I hope everyone had a great winter break! It was wonderful to spend some time with friends and family and just to relax!
It is going to be a very busy week!
My homeroom is going to the planetarium tomorrow. We will be out of the building from 10:10 to about 11:40 or so tomorrow. On Friday my language arts class will be going to the South Bend Regional Art Museum. See note for more details. Friday's field trip will need a few chaperones. :)
Language Arts~
Today we started our new novel study. We will be spending the next few weeks reading My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. It is the story of a young boy who runs away to live in the mountains. Students will have a vocabulary quiz over 10 self-chosen words on Wednesday, January 11th. They also have a packet to work on that covers the author's preface and chapters 1 and 2. The packet is due tomorrow. We will have a spelling test on Friday as well as a grammar test on linking verbs.
HW: Packet, study for spelling test and for vocab quiz.
Math~
We pretested unit 7 skills today. Our focus will be on exponents, scientific notation, and positive and negative numbers.
HW: None
Science (Woods)~
We started a new chapter today. We are learning about weather and how the water cycle can affect the weather. Today we learned about the atmosphere and the 4 ways it helps support life. We also learned about how the 4 properties of air can help us predict the weather.
HW: None.
