Week of January 22

Blog: On the blog, we have been doing-well, the blog!

Language Arts: In language arts, we are reading books about people in the Civil War.  Then we make little "trading cards" in our reading notebook.  The girls are reading about women in the Civil War and the boys are reading about boys (not grown men but 12 year old boys) in the Civil War.  It is fun.

Math: In math we did palindromes.  I still have not found out how many steps it takes for 89 and 98 to become a palindrome.  We also did work on multiplying for the green group and coordinate graphs for the purple group.  Some people in the green group are working in the purple book and some of the purple group are working in the middle school book.  

Writing: In writing we have been working on our Civil War journal.  It is a journal from a Civil War person's perspective.  It is fun.  

Science: This week in science we finished our bread mold experiment.  We found that bagged bread with soda on it grew mold the fastest and homemade bread didn't grow much mold, but it did get hard.  But now we started a new mold experiment with fast food from places like McDonald's, Wendy's, Dairy Queen and Subway.  

Social Studies: In social studies we read Civil War letters by someone name J.J. White.  He was a real person who guarded the railroad.  He was in the Union.  He had a brother in the war.  When we read the last note we learned that J.J. White's brother dies in the hospital.  That's what we did in social studies.  

Library: It was the same old, same old.  We read books.  We checked out books.  

Performing Arts: So we have a new guy named Mr. Stockstad.  He is teaching us the recorder.  We are also learning about brass instruments.  Also we are learning about a couple of silver and wood instruments.  But, he is not our permanent teacher.  

Brownie Points: This week we didn't get a brownie party, but we still got brownies because of a birthday!  We earned 3 brownie points and we just need 5 more to get a brownie party.  Hopefully those 5 get earned next week and if we don't, well, good luck Creators.