Wrap up for Christmas Break

Today we'll wrap up for our Christmas Break.

History
Go through the Unit Review and when you are ready take the Unit Assessment. The review will cover everything from Vikings to European explorers.

English
Yesterday we worked through Direct Objects. Today we'l finish by covering Indirect Objects.

Spanish
et's wrap up our week with 2 Spanish Lessons.

Today is cleanup day

Today we'll finish the assignments we didn't get done yesterday. Also we need to do at least 3 Spanish lessons. Still on track for an early week if we can get this done!

Starting a New Week

Today we'll start out a little slow. We're going to try to have a short week but we'll need to get some assessments and Units out of the way first.

Math
Today we'l be talking about decimals and decimal place values. This is a continuation of exponents. If you can count to 10 the rest of this unit should be cake!

Language/English
We're going to talk about Direct Objects as we wind down this part of the unit. Work through the assignment in the Student Guide. I'll work through some of the problems with you

History
From England to America. Work through the next lesson. Make sure you finish the worksheet you've been updating throughout this lesson.

For the rest of the week we need to wrap up the History and Math Units and do a Science Lab. If we can do this and knock out some Spanish assignments we'll call it a week!

New Starts Today

Math
Today we will be starting a new Unit. Our first lesson is exponents and powers of ten. START OUT ONLINE and go through the review and demonstrations of exponents. Then go to your student guide and work through the problems in your book.

History
Today we will talk about French Explorers in America.

Literature
Today we will take the Unit Assessment for "The Dark is Rising"

Finally, if you haven't finished your homework from last week and did not bring your essay, you'll work on that for the rest of the day.

Back to Work

Ok, I've been slacking on keeping the blog updated. Even though I'm home during the day now, we'll still use the blog to stay on the same page.

Composition
We're going to start writing an essay and using the parts of the essay preparation process we've learned so far.

History
Continuing the Spanish Conquest. Today we will be talking about Cortes. Review the Student Guide and online material. Finish the European Explorers worksheet and chart Cortes' path. KEEP THIS WORKSHEET IN YOUR JOURNAL, YOU'LL NEED IT LATER.

Literature
We need to wrap up The Dark Is Rising today and tomorrow. Be sure to complete the online reviews for each section and be ready for the Unit Assessment on Wednesday.

A New Week

Math
Today we will finish part two of Problem Solving using Mathematical Expressions.

History
Today we'll be talking about Columbus as an American explorer. Be sure to work on your worksheet and fill this in as you read through the information on line and in your books.

Science
Today we will be looking at the differences between cells. Be sure to look at the extra links in the online resources because some of the answers to your worksheet can be found there. Work on your worksheet as you go through the online class.

Week Wrapup

History
Today we'l continue talking about European explorers in America. You are also going to be grading Christopher Columbus!

Math
We're going to start a part unit on mathematical expressions

Literature
Using today's poem we'll talk about alliteration. Read through the student information and we'll discuss later today.

Stuff

Math
We'll be doing Lesson 7 today.

History - Starting our next unit on other explorers in America and European explorers. This lesson starts with the vikings.

Spanish - One lesson today

Literature and your choice

Today I want you to go to the Lesson List in K12, find the Literature class and then go to Literature Unit 4 - Poetry. You'll be learning about poems and their structure.

Do the online part first and then the offline reading. The Student Guide is on the printer.

Your Choice...

Find one or two lessons you want to do, print the student guide. (NOT SPANISH TODAY).

We will go over all of your work when I get home.

Today will be an early day.

Starting New Units

Science (Do this first)
We're going to start a new Unit in Science. Start out with Lesson 1. Read through all of the information AND TAKE NOTES. Also, check out the Unit Resources at the bottom of the first slide. There's some very good information here and some answers to the review questions on your handout.

Spanish (Do this second)
Let's work through 3 Spanish lessons today. We're almost to the point where we'l have "Spanish Days" at home!

Vocabulary and Literature (Do this last - like we talked about this is something I hope to eventually have you do with your mom at home)

Start the first two lessons in "The Dark Is Rising". Start by reading the Student Guide on the printer and then go online. We'll work on the vocabulary section tomorrow or at home with your mom.

Knocking out more Units

American History
Today we will be finishing our Unit on Native American Tribes. Complete the Unit Review and when you are ready complete the Unit Assessment. Take the assessment only once.

Science
Complete the Unit Review. There is no Unit Assessment for this, BUT I will be quizzing you on the subjects you covered in the review. Pay close attention to Characteristics of Life.

Math
Today we will complete two lessons in Solving Equations with Inequalities. Remember Inverse Operations for this assignment.

Yesterday & Today

Yesterday we did quite a bit! We knocked out three Science lessons and two science labs. We looked at water and algae under a microscope and found some single celled organisms.

Today we will be finishing the Unit on the Earliest Americans and getting ready for the Unit Assessment.

We will also be working on Math today and inequalities.

Oh, and we are going to talk about some changes to vocabulary and Literature that involves a trip to the library!

Another Unit Wrapup!

Today we will be wrapping up Unit 2 in Literature!

Literature
Think back on some of the bible stories we've read during this unit and some of the character traits of the characters. Take the Unit Assessment only once when you are ready.

American History - Eastern Woodlands Indians
We're almost done with this unit. Today we will be reading about the Eastern Woodland Indians. Remember to fill out the grid when you finish this lesson.

Also don't forget the Document Analysis! This is a separate worksheet. We've done one of these before. Look at the pictures on pages 53 & 54 of History of US and tell what information you can infer about the Eastern Woodland Indians based on the pictures.

Science
Start working on the next Lesson - Multicellular Organisms. There is a worksheet to fill out. If you do this while you are working through your online lesson it will help. DO NOT DO THE ASSESSMENT until we have talked about the lesson and go over the asnwers to your worksheet.

Spanish
Work on the next 2 Spanish lessons

That's it!

Start of our New week and SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS!

Reminders:

• Check your calendar and set your alarms for classes and activities this week
• Don't forget to attend the Pledge of Allegiance today at 11.

Language

• This is an important lesson because you will be using these hints when you write your essays later.
• Go through the online class and compare the two essays I've printed for you. Then answer the questions online.
  

Literature

• Another story from the bible and we'll be comparing the characters in the three bible stories we've read. We'll be talking about the lessons they teach (pride, loyalty, etc).
• You'll have questions to answer at the end of the lesson.
  
• I also want you to answer the 5 questions at the bottom of the student guide. You can write your answers in your notebook or be prepared to talk about them with me IN DETAIL.

History - The Mound Builders

• Work through Lesson 10 and BE SURE TO FINISH THE MOUND BUILDER LINE ON YOUR WORKSHEET OF NATIVE AMERICANS. If this is not done it will be homework.
• I want you to do the activity for this lesson and write a newspaper story about the disappearance of the mound builders. Read through the Activity instructions.

Science

• Today's lesson is about Single Celled Organisms.
• As you work through the lesson look for the answers to the Review questions on your print out.
  
• Complete ALL ONLINE ACTIVITIES.
• When I get home we will do two activities. The first will be an experiment with Yeast and the second we will be looking at single celled organisms under a microscope!

Math, History and Literature

Math
Today we will be reviewing mathematical expressions. We'll finish two lessons. The first one is more of a review of Unit 1, but has stuff you'll need for Unit 2

History
Today we'll be finishing our Unit on the Plains Indians. Remember to work on your Grid of Native American Groups.

Literature
We're going to keep reviewing stories from the bible. This Lesson like the last Literature lesson also takes place in Babylon.

Planetarium Field Trip Today!

Today is science day beginning with a trip to the Clark Planetarium!

After we get back we'll start in on our Life Science Unit together.

Hoy Es El Día Español

Today is Spanish Day!

Your assignment today is to catch up on Spanish. You have a choice of working through 4 Spanish Lessons and 1 Literature, OR 5 Spanish Lessons.

If you choose to do the 4 Spanish and 1 Literature lesson, the Literature handout is on your desk. This Unit will be about stories from the Bible, but will also talk about the politics, government, geography and people of the Middle East.

New Units Starting Today

Math
Today we will be taking the Unit Assessment. This will be done offline. When you are finished I will enter the results for your assessment. Remember to do your work on a separate sheet of paper and put your answers on the Student Guide.

Unit 2 - Lesson 1 - Writing Mathematical Expressions
This should be a pretty good lesson for you. We'll be talking about creating a mathematical expression from a story problem.

American History
Lesson 8 - Touring the Continent
For this lesson you will be taking a tour of North America. We'll be locating and following the path of some of the groups of people we've talked about so far (The Inuits, Anasazi, Northwest Indians). You will be using both your History of US book and the Understanding Geography book so that you can follow their journey across North America.

Life Science LAB DAY
We've talked about diffferent classifications of live. Today you'll be creating your own Taxonomic Chart!

Remember the Classifications of Life:

Organization Example
Domain = Eukarya
Kingdom = Animalia
Phylum = Anthropoda
Class = Arachnida (This would be the classification for a spider!!)

ALL OF YOUR ASSESSMENTS WILL BE DONE ON PAPER AND I WILL BE ENTERING THEM WHEN YOU ARE DONE!

Have fun finishing your units and with your science lab!

Today is wrap up Friday

English - Unit Review and Assessment

• Complete the unit review sentences by identifying the different parts of speech. Have this checked and if you didn't have any problems you can take the Unit Asessment.

Life Science - Lesson 6

• Work through Lesson 6 like we discussed last night. Pay close attention to the 3 different domains of organisms

History

• Work through the Student guide like we talked about. Remember that you'll need your grid that you started when we talked about the Inuits. We'll be using this grid through the rest of this Unit.

That's It!!

Literature and Language Wrap-up

Literature (about 1 hour)

• Complete the essay for Unit 1. This will help you review your readings and prepare you for the Unit Assessment.
• When you have finished your essay take the Unit Assessment. The final part of the assessment is mine to finish after we talk and I review your essay. We'll talk about it when get home.

Language & Grammar (about 2 hours)

• Work on Lesson 4. This lesson is on the eight parts of speech--noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Your assignment in your English book will be to label the parts of speech in sentences.
• Work through the student guide and do all of the problems on pages 145 & 146.
• Message me when you are done and we can correct this on the phone.
• After we correct this youc an take the assessment.

Science (about 1 hour)

• Start Lesson 5-Classification of Living Things. This is a great lesson and we'll use this information in the coming 2 lessons.
• HINT: Work on your Student worksheet while you go through the online stuff because most of the answers are in the on-line presentation.

Spanish (Less than an hour)

• Simple task here. Now that you have a headset with a microphone please finish your recording assignment for Spanish from yesterday's work.

That's it, the rest of the time is yours.

Week 3

This week we're going to try to mix up our classes and see if we can work ahead. Whatever you can't complete at school will be homework.

History

• Finish the assignment from last week and finish lesson 2 on Cliff Dwellers and the differences and similarities between these Native American people and the Inuits.
• Take the assessment
  

Math
Lessons 8 & 9 - Story Problems and Problem Solving

• These two lessons go together and have to do with story problems. Follow the instructions on the student guide and learn about the five problem solving steps.
• Then work through the text book assignments.
  
• Text me if you have questions and to check your assignments.
• Your assessment will be based taken from your correct answers in each of your text book assignments. So if you are having problems we'll need to spend some time working together.

Literature

• Today we will be completing Unit 1 in Literature. You should have re-read and re-listened to the three poems we've covered. If you haven't you need to do this first. See the blog entry below from Friday for more information
• Work through Lesson 10 - Recitation and Lesson 11 - Reflection. In lesson 10 you will be reviewing the poems for understanding. You'll be reciting these and talking about the different emotions you can show in how you read. Lesson 11 is a review for the Unit assessment.
  
• When you are done and you feel like you understand the poems and stories we've read go ahead and take the unit assessment.

If you get done early enough you should do the next Spanish lesson. You might need a microphone for this and you can use my headset and microphone in my computer bag.

Friday Cleanup Day

Today we will be doing a little bit of everything. Today will finish all of the assignments we were supposed to do this week. We'll probably have cleanup Friday every Friday and finish any work that we didn't get to during the week or to work ahead in our schedule.

Math

• First thing is a test. Do the Self Test A on pg 15 of your math book. Kari will check your answers and then mark the Lesson complete.
  

Lesson 7 - Order of Operations

• This lesson should be a review from last year. Remember that order of operations is just that, the order in which you do the problem. Hint:

1. Do all multiplication FIRST from LEFT to RIGHT, then
   
2. Do all addition and subtraction in order from left to right.

Read your printed student guide. REMEMBER TO CHECK OFF EACH STEP TO STAY ORGANIZED. I have crossed out part of this that you do not need to do. Do all of the problems it tells you to do in your book because your assessment answers will come from your CORRECT answers.

Language Skills

Lesson 3 - Conjunctions and Interjections

• This lesson should be pretty easy to get through. Read about Conjunctions and Interjections in your english book L139-L142.
  
• Do the Conjunctions and Interjections worksheet and have this checked and then you can do your assessment.

Literature
This is review with a twist!

• Go through Lesson 10 and re-read re-listen to these poems.
• This is the TWIST. I want you to pick the poem you like best. Then, I want you to search/Google other poems written by this same author.
• Read it, print it, practice it and after work you'll recite it the way you think it should be recited. Remember to use the tricks you've learned like pauses and rhythm to convey the emotions you want.

American History
This is the last assignment for the day.

• Go through Lesson 5 - Inuit and Igloos.
• YOUR CHOICE ACTIVITY - you can either do the activity outlined in the student guide, OR you can write a short story where you are an Inuit hunter and tell about your life, OR you can role play with me and I'll interview you for a position as an Inuit Professor at College Chris.
  
• Do your assessment.

DONE for the week!!!

Today is Science and History Day

Life Science

We're going to be doing a new Science Unit today. Today's assignments is online, offline and you will have a special project as we talk about Living Organisms.

Lesson 4 - Characteristics of Life

• We'll start online and review the 7 characteristics of life. When you get to the Review section you can move to the handout and our special project.
• For the review you will be creating a poster board and divide it into sections that represent all seven characteristics of life.
• Follow the instructions for labeling living organisms on the sheet. You dont have to draw pictures you can just write names of living things neatly, or you can clip pictures from the newspaper to add t the board.
• Answer the questions or page 11 and 13 on the Characteristics of life and we'll check these.

After we have reviewed your assignment you'll be able to do the assessment for Lesson 4.

History

If you haven't gone through the optional lesson 3 on latitude and longitude do this now.

Lesson 4 - North American Beginnings

• This lesson is mostly online. When you have finished the onlie section, go to the Discussion questions. Answer these as best you can and talk to me or Kari when you finish. When this is complete you can take the assessment and be done for the day.

A lIttle Bit of Everything Today

Today we are going to tackle 3 different subjects.

Math
We're going to work through Distributive Properties. We talked about the distributive property last night.

• Follow the instructions on the student guide
• Do the problems in your book on a separate sheet of paper
• Call me and we'l check your work.
• After we check your work you can do your assessment.

Literature
Today we will be reading and discussing a short story and a poem.

• Follow the student guide and answer the questions for each.
• For the poem you will also listen to the poem being read. The poem is on your iPod.
• When I get home and we discuss I'll mark the units complete

American History
This is an optional exercise but I want you to work through it. This will help in your Life Science class too!

• This unit is online, just go through the sections in order.
• CHECK OUT THE ADDITIONAL LINKS ABOUT LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE, THEY'RE COOL.

Today Is Language and Vocabulary Day

Today we'll start the Language and Vocabulary section of class.

Lesson 1 - Overview
Remember to go to the week view on OLS and go back and review Lesson 1. This is just an overview of the class. I accidentally marked it complete and now it won't show on your daily schedule.

Lesson 2 - Prepositions
Read about prepositions and the differences between prepositions and adverbs in your student guide.

• Do the Check Your Understand Exercise on page L133-134 ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER
  
• Do the 2 check your Understand Exercises on pages L133-134.
• MESSAGE ME AND WE CAN CHECK YOUR ANSWERS TO ALL THREE BEFORE YOU DO THE ASSESSMENT.

NOW FOR VOCABULARY.
Lesson 1 - Motion

• Review the vocabulary words, definitions, pronunciations and usage
• Do Exercise 1A, 1B and 1C

We'll check your work and do the assessment WHEN I GET HOME FROM WORK.

Today is Life Science Day

Today we will begin our Life Science class. All lessons for today will be online.

Lesson 1
Lesson 1 will help you create your Science Notebook. I've left a notebook for you that will be your Science Notebook. This will be handy for taking notes for classes, writing down interesting facts and information for your tests. Later, this will be where we will write information for our experiments and the results of our experiments.

For lesson 1 go trough the lesson online and then Answer the questions on the worksheet.

Lesson 2
Is all about living organisms. After you go through the online go to your worksheet and search for items found in Madagascar. You can Google the organisms. You can also use the the National Geographic website.

Most of Lesson 2 is finding information about the organisms in Madagascar that are listed on the worksheet. Cool stuff!

Lesson 3
This lesson is all about you! We're going to take measurements of your pulse, breathing and then see how this changes when your body exerts energy.

Let's also compare my results with yours! You can even compare your results with mom!

That's it for Science Thursday!!!

No Homework today

We didn't get to go to the zoo today. We talked about organizational skills. Chris can set his alarm on his phone when he has activities to attend. Chris also needs to check his email and calendar daily so we don't miss anything.

Today we finished up math homework from last night and took Unit 4 assessment. We also made it through Spanish class Day 1!

Tomorrow is Life Science Day!

Math Day Tuesday

Today is Math Day, but first....

we need to finish some US History from yesterday.

1. Finish Questions 13 and 15-18. They are about finding information in the History of US book.
2. Finish the worksheet "A History of US". The answers can be found in Chapter 1, Pages 9-11

Now for Math

Start Out OFF LINE

1. Lesson 1 Worksheet (be sure to read the keywords)
2. Work problems 19-34
   
3. Go Online and take assessment

1. Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 (follow instructions on worksheet.

Let's work through some of the problems in lesson 2 together...

Our First Day!!!

Today was our first day of "Home School"!

We worked through the classes, took some tests and learned about Google Gmail and calendar.

Chris completed 3 tests today in math and US History. Tomorrow we will be trying a different approach and pick one subject to concentrate on per day. Also Chris wants to have assignments assigned to him rather than pulling them out of the student book. So tomorrow is Math Day!