Today did not go according to plan, but it did go well. The students did well on their science projects. They also did well singing at the funeral and the the hospital. Practice in church also went well. Everything went so well that we have no homework! Enjoy! Go play in the snow after church.

Hey! Did you miss me? Sorry about yesterday, I ended up having several impromptu meetings after school and forgot to blog.

Tomorrow we are singing in the funeral and caroling. I'd love it if the students dressed up more so than T-shirts. Thanks! Also because of the tight schedule, I am asking the students to bring a cold lunch tomorrow.

I also could use some volunteers to bring some treats on Friday.

We did not have any new assignments today.

Happy Friday! We rocked our memory work today. The class average a 97%! How awesome is that? We also talked about persuasive writing so I apologize if you end up with a paragraph saying why you should get your child ___________. We also continued to work on our science and geo projects. For math we did some story problem work and in Lit we are gearing up to learn how Billy and his dogs do in the big hunt.

Spelling: unit 15 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: psalm 96 for Monday
Geo: prezzi
Science: volcano project
English: rough draft Monday
Lit: chapter 15 for Monday
CE: news quiz for Tuesday
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Math: 53 skip 9,16,18,25,29

Today we spent a lot of time working on our projects for Geo and Science. We had some very productive study time, especially in the morning.

Spelling Test tomorrow
Memory: "Jesus Christ is Born" for Friday
English: ws
Geo: prezzi
Science: project
Lit: nothing
CE: nothing
health: nothing
music:nothing
art: in class

Spelling:Unit for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: "Jesus Christ is Born" for Friday
Math: set 52 skip 5, 6, 11, 15, 16, 19, 24, 30
Geo: prezzi
Science: group project on volcano
English: ws for tomorrow
Lit: nothing
CE: nothing
art: in class
music: nothing
Health: nothing

 Volcano project instructions and links

The radio station Sunny 97.7 has their Christmas Idol running on the station. Our fourth grade class submitted a song.  According to the info I was given, the fourth grade will be on the air today (11^th) at 5:10-5:20.

Voting is done online by going to their website.  www.sunny977.com

Then click on Radio Plus Info

Wait for the picture that describes the Christmas Idol and click where it says click here

There is a place to submit your vote along with your e-mail.

Only one vote is allowed for each e-mail address.

The original info had said that the entries would be online for people to listen to, I couldn't find that-it may still be coming.

Hope you enjoy their song.

If we win, we get money, so vote please!

Hey everyone. It is a nasty cold and flu season out there, and now whooping cough! Stay healthy my friends! Today we went through our math test from Friday. A few folks did very well, but since we average a C we are going to give it another try. The biggest issues in math seem to be paying attention to what we are doing and not making computation errors. (When the problems get longer we seem to forget how to add and subtract etc.) We also picked our second countries to do prezzis on. We did a sort of lottery system. We also learned about a bunch of different types of formations left behind by volcanoes and almost volcanoes. Not as exciting as watching volcanoes explode, but we survived. I forgot to mention that we went through food labels in health yesterday and talked about some of the trade offs we sometimes need to make.

Spelling: unit for Thursday, test Friday remember on the second page last part, to put the part of speech with the word
Memory: "Jesus Christ is Born" for Friday
Geo: prezzis
Science: ws we did in class
English: nothing
Lit: ch 14 and ws for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Art: in class
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Math: test 9b (we are doing it as a ws so it is due tomorrow, students may check things in the book if needed and may check with a calculator,but only once the problem is done.)

Today was a pretty mild day. We started a new section in Geo by taking a look at some maps and comparing them. We also learned that there are three different types of volcanoes. We also worked with scientific notation in math.

Spelling: unit 14 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: Jesus Christ is Born for Friday
Science: ws
Geo: nothing
English: nothing
Lit: ch 14 and ws
Math: 51 8, 15, 16, 25, 27
CE: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: in class

It's Friday! Go Panthers! Today we took or Russia test and we averaged a B. We also finished our video on volcanoes. We started a new art project and we learned that following directions makes things work more easily. We also worked on drawing some graphs for math.

Spelling: Unit 14 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: we will keep working on the service material next week
Geo: nothing
Science: extra credit notes from the video
English: nothing
Lit: finish ch 12 and read 13, keep working on sheets
Math: 361 #4, 362 #5
Art: we will continue next week
Music: nothing
CE: news quiz sheet for Tuesday
Health: nothing

Spelling Test tomorrow

Memory: part 2 of recitation

English: work on research project topic

Lit: read 10 and 11

Science: ws

Geo: test

Math: set 50 skip 1, 4, 16, 16, 22

Health: none

Music: none

Health: none

CE: none

Happy Advent! Jesus is Coming! Today we had a REALLY long Russia video that was crammed with way more stuff than we had time for, so we picked out some segments to watch. We corrected the science tests as well. We had 8 A's and averaged a B overall. Not bad! We took our math test today. It was set for tomorrow, but this gives us less homework on a church night. We also had some time to work on our geo study guide that is due tomorrow.

Spelling: unit 13 for tomorrow, test Friday
Memory: first recitation tomorrow, second recitation Friday
Science: nothing
Geo: study guide
English: nothing
Lit: ch 10+11 for Friday keep working on the sheets
Math: took test
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

Another week is slipping by! I had a tech conference this am which was worth my time. Mrs. Boggs had a great time filling in for me. They discussed Russia some more and also took the science test. They also discussed fact vs opinion and how to tell the difference. In math we looked at adding and subtracting mix measures. In other words, how do you add 3 hours 48 min 23 seconds and 2 hours 55 min and 46 seconds.

Spelling Unit 13 for Thursday
Memory: recitation 1 for Thursday, recitation 2 for Friday
Science: nothing
Geo: Foldable and outline of major issues facing Russia (shoot for at least 5) for tomorrow, Study guide for Thursday
English: fact and opinion ws for tomorrow (most was done in class)
Lit: chapters 8+9 for tomorrow
Math: set 49 skip 1,6,11,16,22
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Busy busy busy day. We are still working through Russia and are wrapping up volcanoes. We had some technical issues in English and are looking for a plan B! Add a math class and a few more technical issues and the day is full!

Spelling: unit 13 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: recitation part 1 for Thursday, part 2 for Friday
Geo: foldable for Wednesday, Study Guide for Thursday
English: nothing
Lit: read 8 and 9 for Wednesday
Math: 48 skip 7, 12, 16, 22, 27
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: nothing

Happy Friday to you, Happy Friday to you! Today we looked a very little bit at the culture of Russia. There are some interesting parallels to the United States' development. We also looked at the voicethread web site and I had a little too much fun with the microphone. (Sorry 6th grade!) We also talked about the magnitude of earthquakes. Did you know a level 3 is 32 times stronger than a level 2? So if there is a level 9 earthquake it is 32 x 32 x 32 x 32 x 32 x 32 x 32 x 32 greater in power than a level 1. Yikes!

Giving for the adopted family has been extended through Tuesday of next week.

Spelling: Unit 13 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: none
Science: quiz and study guide Monday
Geo: page 400 2,3,6
English: none
Lit: none
CE: News Quiz for Tuesday
Art: nothing
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Math: set 47 skip 6, 9, 16, 18, 24

It's Thursday! We had some good discussion today on everything from excommunication to the fall of the USSR. We also enjoyed hearing some tall tales. We didn't have much discussion on rates and unit price though. The next time you are shopping with your student, see if he or she can find the unit price marked on the shelf. Feel free to ask your student about bug cuisine.

Mission offering tomorrow and tomorrow is the last day to donate money for the family we have adopted.

Spelling: test tomorrow

Memory: "Far Distant Stable" tomorrow

Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide Monday

Geo: Study guide Wednesday

English: re-work tall tale for tomorrow (optional)

Lit: ch 7 and sheets for Friday

Math: set 46 skip 3,6,9,25,26

Health: nothing

CE: nothing

Art: nothing

Music: nothing

It's Wednesday! Hurrah! Why cheer for Wednesday? Why not! Today is the half point of the quarter. Have you checked your student's grades lately? Remember you can check them any time at engrade.com. I hear there is even a mobile version. We started looking at the history of Russia today. We tried to get through all of Russian history in one day, but it just doesn't work that way! There is just too much good stuff. We also started on earthquakes. We checked out a cool web site at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ that shows how many earthquakes have happened in the last week.

Spelling: Unit 12 for tomorrow, test Friday
Memory: "Far Distant Stable" for Friday
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Monday
Geo: study guide for Wednesday
Lit: Chapter 7 and ws for Friday
English: tall tale and pics for Thursday
Math: took a test
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Art: nothing

Here we are again at Tuesday. We got some time to work on our tall tales today. We also saw a good video on Russia's people and climate, then talked more about the different types of climate that Russia experiences. We did some review in math since our grades for today weren't quite what we were rooting for. We also finished up our chapter on tectonic plates. That means we get to move on to EARTHQUAKES!

Spelling: unit 12 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: "Far Distant Stable" for Friday
Science: nothing
Geo: p. 382 2,4,5
English: Tall tale and 3 pics for Thursday
Lit: read chapters 5 and 6 for Wednesday, chapter 7 and the sheets for Friday
Math: set 45 skip 1,7,14,15,16,19
Music: nothing
Art: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Happy Monday! Today we worked at getting back in the groove of things. We started talking about Russia today. We also looked at when we would use what kind of answer for a division problem.

Spelling: unit 12 for Thurs, test Friday
Memory for Friday: "Far Distant Stable"
Science: quiz
Geo: page 375 2,5
English: story and 3 pictures for Thursday
Lit: chapters 5 and 6 for Wed, ch 7 and ws for Friday
Math: set 44 skip 4,5,6,23,24
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art:nothing
CE: nothing

May you all have a blessed Thanks Giving. Safe travels!

Spelling: Unit 12 for next week Thursday, test Friday
CL: nothing
Science: 10-2 quiz on Monday
Geo: nothing
English: nothing
Math: nothing new (make sure 43 is handed in)
Lit: read chapters 3-4 and continue to work on sheet for ch 1-7
Health: nothing
CE: nothing
Art: nothing
Music:nothing

Happy Thanks giving week! Today we stated work on a wrap up project for Europe. Instead of memorizing all of the countries of Europe and placing them on the map from memory, we are going to fill in a map with the countries  capitals and some major land marks using our resources. Remember, while there are maps in the from of the book, there are more at the start of the Europe section (before ch 10) that can be useful. We also reviewed how to change a number from a decimal to a fraction, a fraction to a decimal and a decimal to a percent.

We will watch our all school movie tomorrow afternoon. Pillows or blankets are allowed.

Spelling: nothing this week
CL: nothing this week
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: map and essay redo are due by noon tomorrow
English: nothing
Lit: read chapters 3 and 4
Math: set 43 skip 2, 4,9,19,27
Art: picture tomorrow
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Happy Friday! We had a good discussion today about the European Union debt crisis. We watched a documentary to help us understand. You can check it out here Europe at the Brink. We also talked about repeating decimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimalsdecimals in math. We also are working on a picture of things we are thankful for.

Spelling: No spelling next week
CL: nothing
Science: nothing
Geo: nothing
English: nothing
Lit: read chapter 2 for Monday, keep working on sheets
Art: Thankful picture for Tuesday
Music:nothing
CE: News Quiz
Health: nothing
Math: 42 skip 11,13,14,17,25


 

Happy Thursday! Today we did some group work on our study of Europe. We also took our science test. We had the vision screening as well. We also talked about the distributive property in math today. This one is a big one.

Spelling: unit 10 test
CL: nothing
Science: took a test
Geo: ws for tomorrow
English: 2 ws for tomorrow
Lit: ch 1 for tomorrow
Math: set 41 skip 9,19,21
Art: pic for tomorrow
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

MISSION OFFERING TOMORROW

Hey again! We had several students in the school go home today because of illness. (None in 7th yea!) My house has had 7 people sick in the last 6 days. My point? Stay healthy people! It's that time of the year again.

We took our math test today. We also looked at the life of Wilson Rawls as we started to read Where the Red Fern Grows. 

Spelling: unit 10 tomorrow, test Friday
CL: no memory tomorrow
Geo: essay and notes tomorrow
Science: test tomorrow
English: ws for Friday
Lit: chapter 1 for Friday
Math: took a ttest
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: pic for Friday
CE: nothing

Well, well, well. Here we are at another Tuesday. Welcome!

We talked about ocean erosion today. We also learned about Southern Europe and all those wonderful beaches on the Mediterranean Sea. (Tied in well with science!) We had an investigation in math where we learned how to do a stem and leaf, and box and whisker plots.

Spelling: unit 11 for Thursday, test Friday
Science: quiz and study guide tomorrow
Geo: keep working on the notes
English: nothing
Lit; nothing
Math: did investigation in class no assignment
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: pic for Friday

Happy Monday! Stay healthy!

Spelling: Unit 11 for Thurs, test Fri
CL: nothing
Science: study guide moved to WEDNESDAY, quiz tomorrow
Geo: keep working on notes
English: nothing
Lit: nothing
Math: set 40 skip 4,5,6,7,9
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: pic for Friday

Hello again! Ask your student about throwing pens for science! We also worked on graphs in math and how they can be misleading.

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 6 for Thursday
Geo: summary of notes, one per section
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Tuesday
English: nothing
Lit: nothing
Math: 38 skip 2,6,9,10,17
Music: ws due tomorrow
Art: nothing
Health: p92 18-23, p93 1-26
CE: nothing

The election is over and the winner is . . . all of us because we live in a country where we can have elections to choose our leaders with no wars or violence!

We did talk about the election some today. We also worked on finding the area of triangles and what to do when part of a rectangle gets cut out and we need to find the area of the new shape. We also took our science test. We had an interesting grouping of scores. We had a good number of A+'s and A's, then we jumped down into the B's and C's. In geo we finished up the history and culture of Europe. Not easy to cram that in to 2 days. So we didn't. We spent several more days on it, but it was worth it. OK, I couldn't stop talking about the crusades and the black death and WWI and WWII.

Spelling: unit 10 tomorrow, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 5 tomorrow
Science: test today
Geo: summarize each section of notes by Friday, the extra day is for extra good work please!
English: 3 ws from Monday due tomorrow
Lit: reading in class
Art: picture was due today, no new assignment
Music: ws for Friday
Health: p92 18-23, P93 1-26
CE: nothing
Math: 37 skip 9, 12, 17, 20, 29

Happy Election Day!

Spelling:Unit 10 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Memory from lesson 5 for Thursday
Science: test tomorrow
Geo: keep working on notes
English: ws for Thurs
Lit: we read in class
Health: nothing
CE: nothing
Art: picture for tomorrow
Music: ws for Fri
Math: set 36 skip 3,13,14,23,25

Monday! We discussed our drought projected today. We talked about how far reaching an effect drought can have. We also took a math test and started looking at the history of Europe. We will pick that up at the crusades tomorrow. We also wrapped up our science unit and will correct our study guide tomorrow. We also learned what complex sentences are and how to use comma's with them properly.

Spelling: unit 10 for Thurs, test Fri
CL: Lesson 5 memory for Thurs
Science: quiz and study guide tomorrow
Geo: foldable for Wednesday
English: 3 ws for Thursday
Lit: nothing
Math: took a test
CE: news quiz for Tue
Health: nothing
Art: finish pic for Wed
Music: Schubert for Friday

Happy Friday! We checked out some music by Franz Schubert today. We worked with decimals, Europe, glaciers and finished our one point perspective pictures.

Spelling: unit 10 next Thurs, test Fri
CL: memory lesson 5 for Thursday
Science: quiz on Monday, study guide for Tuesday
Geo: nothing
Lit: nothing
English: final copy and story elements out line due Monday
Math: set 35 skip 15, 21, 27, 28, 30
Health: nothing
Art: finish one point perspective pic for Wednesday
Music: Schubert ws for Friday
CE: News quiz for Tuesday

Greetings again! Today was a bit of a noisy day, the students must have missed me! We talked about gravity as an agent of erosion. We also got through a couple more countries with out prezi presentations. We also worked on how to figure out what decimal number was on the number line. We also spent some time classifying sentences.

 Spelling test tomorrow
CL: memory from 5 next Thursday
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Math: set 34 skip 3,8,14,17,19
Lit: nothing
Geo: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Tuesday
Health: nothing

Greetings! Lord willing Thaddeus will get to come home tomorrow!

Today we reviewed our entire science chapter. We also hit a few European countries and the metric system as well.

Spelling: Unit 9 for Thurs, test Fri
CL: memory from lesson 4
Science: open note test with a partner tomorrow
Geo: 10 most important geographical features of Europe and why
Lit: no assignment
English: no assignment
Math: set 32 skip 5,7,12,14,18
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing

Very busy day today! We are working on a drought activity for current events which ties in nicely with science. We moved the math test to tomorrow so we could work on the investigation of coordinate planes instead. No spelling this week. Half day Friday.

Spelling: none
CL: memory work from lesson 4 for next Thursday, no hymn
Science: ws on 7-1
Geo: nothing
Lit: nothing
English: nothing
Math: Investigation
Health: drought project for next Monday
CE: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

We had a good trip yesterday. The kids liked riding on the bus. They also got to play a version of Jeopardy and play with science toys. Oh yea, we saw a video of a jet hitting concrete. Want to know why? Ask your student!

Today we did some house keeping things including starting to look at our home made science tests. The students spent a lot of time looking thought the material to find out what questions were good to ask. We had some very good questions and a few not so good questions. The students found out how hard it is to come up with questions, especially the wrong answers! We had the Friday morning Bible class come in for a visit during our break. We then finished off the day by having the agronomist come in and have us do some hands on activities with rocks. It was a great way to wrap up our unit on minerals and rocks!

There were no new assignments today, but there are several bigger things due on Monday that were assigned Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks to all of you who were able to meet with me with week. It helped quite a bit. I am looking forward to meeting with the rest of you on Monday. As you know, I will be gone on Tuesday and Wednesday to be with Thaddeus in the hospital. Have a great weekend!

Field Trip tomorrow! Bring a lunch.

Spelling: unit tomorrow
CL: memory work for Friday
Geo: ws for Friday
Science: take home test for MONDAY
Music: nothing
Art: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
English: final copy Monday
Math: set 30: 7, 21, 24, 29, 30
Lit: project for Monday

Happy Tuesday! I posted a link to a slide show featuring pictures from when we went to UWFDL. They would like to use our pictures as well. Please let me know if you have a problem with this. I plan to tell them to go ahead. Thanks!

We looked at writing narratives today. We also looked at how to round fractions and to certain place values. We also checked out sedimentary rocks and Central America. We also got invited to 8th grade for a short presentation. Thanks!

Spelling: Unit is DUE ON THURSDAY, test Friday
English: FINAL copy is due on Monday
CL: Memory from lesson 3 is due on FRIDAY
Science: Quiz tomorrow
Geo: ws for tomorrow
Math: set 29 skip 5, 16, 18. 19, 22
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: Nothing
Music: nothing
Literature: project for Monday

Slide show of the pictures taken when we went to UWFDL for science activities.  2012-2013 UWFDL trip

The Lord has granted us another week! Today we started on our final projects for Hatchet. We also took a look at average and other multi-step math problems. We also spent some time thinking about what causes stress in teens and what they can do about it. We also took a quick visit to Mexico.

Field trip is on Thursday. Students will need a cold lunch. We want to leave as soon as we can. Thanks!

Spelling: Unit 8 for THURSDAY, test Friday
CL: Memory from lesson 3 for FRIDAY
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
English: 2 ws from Friday for Tomorrow
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: ws for tomorrow
Health: nothing
Lit: project for next Monday
Math: set 28 skip 16, 18, 20, 24, 27

We had a pretty calm day today. We did get in our spelling test and a bit of art and a few other things as well, including SUPERLATIVES!

Spelling: Unit 8 for Thursday
CL: memory from lesson 3 for Thursday
Science: quiz
Geo: nothing
Math: set 27 skip 6, 7, 11, 13, 26
Lit: nothing
English: 2 ws for Tue
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
CE: news quiz for Tuesday

MISSION OFFERING TOMORROW

Spelling Test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson three next week
Science: quiz, tests are due tomorrow
Geo: ws
Math: set 26 skip 4, 13, 16, 21, 27
English: nothing
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: nothing
CE: nothing
Lit: nothing

Today we spent some time talking about what makes a good test question. The class is finding out that coming up with these questions is harder than they thought, especially if you aren't allowed to be silly! The class then worked on finishing their tests, using good questions. We also had a very quick history of Latin America. We took our math test and lit test today as well. We are also finishing up our five paragraph essays. We also spent some quality time working on our song that we sing in the late service on Sunday.

Spelling: Unit 7 for Tomorrow, test Friday

CL: memory from lesson 2 for tomorrow

 Science: finish test if not done already

Geo: ws for tomorrow

Lit: nothing

English: final copy

Art: nothing

music: nothing

CE: nothing

Health: nothing

Math: took a test

Today are trying something new. We are using Google forms to make our own science tests. The students are in groups looking up questions to ask on their tests. They need to find important information to base their questions on, then figure out some false answer choices as well. Then they enter it into the Google form and note the answer on a sheet of paper. After working on it for some time, most students agreed that writing a test takes a lot longer than they thought! We also reviewed how to divide fractions. That was a quick lesson since the class remembered how to do that from past years. We also took a MLC Meet Math test.

Spelling: unit 7 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 2 for Thursday
Science: working on making a test
Geo: nothing
Literature: ws, quiz and test tomorrow
English: final copy paragraph due Thursday
Math: set 25 skip 8, 15, 20, 23, 30
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: nothing

We finished our Latin America presentations today. The Europe ones will be due in a couple of weeks. We also learned a short cut in math.
Please return the parent/teacher/student conference slips as soon as you can.

Spelling: Unit 7 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory from lesson 2 for Thursday
Geo: nothing
Science: nothing
Lit: ws from the last section of chapters, quiz and test for Wednesday
English: rough draft of 5 paragraph essay for Tuesday
Math: set 24 skip 2, 7, 23, 26, 30
CE: newsquiz for tomorrow
Art: nothing
Music: nothing

Good day! You should have gotten a note regarding parent/student/teacher conferences. It is going to be a bit different for 7th grade due to my son's surgery. Thanks for your flexibility! (By the way, if you are more interested in Thaddeus' condition, I do send out periodic email updates that you can subscribe to. I also post these to a blog at http://thaddeusupdates.blogspot.com/.)

Today we started our presentations for geography. So far I am well pleased with the work the students have done. We are learning a lot about some of the countries in Latin America. We also worked on borrowing when subtracting fractions.

Spelling: unit 7 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work for lesson 2 for Thursday
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
English: nothing
Health: review that was assigned last week is due on Monday
Geo: nothing (unless your prezzi sin't done)
Literature: read the next chapter
CE: news quiz for Tuesday
Math: set 23: skip 9, 10, 15, 20, 23
Science: nothing

Happy Wednesday! Yea I know it's Thursday, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that between my meeting and the soccer game last night, I forgot to blog! That's two late slips for me now. Anyhow, the field trip was great. We may even get some pictures later. Ask about the river and the volcanoes!

Spelling: Test tomorrow
Cat.:test tomorrow
Art: nothing
Geo: map due tomorrow
Health: review due on Monday
English: Sheets from Tue due tomorrow
Math: set 22 11,15,18,21,28
Music: Beethoven tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: quiz

Happy Tuesday! We rocked on the math test yesterday! Great job all! We have several bigger assignments and the field trip Thursday, so we have lots due for Friday.

Spelling: unit 6 for Thurs, Test Friday
CL MEMORY WORK TOMORROW!
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: map for Friday
English: 2 ws for Friday
Health: review for next Monday
Math: investigation for tomorrow
Music: Beethoven for Friday
CE: nothing
Art: catch up to where we ended in class if you didn't already

Hey! Sorry about not blogging Friday. It got hectic after school and it just didn't happen. I am back today though! We were talking about the climates of Latin America. They have a bit of everything! Don't forget that pesky El Nino. We also looked at the different shapes that crystals can form. We took a math test and we studied helping verbs.

Walking field trip on Thursday. Pray for no rain!

Spelling: Unit 6 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 1 for WEDNESDAY (Pastor has a conference)
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: ws for tomorrow
Math: took test
Lit: chapter 16 for Wednesday
Music: Beethoven for Friday
Art: nothing
Health: review pages for next Mon
CE: nothing

Great job cross country runners! Way to Go! We did perimeter today! We finished testing today! We talked about A LOT of US history during Christ Light of all things!

Spelling: test tomorrow
Art: face
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Geo: map test tomorrow
English: review worksheets tomorrow
Science: nothing
Lit: next chapter for tomorrow
Math: set 19 skip 5,10,16,18,23
CE: nothing

We got some more testing done today. We also corrected our English sheets. Keep working hard to read and follow directions. In math we talked about polygons and their various names, what similar and congruent mean, and how that will be useful to us in the future. We took our science test with partners today.

Field trip forms are due tomorrow.
We sing in the 10:30 service on Sunday.

Spelling: unit 5 tomorrow, test Friday
CL: Memory from lesson 5 tomorrow
Math: 18 skip 8,13,20,24,29
Geo: work on prezis
English: nothing
Art: face
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Science: took a test
Lit: read chapter 14 and work on the final chapters' ws

We did lots of math testing today! We also corrected the science study guide so be ready for a test, and we started to take a look at Central and South America.

Spelling: Unit 5 for Thurs, test Friday
CL: Lesson 5 memory work for Thursday
Geo: map quiz on Friday
Science: test tomorrow (time allowing)
Math: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
English: ws if you didn't hand them in today. They were due today but there was some confusion.
Lit: Ch 6-12 ws for tomorrow

We had a great presentation this afternoon on the Civil War. It was entertaining and informative.

Spelling: unit 5 for Thursday and test Friday,
CL: section 5 memory for Thursday
Art: face 2 (as far as the video got, we will finish up next week)
Music: nothing
Lit: next chapter for Monday
Geo: Took a test and averaged a B+
Science: study guide for Tuesday
English: two worksheets for Tue
Math: no assignment
Health: nothing

Hello and thanks for dropping by. If you haven't gotten the TWO field trip forms yet, please ask your student. Today we learned a bit about what happened with hurricane Katrina. We also got to work on the US standard measuring system. We got some extra unplanned study time and worked on possessive pronoun adjectives.
Remember we sing in church in the 10:45 service on Sunday the 30th.
Have you checked Engrade for your student's midterm? There won't be a paper copy this year.

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: memory work from lesson 5 for next Thursday
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: test tomorrow
Lit: chapter 11 for Friday
English: nothing
Math: set 16 skip 11,12,19,20,22
CE: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: face for tomorrow
Health: nothing

Hey there! We took some time to work on our geo projects today. Hopefully we are making some progress.  We spent a lot of time on science talking about atomic bonding (not bombing). We watched some good illustrations. We also watched some videos showing how reactive elements with one extra electron are.

Spelling: unit 4 for tomorrow, test Friday
CL: memory work for lesson 4 for tomorrow
Science: quiz
Geo: study guide, test Thursday
Lit: Chapter 11 for Friday
English: final copy due tomorrow
Math: took a test
Health: nothing
Art: face
Music: nothing

Happy Tuesday! It's been a busy day for me, how about you?

Yesterday I was able to set up a short field trip walking distance away. Look for the slip for that trip and our big one to Point Beach. They should come home tonight.

CL: memory from lesson 4 for Thursday
Spelling: Unit 4 Thursday, test Friday
Science: quiz tomorrow
Geo: ws for tomorrow, study guide for Thursday
English: WA#3 rough draft for tomorrow
Math: set 15 skip 14, 19, 21, 23, 26
Health: nothing
CE: nothing
Lit: chapter 10 quiz for tomorrow
Music: nothing

Hey everybody. We took our science test today. We didn't do quite as well as we wanted to but we will keep working at it! We talked about life in the US and Canada as well as probability and mental health. We also spent some time working though our English together as a class. It was quite a breeze apparently!

Spelling: unit 4 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work form lesson 4 for Thursday
Science: took a test
Geo: ws on section 1, study guide due Thursday
Lit: Chapter 10 and quiz (keep working on the sheet from ch 6-12)
English: 2 ws that we started in class
Health: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: face for Friday
CE: news quiz for tomorrow
Math: set 14 skip 7,10,12,14,15

Welcome to the first Friday of our first 8 day week. What? It wasn't 8 days? It sure felt like it! The kids are wiped out after a fun and action packed week. It will be good for them to get some rest and get back to the routine next week. We spent some productive time in the lab today getting started on our country presentations. We also worked on more story problems. Our math scores today were not where we wanted them (wonder if that has anything to do with a certain sports team playing last night) so we took some extra time going thought problems today in class. We also had our closing ceremony for our Olympic week. Would you believe the gold medal winner was, oh wait I better not ruin it for you. I'll let your child tell you.

Spelling: Unit 4 next Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 4 will be due Next Thursday
Art: face for next Friday
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Science: test Monday
Geo: Study guide for Thursday
English: final copy for Monday
Math: set 13 skip 11,13,18,24,25
CE: news quiz for Tuesday
Lit: we read the chapter in class, re-read it if needed and be ready for a quiz on Monday

Hello all. One quick announcement. 7th and 8th grade will be taking a field trip to the Point Beach Energy Center on October 18th. More details will follow.

Today we tried to settle back in the groove after our special day yesterday. Thanks to all the wonderful folks that made yesterday so special. We had a nice discussion in math today about why we are getting more wrong than we probably should be. The students suggested (really, it wasn't me that brought it up) that it might be due to rushing and not checking our work. Let's keep trying to do the best job we can! We then looked at some more story problems. We also are working on a paragraph in the third person. Over all we did well on our first person paragraphs. We did some review in geography and will have the study guide to correct in science tomorrow.

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: lesson 4 memory work for next Thursday
Science: study guide tomorrow
Geo: study guide next week Thursday, start working on your country's Prezi
Math: set 12: skip 13,15,17,20,28
English: WA#2 rough draft due tomorrow
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Music: Mozart for tomorrow
Lit: two chapters for tomorrow
 

We had a Grand Grand Day. The Olympic games went well also! Thanks God for agreeable weather!
We have no new assignments for today but there are a few things due tomorrow from earlier this week like Spelling and memory work. There is also Lit and Music for Friday to work on!

Have a great night.

Happy day to you! We did a nice job on our geography test today. We also looked at each other's rough drafts for English. Hopefully we were able to help each other out. We also looked at story problems in math. The problems are quite simple, as long as we figure out what the problem actually is of course. We also heard about some protests in Egypt at the US embassy. We will have to keep an eye on that! Pray that God is with our soldiers there.

Please remember that picture order forms are due back THIS FRIDAY!

Spelling: unit due on Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work for Thursday form lesson 3
Science: quiz on section 2 tomorrow, study guide Friday
Geo: nothing
English: final copy tomorrow
Math: set 11 skip 7, 10, 14, 19, 21
CE: nothing
Music: Mozart for Friday
Art: nothing
Health: nothing

Good day to you. We are planning on having our geography test tomorrow. We are also starting to write some paragraphs for English. We found out what happens when you eat too many of the wrong kind of berries, and we did math with manipulatives!

Spelling: unit 3 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Memory work for Thursday from lesson 3
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Friday
Geo: test and ws for tomorrow
Health: nothing
Music: Mozart for Friday
Math: investigation 1
English: rough draft of WA 1 tomorrow
Lit: chapters 7 and 8 for FRIDAY

Well here we are on a rainy Friday. We started the day with a chat about expectations and the students really seemed to be making an effort to meet my goals. Thanks! We learned about Mozart today. He started to teach himself to play the piano at the age of 4 and composed his first musical piece before he was 6! We also took a math test. If the speed with which the class got done with the test is any indication, then it was pretty easy. We also did some work for Grand Day.

Just an FYI. Thaddeus had some tests done a few weeks back and it was decided due to deteriorating oxygen distribution that his third surgery needed to be moved up significantly. The surgery is now scheduled for Tuesday October 23rd. This will cause us to need to have some flexibility in scheduling parent teacher conferences. I will be in touch when the date gets closer.

Spelling: Unit 3 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Memory work from lesson 3 for Thursday
Art: we worked on Grand Day
Science; We took our test, results are not in yet
Geo: Study guide for Tuesday
Literature: finish chapter 6 and be ready for a quiz
English: nothing
Math: we took a test
CE: news quiz ws
Music: nothing

We got lots accomplished today! Most of the class is already done with English for tomorrow! Hurray!

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: memory work tomorrow
Music: ws from two weeks ago due tomorrow
Art: nothing
Math: set 10 skip 4, 10, 15, 18, 23
English: ws from yesterday
Health: nothing
Lit: ws for tomorrow on ch 1-5
Geo: ws for tomorrow study guide for Monday
Science: Test

Wednesday! God bless all our athletes playing tonight!

Today we took our geography test and the results were good! We averaged an A-! Good job guys! We also wrapped up our science unit and did some of the review ws in class. We also reviewed how to deal with fractions, even dividing.

Pastor will be in tomorrow so the books of the Bible will be due for him and the CL memory work will be Friday

Spelling: Unit tomorrow, test Friday
CL: memory work for Friday
Science: study guide
Geo: study guide for next week Monday
Lit: ws on ch 1-5 for Friday
English: 3-2 and 3-3 for Friday
Math: set 9: skip 1,2,12,14,24
CE: nothing
Music: ws for Friday
Art: nothing

Hello everyone. It was a bit of a wild day back today. Some students seemed to have forgotten we were back in school! We had a good day none the less. We reviewed the US and Canada a bit and will be ready for the test tomorrow. We also decided that we need to work a bit more on being careful on our math assignments. We looked at fractions and measuring with rulers. Really just a lot of counting. In English we went over the different parts of classifying sentences. We had a hard time working together at times, but brought it all together in the end.

Spelling: Unit 2 for Thursday, test Friday

CL: Memory work for Pastor got moved to Thursday, so the CL memory work will move to Friday

Science: we did the quiz today as a worksheet, make sure that is done for tomorrow and be ready for a regularly scheduled quiz tomorrow. The study guide will be due Thursday with the test on Friday.

Geo: test tomorrow, the study guide for the next chapter was handed out today and will be due next week

English: no assignment

Math: set 8

Health: no assignment

Music: ws from the week before last for Friday

Lit: chapter for tomorrow (from last Wed)

Everything was behind today and it wasn't even Monday! We had our first fire drill today and really never recovered . .

We thank Mr. Driesbach for coming in and putting on a show for us today.

Spelling: Unit 2 for next Thursday, test Friday
CL: lesson 2 memory work for Thursday
Art: nothing
Music: ws for next Friday
English: nothing
Geo: study guide for Tuesday
Science: quiz for Tuesday
Health: nothing
Lit: chapter 5 for Wednesday
Math: set 7 skip 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22
CE: nothing

Today was picture day! It messed with our schedule a bit, so we didn't get all of the way through Canada today. We will wrap that up after our map test tomorrow. We took another look at latitude and longitude and time zones today. We also jumped into non-renewable resources.

Spelling: unit and test tomorrow
CL: ws tomorrow
Science: quiz on ch 5 section 1 tomorrow
Geo: map test tomorrow, study guide for Tuesday, we will correct the ws on Tue as well since we didn't quite finish the section
English: 2 ws from yesterday
Math: Set 6 skip 17,18,19,26,27,28
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: ws for next Friday
CE: nothing

Welcome back! Thanks for stopping by. We had a few big events today. One was our fist day of Junior Choir. Another was our science test. We averaged an 81%, which is a C+. The short answer questions gave us a bit of trouble, so we will need to take another look at those tomorrow. We also looked at how, to ; properly punctuate. sentences! We also had our first math test.

Our first map test is this Thursday. I have given the students a study guide map to practice on. On Thursday I will give them another map just like that one except the numbers will be rearranged. The students will then need to write down each state and capitol next to the number that represents that state on the map.

Spelling: unit 1 for Thursday and test
CL: memory work and ws for Thursday
Science: took test today
Geo: ws for tomorrow, map test for Thursday, study guide for next Tuesday
Literature: read ch 4 for Wednesday, quiz
English: 2 ws for THURSDAY
Math: we took a test, no assignment
Health: p 44 1-16, p 45 1-24 for Wednesday
Music: ws for nest week Friday

Happy first Monday of school! Today we took our first computerized test. We averaged a B- as a class. We also are ready to do it again tomorrow for science. We reviewed pattern one in English and in lit. we got Brian on the ground.

Spelling: Unit 1 and test on Thursday
CL: ws for Thursday
Science: test tomorrow
Geo: map test for Thursday, study guide for Tuesday
Literature: read chapter 4
English: nothing
Math: set 5 skip 17, 19, 23, 24, 26
Health: 44 1-16, 45 1-24
CE: nothing

Our first Friday of the year went pretty well although one of our students had to phone a friend and then lost the million dollar question. However, since I don't have a million dollars to give him anyhow, it is just as well. We corrected our study guide and took a look at how our computerized test is going to go on Monday for geography. We also took a some time to compare our science reviews and make sure those are right before Monday comes along. We spent some time working with number lines and types of sentences. We also spent some time with Joseph Haydn. By age three his family knew he was going to be involved in music. Thaddeus Loves to dance, does that count? We listened to part of his Surprise, Toy and Farewell symphonies.

Spelling: unit one for next Thursday, test will be Thursday due to no school on Friday
Art: Picture based on school theme
Science: study guide due on Monday
Geo: test on Monday
Literature: chapters 2 and 3 for Monday, quiz to follow
English: no assignment
Math: set 4 skip 19, 20, 23, 26,27,28
Music: Haydn ws for Friday the 7th
CE: weekly quiz worksheet
Health: nothing

"The ants go marching one by one . . " and so do the days. Today we reviewed in math how to solve equations that have variables in them. We also talked about maps and go to watch a short video about the short comings of the Mercator Projection. (It is cooler than it sounds, really.) We also talked about different economic systems and put Jonah in charge of the toaster factory and Hanna got to make extension cords. We also studied why trade is so important for us in our globalized world.

MISSION OFFERING TOMORROW! Read more about it in the school news letter.

CL: memory work from lesson one for next Thursday
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Monday
Geography: ws and study guide for tomorrow, test Monday
English: ws 1-3 for tomorrow
Math: set 3 skip 19,20,21,27,28
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Literature: chapter 1 and quiz

Welcome again. I hope you are doing well! Today we started reading Hatchet. We also took a look at how culture affects our perception of things. We also looked at different math properties that help us solve problems. In health we studied good decision making.

Cat: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide Monday
Geo: ws tomorrow, study guide Friday
Literature: read chapter one for Friday, quiz on Friday
English: worksheet from yesterday
Math: set 2 skip 2,9,14,18,22
Heath: nothing
CE: nothing

Welcome welcome welcome!

First of all let me say a hearty hi ho to anyone who signed up to get this by email last year and is still getting it now. HI! You can unsubscribe at the bottom of the email. Secondly, for the rest of you, please note at the bottom of the blog where you can sign up to get this blog delivered to you by email each day. It is convenient!

I registered the class for the online math book. Your student got their log on information and password today (not the 6th  graders who come in, they should get it tomorrow). If you go to my.hrw.com your student can see an online version of the book. There are also some tools and certain lessons have interactives as well.

We underwent another schedule change. Bear with me! We just moved break from before geography to after. The time isn't as good, but it keeps us out of other classes way. It also gives us a few more minutes for geography.

Christ Light: nothing
Science: quiz on section 1
Geo: worksheet on section 1
Literature: nothing
English: worksheet is due on THURSDAY
Math: set one skip 1, 9, 15, 17, 19, 22
CE: nothing

WELCOME TO ANOTHER SCHOOL YEAR!

Today we learned about Frank Lloyd Wright. Then we built our own buildings. That was much more fun than the tests we took today.

Camp Philip on Monday. Don't bring electronics but do bring a lunch. Dress appropriately for hanging out in the woods!

Math: test 24 for Tue
English: 3 ws for Tue
CE: news quiz for Monday

Greetings once again. We finished watching The Hobbit  today. Quite a bit was omitted but it was entertaining none the less. The passive tense was also reviewed. 

Sorry! This is all the farther I got yesterday when life intervened. It has a way of doing that you know.

Today we had the Fond du Lac Children's Chorale come and sing for us. They did a great job, especially that short blonde 7th grade girl! We also got ready for some tests tomorrow.

Field Trip Monday!

CL: graduation song for memory for Friday
Spelling: none
Art: Tree pic
Music: none
Health: none
Lit: project is due tomorrow and we'd like to have AR finished
Math: test 23b
Geo: test
Science: test
CE: nothing
English 3 ws for TUESDAY

It's Monday again! We started watching the animated 70's version of The Hobbit today. We got some good laughs out of some of the decisions that the movie makers made.  We also learned about the sun and Australia today. To top that off, we graphed non linear equations.

Spelling: no spelling unit this week
CL: have the graduation song memorized by Friday
Math: set 120 do practice a-d and 19
English: 2 ws from yesterday for tomorrow
Geo: study guide for Thurs
Science: study guide for Thurs
Art: tree pic for Friday
Music: graduation song
Health: nothing
Lit: project due no later than Friday, AR due Friday
CE: nothing

Happy Friday. Thank you for the great gifts and lunch today. It feels good to be appreciated. We took a chance to appreciate the nice weather today as we took art and literature outside. I new it was time to start literature when over half the class decided they needed to roll down the hill . . . . . . We did manage to finish the book however.

Spelling: nothing, we will spend this last week letting those who wish to/need to catch up and or redo
CL: nothing
Art: tree picture
Music: nothing
Math: set 119 skip 5,12,15, 23-30
Geo: took a test today
English: 2 ws for Tuesday
Science: study guide for Thursday
Health: nothing
Lit: finish up your projects and AR.

We had a good time at the track meet yesterday. The weather was agreeable and it is always a pleasure to see our children doing the best they can with their God given talents. Today we took our science test and we averaged an A-! That is terrific! We did have a rough day for math though, take your time!

Spelling test tomorrow
CL: nothing
Art: Picasso ws tomorrow
Math: set 118 skip 3,7,12,14,15,20,21,24,25,27
Geo: test tomorrow
English 1 ws for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: took test
Lit: keep working and reading!
Health: nothing
Music: nothing

Thank you for all of the Teacher Appreciation gifts so far. It is so nice! I am also looking forward to our lunch on Friday.

Today I went to a technology conference in the morning. I got some new information that has helped to give me direction on a project I am working on. Thanks to the students for taking it easy on the sub!

WLA track meet tomorrow. Please remember to pick up your student at WLA!

Spelling: unit for Thursday, test Friday
CL: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: Picasso ws for Friday
Math: set 116 skip 3,4,5,9,13,18,19,20,24,28
Geo: study guide Thursday
English: 25-5 H for Thursday
CE: nothing
Science: test Thursday
Lit: keep working!

Welcome back to Monday. We had a very productive day with lots of study time that was well used by the students. Today we got the dwarves back into the mountain and found out why Pluto isn't a planet.

Our track meet is set for Wednesday. Please remember to pick up your student from WLA some time after 3.

Spelling: Unit 32 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: none
Math: took a test
Geo: study guide for Thursday
Music: nothing
English: ws for tomorrow
Lit: keep working on AR and project
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide tomorrow
Health: review page for Wed.
CE: nothing

So they tell me it is Friday. Nice to have you drop by a gain, or let me drop by for you email receivers. We had a good amount of study time today, but we did manage to (SPOILER ALERT) get the dragon killed. We also talked very briefly about Picasso. (Ask your student what his whole name is.)

Art: Picasso worksheet for Friday
Spelling: unit for Thursday, test Friday
Music: theory sheets for Monday
CL: nothing
Math: pretest
English: 2 ws for Tuesday
CE: news quiz
Science: quiz Monday, study guide Tue
Lit: keep working and reading AR
Geo: open book test for Monday

It is Thursday already. Today we visited the inner planets. Did you know that Venus gets to be around 1,000 degrees? Yikes. We though 80 yesterday was warm. We also also found out that Antarctica is really cold, but is still warmer than Mars or Mercury. We discovered that converting from mass to volume is a whole lot easier in the metric system. Bilbo and the dwarfs have found the treasure but lost he dragon. Oh no!

Spelling: test tomorrow

CL nothing

Math: set 115 skip 3,4,5,7,14,18,19,28

Art: sketch for tomorrow

Music: theory ws for tomorrow

English: nothing

Geo: worksheet for tomorrow

Science: quiz tomorrow study guide Tuesday

Lit: keep working and reading for AR also

We started new chapters in geo and science today. We are looking at Australia and other planets. We also worked on negative exponents in math and talked more about how to protect ourselves as consumers. Bilbo met the dragon twice and lived to tell the tale.

Spelling: unit 31 Thursday, test Fri
CL: memory for Thurs
Math: set 114 skip 1,6,7,11,17,18,22,28,30
Geo: ws for tomorrow
Health: 278 5-18
English: ws from yesterday for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow and study guide for Tuesday
Lit: keep working
Art: sketch
Music: theory sheets for Friday

Today we took our science test and our geography test. We averaged a B and a B+ respectively. We'll take that! We also learned how to find the volume of a pyramid and a cone (1/3 Bh) and a sphere (4/3 pi r cubed). We also got the secret door open so Bilbo and the dwarfs can go inside and face the dragon, if they dare!

CL: memory for Thursday
Spelling: unit 31 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: 113 skip 2-5, 8, 9, 14, 22, 27, 28
Geo: took a test
English: 2 ws for Thursday
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Science: took a test
Lit: keep working on project and AR
Art: sketch for Friday
Music: theory ws for Friday

Today we made it to the moon! Well at least on video. We also worked on using our right brain. We also played with the Pythagorean Formula again. Please remember to send back the notes indicating you have seen the midterms. Thanks!

Spelling: unit 31 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory lesson 6
Art: right brain sketch
Music: theory ws
Health: nothing
English: ws from yesterday for Tuesday
CE: news quiz
Science: test Tue
Geo: test Tue
Lit: keep working

It seems to be Tuesday today, despite what several students have told me. We had an investigation in math today that involved making cubes of various sizes to compare. We also looked at Japan. Of course some things are very different now from what are book says because of the earthquake and tsunami. We ran the mile again and saw some great improvement from many people. In science we started our new chapter rand talked about the earth. Tomorrow we will discuss the moon.

NO HOT LUNCH TOMORROW!

Spelling: unit 30 for Thurs, test Friday
Math: Investigation 1-20
Geo: study guide for Friday
Music; theory sheets for Friday
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Friday
Lit: keep working on AR and the project
Art: color by Friday
Health: nothing

Spelling: unit 30

CL memory work for Thursday

Math: pretest

Geo: ws 27-1

Music: theory ws for FRIDAY

English: 2 ws from Friday for tomorrow

CE: nothing

Science: nothing

Lit: project

Art: picture for Friday

Health: nothing

 

Happy Friday! Bilbo is at the edge of the wood, NASA is working on getting two men into orbit, and Asia awaits us.

Spelling: Unit 30 for Thursday test Friday
CL: Memory work for Thursday
Art: picture for Friday
Music: ws for Monday
Health: nothing
Science: nothing
Lit: keep working on project
CE: news quiz
Geo: Map test Monday
English: 2 worksheets for TUESDAY
Math: Set 110 skip 1,4,8,9,12,13,17,19,20,23,26,28,29

Today we took our field trip. We had an excellent time and most all of the information that was discussed ties in directly to our science class. Thanks to all the parents who came along. Our one presenter was having so much fun with liquid nitrogen that he even went 30 min longer than he was supposed to! We still made it back in time for a little bit of literature.

Assignments are the same as yesterday.

Please make sure your student has a lunch packed for tomorrow. We will leave after devotion and be back long before the school day is done.

Today we took our Science test and averaged a B+. We also reviewed for geography. The test will be Friday. In math we looked at how to solve equations that have exponents in them. We also discussed how to be wise consumers of health products. Watch out for quackery!

We will do the memory work on Friday, otherwise all assignments will be due as normal despite the field trip.

Spelling: Unit 29 tomorrow, test Friday
CL: memory from lesson 4 for FRIDAY
Math: 109 skip 3,6,8,10,11,16,17,20,26-29
Geo: test Friday, map test Monday
English: ws 24-3d for FRIDAY
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
art: nothing
music: nothing
Lit: keep working

We had an easy one in math today. That gave us extra time to work on corrections and ask questions. Thanks to repetition we are making some progress!

Remember our field trip is this Thursday so we will need cold lunches. We will be taking cars and will be back before the end of the day.

CL: memory work for Friday
Spelling: unit for Thursday, test Friday
Geo: study guide
English: 2 ws from yesterday
CE: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Science: test
Lit: keep working on your project
Health: nothing

Welcome to another Monday. Not too many left in the school year anymore! Where has the time gone! Today we finished up our science chapter. We also looked at how to find the slope of a line in math. We looked at the four principal parts of verbs and even checked out the emphatic form. (We did study the emphatic form.) We even heard about some storms that went through some place called Wisconsin last night. To end the day we got Bilbo out of the goblin caves, but not far enough!

We also had a very nice presentation by the president of MLC.

Spelling: unit 29 Thurs test Friday
CL: lesson 3 memory work for Thursday
Math: 107 skip 1-4,8,11,13,15,20,22
Geo: study guide Wednesday
Music: nothing
English: 2 ws for Wed
CE: nothing
Science: study guide tomorrow
Lit: prepare a presentation on the Hobbit using myfakewall, or prezi, or voicethread
art: nothing

Welcome to another Friday edition of the 7th grade blog. Today we finished our Monet video and checked out a funky (for lack of a better word) web site about Monet's art work. Check it out at www.monet2010.com. We also had a nice short lesson in math (which was good since yesterdays was loooong) about taking care of literal equations. All that means is rearranging equations to solve for a different letter. If A = B + C then B = A - C. In geography we started looking at the history of East Asia and I went on and on about Korea, and Vietnam and World War II and so on and on. I just had so many things to share! We also got 'spacey' in science and looked at some of the space craft that NASA designed to work for 3 months to two years and were still going 30 YEARS LATER! (Speaking of rockets North Korea's failed. )In English we reviewed and then looked ahead to the principal parts of verbs. We will get fully into that on Monday.

Anyhow

Spelling: unit 29 for next Thursday, test Friday
Art: nothing
Math: set 106 skip 1,3,5,6,10, 13-15, 26
Geo: study guide for next Wednesday
Music: nothing
English: nothing
CE: news quiz
Science: study guide for Tuesday
Lit: we are switching to Prezzi
Health: nothing

Mission offering tomorrow. The offering this month goes to help Christian Aid and Relief. They have been active helping out communities around the world and even families in Fond du Lac.

The science quiz for tomorrow was handed out at the end of the day today. We will take it like a worksheet since it is so long and we didn't get to cover everything on it today.

The website for Literature just isn't working consistently enough for us to use. We will give up on myfakewall.com and move on to plan B.

CL: nothing
Spelling: test
Math: set 105 skip 6,9,12,15,18,20,22,24,25
Geo: study guide Next Wed
Science: study guide next Tue
English: ws from yesterday
CE: nothing
Lit: nothing
Art: finish enlargement project ASAP!
Music: ws for tomorrow

Wednesday already! How are you all doing? Today we had some fun. We got to have a special birthday treat that my wife made for us for my birthday! We also got Bilbo captured by goblins. We got to play with parts of circles in math. We are also ready to go for our geo test tomorrow. We also discussed how to deal with irregular verbs and what the perfect tense means.

For literature, the website has been a bit iffy, so do the best that you can.

Spelling unit 28 for tomorrow test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 3 for tomorrow
Math: set 104 skip 1,7,8,13-16, 19, 28
Geo: test
English: ws for Friday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on section 1, study guide next week Tue
Lit: post on myfakewall
Art: finish enlargement
Music: composer ws for Friday

Welcome back! God has given us seasonable weather back to help us make it through these last few weeks of school. It sure felt like summer there for a while!

We enjoyed the Koine worship service at WLA today. We also got to walk there and back. It was a good warm up for when we start running the mile!

We averaged a B- on the science test.

Spelling Unit 28 is due on Thursday and the test will be Friday
CL: memory work form lesson 3 will be for Thursday
Math: nothing
Geo: study guide tomorrow, test Thursday
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: we took our test today
Literature: post on myfakewall about what we read today
Art: finish enlargement picture
Music: composer ws for Friday
Health: review for tomorrow

Today I introduced the students to myfakepage.com. It is a web site that creates a private, fake facebook page. We will be using this for Literature. The students will be pretending that they are the main character and will be making status updates each time we read part of the story. It should be a fun way to have them show me they are following the story.

Have a blessed weekend remembering the suffering, death, and resurrection of our Lord!

Spelling: Unit 28 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Memory from lesson 3 for Thursday
Math: set 103 skip 6,7,12,14,15,16,18,20
Geo: Prezis Tuesday, study guide Wednesday
Health: review
English: 21-3 ws for Tuesday
CE: nothing
Science: test
Lit: post a status update on myfakewall.com
Art: finish project from last week ASAP if not already done
Music: Composer ws for next Friday

Spelling: test and unit due tomorrow
CL: lesson 2 memory due tomorrow
Math: 102 skip 6,10,11,12,17,20,22,23,28,29
Geo: study guide due next Wednesday
Health: review
English: ws from yesterday for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: study guide tomorrow
Lit: nothing

Welcome! Today we started looking at the rest of Asia. We started big and talked about China. We also spent  a lot of time talking about air pollution, which also tied in to China a bit! We also jumped more in depth into appositives.

Spelling: UNIT AND TEST ARE THURSDAY
CL: Memory from lesson 2 are due on Thursday
Math: set 101 skip 2,3,5,9,11,14-16,21
Geo: study guide due next Wed
English: ws 23-1 for THURSDAY
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Thursday
Lit: nothing

Welcome to Holy Week. Today we took our geo test and corrected our science test. We averaged an A on geo and a C+ on science. We also investigated the difference between odds, chance, and probability. In English we started to look at appositives. We also started The Hobbit in literature today. 

Spelling: Unit 27 and test are due on Thursday!

Math: nothing

CL: lesson 2 memory work for Thursday

Geo: Study Guide Next Week Tuesday

Music: Debussy worksheet for next week Friday

English: nothing

CE: nothing

Science: quiz tomorrow

Lit: nothing

Happy Thursday to one and all. I have a family function out of state this weekend so I will be gone tomorrow. Mrs. Weigand will be subbing for me. This also means there will be no blog tomorrow. God willing I will be back to blogging on Monday.

Today we reviewed for science and geography. We will take the science test tomorrow and the geo test on Monday.

Spelling: test 26 tomorrow
CL: nothing
Art: nothing
Math: test tomorrow
Geo: study guide due tomorrow
Music:theory ws due tomorrow
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: nothing

HELLO! Tomorrow is another chance to get lunch and milk tickets. Several students need some. Thanks!
I am also looking for a few more report card envelopes and the sheets regarding singing on Sunday. Those were due yesterday. Please send in the field trip form as you have time. Thanks again.

Spelling: Unit 26 tomorrow, test Friday
Math: set 100 skip 4,11,13,15-17,19,28
Geo: ws for tomorrow, study guide for Friday
Health: nothing
English: ws from yesterday
CE: nothing
Science: quiz  tomorrow and study guide
Literature: nothing

Hello again. Nice to have you back. We got to work with the Pythagerean Theorem today. We also checked out the Muslim countries of South Asia. Did you know that Bangladesh has one of the highest population densities in the world? In English we are practicing more with object compliments. These are words that tell what has happened to the direct object after the action of the verb was applied. For example, "We elected him president." President tells us what we elected him. It tells us more about him after he was elected. We also looked at the ways we use the land and what affect that can have on the environment. (It fit in very well with our presentation on the Friday before break!)

Please return the report card envelope, the filed trip form, and the note for singing in church. Thanks!

Remember that you can have this blog emailed to you daily for your convenience!

Spelling: Unit 26 for Thurs, test Fri
CL: Memory from lesson 1 for Thurs
Math: set 99 skip 3,5,8,12,14,22,23,28
Geo: ws for Wednesday, study guide for Fri
Health: nothing
English: ws for THURSDAY
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide Thursday
Lit: nothing 

It's Monday and we are back into the swing of things. It is kind of odd to have the temps back where they belong, for one day at least. We started looking at South Asia as it is today. We also looked at how to figure out the scale factor in shapes. We also reviewed object compliment nouns and adjectives and we are looking at how we use our land. Oh yea, Billy won the hunting contest!

Please send back the report card envelopes. I sent home our report cards before break.
I sent home a form today for our next field trip.

Spelling: Unit 26 for Thurs, test Fri
CL: memory work from lesson 1 for Thursday
Math: set 98 skip 11-19
Geo: ws for Tuesday, study guide for FRIDAY ( I originally said Thurs but I changed my mind)
Music: theory sheets for Friday
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on 20-1
Lit: nothing

We averaged a B on our geo test today and we had a great time with our guest speaker. Ask your student about it.
There are no assignments for over break. If anyone wants to get a head start though, when we get back we will have spelling unit 27, math set 97 and the literature review.
I sent home report cards today. Please look for those and send back the envelopes when we get back. Thanks!

I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather, I know we are! We are also enjoying averaging a B on our science test and watching Robert Ballard go to the ocean depths back many years. Hopefully we will soon be able to see James Cameron go to the depths as well. We also also did some work on angles and the distributive property. 3(x-2) = 3x-6 We also corrected our geography reviews for our test tomorrow. We are also looking forward to our guest speaker tomorrow who will tell us more about pollution. 

Spelling: test

CL nothing

Math: set 96 skip 5-9, 27-30

Geo: Test
Health: nothing

Music: theory ws for Friday

Art: Money ws

English: nothing

CE: nothing

Science: nothing

Lit: nothing

It is a warm one out there my friends. We warmed things up in here today as well. We are all ready for our science test tomorrow, and we wrapped up a quick peak into the people and customs of South Asia. We also tried to rebound from a rough math assignment by learning how to find the volume of a right solid. We finished up talking about eyes and what to do to help take care of them. We also got Billy to the big hunt, but he hasn't had his turn yet.

Spelling: unit 25 tomorrow
CL: test tomorrow
Math: set 95 skip 3,4,9,16,17,20
Geo: study guide tomorrow test Friday
Health: nothing
Art: Monet ws for Friday
Music: theory sheets for Friday
CE: nothing
Science: test
Lit: nothing

Good day to one and all. After 4 months of spring summer is here! At least it seems that way doesn't it? Anyhow we looked at compound probability today. We also looked into the history and government of South Asia. It is kind of scary to study the long history of discord between India and Pakistan and then realize they both have nuclear weapons. We also got Billy started on his championship raccoon hunt.

Spelling: Unit 25 Thursday, test Friday
CL: Test Thursday (I will also collect the books)
Math: set 94 skip 9,12,13,15,17,19,21,24
Geo: study guide is due Thursday
Health: nothing
English: 2 ws from yesterday for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Art: Monet ws
Music: theory ws
Science: study guide for Wednesday
Lit: nothing

Hey everyone! A bunch of Click and Tab orders went out. If you are thinking of making an order, it would be great if you could get them to me by Friday. Any checks can be made out to me, or you can order online using the code on the forms.  Thanks!

FYI Remember Friday is a half day due to the end of the quarter.

Spelling: Unit 25 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: Test on Thursday
Math: set 93 skip 4,9,12,18,20,23,24
Geo: study guide for Thursday
Music: Theory ws for Friday
English: 2 ws for WEDNESDAY
CE: Nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide Wednesday
Lit: nothing
Art: Monet ws for Friday
Health: nothing

Happy Friday! Today we looked at percent of change problems for math. We also looked at life in the ocean. Did you know Robert Ballard is trying to get to the very bottom of the ocean? Stay tuned for updates. We also looked more in depth at the countries of South Asia. There are a lot of people in India!

Art: Monet ws for next Friday
Math: set 92 skip 2-5, 8, 16, 24,25
Geo: study guide due next Thurs
Science: quiz Monday, study guide Wed
Music: Theory WS for FRIDAY
English: WS for Monday
CE: news quiz
Lit: nothing
CL: test Thursday
Health: nothing

Happy Thursday! Did you miss me yesterday? Sorry about that, things got very busy very quickly and I didn't think about it until late last night. Today we started a new section for science and geography. We also got Billy chasing the Ghost Coon and we did some work with problems with a lot of negative signs in them. We also had  very robust discussions in Christ Light today. It was great! By the way we averaged a B on both our geo and sci tests. We also average a B+ on our map test. I gave the students 4 freebies, and some people even ended up with extra credit. Way to go!

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL: nothing
Art: finish coloring
Math: set 91: skip 5,6,8,10,12,16,22,24,25
Geo: study guide due next Thursday
Music: theory sheets for tomorrow
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: study guide next Wednesday
Lit: nothing

So meet again. Today we heard about how Little Ann almost died, but Billy is able to save her with the help of God. We also did some more work on graphing functions. We also averaged a B on our geography test. Hopefully we do that well on science tomorrow. Things in English continue to be indefinite. Indefinite pronouns that is.

Spelling: Unit 24 Thurs, test Fri
CL: memory from lesson 5 for Thurs
Art: nothing
Math: nothing, test tomorrow
Geo: took our test today
Health: nothing
English: 2 worksheets for THURSDAY
CE: nothing
Science: test tomorrow
Lit: 1-9 for THURSDAY
AR 15 points due for FRIDAY

Welcome back to Monday. Today we took our pretest in math so we can be ready to go fro Wednesday's test. We also corrected the review so we can be ready fro Tuesday's geo test. We are looking at different musical note and rest values in music. We also are working on indefinite pronouns for English. We also learned that Valdimir Putin won the election to be president of Russia. What we don't know is how the opposition is going to deal with that. We also heard more about Billy and his dogs.

Spelling: Unit 24 for Thurs, test Friday
CL: lesson 5 memory for Thursday
Math: pretest
Geo: test tomorrow
Music: theory ws for Friday
English: ws for Tuesday
CE: nothing
Art: nothing
Science: study guide for Tue
Lit: nothing

Spelling: unit 24 for Thurs, test Friday
CL: memory 5 for nest Thursday
Art: color pics for Friday
Math: set 90 skip 3,6,7,10,12,l5,20,24
Geo: study guide for Monday, map test of all Africa for Wednesday
Music: theory sheets for Monday
English: nothing
CE: news quiz
Science: study guide for Tuesday
Lit: nothing

Happy March! To celebrate we talked about our gifts and talents,neap and spring tides, waves, southern Africa, exterior angles and the primaries!

Spelling: test tomorrow
CL:Lesson 5 memory work for next Thursday
Math: set 89 skip 1,3,4,8,9,14,15,17,22
Geo: map test and 2 ws for tomorrow, study guide Monday, test Tuesday
Science; quiz tomorrow, study guide Tuesday, test Wednesday
Music: theory ws for Friday
Art: nothing
CE: nothing
Lit: nothing

Happy Church Day! We got to talk about teeth and ears today. We also talked about another section of Africa. We also took a Meet Math test.

Spelling: Unit 23 tomorrow, test Friday check your work carefully so we do better this week than last
CL: Memory from lesson 4 for tomorrow
Math: set 88 skip 6,7,12,14,18,19,22,23,24,26
Geo: wsh from section 2, map test Friday, study guide Monday
Health: nothing
Music: theory ws for Friday
Art: nothing
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Lit: nothing

We have been working through more of our presentations and are almost done. They have been interesting. We also started talking about the ocean and also Africa in current times. Today we looked at Western Africa. We also did some geometric multiplication. (3x times 4x equals 12x squared.)

Spelling: Unit 23 for Thursday, test Friday
Music: theory worksheets for Friday
Health: nothing
Art: nothing
Memory: lesson 4 for Thursday
Math: set 87: 3,5,10,11,14,19,20,27
Geo: worksheet for Tue, Map test for Friday, study guide for Monday
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Science: quiz on section 1
Literature: review page 1-10 for Wednesday

Well, today we got through 10 of our presentations. Things worked much better. We also got our science corrected for the test next week. We also got through the rest of the chapter and into the next for Where the Red Fern Grows. 


Spelling: unit 23 for next week
CL: Lesson four memory for next week
Math: 85 skip 1-7, 14,15
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Geo: took test
English: nothing
CE: news Quiz
Science: test Monday
Lit: nothing

The big event today was the event that didn't happen. For a few different reasons we didn't get to see ANY of our Museum Box presentations. We will certainly do what we can to make it happen tomorrow. We also will take our geography test.

By the way, I am missing some signed notes from mid-term yet. Please return those as soon as you can. It lets me know that you saw them. I know some of you are checking on line at engrade.com, but it is a way for me to make sure everyone has some idea of what is going on with his or her student's grades. Thanks!

Spelling: test 22 tomorrow
CL: nothing
Art: you will have about 45 min to finish the entire project tomorrow, make sure you are far enough for that to happen
Music: theory worksheets
Health: nothing
Math: set 84 skip 13, and 23-30
Geo: test
English: make sure your project is AWESOME!
CE: nothing
Science: quiz and study guide
Lit: nothing

In case you were wondering, the geo review and worksheets are due tomorrow. The science review got moved to Friday since we took time on Monday to work on the museum box project instead. Many of the students are done with geo already but have asked about science.

Spelling: Unit 22 tomorrow, make sure you divide the syllables on the first page, test Friday
Memory: lesson 3 passages and hymn for Thursday
Math: set 83 skip 5,7,8,11,18,21,25,26
Geo: study guide tomorrow
Health: nothing
English: 2 ws from yesterday for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Music: theory ws for Friday
Art: be far enough along to finish during Friday's art time
Science: quiz tomorrow
Lit: nothing

Hello all ya all. Happy Tuesday despite the dreary color outside. We looked at the hsitory and customs of Africa, how to find the area of a circle, and we started talking about climate. We also heard how Billy finally got his dogs, but is finding town not to his liking.

Spelling: Unit 22 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: lesson 3 for Thursday
Geo: ws and map test for Wed, study guide Thursday, test Friday
Math: set 82 skip 2,3,4,13,15,19,20
English: two worksheets for Thursday
Music: theory worksheets for Friday
Health: 220-221 for Wednesday
Art: be able to finish the project by the end of art on Friday
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for Friday
Lit: nothing

So, they tell me it is Monday. We started a new chapter in geography, talking about the history and governments of Africa. Ask your students about the green, yellow and blue country people. We also solved more percent problems, but we did it as ratios this time. We took the afternoon to go to the lab and work on our museum box presentations. We seemed to make good progress.

Spelling: Unit 22 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: lesson 3 for memory work on Thursday (yes 490 again)
Math: set 81
Geo: ws on section 1, study guide for Thursday
English: Museum Box for Thursday
Music: theory ws for Friday
Science: study guide for Friday
Art: have picture finished by the end of art on Friday so do enough over the week to make sure you can finish during the art period.
Health: 220-221 for Wednesday
Lit: nothing

Well it is Friday and what a Friday. We had a visitor, some tests, a video and even some study time.

We had Eric come and visit us today. He is planning on coming to our school next year and wanted to get to know his future classmates a bit. We had a relatively calm day for him. We had a messy art period, but then we took at test, followed that with another test, started a video, did some correcting and some music, and then we were ready for lunch already. We did get some good character development and good examples of descriptive writing in our story though.

Art: flower picture for next Friday,
Math: took a test
Geo: study guide and ws for next Thursday
Music: theory sheets for Monday
Spelling: Unit 22 for next week
English: work on Museum Box
CE: news quiz for Monday
Science: nothing
Health: 220 and 221 for Wednesday
Literature: nothing

I hate to break it to you, but it is Thursday. We took our science test today and we did all right. We averaged a B. We used a compass to bisect angles and lines. We did a lot of reviewish things in preparation for our geography test tomorrow, and started our new story. It's gripping already!

Spelling: test tomorrow
Math: Investigation questions, test tomorrow
Geo: test tomorrow
Health: review 220 1-14, 221 1-35
Music: theory ws for tomorrow
Art: artist ws
English: journal entry, remember 1 per week min.
CE: nothing
Science: nothing
Lit: nothing

Welcome to another Wednesday! Well, we didn't take our science test today after all. I decided that the weather video would be a good additional review before the test. We WILL take it tomorrow Lord willing. We took a pretest with a partner for math, and we took our map test for geography. We averaged an A-! We also had our intro to our next story, Where the Red Fern Grows.

Spelling: Unit 21 due Thurs, test Fri
Memory: Hymn and passages due tomorrow
Music: theory ws for Friday
Art: ws for Friday
Math: pre-test
Geo: study guide and ws
English: ws for tomorrow
CE: nothing
Science: test
Lit: nothing

Welcome to Tuesday! It was kind of funny as we looked at the climates of Africa countries last week, we kept mentioning how WI gets more snow than the countries of Africa. It certainly didn't feel much like it before, but we may be working on changing that this week.

Anyhow we did look at the African climate regions today. We also worked on transformations in math. No not transformers! We also reviewed for our science test a bit. Be ready for the test tomorrow, but I may let us watch the video before the test which would put the test on Thursday though. We also got to hear some of the 'last chapter' projects for literature.

Spelling: Unit 21 for Thursday, test Friday
Math: set 80, skip 6,8,10,11,12,13,15,16,26,28
Geo: map test Wed, study guide Thursday
Music: nothing
Art: wsh
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Health: nothing
Science: be ready for the test
Lit: nothing

Well it is Monday again. How is yours going? Well I hope! We started off the day by wrapping up our discussion on how we can get along better with our friends. Then we took a pre-test for spelling. We have names from places and people this week. Things like hamburger and frankfurter. Makes me hungry just typing about it. We then jumped into how to work with problems that may have not enough information, or may have just enough to make a comparison. (IF x is negative and y is positive, I don't have enough info to tell you what the numbers are but I can tell you that y is greater than x.) We followed that up by looking at the physical features of Africa. We then talked about our upcoming museum box project. We spent a lot of time finishing up our science section on weather as well. We finished off the day with some study time.

Spelling: unit 21 for Thurs, test Friday
Memory: Lesson two passages and hymn for Thursday
Music: theory worksheets for Wednesday
English: worksheet 18-1 for Tuesday
CE: nothing
Science: study guide
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: Artist ws
Math: set 79 4,8,13,17,19,21,22,26,28

Wednesday has come! We looked at graphing inequalities part two. We also learned about South Africa and Nelson Mandela. We talked a lot about weather and forecasting weather. We also spent some time working on our literature project.

Spelling: none
Art: worksheet for next week Friday
Math: set 78 skip 4,8,18,19,20,22,23,24
Geo: nothing
Science: quizzes on parts 2 and 3 on Monday, study guide due Tuesday
Health: nothing
English: nothing
CE: nothing
Literature: project writing and illustrating a chapter is due on Monday

Hey it's Tuesday! Wow, everything took longer than I thought it would today. Wonder if it is the weather? Anyhow we did manage to get through the prezis for two countries today. We also worked through math problems involving percents. The example problems are all done for you on the picture above. (Fun with the Smart Board!) Our science quiz took some time so while we got through thunderstorms and tornadoes, we didn't make it all the way through hurricanes. We will finish up tomorrow.


Spelling: nothing
Art:artist for next Friday
Music: nothing
Math: set 77  skip 5,13,14,17,19,20,25,28
Geo: map test study guide. map test will be next week
English: nothing unless you didn't hand in your paper today
CE: nothing
Science: we will finish section 2 tomorrow, be ready for the section 2 quiz that we may or may not take
Lit: keep working on the project
Health: nothing
Music: nothing

Example problems from set 77

Happy Monday to you, happy Monday to you, happy Monday Dear reader, Happy Monday to you. I was told today that no one reads the blog, so thanks for being here to prove that person wrong.

Today we worked out some complex fractions. Those are fractions within fractions like 2/3 over 4/5. We know how to simplify those now! (5/6 by the way) We also took an overview look at Africa south of the Sahara dessert. We have been working on our song for church. Remember it got moved from the 12th to the 19th of this month. We are also learning about weather including what relative humidity means.

Spelling: none this week
CL: lesson 2 memory work for next week Thursday
Math: set 76 skip 3,11,12,14,16,20,22,24
Geo: worksheets
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: worksheets on Holbein
English: final copy is due tomorrow, don't forget to include the outline and note cards ect, check the English book!
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow
Literature: Animal Farm project

Good day one and all. Final copy of the paper is due next week Tuesday! Also remember their is no school on Thursday or Friday next week since the teachers will be in Green Bay being students!

Spelling: nothing
CL: nothing
Math: set 75 skip 1,3,4,5,11,15,18,19,30
Art: Artist Monthly for Friday the 17th
Geo: nothing
Science: nothing
English: final copy
CE: news quiz
Literature: nothing
Music: worksheets, musical word games parts only for Monday
Health: nothing

Hello my friends, thanks for dropping in for a visit. We had a fine day today as we learned about how to get along as families. We took more time to work on solving equations with fractional numbers in them. (What fraction of the people read the blog if five out of 17 people read the blog?) We also got ready for our geo test tomorrow and took our science test today. We averaged a B. We also got to watch more of the Animal Farm movie. Ask your student about all the things that were different.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: lesson 2 for next week Thursday
Music: nothing
Art: finish 2 point perspective
Math: set 74
Geo: test tomorrow (MORE PREZIS NEXT WEEK)
English: worksheet tomorrow final copy of paper next week Tuesday
Science: nothing
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing

Lesson 74

Thanks for the good turnout last night. It was an interesting presentation with some great handouts and worth the time. Today we started the Animal Farm  movie and already saw quite a few differences. We also talked about how to multiply numbers with positive and negative signs on them. We also talked about trying out a variety of fitness activities and finding some we can do for a lifetime. We are also ready to our science test tomorrow.

Spelling: Unit 20 due tomorrow, test Friday
Memory Work: lesson 1 but instead of the commandment we will do "Follow Jesus"
Math: set 73 skip 1-8
Geo: study guide and worksheets due tomorrow
 Health: nothing
English: final copy is due next Tuesday. Are you keeping up with your journal?????
CE: nothing
Science: test
Lit: essays or nothing
Art: finish two point picture
Music: none

Lesson 73