Week 14: Midquarter and Thanksgiving!

Our first taste of snowflakes on Monday - baby snowman!

STUCO led chapel on Thursday, including a fun drama

We were reminded of all of our blessings and how the holiday is not about all about us

Note the the burnt turkey, Max, in the background

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration.   I am so thankful for each one of your children in my class this year. What a blessing they are to me!  Thank you, parents, as well, for the support you give to your children and to me. I hope you are able to enjoy this holiday week with family and friends!  

A special thank you for the birthday gift and cupcake treats from the class.  I will enjoy doing a little shopping when we have a free evening at the teacher's conference this week.

Midquarter

Today marks the midpoint of 2nd quarter.  It is a good time to talk with your child about the Friday papers that came home, check grades on Sycamore, and help them set goals for the 2nd half.  A great goal?  READ over the break!  Get those AR points before the last week of December!!!  And your kids are not too old to read with you.  You can model fluency and have great conversations over books.  Traveling?  Listen to audio books in the car.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you have about your child's progress.  

What's happening?

Religion - We have begun our study of the New Testament!  Student's got into our textbooks with a look at the Kairos of God - his just right time for sending us a Savior.  A perfect tie into the coming Advent season.  Check out the Religion tab above for more details.

Math-G math wrapped up factors, GCF, and LCM.  We will supplement the Pearson text to review fraction concepts before jumping into operations with fractions.

T math wrapped up solving basic algebraic equations and will begin the fraction foundations of understanding divisibility, factors, GCF, and LCM

S.S.-

In Social Studies we held the "Great Lakes Debate" looking at the conditions of this ecosystem from the 1960's until present day.  Pollution, invasive species and habitat loss are all examples of Human-Environment Interaction.  

After break students will be involved in research of these environmental issues around North America and present their findings with a Prezi. Students are playing with this online presentation tool to get comfortable with it.

Lit.-  We wrapped up Short Stories and will start a class novel unit next.

 

Art- Our Christmas paintings are off to a great start.  Students are enjoying learning to work with acrylics on a larger canvas.  Mark your calendar to stop by the JH Christmas Art display in the main school building Dec. 11th (after 9:00 a.m.) and 12th