Thursday, April 9, 2009

Week 1 Of The Fourth Quarter!

Language Arts - In language arts we have started reading a story in the junior great books called the white circle. We have also done one discussion as a class for the story.

Math - In math we finished 1.1, 1.2,, and 1.3 of our new math books, filling and wrapping which we are doing geometry. We also have a new sunshine math and word problem. The sunshine math is due Tuesday April 14th, and the word problem is due Thursday April 16th.

Social Studies - In social studies we played a game of jeopardy based on geography. We also got in groups and found pictures and definitions for geography words.

Science - In science we continued to work on science fair. We made sure we had sent Mr. Welch our three main topics for science fair, and made sure we had our board topics. We also watched a video on caves.


Thursday, April 2, 2009

Week 8 Of The Third Quarter!

Language Arts - In language arts we finished our reports and had to pass them in. We also finished our literature groups.

Math - In math we made sure we had finished 4.2, and had a test on what we have learned so far.

Social Studies - In social studies we are still working on sketch-up and are making sure we have all of our work and projects done.

Science - In science we have been working on the writing to go on our poster boards for our science fair projects, like our procedure, hypothesis, question, variables, materials, abstract, and our conclusion.

The third quarter ends Friday, make sure you have all work done!!!

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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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