MERRY CHRISTMAS! They did a great job at the service. Thanks for the food and the gifts! We are set for Christmas Eve, other than I could use some cups, plates and napkins.

In January, 7th grade will be organizing a collection for Solutions Center. Look for more information to come.

Music was confusing. Here is some help. The other keys are similar.

Happy Last school Tuesday of the year! We practiced practicing! We are working on remembering how the lines start and saying them with enthusiasm. We also worked on making graphs today. We will take our math test on THURSDAY. We also have been working hard on music theory and have some work with scales coming.

Math: Investigation 1-5
CE: none
CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Music: finish the theory sheets for THURSDAY
English: none
Vocab: Pages 105-107 for THURSDAY
Lit: none
Memory: KNOW THE CHRISTMAS SERVICE!

Happy Friday! Basketball games tonight! Countries of Europe today. Check it out here. We also practiced for the Christmas service. We didn't do as well today! Please look over the words for recitation and singing so we get say/sing them with confidence! We also worked on unit multipliers to change from one unit to another such as feet to inches.

CL: none
Math: set 50 skip 1, 4,15,16,22 for MONDAY
English: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Lit: finish ch 10 for MONDAY
CE: news quiz for MONDAY
Music: none
Memory: Christmas Service
Vocab: none

We did lots of practicing for the Christmas Service. I had the students work without copies today and I was impressed at how well some of them are doing already.

We also worked on  shared presentation again today for geography. We are taking a little peek at some of the lesser known European Countries. (8th grade was gone so we grabbed the Chromebooks!) In addition, we added and subtracted numbers that had different units. Like 12 hours and 27 min. plus 3 hours and 55 min.

CL: none
Memory: keep working on the Christmas service. Especially the recitation at the end.
Vocab: reassigned pages 105-107 TOMORROW
English: ws 10 3a TOMORROW
Math: set 49 skip 1,6,11,16,22
Music: first half of theory sheets
Science: none
Geo: country slides
Lit: none
CE: none

There were no new assignments today. Remember that English and Vocab are due tomorrow and math was due TODAY. A few people need to finish it yet.

Hello again! I was at a tech conference this morning. I learned a few interesting things about where technology seems to be heading! Meanwhile your students were trying to learn about fraction-decimal-percent equivalents. This is really review, but that is good because we are again having trouble with remembering that when we change a percent to a decimal, we can't just erase the percent sign. (83.5% is not the same as 83.5). They also are working on how to combine short choppy sentences into longer, better flowing sentences. For example, instead of writing "Mr. Rosenthal went to a conference. The conference was about technology. Mr. Rosenthal learned some new things". They should write,  "Mr. Rosenthal went to a conference on technology and learned some new things."

CL:none
Memory: work on the Christmas Service, especially the songs
Music: Theory sheets (first half) for FRIDAY
CE: none
Geo: None
Lit: Ch 10 for TOMORROW
Math: set 48 skipping 7, 12, 15, 22, 27
English: sheet is due for THURSDAY
Science: none
Vocab: 105-107 for THURSDAY

Happy Monday! Faculty meeting today so I will be brief. We did some educational stuff today.

OK, not that brief. We talked about wind erosion today. We focused in on the difference between deflation and abrasion. We also are looking at key signatures in music. In math we worked on powers of 10. It's really just more counting. (We do a lot of counting in 7th grade math.)

CL: none
Memory: work on Christmas Service
Math: set 47 skip 6,9,16,18,24
Science: none
CE: none
Geo: none
Lit: finish chapter 10
Music: Theory sheets first half for FRIDAY
Vocab: pages 105-107 for THURSDAY
English: none

Happy Weekend! We had a great presentation today on Friends of China. We also talked about ratios, the NASA Orion spacecraft, and glaciers!

Don't forget we sing on December 14th in both services. If your child can't make it, you need to let Mrs. H. and I both know ahead of time. School policy states that any child that doesn't come to sing without giving advance notice, should get a detention.

CL: none
Memory: work on Christmas Service
Math: set 46 skip: 8,9,25,26
Vocab: Pages 105-107
Science: notes on 8-3 for MONDAY
CE: News quiz for MONDAY
Geo: None
Literature: ch 9
English: none
Music:none

This week is flying! So much to do and so little time! We took a math test today. Everyone got a C or better! We also learned about the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, combining science and geography.

CL: none
Memory:"Something is Happening Tonight"
Vocab: 98-104 for FRIDAY
English: none
Math: none
CE: none
Science: notes from 8-2 for FRIDAY
Music: none
Literature: questions from yesterday for FRIDAY
Geo: none

Evening. See you in church!

CL: none
Memory Work: rest of Christmas Recitation for tomorrow pages 11-16
Math: we tool a pretest
CE: none
Science: none
Geo: ws 12-4 for TOMORROW
Lit: page 665 1-10, 1-3 FOR FRIDAY
Music: none
Vocab: none

Happy Tuesday! At least it warmed up some. You may live in WI if your teacher checks the temp and says, "It's 26 degrees. We'll go outside since it is warm out." We also worked with dividing by decimal numbers. We are having a bit of trouble figuring out which number goes inside the box and which one is outside. Also, remember not to forget about the decimal and any needed 0's in the answer. We also reviewed where to put, and, not, to, put, commas in certain kinds of sentences. 

CL: none

Memory: pages 4-8 recitation from the Christmas Eve Service

Math: set 45 skip: 1,7,14,15,16,19,30 (Skipping 30 is my Christmas present to the students)

English: sheet 9-3 for THURSDAY

Science: Notes from 8-1 for WEDNESDAY

Geo: ws 12-3 for WEDNESDAY

Music: none

CE: none

Lit: read ch 7 for WEDNESDAY

Vocab: none

Welcome to Advent! We are starting our work on the Christmas Service and we are hitting it pretty hard. We have only about 13 days to practice before the service so look for memory work most every day for the next few weeks. We also worked with division, Southern Europe, and finished our science test on the last section and are starting the new section as well.

Memory: Christmas service recitations pages 1-3 for TUESDAY, pages 4-8 for WEDNESDAY, pages 11-16 for THURSDAY and the song "Something is Happening Tonight" for FRIDAY

CL: none
Math: Set 44 skip 4,5,6,23,24
English: noting new
CE: none
Geo: ws 12-3 for WEDNESDAY
Science: Notes on 8-1 for WEDNESDAY
Lit: Read ch 8 for WEDNESDAY
Music: none
Vocab: None

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! May God bless you all during this mini break from school. A few tidbits for you.

Research papers were handed out today. The quality ranged but those who made the corrections I suggested on their rough drafts, did quite well. Nice job!

The last few math sets handed in were not the quality we were looking for in most cases, so we had a corrections day today. The only assignment was to work on fixing what he or she got wrong on the past few lessons. I managed to get today's corrected and handed back during that time as well, and then took lots of questions to help students get it right the second time.

The students did a nice job on the memory work hymn from last week. We will be working on Christmas service things starting next week.

Safe travels (and hunting) and God bless your holiday.

Welcome to a snowy Monday. We looked at converting decimals to fractions and percents and all around. We also worked on an open book science test. There was some confusion about the test being timed with the timer on the board so we will need work on that a bit tomorrow. We tried something new for geography. The students were put in groups and each group was assigned a section of section two of chapter 12. Each group joined a shared Google presentation and put in the information they thought was the most important. You can check out the result here. We had a few hiccups, but in the end it worked pretty well.  

Please encourage your student to take his/her time on math. Thanks!

CL: none
Memory: none (pastor?)
Science: none
CE: none
Geo:  none
Lit: none
Math: set 43 skip 2,4,9,19,27
English: none
Vocab: pages 95-97 are due TOMORROW!
Music: none

Welcome! Your students were subjected to watching me murder a helpless green pepper plant today. It gave it's live (it was terminal anyhow) to show us how plant roots hang on to soil and help stop soil erosion. It will receive a fitting burial in my garbage can at home. 

I am going to be observing in other schools tomorrow, doing my best to steal as many good ideas as possible. 

We took our spelling bee preliminary test today.

CL: none

Memory: Hymn 610 all verses for TOMORROW

Math: set 41 skip 4,7,8,9,21

English: ws 8-3 for TOMORROW

Science: ws 8-3 for TOMORROW

Lit: Finish the chapter for TOMORROW

Geo: none

CE: none

Lit: none

Music: none

Welcome to a blustery Wednesday. We took our math test today and a DMLC Meet Math test as well. We did pretty well on Meet math> Hopefully we did well on the regular test as well. We corrected our science tests from Friday as well. We had a wide spread of scores on the test, but we did have about 32% of the class get in the A range. Good job to those students. We took some time to talk about soil today. Tomorrow might get a little dirty.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 610 all verses FRIDAY
Math: took a test
Science: none
Geo: ws for TOMORROW
CE: none
Music: none
Vocab: ws for TOMORROW
English: none
Literature: none

Tuesday has sprung on us again. Today we looked at an interesting map. A map that shows us the countries that Great Britain has not invaded at some time or another. There are only 22. That explains the far reaching impact of their culture! We also looked at how low birth rates and high immigration are changing Europe. We did an investigation on box and whisker plots. The video in the previous post helps to explain that.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 610 for FRIDAY
Math: test tomorrow and investigation is due
CE: none
Science: ws for TOMORROW
Geo: old worksheet for TOMORROW new one for THURSDAY
Music: theory sheets for TOMORROW
Lit: Read ch 4 for THURSDAY
Vocab: ws for THURSDAY
English: NONE

We are talking about Box and Whisker plots today. This video helps to explain it. Feel free to watch this again if needed. Box and Whisker

Happy Monday! Today we worked on a math pretest and even got to correct it right away. We did quite well. We also talked more about the history or Europe. Quite a lot of changes over the centuries. We also started our new science section on weathering and erosion. Here comes soil!

CL: none
Memory: hymn 610 all verses for Friday
English: 8-2 sheet for TOMORROW
Math: none
CE: none
Lit:none
Vocab: wsh for THURSDAY
Music: theory sheets for WEDNESDAY
Geo: ws on 11-1 for WEDNESDAY
Science: sheet on 7-1 for WEDNESDAY

See the previous post for a milk and lunch ticked update.

Today we had a neat science demonstration. She even played with liquid nitrogen and burned stuff!

CL: Hand in your book if you didn't yet
Memory: Hymn 610 for FRIDAY
Vocab: Review ws for THURSDAY
Math: set 40 SKIP 4,5,6,7,9
English: 8-2 for TUESDAY
CE: news quiz for MONDAY
Music: theory sheets for WEDNESDAY
Lit: none
Geo: none
Science: took a test

Milk and lunch ticket update
Lexi 13, 3
Parker 20+,  9
Jaxon  -6
Cam 19, -4
Alex -8, -2
Kylie 19, 14
Trenton 9, 6
Logan 31
Doug 8, -3
Karissa 11
Jacob -5, 7
Zach -5, 2
Krista 12, 10
Parker 21, 1
Lauryn -8
Jack 11, 15
Breanna -5
Ausitn 0, 11
Nathan 4, -1
Dyllon 23, -1
Mackenzie 7
Kalli 16

It was a rough geography class today. As king I made 5 barons and baronesses, but then I got two killed off in the crusades and took over their land. Then the plague killed 7 of the class as well. Good thing we talked about ratios and played with rocks earlier in the day before so much of the class was figuratively killed.

HYMN: 587 vs 3,4 for TOMORROW
CL: hand in the book filled out
Math:  Set 39 skip 6,14,18,24,26 for TOMORROW
English: none
Vocab: 85-87 for TOMORROW
Science: test tomorrow
Music: none
CE: none
Lit: read ch 2
Geo: SURVIVE THE CRUSADES AND THE BLACK DEATH!

Happy Thursday, no wait Monday, no Tuesday? Oh yea, WEDNESDAY! It' s been one of those weeks I tell ya. We checked out some vids on the European Union and they did a good job of explaining to us that it is COMPLICATED! EU This is my favorite one. We also looked at graphs in math and learned there are different kinds for different purposes. Also, you have to be careful because graphs can be manipulated to look a certain way. We also corrected our study guide for science and then played a few review games. We will take the test on Friday. We also started a new novel Where the Red Fern Grows for literature. Considering the hunters in this room, it should go over well.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 587 vs 3,4 for FRIDAY
Math: set skip 2,6,9,10,17 TOMORROW
English: Writing assignment number 9. Write a narrative using one of the story starters listed in the assignment. Remember that it should be typed or in cursive and around a page long.
Science: test FRIDAY
Vocab:83-84 for TOMORROW
CE: none
Lit: read chapter 1
Geo: none
Music: none

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 587 vs 3,4 for FRIDAY
English: Writing Assignment #9 for THURSDAY
Science: Study Guide for WEDNESDAY
Math: Set 37 skip 9,12,17,20,29
Geo: EU project for WEDNESDAY
CE: none
Literature: none
Music: none
Vocab: 83-84 for THURSDAY

Today we reviewed ratios a bit and then moved on to finding the area of a triangle and shapes that can be divided into rectangular parts. We are also starting a narrative. They should be fun to read. Ask your child what theirs is about.

Did you check out those Packers! We found a typo in my math lesson today that I think was from one of the times the Packers scored. Wow! Our day was not quite as exciting as the game, but we did have the agricultural ambassador come and talk about nutrition and give us cheese! The class also got to hang out with Pastor Parsons for a bit while I got our network working again. We worked on our geo activity for the EU today as well. Most groups are done, for those who are not the CIA factbook is a great resource for this. Just go to the site and then search for European Union. Or try this link. In math we talked about ratios and sample space when dealing with probability. We also finished with  our version of A Christmas Carol.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 587 vs 3,4 for FRIDAY
Math: set 36 skip 3,13,14,23,25
English: None
Vocab: 83-84 for THURSDAY
Science: Study guide for WEDNESDAY
Geo: Finish EU sheet for WEDNESDAY
CE: none
Literature: none
Music: none

Happy Living History Night! Today we worked on a group project for geography. We used a new web tool for making a time line. It worked well. We also took a math test and learned about sedimentary rocks. There are three main kinds!

CE: no assignment this week
CL: none
Hymn: 587 vs 3+4 for FRIDAY
English: Writing Assignment #8 for MONDAY
Math: took at test
Geo: we will work on our EU sheets on Monday and get them finished for TUESDAY
Literature: none
Science: notes for MONDAY
Music: none
Vocab WS pp 83-84 for THURSDAY

Hello again! We had an interesting trip yesterday. It turns out the coordinator there told me Wednesday but wrote down Thursday, so no one was there when we got there! We got someone to come on over and help us out and we got it done in the end. Phew!

Today we did a math pretest with a partner to get ready for the test tomorrow. We also didn't not talk about double negatives, the climate of Europe and metamorphic rocks.

Living History tomorrow night! Students should bring their papers and projects to school. If they want to have them here at night, they may, but there won't be any tables or anything to set them on.


CL: none
Hymn: none
Math: test tomorrow FRIDAY
Science: notes on section 3 chapter 4 FRIDAY
Geo: worksheet on section 10-2 for FRIDAY
CE: none
English: sheet 7-2 FRIDAY, WA#8 for MONDAY
Lit: none
Vocab Workshop pages 80-82 for FRIDAY
Cat: 5th and 6th petitions TUESDAY
Music: none

Happy Tuesday! Have you recovered from the time change yet? I know I haven't!

Remember to send a cold lunch tomorrow for our field trip. We will eat in a lunch room at the education center. We will leave about 8:15 and aim to be back before 3:00. Please have your student leave their electronic devices at home or in the lock box in the room. Thanks! It is always great if the students wear something a little nicer for a field trip. In addition, please no gum.

We took some time to practice our speeches for LH night. They went fairly well all in all.

CL: None
Memory: none
Math: set 35 skip 15,21,27,28,30 for THURSDAY
Science: none
Geo: worksheet 10-1 for THURSDAY
English: Writing assignment 8 for MONDAY
Vocab: 77-79 for THURSDAY
Literature: none
Music: none
CE: none

Another week has dawned! Tomorrow we will be taking time to practice our 60 to 90 second speeches for Living History night. We also have our field trip on Wednesday. Living History night is Friday. BUSY WEEK!

CL: none
Hymnology: none
Math: lesson 34 skip 3,8,14,17,19 TUESDAY
English: speech for LH night TUESDAY
Vocab: 77-79 for THURSDAY
CE: none
Geo: 10-1 ws for THURSDAY
Science: notes on 4-2 for THURSDAY
Music: none
Lit: none

Great to meet with so many of you last night. I look forward to seeing the rest of you tonight!

We spent a good chunk of time today talking about the research papers (which everyone has gotten back now) and the Living History night. I also gave them the LH paperwork again in case they needed it.

Math: review sheets for MONDAY
Vocab WS: pages are due NEXT THURSDAY
KEEP WORKING ON LH Paper and 2nd project.

Today I read The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe to the class. I have a lot of fun with that one. So much so that Mr. H. popped his head in the room to see what all the racket was about! :-)

I'll see the majority of you later tonight!

Math: review worksheets for MONDAY
Science: notes for TOMORROW
Geo: keep working on the other LH project
English: 6-2 (from last week) for TOMORROW
Music: Theory sheets for TOMORROW (if not already handed in)
Lit: none
CE: none
CL: none
Vocab: pages are due NEWT WEEK THURSDAY (the assured me they wouldn't forget that far off)
Memory: none

Happy Friday! I look forward to seeing all of you next week Monday and Tuesday. Today we took our science test. Based on how quickly many of the students were done, it seems like it was pretty easy. We also compared and rounded decimals which is also pretty easy. For English we are practicing working with possessive nouns.  In music we are working on note and rest value and how to draw them as well.

CL: none
Memory: none
Music: Theory sheets for TUESDAY
Vocab Workshop: 77-79 Thursday the 6th
Science: took test
Geo: LH project
CE: News Quiz for MONDAY
Literature: none
Math: set 33 skip 16,18,22,24,27
English: ws 6-2 for TUESDAY

Math: Set 32 skip 7,12,14,18 FRIDAY
VW:  62-66 for FRIDAY
CE: none
CL: none
English: LH 2nd project
Geo: LH 2nd project
Music: Beethoven for FRIDAY
Lit: none
Science: TEST TOMORROW

We started watching the Luther movie today and discussing some things about it. We also started our Europe Prezis. Very interesting. We also discussed the metric system today. Report cards are done and are going to be handed out tomorrow.

Math: Set 31, skip 9,17,19,20,24
Music: Beethoven for FRIDAY
English: none
Science: test FRIDAY
Geo: Europe Prezi THURSDAY
Vocab 67-69 for THURSDAY
Memory: no hymn this week
CE: none
CL:none

CL: none
Math: took a test
Science: Study guide for TOMORROW
CE: None
Geo: Europe Prezi for THURSDAY
Literature: none
English: none
Memory: none
Vocab: 67-69 for THURSDAY
Cat: Romans 4:25, John 11:25, John 14:2,3, John 3:18 for WEDNESDAY
Work on LH second project

We had a nice day today. We took a math test and had some time to work on our science study guides. We also looked at helping verbs. They help verbs as it turns out. Sometimes these things make sense.

Have a lovely night.

Rough Draft day! Maybe not as exciting as draft day, but I am excited because I got almost all of the rough drafts on time! Now I have to find time to read them all of course. That will be the project right after report cards. Speaking of those, look for them on Friday.

Also, remember that your student has a second project to do for LH night. They should be working on that while they wait for their rough draft back.

Today we worked on coordinate planes in math. We did a few examples and got the idea pretty well. We also reviewed a few things before our test tomorrow. Tonight they may be looking over their pretest to make sure they know what to do. We also started reading a play adaptation of A Christmas Carol. We only had a few involved today, but that will grow as we go through the play. We also took a introductory look at Europe. Our prezis will start on Thursday.

Music: Beethoven for FRIDAY
Math: test for TOMORROW
English: none
Geo: Europe prezis for THURSDAY
Vocab Workshop: pages 67-69 for THURSDAY
Memory: passages for pastor tomorrow? No new hymn to learn this week
Science: study guide for WEDNESDAY, test FRIDAY
Literature: none
CE: none

We had a great study time today. It started off as a half hour to work on the rough draft, but they were working so well, I let it get longer! We also worked through a math pretest today in groups and then corrected it right away so that the students can learn from their mistakes before the test on Tuesday. We also wrote the verses of A Might Fortress.

CL: none
Music: Beethoven for FRIDAY
English: LH project
Geo: LH project, Europe Prezis are due on THURSDAY
Lit: LH project
Math: LH project
Vocab WS Finish Unit for THURSDAY
CE: NEws quiz for MONDAY
Science: LH PRoject

Thursday is today! We took more time to work on our LH project today. We also spent some time talking about parts of the project. In math we worked on getting  fractions to have common denominators before we subtract them. We also took an extra credit surprise quiz for geography. For literature I finished going through their projects with them. Many were quite well done. A few students missed the idea a bit but are going to fix them up. It was neat to see which projects they picked and what the did with it.

CL: LH project
Memory: hymn 200 vs 1-4 for TOMORROW
Vocab: pp 62-66 for TOMORROW
Math: lesson 30 skip 7,21,24,29,30
Geo: double sided worksheet from yesterday for TOMORROW
Lit: LH project
Music: LH project
Science: Notes on section 3 for TOMORROW
English: LH Project

Math: set 29 skip 5,16,18,19,22 for TOMORROW
English: LH paper MONDAY
Memory: Hymn 200 for FRIDAY
Vocab: 57-58 for TOMORROW
Science: touch up notes for TOMORROW
CE: none
Music: none
Literature: none
Geo: 2 sided ws for FRIDAY
CL: none

HI! I emailed the parent teacher conference schedule to everyone. I also plan to send a paper copy home today as well. Let me know if you don't get one. Your children are encouraged, but not required, to come to 7th grade conferences. I am basically booked solid so we will have to work hard on staying on time. (So don't get me started talking about my children or I'll never make it!) 

Today we took some more time to work on the Living History project. Remember that the rough draft is due on Monday. Just to clarify, I am looking at this rough draft to be as close to final as possible. It is often recommended that the first draft of a paper is all about getting the ideas on paper. You don't worry about punctuation and grammar and so on. That is great to do, but not what I am looking for on this. I plan to go through the papers fairly thoroughly and mark whatever I find that is incorrect or could be improved. Then I will give that back to the student to correct for their final copy that will be graded and on display for the Living History Night. So in that sense it might be more correct to think of this as the second or even third draft that gets handed in. As long as the students correct what I mark and work off of my suggestions, there shouldn't be any reason for them to get less than a B+ if not better on the final copy. 

CL: none

CE: none

Math: set 28 skip 16,18,2024,27

Science: notes on section 2 for tomorrow

English: LH paper

Lit: none (LH paper)

Geo: none (LH paper)

Memory: hymn 200 all vs for FRIDAY

Music: none (LH paper)

Vocab WS pages 57-59 are due for THURSDAY

Welcome back! We have a faculty meeting so I need to be brief, but I did want to let you know that we had a nice block of study time today and had no geography assignment so that your students could work on their papers. Some chose to work on that here, others chose to finish their other work and then have time to work on the paper tonight. Please remind them to work on the paper if they chose that option and not let the night slide away without them working on it. Thanks!

CL: none
Geo: none
Science: Chapter 3 section 2 notes for WEDNESDAY
Lit: none
CE: none
Math: set 27 skip 6,7,11,13,27 for TOMORROW
Music: none
English: None
Vocab: pages are due on THURSDAY

There is Catechism memory work due for tomorrow

Happy Friday! I sent home some paper copies of the email you got for Parent Teacher conferences. If you didn't have it in today, please get it to me on Monday. We hope to work on the schedules in faculty meeting. Officially we are going until 6 on that Monday and Tuesday, but I am planning on going later than that so that I can fit everyone in on Monday and Tuesday, especially if your 7th grader is your only student at Faith since we try to schedule all of students from one family back to back. (Or in my case back to back to back to back to back to back to back, ok I don't have THAT many kids)

Keep working at the Living History project. We skipped some classes today to have some time to work on it, especially notes and the outline. The rough draft is coming up soon, plus, remember that the students are to have another project from the sheet besides the paper.

Happy news by the way. We averaged an A- on the math test! Whoooo! Nice work students.

I have almost all of the field trip forms. Thanks for that.

Pastor will be in on Monday

CL: none
Memory: all the verses of Hymn 200 for FRIDAY
Science: notes sheet for 3-1 for MONDAY
Vocab Workshop: pages   for THURSDAY
Geo: none
English: outline for MONDAY
Lit: project for MONDAY
Music: none
Math: set 26 skip 4,13,16,21,27
CE: news quiz for MONDAY

Happy Thursday to you! Math test so we had no homework. Hopefully we did as well on this test as we did on the last. We also got our science tests corrected to day as well. Unfortunately, we didn't do as well as hoped on average considering we had all the questions and answers ahead of time.

Keep an eye Engrade. We still have some late work that needs to be handed in. I am working on correcting all the late work so you will be able to check on your student's progress.

Field trip forms were due today. Thanks to everyone who got them in on time. If you didn't yet, please get it in tomorrow along with the parent teacher conference form.

Memory: First Song of Isaiah is due TOMORROW
Vocab: pages 50-56 for TOMORROW
English: We had work time, keep working on the notes and outline for MONDAY
Literature: Project for MONDAY
Science: none
Geo: none
CE: none
Math: none
Music: Composer for TOMORROW
CL: none

We had a sweet day today with a presentation about bee keeping and harvesting honey. There were samples! We took out science test today and then had a chunk of time to work on literature and living history. We started watching the movie version of Hatchet today as well. In addition, we spent the entire math period reviewing before our test tomorrow.

Field trip slips are due tomorrow and Parent Teacher slips are due by Friday.
Ask your student if he/she needs and lunch or milk tickets tomorrow.

CL: None

Memory: First Song of Isaiah for FRIDAY

Science: none

Geo: Finish Prezi if not done yet

Lit: Project for MONDAY

English: Living History work (Outline for Monday)

Math: test TOMORROW

CE: none

Music: Composer for FRIDAY

VW: Cross word puzzle for TOMORROW

Pastor will be in tomorrow so have your sermon summary ready to go. 

Happy Tuesday to you. It looks beautiful out there and feels pretty good to! Science test tomorrow. In math we divided fractions. We are planning on a test for Thursday with some review tomorrow. In English we spent some time talking about outlines. I told the students that for Monday they need to have sub points. They may not have just four main points and that is it. There isn't a certain length but there needs to be enough to turn it into a four page plus paper.

CL: none
Memory: First Song of Isiah for FRIDAY
Math: set 25 skip 8,15,20,23,30
English: WORK ON NOTES AND OUTLINE
Geo: none
CE: none
Literature: work on project for MONDAY
Science: test tomorrow
Vocab: none
Music: composer for FRIDAY

A quick post on the notes. Approximately 85% of the class got some notes in today. Most all of those students got an A+ for doing so. Those who did not received a 0%. However, while most of the class got notes in, there were not nearly enough notes to write 4 plus pages on. We have a LOT of work to do yet and time is running out. Remember the outline is due on Monday.  

I started my day of early with not one, but two dead computers! However, I manged to work around it and eventually got both working. Yea! That didn't stop us from talking about cultures in Latin America. Well, first we reviewed the key points from the last lesson, since we either worn't listening or forgot them since the first time around. (That was a week ago!) We also collected our notes for the Living History project. I will check them over to make sure your student is making progress. Remember the outline is due next Monday. Speaking of reminders, don't forget to get the field trip form back to school. Also, remember that the date is Nov. 5th not the 7th. In math we looked at reducing fractions part two. We learned what I call the shortcut method to reducing. It works quite well I think! We also corrected our science study guide. Many students completed it and did quite well.

Memory: The First Song of Isaiah for FRIDAY
CL: none
Science: test WEDNESDAY
Math: Set 24 skip: 2,7,23,26,30
Geo: ws 8-2 for WEDNESDAY
Music: Composer for FRIDAY
Vocab: Crossword puzzle
English:None
Art:none
Cat:Pastor will be in on Thursday
Lit: work on project

BUSY BUSY day. We ran into a pond to escape mean people and climbed into a plane that was mostly underwater to get a survival pack, and that was all in the last hour of the day! Plus we traveled to Latin America and also reviewed borrowing when we subtract fractions. We also watched snails race, but that got too exciting so we had to stop watching before the end of the race.

NOTES FOR THE LH NIGHT ARE DUE ON MONDAY! Let's have everyone meet this deadline.

CL: none
Memory: none
Music: Theory sheet is due on MONDAY, composer is due on FRIDAY
Science: Study Guide is due on MONDAY
CE: News quiz for MONDAY
Geo: none
English: Notes for MONDAY
Literature: Hatchet final project is due October 13th
Vocab: crossword puzzle for THURSDAY
Math: set 23 skip 9,10,15,20,23 for MONDAY

A couple of quick notes on Parent Teacher conferences.

1. If your 7th grader is your only child at Faith, I will be happy to meet with you after 6 pm on Monday or Tuesday night. Please let me know.

2. Your child is invited to come along. If you need your child to babysit or he/she is unavailable that is OK, they are not required to come, but I do think it is valuable in most cases to have them along.

3.  I can meet with you on Wednesday if that is the only time that works for you, but otherwise I am happy to make Monday and Tuesday work.

Soccer game today! Will they stay dry? We are going to try! We knocked off a couple more tests today and just one little one left for tomorrow! Good job students!

CL: none
Math: set 22 skip 11,15,18,21,28
Memory: hymn 304 vs 1,5,7
Science: Study guide is moved to MONDAY
CE: none
Geo: Prezis
English: Notes for Living History night are due on Monday. I am looking for students to show me that they have made significant progress on their research.
Literature: none
Vocab: none
Music: none

Wednesday involved more testing, but we are getting though it. Today we took a series of math tests instead of having math class. That made the testing more bearable for the students. We also started a Prezi presentations. They are going fairly well. One tip is to make sure your student has at least the items mentioned on the guide sheet. Those are big ones I look for.

Catechism tomorrow

CL: none
Memory: hymn 304 1,5,7 for FRIDAY
Science: study guide for Friday
CE: none
Geo: Latin American Prezis tomorrow.
Math: none
Literature: none
Vocab: none
English: October 6th is the next due date for the paper
Music: none

FIELD TRIP IS NOV. 5th NOT THE 7th! SORRY ABOUT THAT!

Today for math we work on prime factorization. We learned two different ways to find the prime factors, then we found the GCF using those prime factors. We also started a new book for our read Teacher Reads time. Good news, we did well on our math test yesterday. 

WE ARE GOING ON A FIELD TRIP NOVEMBER 7th. Look for the permission sip. We will eat a cold lunch at the location. 

CL: none

Memory: Hymn 304 vs 1,5,7 for FRIDAY

Math: Lesson 21 skip 1,4,13,15,20 for FRIDAY

English: none

Geo: ws for TOMORROW

Science: Study Guide for FRIDAY

Vocab: none

Music: none

Cat: none

Literature: none

Monday comes so quickly doesn't it?  Some students commented on being up very late last night. Please encourage your students to get a good night's rest. Thanks!We started testing today with the reading test parts one and two. Tomorrow we plan to get some language arts tests in. Wednesday and Thursday will be the big test days. We tried to start our Prezsi's today, but since none of the people who were up today were ready, we had a lesson instead. I guess it is a good thing I didn't keep the due date on Friday! We will try again as soon as we are able.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 304 vs 1,5,7 for FRIDAY
Math: took a test
Science: keep working on the study guide. We won't get to it on Wednesday for sure anymore, but be ready for FRIDAY
English: Sheet 5-3 for TOMORROW
Vocab: None
CE: none
Geo: Prezi (Latin America was due TODAY)
Literature: none
Cat: Test TOMORROW
Music: Theory sheets were due today, nothing new

Happy Friday! The students had a happy Friday since we smuggled the Chromebooks into the 7th grade room today and got everyone online and working. We did a few vocabulary games on the Vocabulary Workshop web site. Then we got down to business working on our Prezis and/or Living History  projects. I think we made some good progress both on the content and on using the technology. That also meant that we had less time to get assignments! Works out well with a beautiful weather weekend (and soccer tournament) ahead.

Don't forget, testing next week.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 304 vs 1,5,7 for FRIDAY
Geo: Prezi (Latin America will start on Monday, Europe will be a few weeks yet)
Science: Study Guide (Because of today, the earliest it would be due would be Thursday, but Friday is looking more likely.)
CE: News Quiz for MONDAY
Literature: none
Music: theory worksheets for MONDAY
Math: Investigation problems 12-25
Vocab: none
Cat: Test TUESDAY
Art: NONE

Back for more? Great! Today we went through the entire math pretest as a group. Hopefully that helps us pass our test on Monday. In science we talked more about atoms and protons, newtrons, and electrons. We then filled out a chart on the board on how these interact with one another. We then had a chance to do the sheet on our own. In Vocab Workshop we talked about how knowing root words can help us spell and define words. We also spent some time practicing our hymn.

Remember that tomorrow I am scheduling time to work on Living History night and Prezis. Please have your student bring anything he/she may need.

MEMORY WORK TOMORROW

CL: none
Math: none
English: sheet 5-3 for Tuesday (FOLLOW DIRECTIONS)
Science: atoms work sheet for FRIDAY
CE: none
Geography: none
Literature: none
Music: none
Vocab: p 49 for TOMORROW
Memory: 422 all 4 vs for TOMORROW

Happy Wednesday to you. On Friday we are going to be having a work day. We are going to take some time (not all day) to work on our Prezi and Living History projects. Since 8th grade will be gone at WLA, I am hoping we will be able to use the Chrome books to get some work done on both projects. It will also give me a chance to monitor how our network handles that much traffic at once. Please help remind your student to bring anything they may need to work on these such as a resource book. We will start presenting the Prezis on Monday.

Today we talked about area and using squares and square roots. We also started learning about Latin America.We mostly heard about lots of mountains and waterways. There was also an incident with a skunk in literature.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 422 vs 1-4 for FRIDAY
Music: none
Science: Study Guide (due date will be next week. When depends on our testing schedule. The earliest would be Wednesday)
CE: none
Geo: Prezis
Literature: none
Art: none
Vocab: pp 47-48 for FRIDAY
Math: set 20 skip 6,15,19,26,28

Thus another day marches on. Today the big news was perimeter. We went around and around with it covering the length and width of the issue until we all could see outside the polygon. We spent a few min going over the thesis statements. We are getting more of them where they need to be, but some are still going to need some work. We also learned about rules for subject verb agreement with the weird stuff like collective nouns (crowd, band) and nous that look plural but are actually singular (mumps, news). We have a practice sheet, but I am sure there will be some questions tomorrow.

P.S. I missed celebrating my 1,000th post to this blog. So, congratulations on being part of my 1,005th post to this blog about the goings on in 7th grade!

CL: none
Music: hymn 422 for FRIDAY
Music: none
Art: ?
Vocab pages are due for THURSDAY
Science: none
English: ws 5-2 for THURSDAY
CE: none
Geo: sheets for WEDNESDAY
Math: set 19 skip 5,10,16,18,23
Literature: none

How did it get to be Monday already? Yesterday was spent correcting and entering grades, so your student should come home with some papers today. We spent a chunk of time discussing thesis statements today. We used a few websites that gave examples and some suggestions, especially the "so what" test. Check them out if you'd like. First site Second site. We also found out about the 'new' Brian, discussed similar and congruent figures and even heard about a polygon party. We also are working on our Prezzis. I plan to start the first batch on Friday. (The first batch is Latin America. Europe will have quite some time yet.)

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 422 vs 1-4 for FRIDAY
Math: set 18 skip 8,13,20,24,29 for TOMORROW
English: none
Vocab: pages 47-48 for THURSDAY
Science: none
CE: none
Geo: ws 9-12 for WEDNESDAY
Lit: we read ch 13 in class no assignment
Art: oil pastel maze, sketchbook, line w.s.

It is Friday and there is Faith and Fun tonight! Be that as it may, we still did lots of work today. We Wrote our hymn, got intro'd to our new hymn, and learned that the guy who wrote the hymn wrote almost 2,500 hymns total! Ask your student how many of those made Christian Worship. We also talked about connotation and denotation in words. Questioned, grilled, interrogated and interviewed all mean the same thing, but we don't think about them the same. We also talked about possessive pronouns and nouns.(For example) Ask your student about HIS classwork. Then we took our science test about science. (Imagine that.) In current events we learned that the UK survived the historic vote in Scotland. Then for geography we played with maps some more.

It's been a busy day to end a busy week. Well not end, since many of us have at least one tournament this weekend. GO PANTHERS! (When is nap time?)

One last thought. Ask to see your student's assignment notebook. I am not seeing them used much at all, and I am also seeing work not getting handed in on time or even done on time. There might be a connection.

CL: None
Music: none
Memory: Hymn 422 vs 1-4 for FRIDAY
English: none
Vocab W.S. Pages 47-48 for THURSDAY
Science: none
Math: set 17 skip 11,16,18,25,28
CE: ws for MONDAY
Literature: none
Art: oil pastel maze, sketchbook, line ws for TUESDAY
Geo: map activities A and B for MONDAY, (keep plugging away on Prezi especially countries in Latin America)

Well, I got my 2 top priority tech jobs accomplished and made a little progress on my second level jobs. The class meanwhile worked on idioms, function tables and got started on their geography presentations in addition to getting a bit extra recess. (Got to take this weather when we can get it.)

MEMORY:VS 1-4 of the hymn are due tomorrow!
Vocab ws: pages 45-46
Science: test tomorrow
Math: set 16 skip 11,12,19,20,22
English: none
Music: none
CE: none
Literature: ws ch 11 tomorrow
Geo: Prezi, ws F for tomorrow
Art: oil pastel maze, sketchbook, line w.s.

What beautiful weather we are having today. The big thing today was that we talked about our first quarter geo country project. The students got their assigned country and their log on information. (A few students did not get their info, I am investigating that.) We also finished The Outsiders today. Many students would like to see the movie; however, due to some language in the movie, we won't be watching it in class. It is rated PG but be advised that it was made before PG-13 was a rating if you'd like to watch it at home. 

Tomorrow I will be taking a technology day. We have some nagging issues that need dealing with so Mr. H decided to get a sub for me so that I can spend the day trying to make some headway on these tech issues. I will still be around the building, but the sub will be handling the classroom duties.    

We took our math test today. I look forward to seeing how we did. We also took another chapter in class for literature. That seems to be working a bit better. In science we finished our section on science. We talked about how to do it ethically, but how science can not answer ethic questions. 

Math: took test

CL: none

Memory 588 1-4 for FRIDAY

English: sheet 4-3 from yesterday for TOMORROW

Vocab: pages 42-44 from Friday for TOMORROW

Geo: Prezi

Literature: ws on ch 11 (We read it in class)

Science: Notes on 1-2

Music: none

Art: oil pastel maze, sketchbook, line w.s. for TUESDAY

CE: none

So another school day is crashing towards its close. Math we have a test tomorrow. We will not be doing a pretest as a class this time around. Right now I have planned to do a pretest every other test and see how it goes.  We did some review for our math lesson today. We talked about equivalent fractions. However, since you need to know how to do that in order to reduce or add fractions, it should have been pretty much review.

Did you know that tomorrow is the halfway point of our quarter? Check up on your student using Engrade. Your log on information should be the same as you set up last year. Let me know if you need help.

Living History topics were due on Monday. I didn't remind the students and as a result got none. SO, let's make it before the week is over, I should have your student's topic in my hand. Thanks!
Just a reminder the due dates are in the packet I handed out to the parents on orientation night and again a couple of weeks ago to the students.

DUE DATES:

September 15 Topic Due

September 22 Initial Thesis due

October 6 Notes checked

October 13 Outline checked

October 20 Rough draft due. 

November 7 Final copy due 

CL: none
Memory: hymn 588 vs 1-4 FRIDAY
Math: set 15 skip 14,19,21,23,26 WEDNESDAY

English: ws 4-3 due for THURSDAY

Lit: chapter 10 ws for THURSDAY

Music: none

CE: none

Geo: ws 6-2 for WEDNESDAY

Vocab: pages 42-44 for THURSDAY

Art: Oil pastel maze, sketchbook, line w.s. for TUESDAY

Monday already? How did that happen? I'll tell you what else happened. We figured out how simple probability works, talked about variables in science experiments, found out (SPOILER ALERT) Johnny died, and discussed some of the issues that Canada and the US face today.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 588 1-4 for FRIDAY
Math: set 14 skip 7, 10, 12, 14, 15
English: none
Science: notes on 1-1 for TOMORROW, study guide for THURSDAY
CE: none
Geo: 6-2 "quiz" wsh
Music: none
Lit: ws for Chapter 10 (we read it in class)
Cat: Sermon summary and some memory work I bet
Vocab: pages are due for THURSDAY

Happy Grand day! Ask your 7th grader about today and they will probably let you know that they didn't get all of their recess time and still had math! Never mind getting out of a science assignment and a CE assignment, on English assignment, and getting to skip geo and lit to hang out with grandparents!  We had fun!

CL: None
Math: set 13 skip 11,13,18,24,25 for MONDAY
Music: none
Memory: vs 1-4 of hymn 588 for FRIDAY
English: none
CE: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Lit: none
Vocab Workshop: pages 42-44 for THURSDAY

We are almost through another week and we are nearing the halfway  through the quarter. Today we worked on more story problems and practiced subtracting correctly. We also watched a video that talked about globalization in the US and how 9/11 affected that. We also took our science test. We read our literature chapter in class.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 735 vs 1,2 for tomorrow
Math: set 12 skip 13, 15, 17, 20, 28,
English: none
Vocab: pages 39 - 41
Science: none
CE: none
Music: none
Literature: none
Geo: none

Staying dry? We kept dry in here today but we did talk about hydroelectric power some. We checked through our study guide for science. We did better this time around. We also did fairly well on our math tests. Today we tackled story problems. We talked about how the problems are easy, but you need to set them up right. We did manage to get Brian in trouble with a porcupine as well.

BOOK ORDERS ARE DUE

CL: none

Math: set 11 skip 7, 10, 14, 19, 21 TOMORROW

Science: test TOMORROW

CE: none

Geo: "quiz" 6-1 for TOMORROW

Literature: Read ch 8 and be ready for a quiz TOMORROW

English: Living History topic

Music: none

Memory: Hymn 735 vs 1+2 for FRIDAY

Vocab: 32-38 for THURSDAY

SOCCER GAME! Got to run!

CL: none
Math: took a test
Geo: ws from yesterday for TOMORROW
Science: Study Guide for TOMORROW
CE: none
Lit: Read chapter 7 for TOMORROW (quiz maybe?)
Vocab: 32-38 for THURSDAY
English: Living History night topic
Memory: hymn 735 vs 1 and 2 for FRIDAY

Welcome to another episode of 7th grade! We have faculty meeting in a few min. so I need to keep this short. I did want to mention, however, that we did a nice job on our hymn last week and on our math pretest. Hopefully we do as well on the real math test tomorrow!

CL: none
Music:none
Cat: passages and sermon summary
Science: notes on section 3 and study guide for WEDNESDAY
CE: none
Geo: finish the worksheet from Friday on 5-2
Lit: read chapter 7 be ready for a possible quiz
English: ws 3-3 for TUESDAY  (I still have redo sheets available for 2-3 due for Friday)
Vocab: pages 32-38 for THURSDAY
Hymn: verses 1 and 2 of hymn 375 for FRIDAY

Hello my friends. We weren't as harried today so we had lots more time to get work done during the day. We also worked on a pretest for math in groups today so most everyone should have no math homework. Yea! We also talked about the culture of the US but ran out of time for Canada, so they will just have to wait, eh.

Anyhow, I best move this along and get my kids home.

Music: none
Memory: Hymn 735 for next FRIDAY
Math: pretest today
English: worksheet 303 for TUESDAY
Vocab: pages 32-38 for THURSDAY
Science: Notes for MONDAY, Study guide for WEDNESDAY
CE: ws for MONDAY
Lit: Chapter 6 for MONDAY
Geo: None

Busy busy day, so much to talk about and so little time! Ugh! We got through most of it but I did let them out of literature today to help ease the load. We also spent 15 min. this morning going though our hymn for tomorrow with a partner.

We tried to explain the entire history of the US and Canada today. There was too much. We summed up. We also tried to figure out how we make electricity. Turns out we boil water and turn a turbine. Fractions continued to grace us with their presence as well.

CL: None
Memory: hymn 391 for TOMORROW
Math: set 10 skip 4,10,15,18,23 for TOMORROW
Music: none
Vocab: none
Geo: worksheet 5-1 for TOMORROW
CE: none
Lit: none
Science: notes for TOMORROW
English: none

Picture day! What pretty children we have!

Today we spent time going over lesson 8 in math. We picked out the problems that gave us the most trouble and did them again in class. We then had some time to work on corrections. I also made copies of yesterday's English assignment available to anyone who wanted to redo it. Check with your student to see if they took one. For science we started looking at Earth's energy resources and how some are non-renewable and what the means. We talked about good coal and bad coal among other things. We also got a lot of science teasers during our geography discussion of the US and Canada. (We even talked about having dessert in the desert.)

Our literature sheets are due tomorrow, but if your student has been working on them through all five chapters, there shouldn't be much left. The homework should be pretty light tonight so please encourage your student to do any or all of the following: 1. Work on math corrections. Most students got lesson 8 done during class, but they could work on lesson 7 as well. 2. Work on the hymn for Friday. The verses are shorter than normal, but there are six of them. Waiting until Thursday night or Friday morning is not a good idea. 3. Keep working on AR points. The students got their goals today. Very few have taken any tests yet.

Book orders are due next week Thursday. You can order online using the code on the order forms. Otherwise make out any checks to me as I will pay by credit card.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 391 all six verses for FRIDAY
Math: make corrections
Vocab: pp 29-31 for THURSDAY
Science: nothing
Geo: finish off the notes
CE: none
Literature: sheets from 1-5 due THURSDAY
English: none

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!

Today we spent some time talking about the importance of following directions. We had some grades that would have been much better if the directions were followed. If anyone would like to take another crack at it, have them speak to me.

In math we worked on working with fractions and their reciprocals. Remember when adding and subtracting fractions we need common denominators; when multiplying we do not. When dividing fractions we flip the SECOND one and then multiply.

Mr. Ehlke came in to speak to us about band. It is a wonderful experience that I highly recommend. I am on my second and third children in the grade school band program and it continues to be a wonderful experience for my children. Also, it is a great value. You will be hard pressed to find anything else that offers as much as the band program for such a reasonable fee. (I've tried.) If you are at all interested talk to Mr. Ehlke about specifics.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 391 all verses for FRIDAY
Math: set 9 skip 1,2,12,14,24
Music: none
English: none (redo today's assignment if needed/desired have your student see me)
CE: none
Geo: none
Science: none
Vocab: 29-31 for THURSDAY

Faith and Fun today and it looks like the weather may let us get it in so I am going to quickly sneak this in.

CL: none
Hymn: hymn 391 for next FRIDAY
Math: set 8 skip 11,13,18,22,24
English: ws 2-3 for TUESDAY
Vocab: pages 29-31 for THURSDAY
Science: we took a test
Geo: none
CE: none
Literature: Read chapter 5 for WEDNESDAY and sheets are due on THURSDAY
ART: Sketchbook cover is due for TUESDAY
Music: none
Pastor: sermon summary and memory work for TUESDAY

Well, we got Brian out of the lake, just. We went through over 50 rules for punctuating and capitalizing, (good thing the list is in the book and we already know most of them) toured Canada and the U.S. (Hawaii is more than just the 8 main islands) and corrected our pretest so we can be ready to go for the post test.

Faith and Fun tomorrow!

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 478 for TOMORROW
Math: set 7 skip 14,15,19,20,21,22 for TOMORROW
English: none
Vocab: pages 27-28 for TOMORROW
CE: none
Music: Haydn sheet for TOMORROW
Literature: Chapter 5 for Wednesday, Sheets for Thursday
Geo: Notes on sections 1 and 2 for WEDNESDAY
Science: TEST TOMORROW

Hey, so glad you could make it again! We started our day of with some more health information. Today for math, we took a time out and spent some time reviewing some things that were causing us some trouble. We spent the rest of the time working on corrections. We are having some trouble with some of our computations and direction following, so it was  good chance to go back over and check our work. Corrections on sets 4 and 5 are mandatory regardless of grade. However, the grade can be raised up to a maximum of a B+ if it was lower to begin with. We also took some time to work on our Science test study guide with a partner. We will correct the study guide tomorrow for a grade and take the real version on Friday. We also started comparing the US and Canada. Scissors were involved but everyone survived.

CL: none
Memory Treasures: Hymn 478 for Friday
Math: make corrections for TOMORROW
Science: study guide test for TOMORROW, test for FRIDAY
Literature: Read ch 4 for TOMORROW, ch 1-5 sheets for NEXT WEEK THURSDAY
Vocab Workshop: pages 19-21 for THURSDAY
English: none
Geo: have "foldable" ready for section 1 TOMORROW
Music: Haydn sheet for FRIDAY
CE: none

Welcome back to another day of learning! We reviewed how to do the question and answer flow for English. We started off sluggish but we got back in top form eventually. In math we learned some handy divisibility rules to see what numbers can divide into other numbers. We also had our first art lesson of the year; pretty exciting!

CL: Hymn is due for memory treasure on Friday
Math: set 6 skip 17,18,19,26,27,28 for TOMORROW
English: none
Science: notes for TOMORROW
Art: truck for next week
CE: none
Geography: Comparison chart for TOMORROW
Music: Haydn ws for FRIDAY
Vocab Workshop: pages 19-21 are due for Thursday

Happy Monday! Or should I say Happy WET Monday! We covered a lot of ground today. We started the day by heading into church for a neat presentation about our spiritual health. (It is Fun and Fitness week after all!) We then finished up lesson 1 of Christ Light where we talked about why we should spread God's Word and how we can do it. We learned that God will help us! In Math we worked on converting numbers to words and back again. We then looked at maps and why they can cause us problems about also help us out. In current events we heard more about ISIS. Scary stuff. For geography we got a crash coarse on economies. We also put a tariff on pens and erasers. Then we worked on getting Brian done on the ground. We finished off the day learning about our teams for Faith and Fun!

There is most likely memory work due for pastor tomorrow.
CL: None
Math: set 5 skip 17,19,23,24,26 for TOMORROW
Science: finish notes on section 3 for WEDNESDAY
CE: none
Geo: page 96 number 3 using a chart not a Venn diagram (info on page 94) for WEDNESDAY
Lit: read chapter 3 for Wednesday
Music: Haydn sheet for Friday
Vocab Workshop: Pages 19-21 are due on THURSDAY
English: none

It sure is humid out! We played it cool in class today. We talked about being careful in our math work. (We made some preventable mistakes the past two days) and we looked at using a number line to help us work with negative numbers. We also discussed our first hymn "With the Lord Begin Your Task" which will be our memory treasure for next Friday. We also learned more about latitude and longitude and Battleship. (Ask your student about that one.) We have also been keeping up with current events and have a sheet to help us review the week. Joseph Haydn also made the topic list today as well as a few other things.

CL: None
Math: set 4 skip 13,20,23,26,27 MONDAY
English: none
Vocab Workshop: pages 19-20 for THURSDAY
Science: Notes from section 2 for MONDAY
CE: Worksheet for MONDAY
Geography: 2-3 paragraph essay on how globalization can impact our work of spreading the Gospel MONDAY
Literature: None
Music: Haydn sheet for FRIDAY

Hello! Today we worked on solving equations with variables. We also got into depth on cultures and governments and such. We finished our science section on land forms as well. On top of that we had our first Christ Light lesson. We will work on class participation.

CL: none
Math: set 3 skip 19,20,21,27,28 for TOMORROW
English: none
Vocab Workshop: pages 18-19 for TOMORROW
Science: notes
CE: none
Geo: none
Literature: read chapter 2

We were back for more today. We started our first section in science. We spent much of our time working on notes. Once we get the hang of what I am looking for, this should speed up. We also looked at different properties of math. Things we have known how to do for years, we just didn't know it had names! We also took our Star Reading test. This will help set our reading levels and goals for AR this quarter.

Catechism: Memory work for the Tuesday after next
Math: set 2 skip 2,9,14,18,22 TOMORROW
English: sheet 1-2 for TOMORROW
Science: none
Geo: none
Lit: Read chapter 1 for TOMORROW (the questions are not due tomorrow)
Christ Light: none
Vocabulary Workshop: none
Music: none

WELCOME TO SCHOOL! We had a good day today. We started with God's Word and ended with God's Word with some in-between. Please remember to have a DEAR book to read tomorrow. We will plan on taking the Star Reading test tomorrow as well.

Math Set 1: skip 1,9,16,17,22 Due for tomorrow
English sheet 2-1 for Thursday

Welcome one and all! The new school year is almost upon us! I have gotten a lot of reading done this summer and prepared some changes for the new school year. May God continue to bless us as we work under the theme of We Preach Christ Crucified. If you are getting this by email from last year's class, you probably want to unsubscribe. (Usually there is a button on the bottom of the email to do that.) If you are reading this online and are part of the new class, I suggest you go ahead and subscribe for this year. There is a link on the blog page. I am looking for a new year of learning!

Not much to say but see you tonight and HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

Welcome to the beginning of the end! I was at a technology conference today, but the students carried on without me. They got to start reading "The Ransom of Red Chief", got to finish of the geography book and got to be irregular again, with verbs that is. They also got to take a look at how drugs can affect our bodies.

We are walking over to WLA tomorrow for the wind ensemble presentation by MLC. Should be pretty cool. Please make sure your student is dressed appropriately for taking a walk.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: 30-3 ws
Math: took a test
English: ws for Wednesday
CE: none
Music: composer monthly for Wednesday
Vocab: pages are due for Wednesday
Literature: none

Happy Friday!  The big news of the day was that we got to eat early. Oh yea, we did some classes, too.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: 30-2 ws
Lit: last two chapters and ws!
Vocab: 199 - 201 for WEDNESDAY skip the challenge
English: none
Math: set 104 skip 1,3,7,14,23,28
Music: composer for Wednesday

Well, we have one more Thursday under our belt. We had a lot of time to work together as I answered math questions. Those that worked diligently should have very little, if any, home work!

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: 30-1 ws
English: none
Lit: 2 chapters and worksheet
Math: set 103 skip 2,5,6,16,19,20
CE: none
Music: composer for next Wednesday
Vocab ws 195-197 for tomorrow

Happy Wednesday!

CL: none
Science: health review for tomorrow
Geo: ws 29-2 and "test" 29 for tomorrow
English:none
Music: none
CE: none
Math: set 102 5,6,10,11,19 21,22,23 for tomorrow
Lit: none
Vocab Workshop: 191 - 193

Good Tuesday to you. Our big ticket item for today was going through the math test that we took yesterday. We had a range of grade from some A's to some not A's  lets call them. So, I kept track of how many students got each problem wrong and we went through each of those in class together. We seem to keep making the same kind of small mistakes that add up. Old habits die hard I suppose, but we will keep working on them as long as we can!

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: 29-2 ws and 'test' for Thursday
Vocab: pages 191-193 for Thursday
English: ws for tomorrow
Lit: ch 19-23 for tomorrow
Music: WE WILL WRITE THE WORDS FOR THE GRADUATION SONG TOMORROW (58 blanks)
CE: none
Math: none

Our last full week has begun. As the weather warms and the school year wraps up, it will be even harder for our students to concentrate. Please encourage them to finish strong with their work and their behavior.

AR points are due on Friday. As a group our class is doing well, just a few more people need to get to their goal!

Thanks so much for all of the gifts last week. They were very much appreciated and some have already been used!

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Music: words for graduation song will be written from memory on Friday
Literature: ws on ch 19-23 (we read them in class on Friday and today)
Math: we took a test
English: ws 23-3 for Wednesday
CE: none
Art: picture is due tomorrow
Memory work: 7th petition and Doxology for the Lord's Prayer

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: worksheet for Monday 29-1
Vocab: pages 191-193 for Thursday
Lit: none
English: none
Math: pretest for Monday
CE: none
Music: memorize graduation song for Wednesday

Thank you for a wonderful meal today!

I have told the students not to bring back their mold-able "erasers" to school any more. They have become too much of a distraction. Thanks for your understanding.

We get to watch the k-5 play tomorrow! Sounds pretty neat!

In science we are doing a health unit.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Vocab Workshop: we wrote a story with a partner using vocab words
Lit: next to chapters (short ones) and sheets for tomorrow
Math: set 101 skip 1,2,4,8,15,16,18,21
CE: none
English: none
Music: the words for the graduation song are due for memory work for next week.

What a day for a track meet! We have a one hour delay, but the are off to run!

Thanks to all who brought gifts this week. Thanks so much! I do have a parent for tomorrow now, (THANKS!) but if anyone wants to help her out, I am sure she wouldn't mind!

No new assignments today.

Weather permitting, track meet tomorrow!
Still looking for someone to cover the class on Thursday from 11:00 - 1:00.
Irrational numbers today!

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: Test 28b (everyone got it done during class time)
Literature: none
Math: set 100 skip 2,5,9,10,11,12
English: two worksheets from yesterday for tomorrow
Music: none
Vocab 184-190 for Thursday

Happy Monday! Our class was quite energetic today, even after going to WLA and back again. However we did get to talk about Pythagorean Theorem. We also continued our study of Galatians and the climate regions of Australia and surrounding areas.

Track meet on Wednesday!

On Thursday, I need someone to watch the class from 11:00 to 1:00 so that I may join the rest of the staff for our teacher appreciation meal. If you are willing and able, please let me know. More than one person could work together!

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: page 786 numbers 2,3,4
Lit: none
Math: set 99 2,3,6,7,14,20,22
CE: none
English: 2 worksheets for Wednesday
Vocab workshop pages 186-190

Today the students did a great job putting on the play. All we had for assignments were our current events sheet for Monday and vocab workshop pages 184-190 for Thursday.

Today we had a lot of play practice and no new assignments.

Last call for book orders!

Well, well, well. So you are back again. Not too much to report. We worked on the play today in groups so we had some of the students out of the room most of the day. We worked on our projects and got those done (or so I am told). I did not see students taking advantage of the extra credit or working on AR. Remember that is due no later than Thursday 8:00 am. We got through a few more chapters of out literature novel and we also checked out invasive, poisonous toads in Australia, the Coral reef, and what it is like to try and work in Antarctica. We ended the day trying to talk about appositives, but it was hard to focus on that after our day of play rehearsal.

Math: extra credit for Thursday
Literature: questions on the chapters we read in class for tomorrow
Music: Composer for tomorrow (from last week)
Geo: working on project in class for Friday
Science: none
CE: none
CL: none
English: none

Today the theater company came and cast our play. We also started to learn parts. Tomorrow there will be some practices by groups. We also started a geography project to work on tomorrow when others are gone for the play. I also handed out some math extra credit for students to work on.

Geo: presentation on Friday
Math: extra credit problems due by Thursday 8:00 am

Happy rainy Thursday. I hope you stay dry! Today we looked at using one triangle to figure out the measurements of another triangle whose sides we don't know. We also started to dig into the book of Galatians. We spent quite a bit of time talking about radiometric dating and some of the problems that have been found with it. We also finished up our presentations from our research papers. We also are starting a new region of the world for geography.

CL: none
Geo: page 779 number 1 for tomorrow
Science: finish vocabulary notes for tomorrow
English: ws from yesterday for Monday
Literature: chapters 9 and 10 for tomorrow
Math: set 97 skip 3,4,6,10,13,17
CE: none
Vocab Workshop: 176-180 for tomorrow

Hi this is Jeremiah doing the blog today so this might have some errors. We played Rugby today in P.E. That when pretty well. It was with flags we did not actually tackle each other. For reading we are reading Red as in Russia and Measles and Love. It is a very good book. I don't know if any of of you read it.This week has been so far so good.

C.L.-nothing

Sci.-nothing

Math-set 96 skip 1,2,3,4,11,23

S.S.-W.S.

Reading Ch. 7,8 W.S.

Music- W.S. due next Wed.

English - ws for Monday

CE - nothing

He is risen! He is risen indeed! Another of our fleeting weeks has begun. We finished up our last chapter on South East Asia. We also started a new chapter in Science. We will be looking at some of the information that evolutionists rely on and talking about some of the issues that we have with this. Our math test on Thursday didn't go as well as hoped, so in addition to providing the answers on the tests and making the question sheets available, we are doing form B of the test as a take home assignment. We also went through some of the most common errors that I am seeing.

CL: none
Geo: section 4 ws for Thursday
Science: we took vocab notes in class
Literature: ws (ch 5-6) from Friday is due tomorrow
Math: test 18b as homework
English: presentations
CE: none
Music: none

We had our field trip today. We had some fun watching things you can do with liquid nitrogen. We also got our math test done.

There are no new assignments but please work on finishing late assignments including finishing your presentations that were due on Monday if you aren't done yet.

Happy Wednesday! Remember there is 3:30 church tomorrow. Friday there is school until 12:00 and there is church at 1:00. We are not having any lunch at school so please make appropriate arrangements for your child.

Tomorrow is our trip to the planetarium. We will leave after a devotion and plan to be back by 1:00 in time for our math test. All of the students agreed that this was a great idea. ;-) The question was raised if the students need to dress up for the trip. They are certainly welcome to, especially if they are attending 3:30 church. Otherwise, as long as they follow the school dress code (no extra holes or worn looking clothes) they should be fine.

I found a video of our lesson today at Lesson 95 feel free to watch it again if you need some help. The same teacher has videos on the next 5 lessons as well.

CL: 2 sided sheet for tomorrow
Science: none
Geo: ws 27-2 for tomorrow
English: none
Vocab: none
Lit: chapters 3-4 and sheets for tomorrow
Math: set 95 skip 2,11,12,17b,28,29
Music: none

CL: sheets for Thursday
Science: nothing
Geo: 27-3 sheet for tomorrow
Lit: ch 1-2 for tomorrow
Math: set 94 skip 4,9,10,19,23,24
CE: none
English: two sided ws for tomorrow
Music: none
Vocab: none

Welcome to the start of another week of school. We looked at two step equations today which is easier than it sounds since we have done both step before, just not together. We also talked about galaxies today. God created about a trillion stars for each of the possibly trillion galaxies. God is pretty amazing!

CL: two sided sheet for Thursday
Science: notes for tomorrow
Geo: WS for tomorrow
Lit: chapters 1 and 2 for Wednesday
English: double sided ws for Wednesday
CE: none
Music: none
Vocab WS none
Math: set 93 skip 1,8,16,18,21

Happy Friday! We had a neat presentation about 911 today. We learned a lot.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: ws on 25-2 for Monday
Vocab WS: none
Literature: none
Math: set 92 skip 1,8,10,16,20,24
Music: none
English: ws 21-1 for Monday
CE: News Quiz for Monday

It's Thursday! We made it though another day. We got to hear a lot about Heaven as both Christ Light and our afternoon devotion talked about it. Knowing we have Heaven waiting for us helps us to deal with our troubles and problems today, even homework! (Yes we did get some today.)

CL: none
Science: notes on 25-3
Geo: None
Music: none
Literature: projects are due TOMORROW
Math: set 91 skip 2,8,15,18,24,28
English: ws for Monday, presentation for Monday
CE: none
Vocab WS: 171-172 for Thursday

We went through the math test today and talked about the investigation but there was no assignment. We also watched part of Holes so there was no assignment. We also got to watch the sun do some amazing stuff so there was no assignment. Catching a theme? I suggest working on the literature projects for Friday and the presentations for Monday.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: Ws from yesterday for tomorrow
English: Presentation for Monday
Math: none
CE: none
Literature: project for Friday
Vocab Workshop: 166-170 for Thursday
Music: none

Tuesday greetings to all of you. I hope you are having a good day. I came to school to find my computer dead and I had to work with the copier guys so my day has been a bit hectic! We did manage to talk about the sun today and the students did some reading on the history of south Asia. In math we took our test which took much longer than usual. I am hoping that comes from careful work and translates into right answers.

CL: none
Science: notes on 25-2 for tomorrow
Geo: ws on section 1 for tomorrow
Lit: project for Friday
Math: took a test
CE: none
English: two sided sheet from yesterday is due tomorrow
Music: Composer Monthly is due tomorrow
Vocab Workshop: 167-170 due for Thursday

It is Monday. The sun is shining! I hope you had a good day. We had a tough time focussing today but we had a good time getting outside!

We talked about stars and constellations today. We also learned how we find out some of the information we know about starts. We also wrapped up the physical geography of East and South East Asia. Wednesday we will take a look at the history and culture of the region. Well, a very brief overview since that is a LOT of history to cover. We also worked through a pretest in order to prepare for the math test tomorrow. The students were given a copy of the pretest to work off of to make sure they know how to do each kind of problem.

CL: none
Science: notes on 25-1 for tomorrow
Geo: Group test sheet for tomorrow
Music: Composer due on Wednesday
Literature: project due on Friday
Math: test tomorrow
English: double sided sheet for Wednesday. Skip the last part on the back side, but please read directions on the rest!
CE: none
Vocab: 166-170 for Thursday

Have a great weekend. We saw an awesome demonstration of some amazing jump roping today. It was very impressive. We also caught up on world events and finished our novel.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: page 698 2-6
Vocab: pages 164- 170 for Thursday
Lit: ws on ch 47-50
CE: none
Math: none
English: ws from yesterday for Monday

CL: none
Science: None
Geo: page 693 1,3-6 for Friday
Lit: ws 44-46 questions for Friday
Math: set 90 skip 2,10,13,20,21,30 for Friday
English: sheet 20-1 for Monday
Vocab WS pages 161-163 for Friday
CE: none

Welcome to April. I have a weather calendar the informed me that 2012 was one of the warmest Marches on record. I know this one certainly wasn't!

CL: none
Science: ch 24 review 1-20 page 718-719
Geo: activities ws from yesterday are due tomorrow
Music: Composer Monthly for next Wed
Literature: ws on chapters 38-40
Math: set 89 skip 2,16,20,22
English: none
CE: none

Apparently yesterday making us think warmer weather was here was actually an April Fools joke. Oh well! I still love my WI! We spent a lot of time working together on some group things. We also worked on using two unit multipliers to convert things. Unfortunately, we were better on finding shortcuts than following directions, but there was some good thinking going on. 

CL: none

Science: "test" for tomorrow

Geo: activity sheets for Thursday

Music: Composer Monthly for tomorrow

Literature: chapter ws for tomorrow

English: ws for tomorrow

Math: set 88 skip 2,10,21,23,27 for tomorrow

And we're back! We had some tired student today, but we still managed to get some things done. We finished our science section by learning that shooting stars are not stars and we also learned the difference between meteorids, meteorites, and meteors. We also did some map work to learn more about southeast asia. Those students also reviewed demonstrative pronouns and adjectives. (I used those as a demonstrative adjective in that sentence.) These are simple enough with a little practice. (I used these as a demonstrative pronoun there.) Which students learned about interrogative adjectives? Why, all of them. Which learned about interrogative pronouns? Again, all of them. We also multiplied algebraically. In other words we figured out that (-3x)(4yx)(3y) is really -36x(squared)y(squared). Most importantly we talked about how as we plan for our futures, the most important thing, the corner stone, is that we stay in Gods word and keep Christ in our lives. Our final devotion really fit in well.

CL: none
Science: section 4 notes ws
Geo: map activity sheets
Lit: ws on the next three chapters
Math: set 87 skip 1,2,8,12,14,18,19
CE: none
English: 19-5 for Wednesday
Music: none

Happy Break!

CL: none
Science: notes sheet
Geo: none
Vocab: page 160
Lit: ws on chapters
Math: took a test
CE: none
Music: none

Are you feeling the madness? If so, you should probably seek professional help. We took time today to talk about differences and how we can appreciate differences. We find it hard to appreciate people who are different and like different things than we do, but it is differences that help us accomplish things! We also reviewed some terms in math so that we can remember the difference between whole numbers and counting numbers and how they are different than rational numbers. We are also learning to work with demonstrative pronouns and adjectives. It seems hard but it comes down to if the word is followed by a noun it is an adjective. (This cat is cute.) If the word is followed by a verb before a noun comes along, it is a pronoun. (This is a cute cat.) Same deal for interrogative pronouns and adjectives. We also looked at the inner planets of the solar system. The outer planets come next.

CL: none
Science: notes sheet for tomorrow
Geo: none
Vocab Workshop: pages 156-159 for tomorrow
Literature: ws on chapters for tomorrow
English: 19-3 for tomorrow
Math: set 86 skip 1,3,7,14,15 test tomorrow
CE: none

Today we had a great presentation about bullying, what it is and how to deal with it. She made a great point that we all, as sinners, have some bully in us. We also talked about being a good friend and also talking appropriately. Good things for us to work on. In math we looked at using order of operations with negatives. The math is pretty easy, but it takes a lot of focus and paying attention to what you are doing to keep it all straight. For English, we are practicing what we learned yesterday about demonstrative and interrogative pronouns and adjectives.

Papers are due tomorrow. Make sure you hand in all the parts, including the rough draft and note cards and so on.

CL: Sheet for tomorrow
Science: nothing
Geography: nothing
Vocab Workshop: ws for tomorrow
English: Final copy, include note cards, outline rough draft etc as we discussed several times. Please put it in the right order.
Literature: ch ws for tomorrow
Math: set 85 skip 1,2,5,11,12,20,30
CE: none

Happy Tuesday. Happy 44 degrees! Today we started looking at Life, the Universe and Everything as we started a new section in science. We will take a look at the planets and other bodies in the solar system. We also started talking about polynomials and combining like terms. Remember that  3xy + 4xy -8x +3x = 7xy - 5x.
Field trip forms and report cards went home today.

CL: sheet for Thursday
Science: Notes sheet on 24-1
Geo: Test sheet for Thursday
Vocab Workshop: review sheet for Thursday
Literature: ch sheet for Wednesday
Math: set 84 skip 3, 18, 20,21,24 for Wednesday
CE: none
English: none

Welcome to the fourth quarter! Let's make it a goal this quarter not to leave AR for the last minute.
Look for report cards tomorrow. We've had some good improvement this quarter.
Anti-bullying week is underway. We had a special presentation in the gym today, and a special discussion tied in with our devotion. I am trying to get the students to realize what is bullying behavior and also realize that it is no joke.

In geography we are looking at the island nations in Asia. We also discussed how to multiply numbers in scientific notation and predicate adjectives.

CL: Sheet for Thursday
Science: none
Geo: two sided sheet for tomorrow
Music: Russians for Wednesday
Literature: Ws for tomorrow
Math: set 83 skip 7,8,14,18,21,30
Vocab Workshop: sheet for Thursday
CE: none
Memory Work: 1st Article of the Apostle's creed.

Happy Friday! Save the date! Thursday, April 17th we are heading to the Planetarium in Neenah! I need some people willing to drive. Let me know if you can. Look for the permission slip to come home next week.

CL: none
Science: "test" for Monday
Geo: 23-2 double sided sheet for Monday
Literature: ws for Monday
Vocab: worksheet for Thursday
English: sheet for Monday
Math: set 82 skip 3,11,18,19,28
Music: Russian Composers for Wednesday.

Ahhhh. We meet again. You are looking well. Ok, I can't really see you, but I pray you are well. Anyhow today we talked about the moon some more. We added a few more specifics to our growing body of knowledge about the moon. We also did some work with India. Specifically we looked at the economy and government of India. We have had several counties now that have a president and a prime minister. It is an interesting concept. Speaking of interesting concepts, we also learned how to solve percent problems using ratios. It is actually very similar to problems we have already been doing. In literature, Stanley finally figured out what he found!

CL: 2 ws for Monday
Science: notes sheet for tomorrow
Geo: 2 sided sheet for tomorrow
Vocab ws pages 153-155 for tomorrow
Literature: ws for tomorrow
Math: set 81 skip 8,12,13,18,19 20B (do 20A) and 21
English: ws for Monday
CE: none