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