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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 four 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 the lab and apply it to a new
lab. The goal is that they come to understand the differences between
insulators and conductors. By the end of the week, students should grasp
the concept of 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 final week of review in multiplication and division before starting a unit on order of
operations.