Thursday, February 26, 2009

Week 3 Of The Third Quarter!

Language Arts- This week in language arts we started our report on the topic we chose, which is due Monday March 2nd. We also did a couple worksheets for MEA practices. The MEA's will be starting in a couple of weeks.

Math- In math we are still working on positive and negative numbers. We are going to be starting to graph positive and negative numbers next week. We have a sunshine math due Tuesday March 3rd, and a word problem due Thursday March 6th.

Science- In science we are learning about land forms and have done several work sheets about them. We also labeled a model of a land form on Wednesday February 25th, and watched a video on it.

Social Studies- In social studies we finished up on our medieval slide show. We have started working on posting a "medieval journal" in which we come up with a character and have it live in the middle ages, and post our "daily life" on our blogs.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Week 2 of the third quarter!

Language Arts- In language arts we finished up our 50 note cards of information for our report on the topic we chose, that were due by the end of the week (Thursday February 12).

Social Studies- In social studies we had to finish up on the eight slides for our Medieval times topic. The first four slides were due Friday February 6, and the other four were due on Thursday February 12.

Science- In science we did a worksheet on volcanoes and weather and some of the students talked to Mr. Welch about what we might want to for our science projects that we will have to start in a few weeks.


Math- In math we worked on work sheets about adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers. We also passed in our sunshine math on Tuesday, and we will have to pass in our word problems on Thursday March 5th.

On Thursday we had no classes because we had a read -a-thon in which we read all day for 50 minutes then took a ten minute break and continued doing that the whole day of Thursday February 12, and raised more than 500 dollars! We had no school Friday due to the fact that it is the beginning of our February vacation which was from February 13 to the 23rd and Monday the 23rd was a snow day. :]


Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Week 1 Of The Third Quater!

This is the second week of the third quarter after vacation and here is what we did!

Language Arts- In language arts we worked on researching for our projects in which we are choosing a topic from a list our teacher gave us and getting information about the topic. Once we have gathered all the information we need about our topic we will write a report on our topic.

Math- In math we are working on our new books, negative and positive numbers. We got a sunshine math due Tuesday February 10th and a word problem due Thursday February 26th after February vacation.

Social Studies- In social studies we have been working on our eight slides for our project about the middle ages in which we chose a topic about the middle ages like castles, knights, Kings and Queens and stuff like that. Last Friday February 6th four out of the eight slides for our project were due, and Thursday February 12th the other four slides from our slide show about the middle ages are due.

Science- In science we watched videos about the science fair that is coming up and talked and did work sheets about volcanoes and the earths moving plates.











Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Last Week Of The Second Quater!

Friday 30, 2009 was the last day of the week of the second quarter! This is what we did the last week of the second quarter:

Language Arts- In language arts we worked on finishing up any projects we hadn't finished yet. Such as our memoirs, and other writing pieces. We also started on practice research for our next project, in which we will be choosing a topic about rather animals, the human body, diseases, and other subjects such as crime investigation, DNA, and more!
Social Studies- In Social Studies we worked also on finishing up any last minute projects like our vocabulary booklets, and our business proposal projects. Our business proposal was a website we created. We had to write a proposal about a business we wanted to "create", then post it on our blogs. We also started searching for a topic about the middle ages for the project we will be doing for the third quarter!


Science- In science we started working on researching rocks for the third quarter. We had to start learning how to identify three different kinds of rocks, Metamorphic, Igneous, and Sedimentary rocks.


Math- In math we worked on sunshine math and word problem. We also finished up on our book of math problems about fractions, decimals, ratios, and percents. Also we started talking about our new book were going to be working on, subtracting, and adding positive and negative numbers.