November 15, 2012

The students have been hard at work in science class lately! We've been learning about the forces that shape Earth's surface, such as plate movement, earthquakes, erosion, and weathering. This has led to lots of hands on activities, from trying to crack rocks through freezing water (weathering) to looking at how glaciers cause erosion. You can see pictures of the students completing experiments above. We are going to look at some fossils today and tomorrow, and their test on this unit will be next week on Tuesday.

We're also wrapping up our units in English on nouns and in social studies on maps. Both of these tests will be the second week after Thanksgiving, the week of December 3rd. We begin many of our English units by writing poems, and the students have been having fun imagining the creative things they would find in a messy locker!

Students received their Bibles on Tuesday during the Bible ceremony. These Bibles are their own to keep, but we will be using them in religion class in school starting after Thanksgiving. They will also need to use them in middle school. I encourage the students to take their Bibles home to read, but they will need to remember to bring them back to school. We complete one of my favorite projects of the year, making a Jesse Tree, during Advent, and the students will need to use their Bibles to complete this. They will receive more details about this project after the break, but each student's assignment will be due on a different day, so please watch their assignment notebooks for this.

I hope everyone has a safe, happy, and healthy Thanksgiving break!