Today we worked on more sentences, talked about {symbols[inclusion + of] / inclusion, and North Africa. Then we talked about Shakes pear's life and iambic pentameter.

Spelling: unit 20 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: lesson 4 passages and hymn for Friday
Math Set 63 skip 1,9,10,11,12, 23, 26, 29, 30
Algebra: set 65
English: nothing
Science: quiz Wednesday
Geo: quiz
Lit: nothing
Art: finish pastel pic
Music; nothing
Health: 190 1-11, 191 1-34

Happy Friday! Today we looked at some art work by Mary Cassatt http://www.marycassatt.org . We then tried our hand at working with oil pastels. We also classified triangles and took a geography test. That went quite well by the way. We are also continuing to work with quotation marks. I looked over the resources for those who brought them, and then we had some time to take notes on the resources.

Spelling: Unit 20 for Thursday, test Friday
Memory: Lesson 4 passages and hymn for Friday
English: ws 13-3 and work on the project
Geo: took test
Science: nothing
Lit: nothing
ART: pastell picture
Music: nothing
CE: ws for next Wed/Thurs
Health: nothing
Math: 62 skip 1,6,9,10,13,16,28
Algebra: set 67

Congratulations to our school's latest spelling be champion, Mitch! It was an exciting finish to be sure. That's not all we did today though. We finished discussing how to deal with quotation marks, found the area and angles of parallelograms, review for the geography test and took the science test. A productive day all in all. We even found time to learn more about the Rossetta Stone.

Resources for the academic fair project are due. Ideally the student should bring in his or her books for me to look at. If they are still coming from another library, it is ok to bring in a print out from the library so I can get an idea of what the books are about. I will try to look at web sites as well. The student should have the URL available for me.

Spelling: test tomorrow
Memory: 3 passages
Math: set 61
Algebra: took test
English: ws 13-2
Geo: test tomorrow
Sci: took test
Lit: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
Health: nothing
CE: ws for next week Wed/Thurs

One more day under our belt! While I am thinking of it, thanks so much for the Christmas gifts! I was able to share the food I received thereby making me tops with the family! I am looking forward to delving into the books, but with the baby almost here and the class I am taking, I am planning to wait till summer.

Today we finished our look at the Middle East. We talked about how many conflicts have arisen due to religious differences, and in fact still do, as witnessed by the bombing in Egypt.We moved on to discussing all of the different names for polygons. Did you know that a square is a polygon, a parallelogram, a rhombus, a rectangle and a square all at the same time? After that we looked at food labels and talked about how important serving size is when analyzing food labels. Toss in some indirect objects and earthquakes and we had quite a day.

Spelling: Unit 19 for Thurs, test Fri
Memory: 1 Tim 4:4-5 Philip. 4:8 Matt 5:29
Math: 6 problems from the investigation, say T or F and also WHY!
English: write two sentences and the paragraph as found in lesson 13-1
Geo: QUIZ tomorrow, study Guide Thursday
Science: Study Guide is due TOMORROW!
Lit: We get to start Shakespeare tomorrow!
Art: nothing
CE: boys ws for Thurs
Health: nothing
Keep working on the Academic Fair!

Welcome back! I hope you had a productive break, I know I did. We now have different computers in the lab! Yea!

Spelling: Unit due for Thursday test Friday
Math: pretest
Algebra: set 64
Geo: notes on section 1 quiz on Wed, study guide for Friday, map test next Friday
English: academic project, sources due on Friday
Science: quiz study guide Thursday
Lit: nothing
Art: nothing
Music: nothing
CE: Boys ws for Thursday
Health: nothing