One more Monday down. God only knows how many are left! Today we solved some more algebraic problems. This time we had to write the problem first and then solve it. We also read each other's rough drafts and made some, hopefully, helpful comments. We started talking about weather. I certainly had some real life current examples to show the students today! (For example, do you know what happens when warm wet air from the south hits cold air from the north? If not, you should by the time Wednesday is over.) We also took a crack at translating a Shakespeare speech into modern language. Mix that up with a geography review and a map retake (I really thought more people would take advantage of this) and we've got a day!

Spelling: Unit 23 for Thursday, test Friday (Keep encouraging them to work on this.)
Science: quiz tomorrow
Memory: holy communion 3rd
Algebra: set 80
Math: set 74, skip 2,4,6,12,13,20,22,24,29
Geo: test tomorrow
Lit: ws tomorrow
Health: p. 522 1-8
CE: nothing
AF: Title Page, Bibliography and Acknowledgements should be ready for tomorrow
Music: composer ws
Art: should have finished pic in class

Today we worked on our logic, James dripped blue into his green, and we finished up our oil resist paintings. We also took our map test for geography. Apparently there was confusion regarding the map test, so there will be a redo test on Monday.

Spelling: Unit 23 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: communion 3rd for Tue
Math: logic puzzle (don't spend too long on that, it was supposed to be a fun type break)
Geo: redo-map test, quiz, and study guide for Monday,
Science: nothing
Lit: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: 1-5
Music: Vivaldi ws
Art: finish painting
English: rough draft for af

Konnichi wa! Thanks for visiting! Today we continued to talk about how God wants us to treat this planet of ours. We got a special visit from Reverend Boggs, (yea! free folders), figured out that two wrongs may not make a right, but two negatives multiplied together do make a positive! We took our science test after learning more about cultures in Africa. After the science test, the students were doing a great job studying so we just turned on a little more of the Julius Caesar movie. Brando back in the day. (Did you know he is in Guys and Dolls, too? Check it out if you like musicals.)

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: Lesson 6 hymn and passages
Math: set 73: skip 1-8
Algebra 1/2: set 79
Geo: quiz and review for Monday Map test tomorrow
Sc: took test
CE: nothing
Health: 1-5
Art: oil drawings should be ready to paint tomorrow
English: correct the one paragraph from the book, rough draft for paper due on Monday

Today we took another crack at taking a test on the lab computers. It was neat because the students got instant feedback on the questions they got wrong and what the right answers should have been. I am still trying to work out a few things, but it has been an interesting experiment. We also talked briefly about writing a business letter. We included format and what to say. We also looked at ratio problems again. This time the total was missing. We looked at Shakespearean word order as well. Top that off with local and global winds and I'd say we had a full day.

Spelling: Unit 22
Math: Unit 71 skip 13,14,15,17,18,19
Algebra: 77
Geo: took test, Map test Friday
Science: quiz and study guide
Memory: passages for Pastor tomorrow and CL lesson 6 passages and hymn for Friday
Health: 2631-5
CE: ws
Art: oil drawing
Music:nada
Lit: word order ws
Rough Draft is due on Monday

Happy Monday! Today we took our Math test and got ready for our geography test. We also worked on Shakespeare metaphors. We also kept studying the atmosphere and learned what a really good thing it is that radiation exists.

Spelling: Unit 22, Thursday test Friday
Science: Quiz, quiz tomorrow and study guide for Wednesday
Math: took test
Algebra: Set 76 1-30
Geo: test Map test Friday
Health: 263 1-5
Lit: ws
CE: ws
Memory: lesson six memory for Friday
Art: oil drawing
Music: nothing

Hello again my friends! Today we worked on solving equations by balancing both sides. 3x + 4 = 16. We subtract the 4 from BOTH sides and then divide BOTH sides by 3. We took our map test and quiz in geography and then worked in class on the review. We started a new art project and finished up several other things for English.

Spelling: Unit 22
Cat: ws for Tue
Memory: 2nd holy communion and passages
Galatians: ws
Math: test Mon
Algebra: took test
English: keep working on af project
Geo: study guide for Monday, map test Friday and next Friday
Sc: quiz on Monday, s.g. for Wednesday
Lit: nothing
Art: finish oil pastel building for painting next week
CE: ws
Health: nothing

Today most of us finished recording our narratives. I look forwards to hearing them. We went through our pun worksheets for literature. Did you know there are an estimated 114 puns in Macbeth alone? Yikes!

For Geography, I have given the students two maps. There was some confusion about this. The landforms map is due tomorrow. The countries of the central region will be due next week. Only the land form maps is due for tomorrow.

We also have 3 passages and 2 hymn verses due for memory work tomorrow, along with a spelling test and the academic fair outline.

Spelling: test
Math: we took a pretest in groups
Algebra: set 75
English: outline for af is due tomorrow
Geo: quiz and physical map
Science: notes for quiz tomorrow
Lit: listen for spoonerisms and malapropisms
Art: should have pastel pick done by now
CE: ws
Health: nothing

We had a little bit of an unusual day today. We took our science test on the computers in our new (pre-owned) lab. We also watched an animated version of Shakespeare's MacBeth. To top that off, we started recording our narratives using a free program called Audacity. It lets you record and play with audio. If your child asks about downloading it at home, it is legit, and it is free. What they do with it after that is up to you.

Spelling: Unit 21 for tomorrow, test Friday
CL: passages from lesson 5 for Friday,a and hymn verses
Math: set 70: skip 3,4,9,14,15,18,19,20,27,29
Algebra: set 74
English: be ready to record
Geo: quiz on 19-1 work on the map. Plan for the map test on Friday until further notice.
Science: took test
Lit: watched MacBeth
Art: nothing new
CE: ws
Health: nothing

Thanks for dropping by! Today we looked at scientific notation again. We also took our geography test, reviewed for our science test, and discussed how to write with dialogue. We then spent some time looking at the language of Shakespeare, and some of the things he did with language.

Spelling: unit 21 for Thursday
Memory: lesson five passages and hymn for Friday
Math: set 69 skip 7,8,12,13,14,16,17,19,23
Geo: map activity worksheets for tomorrow
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: puns work sheet for tomorrow
CE: ws
Health: nothing
Academic fair: outline for Friday
Algebra: set 73 skip any five problems

I apologize! I forgot to send home the report cards today. I have emailed them and plan to hand out the paper copies tomorrow. Sorry about that. We did manage to remember to review for our test on the Middle East, talk about algebraic addition 3 - (-3) is the same as 3 + [- (-3)] which of course is really just 3 +3, and review how to do an outline. We also learned some more vocab for science. To end it off we discussed how a different actor doing the same lines of a play change the meaning. (Do you have any idea how many different versions of Hamlet there are?)

Science: Unit 22
Memory: passages and hymn from lesson 5
Mathe: set 68 skip 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,11
Algebra:
English: outline for the fair
Geo: test tomorrow
Sc: quiz and study guide
Lit: nothing
Art: oil pastel pic
Music: nothing
Health: review on 190-191
CE: ws

Today we spent some time working on our academic fair project. Keep plugging away. We also took some time to learn about geometric shapes. Look for report cards on Monday. Also remember to buy lunch and milk tickets.

Spelling: Unit 21for next Thursday
Memory: lesson 5 passages and hymn
Math: set 66 skip 2,no diagram for 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 24, 27
Set 71, skip any 5
English: academic fair project
Geo: study guide for Monday
Sc: quiz on Monday
Lit: nothing
Art: finish oil pastel pic
CE: ws
Health: review

Please remember to bring the note cards and sources tomorrow. The note cards are due and we will take time to work on them as well.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: lesson four passages and hymn verses
English: 9 problems from the book
Math: set 66
Algebra: set 71 skip any 5
Geo: quiz and map test tomorrow  study guide for Monday
Science: quiz on Monday
Lit: nothing
Health: review
CE: ws
Art: oil pastel
Music: nothing

Today we worked more with ratios. We also studied more countries in the Middle East and Asia. this afternoon we did a MLC Meet Math test and the geography bee.

On Friday the note cards for the academic fair project are due.  I plan to give the students some time to work on their academic fair project in class. Please help them to remember their information so that they have something to work on.
Spelling: unit 20 is due tomorrow. Test Friday
Memory: lesson 4 passages for Friday
Math Set 65 skip 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21,
Algebra: set 70
English: wsh 14-3
Geo: quiz tomorrow, study guide Monday
Science: quiz
Lit: nothing
Art: oil pastels
Music: nothing
Health: review pages 190-191
CE: ws

Spelling: unit 20 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: set 64 skip: 3,6,7,10,12,14,18,20,24,26
Algebra: set 69
English: ws 14-2
Geo: quiz study guide Monday
Science: quiz
Lit: nothing
Art: finish project
Health: p.190 1-11, 191 1-34

Today we worked on more sentences, talked about {symbols[inclusion + of] / inclusion, and North Africa. Then we talked about Shakes pear's life and iambic pentameter.

Spelling: unit 20 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: lesson 4 passages and hymn for Friday
Math Set 63 skip 1,9,10,11,12, 23, 26, 29, 30
Algebra: set 65
English: nothing
Science: quiz Wednesday
Geo: quiz
Lit: nothing
Art: finish pastel pic
Music; nothing
Health: 190 1-11, 191 1-34

Happy Friday! Today we looked at some art work by Mary Cassatt http://www.marycassatt.org . We then tried our hand at working with oil pastels. We also classified triangles and took a geography test. That went quite well by the way. We are also continuing to work with quotation marks. I looked over the resources for those who brought them, and then we had some time to take notes on the resources.

Spelling: Unit 20 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: Lesson 4 passages and hymn for Friday
English: ws 13-3 and work on the project
Geo: took test
Science: nothing
Lit: nothing
ART: pastell picture
Music: nothing
CE: ws for next Wed/Thurs
Health: nothing
Math: 62 skip 1,6,9,10,13,16,28
Algebra: set 67

Congratulations to our school's latest spelling be champion, Mitch! It was an exciting finish to be sure. That's not all we did today though. We finished discussing how to deal with quotation marks, found the area and angles of parallelograms, review for the geography test and took the science test. A productive day all in all. We even found time to learn more about the Rossetta Stone.

Resources for the academic fair project are due. Ideally the student should bring in his or her books for me to look at. If they are still coming from another library, it is ok to bring in a print out from the library so I can get an idea of what the books are about. I will try to look at web sites as well. The student should have the URL available for me.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: 3 passages
Math: set 61
Algebra: took test
English: ws 13-2
Geo: test tomorrow
Sci: took test
Lit: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
CE: ws for next week Wed/Thurs

One more day under our belt! While I am thinking of it, thanks so much for the Christmas gifts! I was able to share the food I received thereby making me tops with the family! I am looking forward to delving into the books, but with the baby almost here and the class I am taking, I am planning to wait till summer.

Today we finished our look at the Middle East. We talked about how many conflicts have arisen due to religious differences, and in fact still do, as witnessed by the bombing in Egypt.We moved on to discussing all of the different names for polygons. Did you know that a square is a polygon, a parallelogram, a rhombus, a rectangle and a square all at the same time? After that we looked at food labels and talked about how important serving size is when analyzing food labels. Toss in some indirect objects and earthquakes and we had quite a day.

Spelling: Unit 19 for Thurs, test Fri
Memory: 1 Tim 4:4-5 Philip. 4:8 Matt 5:29
Math: 6 problems from the investigation, say T or F and also WHY!
English: write two sentences and the paragraph as found in lesson 13-1
Geo: QUIZ tomorrow, study Guide Thursday
Science: Study Guide is due TOMORROW!
Lit: We get to start Shakespeare tomorrow!
Art: nothing
CE: boys ws for Thurs
Health: nothing
Keep working on the Academic Fair!

Welcome back! I hope you had a productive break, I know I did. We now have different computers in the lab! Yea!

Spelling: Unit due for Thursday test Friday
Math: pretest
Algebra: set 64
Geo: notes on section 1 quiz on Wed, study guide for Friday, map test next Friday
English: academic project, sources due on Friday
Science: quiz study guide Thursday
Lit: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: Boys ws for Thursday
Health: nothing