We also learned how the metric system connects mass, area, and volume in a very logical and easy way. We reviewed for our geography test and expanded our knowledge of subordinate clauses.

Thanks to everyone who is helping make this teacher appreciation week special!

Spelling: Unit 34 due Thursday, test Friday
Lit: Read in class
Science: If you were around then, talk to your student about the moon landing, or get Grandma and Grandpa to do it!
English: ws 29-3 C
Health: 438 1-16, 439 1-32 for next Monday/Tuesday
CE: ws for Wed/Thurs
Geo: test
Math: 115 skip 3,4,6,7,14,15,19,28
Romans: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: Joplin ws (Scott not Janice)

Happy Monday! Today we kept rolling with Australia and New Zealand. We also got to Appollo 10 but are still waiting to land on the moon. In math we looked at negative exponents which is easier than it sounds as it turns out.

Happy Weekend! Today we tried out a new art site and gave our reviews. They were room temperature. However, we did find some connected resources that were neat. We also added how to find the volume of pyramids, cones, and spheres to our bank of knowledge. We took our map test for geography and started our next chapter. We are nearing the end! Of the world? No, the book.

Spelling: unit 34 for Thursday, test for Friday
Math: set 113 skip 2,3,4,5,8,9,14,22,27,28,29
Geo: quiz Monday, study guide for Tuesday, test Wednesday
CE: ws
Health: nothing
Science: nothing
Literature: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: artist monthly for next Friday
Romans: nothing

Please remember to bring hte money for bowling and the slip for singing!  Thanks!

Another blessed day in the Lord! Today Bilbo got away from Gollum, the Gemini Project proved that man could operate in space and two space craft could rendezvous, and we played with Pythagorean triplets! We did some work with clauses and took our geography test as well.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: none
Romans: none
Art: none
Music: none
English: 1 worksheet
Science: none
Geo: took our test today, map test tomorrow
CE: worksheet
Health: nothing
Lit: in class
Math: 112 skip 17,18,19,22,23,24,25,26,27,28

Greetings on this rainy Tuesday. At least we don't have to worry about drought any time soon. Today we got back into the swing of things. Ask your child about our science video. I hope they enjoy it half as much as I do!

Spelling: Unit 33or Thursday, test Friday
Math: took test
Geography: study guide and ws are due Wednesday, test Thursday, map test Friday
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
English: two worksheets
Science: test
Lit: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

I will be gone tomorrow so there most likely will be no blog.

God bless you as you contemplate the death and resurrection of our Lord.

Romans: nothing
Spelling: Unit 33 for next Thurs, test Friday
Math: Investigation
Algebra: test
Geo: study guide due for Wed
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
English: 28-4 G+H
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

Spelling unit and test TOMORROW
Song for memory TOMORROW
Art Picture TOMORROW
Music 3 ws for TOMORROW
Math: pretest
English: 2 ws
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Science: Quiz tomorrow
Geo: quiz tomorrow study guide Wednesday

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . I love WI weather. It always has a surprise ready for you!
Today we took the geo test. As expected, that went well. We also learned about compound interest and participial, gerund, and infinitive phrases. We had a really long science quiz on the early days of space exploration, and then moved on.

Spelling: Unit 32 for Thursday, and test
Math: Unit 100 (YEA!) skip 1,4,8,9,12,13,17,18,20,23,26,28,29
Algebra: set 119 skip 5 problems
Romans: nothing
Memory: song for Thursday
Geo: took test
Sc: took Quiz
Lit: in class
Art: Easter pic for Thurs
Music: 3 definition ws for Thurs
CE: ws
Health: nothing

Happy Monday! Again! Today we got spacey as we looked at a brief overview of the work NASA did to get to the moon. We also looked at adding another step to our solving of equations. We are good to go for the geo test tomorrow as well. We started the day off by getting in deep with the book or Romans.

Spelling: Unit 32 test and unit for Thurs
Memory: song for Thurs
Math: 109 skip 3,6,8,10,11,16,17,20,26,28,29
English: ws 28 2 C+D
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing
CE: ws
Art: Easter pic for Thurs
Music 3 definitions ws for Thurs

Happy Friday! We finished Galatians today. We are planning on Romans next. We had a nice easy and short math lesson today and reviewed in English. For geography we watched some short video clips on our countries and then took an extra credit review. We are working on more definitions for music and focusing on Easter for art.

Spelling: Unit 32 for next Thursday, test on THURSDAY also
Galatians: ws for Monday
Math 108 skip 2,5,7,,8,9,11,13,15,17,21,28
Algebra: 117
Geo: study guide for Monday, test Tuesday
CE: ws
Health: nothing
English: ws 28-1 a + b
Science: quiz for Monday, review for Wednesday
Lit: nothing
Art: Easter picture
Music: 3 ws on musical definitions

Thanks to all who handed back signed midterms already. AWESOME! Today we just about finished Galatians, We looked at slope in Math class. We also went through gerunds, participles, and infinitives at the same time. Now it gets challenging. We also continued our study of Asia and learned more about dwarves and hobbits.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Math: 107 skip 1,2,3,4,8,11,13,15,20,22
Algebra: 116
CE: ws
Health: nothing
English 27-5 I+J
Science: quiz on 22-1 for Monday, Study Guide due Wednesday
Lit: did in class
Art: two pictures for Friday
Music: two ws on definitions for Friday

Spelling: unit 31 for tomorrow
Galatians: nothing
Math: 105 skip 1,3,5,6,10,13,14,15,26
Geo: quiz
CE ws
Health: nothing
English: nothing
Science: took test
Lit: nothing
Art: two pictures
Music: two vocab worksheets

Remember NO HOT LUNCH NEXT WEEK
Midterms should go home tomorrow. Please remember to sign and return or send me a note letting me know that you saw it. I need to get notes from everyone. Thanks to those of you who remembered at the end of 3rd quarter.

Spelling: unit 31 for Thursday, test Friday
Math set 105 skip 6,9,12,15,18,20,22,24,28
Algebra: 114
Galatians: none
Geo: quiz on 27-2
Health: nothing
CE: worksheet
English: 2 ws 27-4 g+h
Science: test tomorrow
Literature: nothing
Art: two pictures
Music: two wks on music definitions

Welcome to  a new week.
Today we looked at finding the area of semi-cirles, and the legnth of arcs. We are continuing to work through gerunds. We also spent some time looking at current day Asia. 

Spelling: unit 31 due Thurs
Math: 104 skip 1,7,8,13,14,15,16,19,28
Algebra: ?
Geo: quiz on 27-1 study guide due next Monday
CE: work sheet
Health: nothing
English: ws 27-3 E and 27-3 F
Science long quiz on section 21-2, review is due tomorrow
Lit: took test
Art: two pictures for Friday
Music: two worksheets on vocabulary terms for Friday

The end of the week has arrived. Enjoy the hopefully warm weather this weekend.

Today we finished up our Galatians lesson. One more to go. We also looked at an easy way to deal with lots of negatives in a long string of multiplication. We also discussed gerunds. Now we have to be able to figure out if the verbal is a participle or a gerund. Next comes infinitives! We took our geography test today. That went well for the most part. We also started working on musical definitions. We finished the day working on some multi-frame pictures.

Spelling: Unit 31
Math: set 103  skip 2,6,7,12,14,15,16,18,,20
Algebra: test
English: none
Geo: none
Science: quiz on Monday, study guide on Tuesday
Lit: ws for Monday and test on Monday
CE: ws
Health: nothing
Music: two ws for next Fri
Art: two pics for next Fri

Hello again my friends. Nice to have you here, those failthful few who are still with me.  Today was not so action packed as some, but we still got some things acocmplished. We finished chapter 5 of Galatians, looked at simplifying equations, yes again, but they are longer now, and we are still going with participles and polution. We reviewed for our geography test and did some vocab work in preperation for our lit test. We also went across the world to check in on Libya and Japan. Things do not look good.

Spelling: test
CL:nothing
Math: set 102 skip 6,10,11,12,17,20,22,23,28,29
Algebra: 112
Geo: test tomorrow
English: 2 ws
CE: ws
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

Happy Wednesday! We discussed writing our own equations from a given problem, reviewed participles, took a science test that overall went well, and finished Treasure Island. What a day!

Spelling Unit due for tomorrow
Math: set 101 skip 2,3,5,9,11,14,15,16,21
Algebra: set 111
Geo: review due tomorrow
Science: took test
English: 2 ws from yesterday
CE: ws
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CL: nothing
Lit: ws to finish the book

Hello again! Today we continued our study of Galatians. We learned the difference between chance, odds, and probability. We also talked about reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Spelling: Unit 29 for Thursday
Math: none
Algebra: 109
Geo: quiz section 25-1
Science: Quiz 20-3, study guide
English: ws
CE: ws
Health: nothing
Cat: mem work for tomorrow
Lit: did it in class

Welcome to another day of grace from the Lord. Today we finished lesson 9 from Galatians. We continue to hear about the blessings of the Gospel. We also his lesson 100 in Math! Hurray! We discussed estimating square roots that don't come out to be nice regular numbers like 4. We also talked about those pesky irrational numbers. In geography we took our test and that went fairly well. In English we talked about piranha. Then we went back to the prepositional phrases again. We followed that up with a discussion of garbage, but that was for science class so that was ok. That left us just enough time to correct literature but not discuss it unfortunately.

Tomorrow is WLA play day! Please remember you will need to make arrangements to get get your student home from WLA.

Spelling: Test
Geo: nothing
Math: 100 skip 9,11,13,15,16,17,19,28
Algebra: 108
Science: quiz Monday, study guide Tuesday
Lit: ws and ch 25-26 for Monday
Music: nothing
Art: nothing
CE: ws
Health: review

Spelling unit 28 for tomorrow
Math set 98 even
Geo: test
CE: ws
Health: review
English: 2 ws
Science: quiz
Lit: Ch 24-15 and ws

Today I was very excited to teach the students about Pythagorean Theorem. So excited that I was most of the way through the lesson before I realized that that is the lesson for tomorrow and not today. On the bright side, tomorrow's lesson should be pretty short! We finished Pride and Prejudice today so the students should be ready for our trip on Friday. Please remember that you will need to make arrangements to get your student from WLA. I have only gotten about 1/2 of the slips back making sure you are aware of that. We also took or science test. That went fairly well.

We will re-write the song for church tomorrow. Most everyone did quite well, but I want to make sure we really have it down. I am hoping that will help increase our confidence and thereby our VOLUME!

Spelling: Unit 28 for Thursday
Math: set 98 (NOT 99) skip 11-19
Algebra: set 106
Lit: chapters 22-23
Health: review page 296 1-10, 297 1-24
English: two worksheets
Science: we took our test
Art: nothing
music; nothing
CE: nothing

Hello again. We are trying something different in the calssroom. The assignments will no longer be posted on the baord. I am finding that too many students are suing this as a crutch to aavoid paying attention when the assingment is given. Then, if the person writing the assignemnts on the board misses something, these students are blaming the student writting the assingments instead of realizing that he or she should have been listening when the assignemnt was given. For now I plan to keep doing the blog, but please understand this is intended to be an aid for you to check on your student and to be involved in what is going on. This is not intended to allow your student to not pay attention when the assignment is given knowing that he or she can simply check the blog latter. Thanks.

This said, many students were doing just fine on their own and I don't think the assingment board was useful to them, so it should not be detrimental to them to have it gone.

Today we continued to discuss Galatians. We talked about how when we trust in God's grace to save us, we can't help but love others the way he loved us. In math we learned how to indirectly measure angles by using simialr triangles. We corrected our Geography study guides but the test won't be for some time yet. In English we discussed how prepositional phrases are more than just pretty phrases, they actually serve as adjectives and adverbs. Tomorrow we will have two worksheets to practice. The science test will be tomorrow. We are fairly far into Treasure Island. Today we listend to one chapter via audio book and assigned one. The second part of the battle is about to begin.

Spelling: Unit 28 for Thursday, test Friday
Lit: ch 21 and wsh for 19-21
Science: test tomorrow
English: no assignemnt
Health: 296 1-10, 297 1-24
CE: nothing
Geo: nothing
Math: set 97  skip 4,6,8,14,15,16,20,24
Cat: 2nd article

Spelling Unit 28 for Thursday, test Friday