Monday has arrived and with it Terra Nova testing! We got some other things in as well like special rules for subject and verb agreement. We also discussed sedimentary rocks. Lots of terms there.

CL: none
Science: 4-4 ws
English 5-2 ws
Geo: nothing
Math: took a test
Lit: nothing
CE: nothing
Music: definition ws for Wednesday
Vocab WS: Due Thursday

Friday has arrived. We spent some time looking at various aspects of Latin America through some videos. We also did our last two Latin America prezis. We will start Europe next. Those prezis will be in a couple of weeks. In science we talked about metamorphic rocks. In math we had a hands on investigation working with compasses. One thing we learned was how much the quality of a compass can vary. Some students had better success than others.

CE: Nothing
Science: section 3 ws for MONDAY
Geo: Nothing
Literature: nothing
Math: Investigation 2 for MONDAY, test on Monday
CE: Newsquiz for MOnday
English: nothing
Vocab ws: pp 52-54 and word search for Thursday
Music: terms worksheets for Wednesday

Happy Thursday all! We started presenting our prezis today. We learned some interesting things. Some students learned that they need to go back and add some more things before it is their turn to present! We did a pretest in groups for math today. Hopefully this helps us be ready for the real test on Monday. Tomorrow we will work with a compass so please make sure your student has one. We also delved into collective nouns today. Is crowd singular or plural? It depends on how it is used.

CL: nothing
Science: worksheet for TOMORROW
Geo: Prezis
Vocab W.S.: page 48 TOMORROW
Literature: projects are due TOMORROW
Math: pretest (we did it in groups in class so it should be done)
CE: nothing
English: nothing
Music: vocabulary sheets for Wednesday

Happy Wednesday. We had great weather for our fire drill today, but it did really crunch math. We spent some time on the rock cycle today, including sound effects.

CL: none
Science: 4 question worksheet
Geo: prezis tomorrow
Lit: projects for Friday
Math: set 20 skip 6,15,19,26,28 CE: nothing
English: nothing
Vocab ws: idioms TOMORROW
Music: definition ws for Wednesday
CE: nothing

Tuesday has come and somewhat gone already. Mr. Zunker sent home some info for the soccer tournament this Sat. If you have a soccer player or two, look for that. We zipped through uses for minerals today and spent some time on Latin America this morning. We also discussed perimeter in math. Keep working on the lit projects for Friday.

CL: Nothing
Science: review ws for TOMORROW
Geo: two worksheets for Thursday
Literature: project for Friday
English: ws for TOMORROW
CE: nothing
Math: Set 19: 5,10,16,18,23
Music: Beethoven for TOMORROW
Vocab Ws: idiom pages are due Thursday

Another Monday under our belts! I was going to say how many Monday's we have left but then I realized I have no idea and don't want to take the time to figure it out. THIS particular Monday, we talked about the Science Fair a bit, then reviewed how to test what kind of mineral a given sample is. We also spent time discussing ways to check the reliability of a web site. We will visit that again. We also reviewed subject verb agreement. (He eats the food, and they eat the food. Rather than, he eat the food, and they eats the food.) We discussed polygons but I forgot to play the nonagon song for the class. We will have to get to that tomorrow or Wednesday. We also checked out a neat lego video based on Hatchet that someone did. 

CL: Nothing

Science: work on the science fair project

Geography: Finish LA prezis. 

Music: Beethoven for Wednesday

Literature: Final project is due on Friday

Math: set 18 skip 8,13,20,24,29

CE: nothing

English: 4-3 ws

We had a good presentation about our mission in Haiti this morning. As it turned out, our geography lesson today was supposed to be on Central America and the Caribbean, so we had our guest speaker come back to our room after her presentation for a lengthy Q + A session. It was a great look into the culture and life on the island. The students asked some great questions. We also used protractors and learned about idioms.

CL: nothing
Science: nothing
Vocab WS: Idiom pages due for next Thursday
Literature: I handed out the sheet of assignment choices. Each student will pick one of the twelve assignments and complete it by next Friday.
CE: News Quiz for Monday
English: nothing
Math: set 17 skip 11,16,18,25,28
Music: Beethoven for next Wednesday

So Thursday has come, with quite the wild weather at that. Seems like it will avoid our soccer game though.
We has some productive study time today to work on our science test and literature packet. Looks like many students have those done already. We even got a little extra time to work on math.

Your student got a field trip notice today. This one is a surprise and came about on short notice. On the plus side, it is close and it is free. IF we can get enough drivers, we want to head over to St. Peter's for a special presentation on the afternoon of Monday, October 7th. There will also be a slip coming home soon for the October field trip you did know about to the Milwaukee County Museum on the 18th of October.

CL: Nothing
Science: test TOMORROW
Geo: Section 1 ws TOMORROW
Music: Beethoven sheets for Wednesday
Literature: Packet is due TOMORROW
Vocabulary WS: 42-44 TOMORROW
Math: set 16: 11,12,19,20,22
English: Final copy tomorrow.  

Back for more are ya? Well, we've got more. We finished reading Hatchet today so the sheets will be due on Friday. Then we will talk about our culminating project, dun dun da! We also started learning more about Beethoven. We even jammed to a piano concerto. (I am listening to a piano sonata at the moment.) We also started working on our open book test for Friday. The chart at the end looks like the one we did on the worksheet, but it has a few wrinkles in it. Fortunately, I warned the students all about them when we went though the worksheet. We also are doing a paragraph on things we like to do on the weekend. It shouldn't take them long at all since they have done these kind before. Don't worry, we'll make it more challenging for them soon.

CL: nothing
Science: take home test for Friday
Geography: section 2 ws for TOMORROW
Music: Beethoven for next Wednesday
Vocabulary Workshop: 39-41 for TOMORROW
Math: we took a test
CE: nothing
English: writing assignment number 1. Rough draft for tomorrow. Make sure you are using the right topic.

Happy Tuesday to you. We had the Madison Brass present to us today and it was pretty spectacular. We also worked on reducing fractions, saving the rainforest and skimming over the culture of Latin America.

CL: nothing
Science: nothing
Geo: section 2 ws
Lit: Packet of papers will be due on Friday
Math: set 15: skip 14, 19, 21,23, 26
Vocabulary WS pages 39-41 for Thursday
Music: theory ws for tomorrow
CE: nothing

Well it is Monday. There was no doubt about that today. However, we did manage to get some things done. We started the day talking about how to safeguard our minds when we deal with tv and movies. We then moved into the lab to research the Amazon Rain Forest and the problem of deforestation. We found a plethora of information at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov. The hard part was sifting through everything to find information that we could use. We also had English class time to work on it, but most students took the time to finish math instead, so many will need to do some research at home tonight. In math we looked at simple probability. The probability is 1 that it will get more challenging as the year goes on. Don't forget about the music sheets that are due Wednesday. They are easy but easy to forget as well!

CL: none
Science and Geography: use http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov to research deforestation in the Amazon. We are looking for information about why it is happening, how we monitor it, why is it a problem, and what can we do to stop it and yet help the people that live there for TOMORROW
English: none
Math: set 14 skip 7,10,12,14,15
Lit: start working the rest of the packet of worksheets for FRIDAY
CE: nothing
Music: ws due for WEDNESDAY
Vocabulary ws pages due for Thursday  

Happy Grand Day! It was pretty grand indeed. However, we did find some time to do some work first, sorry! We finished section 1 of our geography chapter. I handed out a worksheet for section 1 that is due on Monday. Section two is on the back side. That is NOT due on Monday, I was just saving paper. We also had some science sheets. We went through them in class so everyone should have a good idea of what to do. We also got some vocabulary workshop and our news quiz. Unfortunately, we did have to skip math. (You would not believe the tears over that one.) Have a grand weekend.

CL: nothing
Science: 3 ws for MONDAY
Geo: 1 ws for MONDAY (Only side 1)
Vocabulary WS: 39-41
Lit: nothing
Math: nothing
CE: Newsquiz for MONDAY
English: nothing

Happy Thursday to ya. How are we all doing tonight? The temps are more like normal at least! Today we worked on our project for Grand day. We also talked about the different states of matter. We used a little time for Latin America and a bit more for story problems. We also learned some new vocabulary words as well. None of my students got my reference to "hanking for a hunk of _________." Do you?

CL: nothing
Science: Section 3 notes for TOMORROW
Geo: work on Prezis
Vocabulary Workshop: page 37 and page 38 for TOMORROW
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Music: theor sheets for Wednesday
English: work on what to say for Grand Day presentation
Math: set 13: skip 11,13,18,24,25

Today we compounded! Not problems but elements. We learned about hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds and covalent bonds. We also reviewed electrons since that is where the action is in the atomic world. We also started some easy music theory review. We got Brian some meat and then did some more story problems. We then did our English assignment as a class.

CL: nothing
Science: Notes sheets on section 2
Geo: nothing
Vocab Wsh: nothing
Literature: nothing
Math: set 12: skip 13,15,17,20,28
CE: nothing
English: in class

It's a hot Tuesday my friends. We got into atoms today in science. We tried to cram a whole lot of info into one lesson. Don't worry, we'll review. We also got into the history and cultures of Latin America today. We have a ways to go. (Part of that is due to a detour to watch a hydrogen balloon blow up.)  We also worked on story problems today.

CL: nothing
Science: nothing
Geo: nothing
Music: nothing
Math: set 11 skip 7,10,14,19,21
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
English: nothing

Greetings! Over the weekend a sheet was placed in your church mailbox for your student. It is in regard to our Grand Day activity. We are asking the students to ask their grandparents about what was popular back when they were kids. If you didn't get the sheet this weekend, see below.

CL: worksheet for Thursday
Science: we did an activity today, make sure the questions and results are in by TOMORROW
Geo: nothing
Literature: nothing
Vocab: nothing
Math: we took a test
CE: nothing
English: nothing

We did quite a lot of work today! Mr. Zunker led us in an uplifting devotional this morning about how Jesus is our brother. Then we spent some time in the lab working on our country projects. After that we talked about science and how it fits in with what God. After that came a timeline activity for geography. We took a quick quiz for vocabulary workshop. Then we read about how Brian missed a rescue plane and had some time to work on our sheets that are due for Monday. We spent math time working on using math manipulatives to work with fractions.

CL: nothing
Science: crossword puzzle for Monday
Geography: vocab and timeline sheets for Monday
Vocab W.S.: nothing
Literature: second section of worksheets for Monday
Math: Investigation 1 for Monday, pages 72-74 numbers 1-34
CE: News Quiz for Monday
Music: nothing
English: nothing

Soccer Game!

CL:nothing
Science: nothing
Geography: did it in class
Vocab ws: 29, 30
Lit: next section of the packet for MONDAY
Math: nothing
CE: nothing
Music: nothing
Art: aborigine project

Welcome back to another day. We had some fun today. We need to work on getting back to work once the fun is over, but we did have some fun. The class researched some vocabulary words for science in preparation for our chapter on the nature of science. We sang some fun songs and even got a little active. English we corrected. Not so fun there. No assignment, though. In math we talked more about fractions, building on yesterday.

CL: nothing

Science: 14 vocabulary words on two foldables

Music: nothing

Geography: 3 questions from yesterday for tomorrow

Vocab Wsh: pp 27 and 28 for tomorrow

Lit: the next section of the packet will be due soon. 

Math: set 10 (test MONDAY) skip 4,10,15,18,23 for tomorrow

CE: nothing

English: nothing 

Happy Tuesday! I pray you had a good weekend. Today we finished up our first section on Latin America and we reviewed renewable energy resources. We also multiplied some fractions!

CL: none
Science: nothing
Geography: 196 2,3,4 for Thursday
Math: set 9 skip 1,2,12,14,24 Wednesday
Literature: work on the next section in the packet
Music: Mozart ws for Wednesday
Vocab WS: 27 + 28 for Thursday