Great Friday to you! I got word that Thaddeus had a great check-up today so I am very excited about that. Other things to get excited about were a good showing on our vocab assignment and science test. We also started adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers. A bit new, but not too hard. We also dallied a bit into the Gulf War parts 1 and 2. Exciting times indeed!

CL:none

English:Rough Draft for MONDAY

Science:WS for MONDAY

CE: WS for MONDAY

Vocab:p. 148-152 for Thursday

Geo: Prezi for Thursday

Lit: none

Music: none

Art: sketchbook for Tuesday

Math: Set 64

Memory: 313 1,2 for Friday

BUSY DAY!

Eli is as the spelling bee tonight! GO ELI!

Music: Bach TOMORROW

CE: none

CL: none

English: Rough draft WA#20 for Monday

Geo: Prezis Thursday

Science: took a test None

Math: Set 63 see below TOMORROW

Vocab: 143-145 TOMORROW

Lit: none

Art: sketchbook for Tuesday

It has come around to Wednesday once again. Funny how that seems to happen every week . . . Anyhow, this particular Wednesday was partially spent working with triangles (with a fire drill added in for excitement), checking our study guides for science to make sure we are good to go for tomorrow, and working together to learn more about the countries of our section. 

Memory: hymn 436 1,2,4

CL: none

CE: none

English: none

Geo: Prezis starting next Thursday

Science: test tomorrow

Art: sketchbook for Tuesday

Math: set 62 see below for TOMORROW

Music: Bach for Friday

Lit: 

Vocab: nothing

Math 61

We had an artless Tuesday today. We made good use of the time to work on our Prezi's. I'd like to start presenting them next week Thursday, so the time was well spent working on them. It also gave the students a chance to ask some of those technical questions that sometimes come up. (I even learned something new! I love it when that happens.) We also worked on parallelograms as you can see below. The big thing to remember (this will come up with triangles as well) is that the height always has to make a 90-degree angle. Slanty sides are great to use for perimeter, but not area! 

Memory: hymn 436 1,2,4

CL: none

CE: none

English: none

Math: set 61 for TOMORROW

Geo: none

Science: Study guide for Wednesday (I think everyone got that done in school.)

Vocab: none

Art: sketchbook for Tuesday

Music: Bach for Friday

Lit: none

Welcome to Monday! We finished talking about how to get along with our families and moved on to getting along with our friends and classmates. We took a math test. I haven't finished correcting the tests, but it seems as if things are getting a little tougher. In geography, we talked about religion in the region which led to a discussion of Islam and the five pillars thereof. That led to some discussion as you might imagine. Speaking of geography, we have started working on our second-semester countries. We will have some time to work on that tomorrow. We also started working on our study guide for science.

Memory: Hymn 436 vs 1,2,4 for Friday
Music: none
CL: none
CE: none
Art: sketchbook for NEXT Tuesday
Math: took a test
Geo: ws for TOMORROW, Prezis
Science: study guide for Wednesday
English: none
Lit: none
Vocab: none

We had a lovely Thursday. I hope you did, too. We are singing this weekend. We practiced today and it sounded pretty good! We also had a double whammy, a Meet Math test and a regular math pre-test.


That's all the further I got last night. Sorry about that, life caught up to me!

We had a great visit Faith day today. Thanks for the lava lamps. They helped me illustrate a concept in science, only it was an hour later than I planned. They take much longer to warm up than I anticipated! We also had a very spirited debate on whether artifacts from Egypt should be returned to Egypt or left in the countries they are now. We played some games to review vocabulary words and melted a snowman among other things. We went through the math pretest and then did an investigation to work with quadrilaterals. We kept busy but had some fun as well. I even tried to get Mrs. Albrecht to help out the class with their math homework, but she wouldn't go for it.

CL: none
CE: newsquiz for Monday
Memory: hymn 436 1,2,4
Vocab: none
English: ws from yesterday for Monday
Geo: none
Science: section 3 ws for Monday
Music: none
Art: sketchbook for the week after next (no art next week)
Lit: page 697 1-6,8 for Monday
Math: investigation for Monday

I get to legally say happy Wednesday today! So, HAPPY WEDNESDAY! We finished our geography section today on the religions of the area. Waaaaaaay to much to say there. Interesting (and sad) that so many of the issues today are the same ones that have been around for centuries. We also worked on translating English to math. (I think it is a lot like a foreing language.) In science we spread the sea floor in preperation for the big disucssion of plate techtonics.

On a personal note, I have a call to St. Jacobi in Greenfield near Milwaukee. Your prayers are appreciated.

Memory: none
CL: none
CE: none
Vocab: pages 133-135 for TOMORROW
English: none
Geo: ws on section 1 for TOMORROW
Science: ws on section 2 for TOMORROW
Music: none
Lit: none
Math: set 60 see below