9/22/15

We are still on for this Thursday and Friday.
We will be leaving Thursday at around 10 am and will be back by Friday when school lets out.
The cost for the trip will be $20 per person, and we will be canoeing and hiking, as well as participating in some group team building activities.
At this point I have these parents who have spoken to me about being chaperones:

Mr. Grimmett
Mrs. Grimmett
Mr. Root
Mr. Vinciguerra
Mr. Wessel

If I have missed anyone, or if you are listed and cannot make it, Please let me know ASAP.  Thanks

Bible:

Memory Verse - Romans 6:4
Today we began a study on the personal value we place on ourselves, and where that value is to come from.  We had an honest and open discussion of what our society thinks gives us value.  Some of the answers the kids came up with were:

Money, being cool, looking good, being skinny, cars, jobs, and others.

We talked about why each of those is not a good indicator of our value, and we will begin to study the Bible and find out what our purpose is and how that should be our true value.

Math:

We did Math Tests on the Iowa Assessments today, as well as 8 times tables.

Science:

Iowa Assessment testing today

Social Studies:

Simulation- 2 rounds of sailing, colonizing.  We have groups landing, although not where they had planned.  This will cause a difficulty for re-supply ships to find them, which could be difficult if farming is hard the first couple of years.  ALso, we are beginning to have our first real deaths within the simulation. Those who die will be recycled back into the simulation as Indentured Servants.  This will help the students to understand what that meant and what the life of an Indentured Servant was like.

Language Arts:

Handwriting- Iowa assessments

Spelling- No Spelling this week due to the Iowa Assessments and the Camping Trip

Grammar- Nouns and Adjective work within our Advertisements

Writing- We worked on editing our work by using a Thesaurus to look up better and more visual words within our papers.

Music: