Thursday, March 26, 2009

Week 7 Of The Third Quarter!

Language Arts - In Language Arts anyone who has not passed in their research paper finished it and passed it in. We also started literature groups.

Social Studies - In social studies we answered the questions that we asked for the renaissance paintings. We also finished our blog posts for the medieval journals.

Science - In science we did some more research for our projects, and did a practice with communicating without being able to see what the person is telling you to do.

Math - In math we finished 4.2 and started 4.3. We also had to pass in our word problem Thursday March 26th.

Wednesday was a half day and Friday March 27th is Spring Picture day.

Week 6 Of The Third Quarter!

Language Arts - In language arts we past in our final drafts of our research papers. We also worked on our odes to our research topic, and we finished up on our news letters.

Social Studies - In social studies we made up questions for our renaissance paintings we chose, and worked on answering them. We also made a flickr and yahoo account. Also started working on a sketch up of some thing to do with the medieval times like castles, medieval times, and more.

Science - In science we worked on getting research for our science projects, and started working on them. We also talked individually with Mr. Welch.

Math - In math we started 4.2, and got a new sunshine math and word problem, which the sunshine math is due Tuesday March 31, and the word problem is due Thursday March 26.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Week 5 Of The Third Quarter!

Language Arts- In language arts we started finishing up on our final drafts for our topics, and had students and teachers read it over to edit it.

Math- In math we worked and learned how to multiply, add, subtract, and divide negative and positive numbers and fractions. We also had a small test.

Science- In science we worked on our science fair projects, and started making our projects and getting information on them.

Social Studies- In social studies we posted our blog entry for this week, and we chose a picture and artist from the renaissance times and we are going to find eight historical pieces in the painting.

Week 4 Of The Third Quarter!

Language Arts- In language arts we sorted our information for our reports on our topic and started our rough drafts for the report. We also did a few MEA practices.

Math- In math we started adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers and fractions.

Social Studies- In social studies other students looked at each others middle ages presentation, and we took a poll 'grading' each others presentations. We also worked on posting our medieval blogs.

Science- In science we chose our science fair topics and started getting information on them. We also talked to Mr.Welch about our topics for science fair individually.

Monday was a snow day!! :]

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.