Updates and
announcements
I hope everyone had
a relaxing Thanksgiving! We got to make a small turkey and enjoyed our holiday
with friends, as our families are up in Montana.
Our week in learning
In writing this week we will be
learning about helping and linking verbs. We will also practice
diagramming interrogative sentences. There will be a quiz over linking
verbs on Thursday and there will be a quiz covering helping verbs next Tuesday.
Each child has a list of the verbs in their notebooks and have learned a
couple of songs to help them remember. The Linking Verbs Blues can be
found right here:
We will finish our Where the Red Fern
Grows this week and will end our unit with a celebration on Friday. The
next unit will begin next week covering Poetry. The 100 Point Project is
due on December 9th!
We will have our
roots quiz on Wednesday covering, cornu, derma, cutis.
We will be studying plant cell organelles. There is a quiz
on Thursday.
We are going to discuss the Reformation during this upcoming unit. We will talk about the disagreements happening in the Catholic church at the time. We are studying this as a historical event, not teaching students about “good” or “bad” guys, or what students should believe. We will delve into some of the grievances against the Catholic church sparked changes within the Catholic church, and the formation of different Christian religions. This week, we will look into the importance of the printing press and Martin Luther during the Reformation.
