Today I am going to push publish, really I am!

Today we started a big project (don't worry, in class) for geography. We are reviewing the economies of Europe. Although, as we talk about economies, it ties in well with science, too. We are making large displays to show off important things about the economies of the four regions of Europe. We also are moving along in Vocabulary Workshop. In math we reviewed why 4/3 +3/4 does NOT equal 1. Speaking of NOT we also discussed not never using double negatives. I mean not ever using double negatives, or never using double negatives.  We also worked on decimal num.bers some more.

Tomorrow we walk to WLA for the play. Please make sure your student is appropriately attired including footwear. Faith apparel would be great but not required.

Science and geography: we will keep working on our project
English: ws for Monday
Vocab Ws. 67-69 for Friday
Math: set 34 skip 3, 8, 14, 17, 19
CE: nothing
Music: theory ws for next Wednesday

I had this written nice and early yesterday, but if you don't push the publish button, it doesn't publish apparently ;-)

Hi there once again. It has been great to see all of you over these three days. I really do see this as us working together for our children. Today we worked on decimal numbers. We also finished our copyright discussion. We took our quiz again and we did better this time, no surprise. We also made the continents move. Remember that on Friday we are walking to WLA after lunch to see the play. Have your student dress accordingly.

Science: notes ws
Geo: none
Music: theory ws for next WEDNESDAY
Vocab Workshop: THE TWO PAGES FROM TWO WEEKS AGO ARE DUE TOMORROW!
Lit: read the rest of chapter 14.
Math: set 33 skip 16, 18, 22, 24, 27
English: none

I had a bunch of great conferences last night. I look forward to some more tonight. I had some productive hours fixing technology issues last night and I look forward to a productive IT committee meeting tonight!

SPeaking of productive, we had a productive morning today. We plotted where the most recent earthquakes and volcanoes have taken place. It turns out we found a bit of a pattern. These things tend to happen in the same places. We then looked at where the plate boundaries of the earth's crust are and guess what we found? No, really, guess. I'll wait. Ask your student if you guessed right! We also took a look at the metric system. It really does make sense, but I don't see us changing any time soon, do you? We also started learning more about Martin Luther. Happy Reformation!

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Literature: read chapter 13 for WEDNESDAY
Math: set 32 skip 5,7,12,14,18
English: final copy for WEDNESDAY
Music: worksheet for WEDNESDAY
Vocab: pages are due for THURSDAY (from 2 weeks ago)

Happy Wednesday! We did some erosion work today. We also started learning about Schubert and coordinate planes. Little Ann almost died, but Billy saved her. We topped that off with a five paragraph essay.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: Read copyright essay
Literature: p 697 1-9, 1-3 for MONDAY
English: Rough draft for MONDAY
CE: none
Music: Schubert for WEDNESDAY
Math: Investigation 1-9

Today we started learning about copyright. We have a long way to go, ask your student about Thomas Jefferson and copyright. They have a short essay to read. It would be good if they can discuss it with you. We also talked about ground water erosion and even took a math test.

CL: none
Science: did the worksheet in class
Geo: read the article
Lit: nothing
English: nothing
Math: nothing
CE: nothing
Vocab: 2 pages for next week

Happy Monday! Voters' Meeting tonight! The big excitement today was no math! Oh yea, we saw a fun play also. We did get some water to erode things and visited Eastern Europe as well. We also took our first Meet Math test (from MLC) of the year.

CL: none
Science: ws for tomorrow
Geo: none
Lit: none
Math: none
CE: none
Music: none
Vocab ws: 2 pages for next week

CL: none
Science: test due on  Monday
Geo: none
Literature: chapter 10
Vocab WS; pages Thursday
Math: test Tuesday
CE: None
English: None

BRING A COLD LUNCH TOMORROW! It would be awesome if the kids would wear their Faith apparel tomorrow. Thanks!

Parent teacher slips went home today. I was able to get everyone who turned in a sheet right about when you asked for. Let me know if something doesn't work anymore.

CL: none
Science: take home test for Monday
Lit: Read chapter 10 for Monday
Vocab Workshop: 2 pages due in two weeks
Math: Test Tuesday
Geo: Finish up Prezis if you aren't already done
WORK ON THE SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT.

Greetings one and all! Remember, rain is good, it makes things grow, eventually anyway. Today we had some wind erosion. We sang and some of us danced. We added and subtracted and compared fractions with different denominators. We even worked on some possessives.

CL: none
Science: ws for tomorrow
Geo: none
Literature: finish ch 8 and read ch 9 for tomorrow
English: ws for Tomorrow
Math: set 30: skip 7, 21, 24, 29, 30
CE: none
Vocab: none
Music:none

Tuesday has arrived and brought some rain with it. Mrs. Kemnitz is letting students retake their art quiz tomorrow if they would like. We talked about glaciers today and how they erode. We also talked about moraines, as in Kettle Moraine State Forest. We also got to go to the heartland of Europe. Then we rounded out our day by estimating and rounding in math.

CL: none
Geo: question 4 Wednesday
Science: section 1 and 2 worksheet Wednesday
Literature: 1-10, 1-3 for Wednesday
Math: set 29: skip 5,16,18,19,22
CE: None
English: final copy for tomorrow
Vocab: nothing
Music: nothing

Welcome to another week! Today we played with dirt. Yes, literally. We looked at how plants hold onto soil to help stop erosion. Then we checked out the composition of soil. There is a lot going on in there! We also looked at how erosion due to gravity takes place. We also started to look at Northern Europe including UK and Ireland. We will finish that up tomorrow. We also reviewed our rough drafts, two step problems and found out what is going on in the world. Turns out IN DC, not much!

CL: Hand in your book
Science: nothing
Geo: nothing (Prezi's will be due by the end of this week.)
Literature: page 663 1-10, 1-3 for Wednesday
English: final copy for Wednesday
Math: set 28 skip 16,18,20,24,27 for Tuesday
CE: nothing
Music: nothing
Vocab ws Nothing

Congrats on making it to Friday! We all survived as well. Not everyone was sure they were going to after we got done talking about Least Common Multiples in math. We also saw a very interesting video on the disaster in Chernobyl. We then tried to cover all of Europe's culture in one lesson.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: page 321 #4
Vocab Worksheet: none
CE: news quiz for Monday
Math: set 27 skip 6,7,11,13,27 for Monday
Music: none
English: rough draft for Monday

Today actually is Thursday! Today we worked on helping verbs, multiplying mixed numerals, and the history of Europe. We also had a chat about how to act during class. Quite a few things are due tomorrow.

CL: nothing
Science: we took a test
Geo: page 303 #'s 3,4,5 for FRIDAY
English: rough draft for MONDAY
Literature: read ch 5 for FRIDAY
Vocabulary Workshop: Pages 57,58 for FRIDAY
CE: nothing
Math: set 26 skip 4,13,16,21,27

Hello friends. Happy Wednesday to you. I don't know about you , but my brain wants to keep telling me it is Thursday!

Today we Reviewed for our science test that we will take tomorrow. We also divided fractions, looked at 3 paragraph essays, caught up on new from Monday and Tuesday, and got a few more chapters in our novel.

CL: none
Science: test THURSDAY
Geo: none
Literature: read chapter 3 THURSDAY
Math: set 25 skip 8,15,20,23,30 THURSDAY
English: WA #5 rough draft for MONDAY
CE: none
Vocab ws: 2 pages for THURSDAY

Happy happy happy Tuesday! We talked about climate in Europe and how much warmer it is there even though they are farther north than we ware. Why? Ask your student! We also talked about soil erosion and how to prevent it. We also took a math test, hopefully we did well!

CL: none
Science: study guide for TOMORROW
Geo: Foldable notes for TOMORROW
Literature: read chapter one for TOMORROW
English: none
Math: 24: 2,7,23,26,30
CE: none
Vocab ws. 55 + 56

Happy Monday! The highlight of today was a our trip over to St. Peter's to see a blacksmith reenactment. They also showed us some other period items. As an interesting side note, they mentioned the coal they use is a soft coal and contains sulfur which is why there was so much smoke and smell. This is what we talked about in science when we mentioned pollution from the various kinds of coal. SCIENCE IS EVERYWHERE! I then ruined everything by making us come back and have math where we learned some different ways to reduce fractions.

We also finished our projects for geography. Check out Faith's Facebook page for pictures.

Speaking of pictures, I did take a bunch of our soccer tournament the other weekend of both A team and B team . I did manage to take pictures of more than just my kids. If you are interested in seeing if I got any of your child let me know.

CL: Nothing
Science: review due for WEDNESDAY
Geo: nothing
Literature: Chapter 1 for WEDNESDAY
Math: set 24 skip 2,7,23,26,30 for TUESDAY
CE: nothing
English: nothing
Vocab W.S. 55+56 for THURSDAY

Welcome to another Friday. Today we spent some time working on a project learning about some nuclear accidents that have happened around the world. We also reviewed how to borrow when subtracting fractions. We also had a presentation from our Agricultural Ambassador about dairy farms.


Geo: project
Math: set 23 skip 9,10,15,20,23
CE: news quiz

No tests today! Instead we talked about weathering, Europe, collective nouns, and even some fractions.

CL: nothing
Science: study guide due for Wednesday
Geo: notes foldable should be started
Vocab wsh: 55-56 Due Tomorrow
English: ws due Tomorrow
Music: nothing
CE: nothing
Literature: nothing

We finished up our standardized testing today. Many of the students are making good progress on their AR points as well. We started watching the movie based on Hatchet and learned about prime factorization and GCF today.

Math: set 21 skip 1,4,13,15,20
Vocabulary WOrkshop: definition pages due tomorrow

The children were tested today. We got through quite a few tests. We also corrected the math test. We averaged a B+ with six students getting in the A category.

Music: packet of terms due tomorrow
Vocabulary Workshop: definition pages for Thursday