Week 24: Kid's Heart Challenge

 From the class bloggers, Alex and Ryan

We had a short but exciting two-day week this week. After two snow days and 

six total days away from school, many were excited to return. We continued our

 valentines art project, and had fun eating fruit loops in math class. We also

 enjoyed playing out in the snow. We got to do our Kid’s Heart Challenge activity

 in the gym. We enjoyed it and also got to wear comfy clothes. And we got a new

 roommate, Eddy Bonesy the plastic skeleton, for our science unit about the 

body. It was a fun less-than-half week at school!

 

What's new in 6th grade? 

Religion -  Humiliation and Exaltation of Jesus!!  That's looking at Christ's nature as true God and true Man, how he fulfilled the Law perfectly to be our substitute in His death and in glory defeated
 the devil in His resurrection.  (See RELIGION tab above for update on unit 6)
S.S. Our Asian studies have been looking at the IT industry that connects American businesses to India,
Math - G-Math beginning ratios and unit rates.   T-Math is getting into the meat of fraction operations. 
Grocery shopping for the best buy and cooking (doubling recipes) are great hands on ways to
 reinforce these concepts at home.
English - PRONOUNS

SCIENCE - Human body

Lit. - Our nonfiction unit began with essays on African Americans in baseball and Jackie Robinson.  We took time to study a bit of the Civil Rights Movement as we explored informational articles.  I hope 
you take the opportunities to talk about important moments in history and how we are all equal in God's eyes.   After our Civil Rights video we watched Speak Life by 

contemporary Christian artist, Toby Mac.
 
We read a Lincoln biography now (Happy Birthday, Abe!!)  and will be comparing the style of writing to an autobiography of author Beverly Cleary (The Ramona author is 104!!)