Updates and announcements

We are already over half way through the first quarter. I hope everyone had a great weekend.

This Saturday is the Mother and Son event.

Our week in learning

This week, students will learn about the idiom “Eleventh Hour”. 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. They will learn about the poem “Some Opposites”, to be recited on 9/26.

Students will continue learning Greek and Latin roots, learning arcus, circum, kyklos, and peri. Students will have a weekly quiz over these roots next week. Students should expect a similar roots quiz every Wednesday.

In Literature, we will read through chapter 12 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 have a short test on classifying and diagramming sentences on Wednesday. This will include subject nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and objects of the preposition. We will spend all Monday and Tuesday reviewing. At the end of the week, we will work on unscrambling sentences.

This week in science, students will review for their scientific inquiry test, which will be Friday, September 14th. The test will cover the definitions in their notebook, as well as applying their skills to analyze hypothetical experiments. In class, we will make a foldable that contains all the steps of the scientific method as well as examples from all of our in class experiments. The foldable will be finished Tuesday and be turned in for a grade when they take the test, and can be used to study. The following week, we will jump into our chemistry unit. 

This week in History students will take their test for Unit 2: The Maya, Aztec, and Inca Civilizations, on Tuesday, after a review day on Monday. On Thursday we will carry on with Unit 3: Renaissance, discussing the change from the Medieval Period during the Renaissance, including the invention of the printing press. On Wednesday for U.S. Geography we will be discussing the States in the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

In math, we will continue our new unit on “More Calculations with Whole Numbers”. We will look at multiplying and dividing by 2-digit numbers and greater. We will be using graph paper, so feel free to use graph paper at home to help keep students organized. 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.