January 23, 2015

It's Friday, and with so many fun activities taking place in other classes (skating, skiing, and snowboarding field trips), we tried to get plenty accomplished with a little fun thrown in as well today.

1. Opening Exercises - the students completed a daily gram.  Many students struggle with combining short sentences into one complex sentence, and this is something that can easily be practiced at home.  Simply write out two or three simple sentences, such as: The boy is happy.  The boy is excited.  It's his birthday.  Then, ask your child to combine them into one complex sentence.  A correct response for this example would be: The boy is happy and excited because it's his birthday.
2. Spelling Test - the student's marks are in their planner, along with their memory mark.  Next week's memory test is Psalm 98:4-6 for those of you wanting to practice on the weekend
3. WW - we started our group stories.  The kids had fun with this, but needed some fairly tight guidelines in place as to content.  Each child writes one sentence of a story and then passes it to the next student until it gets back to the first writer.
4. DPA - good ol' dungeon ball again!
5. Computers - the children worked on their typing skills for 25 minutes today, using All The Right Type
6. Music - with Mr. Banman
7. Math - we started subtraction today!
8. Science - we enjoyed some of the documentary, 'Planet Earth', and then started on our planet projects
9. Art - we created some 3D hands today, and the kids did a wonderful job on it.