Are you enjoying the beautiful, tropic weather? I hope so because it isn't going to last. Oh well. A permission slip came home from Mr. Herkstroeter today. Look for that and please send it back tomorrow if at all possible. Thanks! Today we wrapped up our project and started another section in science. We are looking at our impact on water and air. We also started learning about Richard Wagner. We listened to some musical selections and even had Bugs Bunny help us out. We also spent some time relearning about outlines. Our outline is due tomorrow and when I looked at some of the students' outlines I noticed that we had some things to review. We also finished going through Hamlet. I am sure I enjoyed it more than they did, but they had some laughs along the way. (It will make Romeo and Juliet easier in high school!)

CL: none
Science: none
Geo: none
Music: Wagner for next week Wed
English: final copy of descriptive paragraph is due Monday. Outline is due tomorrow
Lit: none
CE: none
Vocab WS pages 124-125 for tomorrow

Ahhh, so we meet again. Welcome back. So nice to have you.  First of all, let me say that it is a good thing to see so many students bringing water bottles to keep hydrated during the day. Anything we can do to help them stay healthy is great. However, do please speak to your student about not using the water bottle as a toy or distraction, or eating the drink packets straight up. Thanks!

CL: none
Science: project due tomorrow
Geo: Test due Thursday
Math: we took a test!
English: paragraph from page 116, rough draft for tomorrow
Lit: none
Vocab: pages 124-125 are due on Thursday
CE: none
Music: none

Happy SNOWY SNOWY Day! Be safe!

For Tuesday-
Memory Work: 1-3 Commandments
Science: WS and keep working on project, I hope to have this done for Wednesday
Math: Investigation 7
Social Studies: None

For Wednesday-
English: Third-Person Descriptive Paragraph

For Thursday-
Vocabulary Workshop: p. 124-125
Academic Project: Outline

Hello Wednesday! Today we took a look at our last section in science. We talked about reducing, reusing and recycling in order to reduce our impact on the land. (We'll tackle water and air in the next chapter.) We also combined geography and music and learned about some instruments and music from Africa. In math we worked on the pretest for our test next week.

CL: ws for Monday
Science: ws for Monday
Geo: None
Literature: none
Math: pretest due Monday
CE: none
Music: none
English: Final copy for Monday

Welcome to Tuesday. We crammed quit a bit in today and got some important information.
The students may hand out valentines tomorrow at lunch time if they wish.

As part of our ongoing process of becoming a Google Apps for Education (GAFE) school, I have set up Google accounts for the 7th and 8th graders to use for their research papers. This will allow them to work on it more easily at school and at home. If they share it with me correctly, I am also able to help them during the writing process. It would be helpful if they would use Google Docs as they work on the rough draft but they may also write it by hand. The final copy should be done in the Google however. The Google account also comes with email. However, the email feature is not totally set up yet. As such students may not receive any email at this time. There are no plans to change this until summer. Also, I have set it up that they may only send emails to accounts that end in @faithlutheranfdl.org. So, essentially, the only people the students can email is the staff. I went through the basics of how to access the account and share the document today at the end of the day, but I am sure we will go over it again. Kind of exciting!

CL: ws due Monday
Science: section 2 worksheet due tomorrow
Geo: section 3 worksheet due tomorrow
English: rough draft of WA 18 on page 115 due tomorrow
Math: set 70 skip 2,5,13,24,29 due tomorrow
CE: none
Music: none
Vocabulary Workshop: pages 124-125 for NEXT WEEK Thursday