Happy New Year!

Let me start off by saying a great big THANK YOU for everyone's generous Christmas gifts. I got some neat individual gifts in addition to the class gift of a gift certificate to a meat market. That may not sound exciting to you, but for me it doesn't get too much better than firewood or meat!

Now, on to business.

Today we looked at how things are in Russia in modern times. We checked out the life of Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. We will be reading Animal Farm which is really about the Russian revolution and the aftermath. The really interesting part is that we can see now how Orwell's predictions about the future of the USSR came true. We also worked on lines of symmetry and functions in math. For science there was "a whole lot of shaking going on" as we studied earthquakes. "We also learned," the teacher said, "the rules for quotations."

Spelling: unit 16 for Thursday, test Friday
CL: memory work from lesson 6 for Friday
Math: set 58: skip 2, 6 no diagram, 7,22,27,30
Geo: worksheet for tomorrow, study guide for next Monday
English: worksheet for THURSDAY
CE: nothing
Science: quiz tomorrow, study guide for next week Thursday
Lit: nothing
Health: nothing
Art: nothing