Happy Friday! I checked on the students' progress toward their AR goals and put it in Engrade under literature. We are about halfway to the due date. Time is running out for donations for the Solutions Center. Please send in your donation next week and encourage your friends as well. We have a long way to go toward our goal. Our hymn for next week will be 429 vs 1-3.

CL: none
Memory: 429 1-3 for FRIDAY
Math: set 65 skip 7,8,11,15,27
English: ws for TUESDAY, 4 min speech
Vocab: 133-135 for THURSDAY
Science: none
Geo: none
CE: news quiz for MONDAY
Lit: project
Art: sketchbook
Music: theory sheets for FRIDAY

It's Thursday, and what a Thursday it is! We corrected the Russia study guide but put the test off until Monday. We also started watching Where the Red Fern Grows, added negative numbers and learned some new words as we learned about the history of orthodontics.

Memory: 752 vs 1-2 for TOMORROW
CL: none
Science: none
CE: none
Geo: test MONDAY
Vocab: 126-132 for TOMORROW
Music: none
Lit: Project
English: 4 min speech
Art: sketchbook
Math: set 64 skip 3,4,7,12,24

Happy Wednesday! We finished our Prezis with a quick look at Iran. Ask your student if he or she can give one reason why the people of Iran may not be too fond of Americans. We also worked on math problems with symbols of inclusion. In other words, what do we do with problems that have lots of brackets and parenthesis like 12 + [4(5-2)]. Start on the inside and work your way out. We watched a video on earthquakes and some of the technologies to try and prevent damage.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 752 vs 1-2 for FRIDAY
Vocab: none
English: 4 min speech topic for TOMORROW (could be the same as the research paper)
Science: none
CE: none
Literature: projects
Music: none
Math: set 63 skip 3,6,24,27,30
Art: sketchbook for TUESDAY
Geo: Russia review for TOMORROW

Tuesday is here! The big news for today is that I informed the students that we will be starting to work on 4 minute speeches for English. This is going to be a challenging project for the students. The will need to write their own speech and then present it to the class. This is out of their comfort zone, but that is exactly why it is important for them to do. We will work on writing a good speech with a focus and then work on presenting it well. It is amazing how loud students can be right up until they have to get in front of the class and present ;-) Notes are allowed, but the speech can not be read. This project is going to take some practicing and won't be able to be put off until the last minute. The first step is to have a topic picked out by Thursday. It should be something that the student is interested in and also be something that others may enjoy being informed about. We are not looking for a persuasive essay (Why you shouldn't smoke) but rather an informative one.

CL: none
Memory: hymn 752 vs 1-2 for FRIDAY (your student got a handout and I shared it to their google account
Math: set 62 skip 4,6,12,18,24
Science: none
Geo: Russia review for THURSDAY (a few prezis for WEDNESDAY)
English: topic by THURSDAY
CE: none
Lit: 1-9 for WEDNESDAY, project for Feb 6th.
Music: none
Art: sketch book
Vocab: none

Happy snowy Monday. Faculty meeting, BB game and a voters' meeting! Lots going on today. We had a few tings going on in our classroom today as well. We corrected our music theory sheets and the students hard work was evident. We also worked at finding the area, perimeter and angels of a parallelogram. We got a big review for Russia and our project choices for literature. These are due February 6th because I expect them to take some time. This will be a major grade for literature this quarter. Please encourage your student not to wait until the night of the 5th to work on it.

CL: none
Memory: Hymn 752 (I gave the students the words and shared them with their google addresses)
Math: set 61 skip 20,24,25,27,29
Science: none
CE: none
Geo: Russia review for Thursday, prezis for Wednesday (for those from the first group who haven't gone yet)
Literature: 1-9 for WEDNESDAY, projects for FEB 6th
Music: none
Art: Sketch books
Vocab: none
English: none