Welcome back to school! We started our short week today by starting a new Christ Light book entitled How Can I Get Along Better . . .  The first lesson is how we can get along better with family members. We also started a new chapter in Science looking at the atmosphere. Ask your student about the "magic" trick. We also got onto exploding balloons and also dinosaurs but we did get though the lesson by stealing a little time from our discussion of the physical geography of the Middle East and some other areas. In English we talked about transition words. In math we worked with average and multi-step problems. We wrapped things up learning about the fiscal cliff and how we didn't jump off of it, but we did slide down a bit with a promise that someone would hopefully bring a rope in the next two months.

Spelling: nothing this week
Science: ch 15-1 quiz tomorrow
Geo: map activity for Monday
English: students need to bring sources to school by Tuesday
Math: set 55: 7, 14, 19, 25, 29  test tomorrow