Thursday, February 7, 2013

Back on Track! Her is what is happening now.

Dear parents,

Sorry for the lack of communication.  Here is how we are finishing up the week.

Virtue of the Month:  Perseverance

Math:   Lesson 86 - Multiplying Fractions!!!!!; 87 - Converting Units of Weight and Mass;  Exercises Form 12A on Friday

Religion:  Finish up Session 7 on Thursday.  Study guide,  Exercise on Friday.

Social Studies:  The Reformation:  Section 2:  The Birth of Protestantism - To cover this section, I am using a "Gallery Walk."  The students are grouped and then asked to DRAW what they learned.  They are not allowed to use any words to express themselves.  Martin Luther is a tough one to do.  They love it!  Section 3 - The Spread of Protestantism:  Read discuss and employ venn diagram to compare Luther, Calvin and Zwingli.

Science:  Cells:  Structures and Processes.  The building blocks of life.  Introduction to new words and their meanings.  We will be building our own cell in class.

LiteratureSecret Garden  We will continue to read this exciting story as a class.  Each chapter will be followed by some sort of reflection that the students must write for homework.  These reflections must be twelve to fifteen sentences in length.

Language Arts:  Continue with compound subjects and verbs; diagramming sentences;  compound sentences.  Review for exercise.

Computers:  Keyboarding and wraping up Power point presentations.

PE:  Getting physical by running and jumping and learning about new sports!

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