An action packed Friday! We worked on a math pretest, a science pretest and learned more about Nelson Mandella and South Africa! The class did quite well on our hymn this week! Most of the class was in the 'A' category.

Just an FYI, I will be gone Monday and Tuesday at a HUGE tech conference that starts Sunday afternoon. I am signed up to learn more about (among other things) Chromebooks, managing and using, and also how to manage Apple devices.

CE: News Quiz for MONDAY
CL: none
Memory: hymn 304 1,5,7 for Friday
English: none
Vocab: 166-170 for Thursday
Math: pretest today, Test MONDAY
Science: pre-test for MONDAY
Lit: none
Geo: none
Music: Handel for Friday

Happy Thursday! Today we worked with are, Africa and awesome explosions of volcanos. We also watched an example of how people who believe in evolution treat those who do not.

Hymn: 305 vs 1,3

CE: none

English: none

Geography: none

Science: none

Math: set 75 see below

Vocab: 161-163 for TOMORROW

Music: none

Lit: none

CL: none

Congrats on making it all the way to Wednesday. Today we looked at colonial rule in Africa. All but around 3 countries were controlled by Europeans. We also watched some volcanoes erupt. In math, we talked about finding the fractional part of a number. As you know, I have been posting the work we do as part of the lesson on the blog. This way, students can look back at the sample problems and refresh their memory on what to do. Since most of them don't check the blog, I also printed off the pages for the students to reference. I hope they use these to check on their work when needed.  

Memory: hymn 305 vs 1,3 for Friday

CE: none

CL: have the book filled out

English: none

Lit: read the chapter and write a summary

Math: lesson 74 for TOMORROW (see below)

Geo: check out web site on classroom

Music: none

Vocab: review wsh for TOMORROW

Science: none

The days keep on rolling! The big ticket item today was math, as you can see below. The rules for dealing with negatives change for multiplication and division from what they were for addition and subtraction. It no longer matters which one is bigger! (We went over that several times today.) 

Memory: Hymn 305 vs 1,3 for Friday

CL: have book totally filled in

CE: none

English: none

Music: none

Lit: finish the chapter and take notes for TOMORROW

Vocab: ws due for Thursday

Geo: none

Science: foldable for TOMORROW

Math: set 73 see below

These Mondays keep sneaking up on us! I don' tknow about you, but I don't know where they come from! Today we looked at some African history. We tried a different web sight for this than we did for finishing up the science section. We also did implied ratios in math, as you can see below. Besides Mondays, faculty meetings sneak up on me as well. Got to go!

Memory: Hymn 305 vs 1,3

CE: none

CL: have the books totally filled out

Geo: map test for next Monday

Science: foldable for Wednesday

English: none

Music: theory sheets for TOMORROW

Vocab: review wsh for Thursday

Math: set 72, skip 13,14,18,28,30

Lit: finish the capter and take some note for Wednesday

Off to watch some BB games!

Memory: 305 vs 1,3
CL: none
CE: none
English: none
Math: set 71 for MONDAY
Geo: Map test and review sheet for MONDAY
Music: theory sheets for Tuesday
Lit: finish reading the chapter for MONDAY
Vocab: review ws for Thursday
Science: none

I am happy to welcome you to Thursday. We tried out Nearpod again today, it looks like it has some potential with some work. We found out why some volcanoes explode gently and some do so violently. We also did something a little different for literature as well (just a little different). For math, we took the investigation again. I heard some good peer teaching today, good job! In Christ Light we talked about how to get along with those who have different beliefs than we do. That led us to spend some time talking about abortion. We had some good questions. You may want to follow up at home.

Memory: hymn 434 vs 1 TOMORROW
CL: none
English: none
CE: none
Vocab: 156-159 for TOMORROW
Geo: 'test' worksheet for Monday, map test for Monday
Science: none
Lit: finish the part of the chapter you and your partner didn't finish
Music: theory sheets due TOMORROW
Math: redo the Investigation sheets

Time to go unplug a cable from the server. Let's hope I unplug the right one!

Hello, hello, hello! It's Wednesday again and another opportunity to praise the Lord at an Advent service tonight. I hope I saw you there! Today we tried something new. I gave a website called Nearpod a try. It lets me send a presentation to the students' Chromebooks and control which slide they are on. The students liked that they had it right in front of them so it didn't matter where they sat. Some also found it easier to focus just on the screen. The part I liked better was that I could ask them questions and have each of them type a response that I then got a few seconds later. It was a quick way to see if they were getting the idea. We will try it a few more lessons and see how we like it. There is a similar one I should try as well to compare. Exciting things to try out!

Our investigation for math that was due today did not go super well. It was designed to try and get the students to work on showing every step of the work. They would rather not, but based on the problems we keep getting wrong, we need to do it anyhow. We went over it today before our test and will try again tomorrow. Who would have thought showing your work and checking your answers would be so hard!

Memory: hymn 434 vs 1 Friday
CE: none
Music: theory sheets for Friday
English: ws 18-1 for TOMORROW
Lit: page 730 1-10 for TOMORROW
Science: none
Geo: page 542 5,6,7 for TOMORROW
Vocab: 153-154 for TOMORROW
Math: took a test
CL: none

Sorry! No time to be clever tonight!

CL: none
Memory: hymn 434 vs 1 for Friday
English: 18-1 ws for Thursday
CE: none
Geo: ws for TOMORROW
Science: None
Math: Investigation 7 for TOMORROW
Music: Theory sheets for Friday
Vocab: pages(see yesterday) are due Thursday
Lit: none

Welcome back Monday! (No, not Kotter.) We took a Meet Math test today and worked on our pre-test for our math. We also took the science test and spent some time reviewing for tomorrow's catechism test. We also did some reading on the WELS missions in Africa. I asked the students to share one thing from each article that they read. They were to put that info into a shared Google Document and when we are all done, we will have one fact from each student per article. If you want to see how it is going, click HERE.

Memory: 434 vs 1
CL: none
CE: none
English 18-1 for Thursday
Geo: WELS Missions project for Thursday
Science: took a test so none
Vocab: pages 153-154 for Thursday
Art: no art this week
Music: theory sheets for tomorrow
Lit: page 730 1-10
Math: pretest for tomorrow

Happy Tuesday! Sorry, I've got nothing clever today.

Memory: none
CE: none
English: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Science: study guide tomorrow
Vocab: pages due next week Thursday
Music: theory sheets for next Tuesday
Lit: none
Math: set 69 skip: 3,6,16,18,30 for TOMORROW