Well it is Monday. There was no doubt about that today. However, we did manage to get some things done. We started the day talking about how to safeguard our minds when we deal with tv and movies. We then moved into the lab to research the Amazon Rain Forest and the problem of deforestation. We found a plethora of information at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov. The hard part was sifting through everything to find information that we could use. We also had English class time to work on it, but most students took the time to finish math instead, so many will need to do some research at home tonight. In math we looked at simple probability. The probability is 1 that it will get more challenging as the year goes on. Don't forget about the music sheets that are due Wednesday. They are easy but easy to forget as well!

CL: none
Science and Geography: use http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov to research deforestation in the Amazon. We are looking for information about why it is happening, how we monitor it, why is it a problem, and what can we do to stop it and yet help the people that live there for TOMORROW
English: none
Math: set 14 skip 7,10,12,14,15
Lit: start working the rest of the packet of worksheets for FRIDAY
CE: nothing
Music: ws due for WEDNESDAY
Vocabulary ws pages due for Thursday  

Happy Grand Day! It was pretty grand indeed. However, we did find some time to do some work first, sorry! We finished section 1 of our geography chapter. I handed out a worksheet for section 1 that is due on Monday. Section two is on the back side. That is NOT due on Monday, I was just saving paper. We also had some science sheets. We went through them in class so everyone should have a good idea of what to do. We also got some vocabulary workshop and our news quiz. Unfortunately, we did have to skip math. (You would not believe the tears over that one.) Have a grand weekend.

CL: nothing
Science: 3 ws for MONDAY
Geo: 1 ws for MONDAY (Only side 1)
Vocabulary WS: 39-41
Lit: nothing
Math: nothing
CE: Newsquiz for MONDAY
English: nothing

Happy Thursday to ya. How are we all doing tonight? The temps are more like normal at least! Today we worked on our project for Grand day. We also talked about the different states of matter. We used a little time for Latin America and a bit more for story problems. We also learned some new vocabulary words as well. None of my students got my reference to "hanking for a hunk of _________." Do you?

CL: nothing
Science: Section 3 notes for TOMORROW
Geo: work on Prezis
Vocabulary Workshop: page 37 and page 38 for TOMORROW
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
Music: theor sheets for Wednesday
English: work on what to say for Grand Day presentation
Math: set 13: skip 11,13,18,24,25

Today we compounded! Not problems but elements. We learned about hydrogen bonds, ionic bonds and covalent bonds. We also reviewed electrons since that is where the action is in the atomic world. We also started some easy music theory review. We got Brian some meat and then did some more story problems. We then did our English assignment as a class.

CL: nothing
Science: Notes sheets on section 2
Geo: nothing
Vocab Wsh: nothing
Literature: nothing
Math: set 12: skip 13,15,17,20,28
CE: nothing
English: in class

It's a hot Tuesday my friends. We got into atoms today in science. We tried to cram a whole lot of info into one lesson. Don't worry, we'll review. We also got into the history and cultures of Latin America today. We have a ways to go. (Part of that is due to a detour to watch a hydrogen balloon blow up.)  We also worked on story problems today.

CL: nothing
Science: nothing
Geo: nothing
Music: nothing
Math: set 11 skip 7,10,14,19,21
Literature: nothing
CE: nothing
English: nothing