Idioms and Stuff

I hope that a weekly post from me is helping you to see some of what your child is doing at school.  Last week was busy and this holiday weekend has been just as busy.  I'm trying to get this post done before I get ready to tackle a trip to Cruces, yard work, sewing some gifts, and preparing for a Professional Development Conference tomorrow.

That being said.  The kids will have subs for 3 days this week.  I will be out Tuesday and Wednesday for a Professional Development Conference for MCEC (Military Child Education Coalition).  I will be back on Thursday, but then I will be out on Friday for a Spouse function in support of my husband.  There will be a few of these between now and the end of the school year.  Expect some review lessons on topics that still need some work for mastery.

Language Arts - 6
Idioms
In lieu of Valentines Day last week, we studied idioms with a focus on those that pertain to our hearts.  An idiom is statement that by itself doesn't make a whole lot of sense or is not possible.  However, our language has given meaning to these statements and we use them often.  Sometimes we don't even realize it.  After completing a worksheet to help us understand how idioms work,  we made our own.

We are also learning the parts of speech with a focus on Verbs right now.  There are so many aspects of verbs, but they're doing great.

Math 6 and Math 7

Though we did this on different days, we have been working with conversions in our Customary System.  We spent some time on Capacity this week.  Here is the visual the kids use to help them remember equivalencies.

Praise Band - Practice hard!  Hope to be there Wednesday morning.  This week's line up: 

1.  Until the Whole World Hears - Casting Crowns

2.  Let It Go - Tenth Avenue North

3.  Give Me Your Eyes - Brandon Heath

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! 

I can't believe February is half over.  The kids did a great job on the Paper Bag Book Reports that they completed.  I can never just send projects home after they have spent so much time working on them so here they are displayed in the room.  The important objects inside the bags have gone home, so if you're missing something - check to see if it's still in the bag.

We're having a busy week this week.  In the next couple of days I'll get another post up about our Valentine's lessons and working with idioms and fractions.

Have a great day!

What a Week!

Well, this has been one of those weeks.  It is half over and my lesson plans have changed at least 3 times in 3 different classes.  I've kept them updated on the assignments link on this blog but RenWeb has not been updated yet.  To keep you updated with what we're doing:

In Language Arts 6, we finished presenting our Brown Bag Book Reports.  It took 3 days!  The brief summaries turned into 10 min. retellings of the entire book.  Hmmm... we'll work on summaries.  We are also finishing up our Comma unit.  They will be testing this Friday (2/3) on Capitalization and Commas.  We will review in class tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Thursday, that means Spelling City, 3 times each, and those with sentences need to have those complete.  Test #15 will be Friday with the Language Test. :)  

Math 7:  We have been working hard on fractions but we also took a few days to study circles and circumference.  How did Mathematicians come up with Pi anyways?  The kids did a little work to figure that out.  

We've also started learning the different properties in Mathematics.  We need to be able to identify them by simply looking at equations we are given.  Since it's "heart" month.  We made examples for our classroom bulletin board.  I know they just love properties.

(Hmmm... I think we have a heart that needs to have the calculations checked :) )

Math 6:  Well ....  where do I start.  We will be going back and spending some more time on fractions - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  It's amazing how different these operations are when you apply them to fractions and mixed numbers.  The assignments page has been updated so you can see what we are doing.

Band:  We are just plugging along.  Counting Quiz #3 on Friday!  GET THOSE PRACTICE CARDS IN!!!

Have a great end of your week.