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