Today we heard an update about some of NASA's space missions. We also had a visit from LPS. We took a math test and watched some Hamlet as well.

Keep working on those rough drafts. Make it as close to the final copy as possible!

CL: ws for Monday
Science: none
Geo: none
Vocab WOrkshop: none
Literature: none
Math: none
CE: news quiz
English: ROUGH DRAFT FOR MONDAY!
Music: Verdi for Wednesday
Memory Work 7th - 9th commandments for Tuesday

Today we took some time to do some work on our science project. Some of the students encountered some technology issues and ended up working on other homework during that time. The project shouldn't take long to do. We are going to present tomorrow, so please remind them to make sure they get their information tonight. Thanks!

CL: Worksheet for Monday
Science: project for tomorrow
Geo: Read chapter 22 section 2 and do 'quiz' sheet for tomorrow
Vocab Workshop: pages 138-142
Literature: none
Math: set 75 1,6,15,22,28
English: rough draft of the paper is due on Monday  (This includes the title page, bibliography etc)
CE: none

Rough draft of the research paper is due for Monday. Keep working on it!

CL: nothing
Science; project for Friday
Geo: nothing
Vocab Workshop pages are due tomorrow
Literature: nothing
Math: set 74 skip 6,11,13,19,20,21
English: dialogue worksheet for tomorrow
Music: Verdi for Wednesday
CE: none

Good day. Today we looked at our early attempts to get into space from the first rockets to the early Apollo missions. We did another country prezi in geography and reviewed in math.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Music: Wagner for tomorrow
Literature: none
English: work on rough draft of the paper
Math: review sheets, do all of them
Vocab Workshop pages 133-135 are due on Thursday

We were back at it again today. We started talking about the two different types of optical telescopes. We also looked at some more of our country prezis. We also worked on multiplying and dividing positive and negative numbers. If there are two positive or two negative numbers, the answer is positive. If the signs are different, then the answer is negative. Remember this is only for multiplying and dividing not adding or subtracting.
We also went through the English outlines today. If the outline was on time and contained some detail it got an A+. This doesn't mean that it is perfect, final copy ready. Many of the outlines still need more details to be finished.

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Lit: none
Math: set 73 skip 2,4,11,15,21
CE: none
English: Improve outlines
Memory: commandments 4-6
Vocab WS is due on Thursday

Good game girls! Play well boys!

Today we tried Shakespeare Jeopardy. We got a bit too loud, but we had a good time. We also Started discussing India and the surrounding countries. We will pick that up on Monday.

CL: Ws for Monday
Science: Test for Monday
Geo: nothing
Vocab: Pages 133-135 for Thursday
Literature: Sheets for Monday
English: Final copy and test sheet for Monday
Music: Wagner for Wednesday
Math: Set 72: skip 13,14,18,28,30 for Monday

And WI Winter is back.

Thanks to everyone who returned the permission slip. If you haven't yet we need it by tomorrow! Thanks!
Not too much due for tomorrow but there is lots for Monday. Don't save it all for Sunday night!

CL: ws for Monday
Science: Notes for tomorrow
Geo: nothing
Vocab: 128-132 for tomorrow
Lit: review sheets for Monday
English: final copy and test sheet for Monday
Math: set 72 skip 13,14,18,28,30 for Monday
Music: Wagner for Wednesday

Are you enjoying the beautiful, tropic weather? I hope so because it isn't going to last. Oh well. A permission slip came home from Mr. Herkstroeter today. Look for that and please send it back tomorrow if at all possible. Thanks! Today we wrapped up our project and started another section in science. We are looking at our impact on water and air. We also started learning about Richard Wagner. We listened to some musical selections and even had Bugs Bunny help us out. We also spent some time relearning about outlines. Our outline is due tomorrow and when I looked at some of the students' outlines I noticed that we had some things to review. We also finished going through Hamlet. I am sure I enjoyed it more than they did, but they had some laughs along the way. (It will make Romeo and Juliet easier in high school!)

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Music: Wagner for next week Wed
English: final copy of descriptive paragraph is due Monday. Outline is due tomorrow
Lit: none
CE: none
Vocab WS pages 124-125 for tomorrow

Ahhh, so we meet again. Welcome back. So nice to have you.  First of all, let me say that it is a good thing to see so many students bringing water bottles to keep hydrated during the day. Anything we can do to help them stay healthy is great. However, do please speak to your student about not using the water bottle as a toy or distraction, or eating the drink packets straight up. Thanks!

CL: none
Science: project due tomorrow
Geo: Test due Thursday
Math: we took a test!
English: paragraph from page 116, rough draft for tomorrow
Lit: none
Vocab: pages 124-125 are due on Thursday
CE: none
Music: none

Happy SNOWY SNOWY Day! Be safe!

For Tuesday-
Memory Work: 1-3 Commandments
Science: WS and keep working on project, I hope to have this done for Wednesday
Math: Investigation 7
Social Studies: None

For Wednesday-
English: Third-Person Descriptive Paragraph

For Thursday-
Vocabulary Workshop: p. 124-125
Academic Project: Outline

Hello Wednesday! Today we took a look at our last section in science. We talked about reducing, reusing and recycling in order to reduce our impact on the land. (We'll tackle water and air in the next chapter.) We also combined geography and music and learned about some instruments and music from Africa. In math we worked on the pretest for our test next week.

CL: ws for Monday
Science: ws for Monday
Geo: None
Literature: none
Math: pretest due Monday
CE: none
Music: none
English: Final copy for Monday

Welcome to Tuesday. We crammed quit a bit in today and got some important information.
The students may hand out valentines tomorrow at lunch time if they wish.

As part of our ongoing process of becoming a Google Apps for Education (GAFE) school, I have set up Google accounts for the 7th and 8th graders to use for their research papers. This will allow them to work on it more easily at school and at home. If they share it with me correctly, I am also able to help them during the writing process. It would be helpful if they would use Google Docs as they work on the rough draft but they may also write it by hand. The final copy should be done in the Google however. The Google account also comes with email. However, the email feature is not totally set up yet. As such students may not receive any email at this time. There are no plans to change this until summer. Also, I have set it up that they may only send emails to accounts that end in @faithlutheranfdl.org. So, essentially, the only people the students can email is the staff. I went through the basics of how to access the account and share the document today at the end of the day, but I am sure we will go over it again. Kind of exciting!

CL: ws due Monday
Science: section 2 worksheet due tomorrow
Geo: section 3 worksheet due tomorrow
English: rough draft of WA 18 on page 115 due tomorrow
Math: set 70 skip 2,5,13,24,29 due tomorrow
CE: none
Music: none
Vocabulary Workshop: pages 124-125 for NEXT WEEK Thursday

Welcome back. Today we looked at the impact our growing population has on the earth. This fit in very well with what we have been talking about in geography and even used some of the same terms. Speaking of geography, we tried our Africa presentations again and did much better this time around. Good job! We also looked more at writing scientific notation correctly, and how to fix it when it is done incorrectly.

CL worksheet for next Monday
Science: ws for tomorrow
Geo: ws for tomorrow
Lit: nothing
Math: set 69
CE: none
English: Writing assignment #18 on page 115
Memory: 4th of Holy Communion
Music: none

Field trip tomorrow! Remember to dress nicely and bring money for lunch. Thanks! We had lots of time to work on various things today. Most of your student's work should be done already! Yea!

Science: ws for Monday
Geo: project for Monday
Lit: Play!
Math: set 68 2,4,8,17,21 due for Monday
English: sheet for Monday, don't forget to skip the right ones!
Vocab Worksheet: pages 124 - 125 for Thursday of the week after next!
Music: none
Memory Work: 4th of Holy Communion for Tuesday

Happy Wednesday! We worked on our projects some more. Some were more productive than others. We will have the revised version due on Monday.

Science: none
Music: none
Geo: project for Monday
Lit: none
English: none
Math: set 67 skip 10,18,22,24,29
CE: none

Welcome one and all to the extravaganza that is 7th grade. Today we checked out pollution in the ocean. Most of it actually starts on the land! We also discussed how dirt could actually be polution. Then we took another swing at our geography project. We will spend a little more time on it tomorrow and see where we are at. For math we took our test. Hopefully we worked carefully. I noticed on our assignment for today that we had several cases of doing the wrong problem, subtracting instead of adding, multiplying wrong and the like. Hopefully we didn't do any of that on our test!

Today we started having Mr. Herkstroeter supervising recess so I could answer math questions during recess. I got no takers today, but Thursday will present another opportunity.

Science: ws for tomorrow
Geo: work on improving project
Literature: bring money and dress nicely on Friday
Vocab: 2 pages due for Thursday
Math: took a test
CE: none
English: ws for tomorrow
Music: none

Welcome back to school after Super Bowl weekend. I think the class was still pumped up from the big game. Hopefully tomorrow we will be back into the swing of school. We presented our geography projects today. Unfortunately we had a tough time following the directions and putting enough thought into the different parts. I think we will need to take another crack at it. In math today we had mixed results. While most of the class got a B or better, we are still struggling with being consistently careful with our calculations. Our lesson today was on ratios where we knew the total but had to find one of the parts. Fortunately, we solve them pretty much the same way that we solve the other kind. Unfortunately, many in the class did not take advantage of the extra work time to work on math or ask questions. Remember that starting tomorrow, I will be staying in the room during recess on Tuesdays and Thursdays in order for interested students to have a chance to get more help on math. We also finished our Christ Light book and will be starting a new one on Thursday.

For our field trip on Friday, please have the students dress nicely. Also, remember to send money along for lunch. Thanks!

Science: Worksheet is due on Wednesday
Geo: worksheet is due TOMORROW
Literature: none
Math: set 66 skip 3,5,11,20,29 for TOMORROW test tomorrow as well
English: Sheet for Wednesday
Vocab W.S.: pp 121 and 123
Memory Work: 3rd of Holy Communion
Music: none