Updates and announcements

I hope everyone had a wonderful three day weekend. We got to relax at home and I started a new crochet project.

Be sure to check the “Important Dates” section for new information.

Our week in learning

This week, students will learn about the idiom “Eat Crow”. Students will recite “The Tyger” on Wednesday, 9/12. As a routine, students will have two weeks to memorize their poems. This will be a regular rotation and the recite date will be on the “Due Dates” section of the board.

Students will continue learning Greek and Latin roots, learning eu, malus, ex, and archos. Students will have a weekly quiz over these roots next week. Students should expect a similar roots quiz every Wednesday.

In spalding, we will finally start our normal words! Our spalding tests are usually scheduled for Thursdays, but due to the 4 day week, we will have our test on Friday instead.

In Literature, we will read through chapter 10 in “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”. We will focus on summaries and identifying and defining vocabulary words from the chapter. Please note that not all classes will be in the same part of the chapter every day, but should end the week on the same chapter.

In Writing and Grammar, students will review prepositions and objects of the preposition. There will be a short quiz over these on Friday.

For science, students will continue practicing their knowledge of the scientific method through the Bubble Gum Experiment. As a class, we will test what happens when bubble gum is chewed for different lengths of time-we suspect it will lose more of its mass the longer it is chewed! We will practice finding averages and analyzing data class as we finish the experiment later this week, and students will be able to practice making a display board and best practices for communicating their data.

This week in history we will finish the instruction for Unit 2, though the Unit 2 test will not be until next Tuesday, September 11th, following a review day on Monday, September 10th. This is to prevent the test from being on a Monday, but means we will begin Unit 3: Renaissance on Friday, discussing Renaissance Italy. For U.S. Geography on Wednesday, we will learn about the States in the Midwest.

In math, we will continue our new unit on “More Calculations with Whole Numbers”. We will look at the word problems and bar models. Please note that we will have frequent quizzes in math. When a “b” quiz comes home for homework, that means there will likely be a quiz the next day. This means there will be frequent, low stakes math quizzes. We will continue math groups on Wednesday, 8:00-9:15.