January 29th,2013

This morning it snowed and snowed.  I am very grateful to all you families who made such an effort to get your children to school.

We learned where Mt. St. Helens is in Washington State.  This created a discussion about the Pacific Ring of Fire and plate tectonics.  Utah does experience earthquakes frequently, although not on a grand scale.  It was surprising information to the students to find out that Utah is expecting a mammoth-sized earthquake in the future.  We did an earthquake drill.

Four children completed and presented their January book reports today.  BOOK REPORTS ARE DUE THIS WEEK.

SAT words are becoming easier and easier to learn!  We created logos for them today.  Also, we practiced subjects, predicates and prepositional phrases in grammar.  We read the first half of part two of Jonathon Livingston Seagull.  Jonathon passes to heaven, where he is amazed to find that his new sleek body also has limitations.  This makes him strive to do the best with what he has.  The description in this book is amazing.

Many children have completed their business letter rough drafts.  If I made corrections on the drafts, the students should finish typing the final draft of the letter, and send a 45 or 46 c stamp to school.  We will be sending them off at the end of this week.  SO, PLEASE CHECK ON THE STATUS OF THE LETTER!

MATH HOMEWORK IS REVIEW 6.  Tomorrow we will be playing decimal games, reviewing concepts, and preparing for the test.  The test will be Thursday.

After lunch we had foreign language, drama, yoga/dance/karate, and music.  Toward the end of the day, we worked on a 7-Habit.  We created a class cleaning goal and broke it down into doable portions.