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This week’s class motto’s are:
Enter Silently/ Exit Silently, Silent/Facing
Front/ Close Together, and Transition is Silent and Efficient
Each week we will
discuss a class motto. The first three weeks we covered these three mottos. This
week we solidify these mottos as part of our classroom culture. We will talk
about how it is very important to line up quickly and quietly in the hallway.
Students stand silent, facing front, and are close together. I like to allow my
scholars some more freedom, as they are older, so I often allow them to set
their own lines, or walk ahead, etc. In the early part of the year, though, it
is vital they learn how line up quickly and silently.
This week in Class:
History: This week in history, students will complete
the maps of Europe. They begin a journey into a brief two-week unit on the
Eastern Romance Empire. Students will
study the Byzantine Empire, Justinian and Theodora, and the Hagia Sophia.
Science: Students will
take the information they gathered from Friday's lab and apply it to a new lab
on Tuesday. The goal is that they come to understand the differences between
insulators and conductors. By the end of the week, students should grasp series
circuits and the flow of electrons.
Language Arts: This week, in Language Arts, students will
deepen their understanding of sentence classification and sentence diagramming.
Students will be able to use adverbs and adjectives properly in sentences. In
Literature, the plot thickens, as Curdie discovers the plot that has been
hatched by the Cobs. Will Princess Irene be safe? In Spalding, students will do
more words, with more markings.
Math: Students will go through a week of review in multiplication
and division before starting a unit on order of operations.
