4th grade students on Monday always have a lively discussion about what happened over the weekend......Who played soccer, who stayed at a friend's house, who has a frog at their house that doesn't even move unless you hit it on the head, etc.... The discussion can take quite a bit of time, but it is a good way to get the week started and get everyone caught up. Students don't all come in at the same time, and we discuss until everyone is here. There were also a couple of notable events in history to discuss - the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary was on the 19th, and also it was the anniversary of the Eleanor Roosevelt taking the first plane ride as a first lady with Amelia Earhart - in 1939. That was considered a really risky thing to do in 1939, though Eleanor Roosevelt did have a student pilot's license as well. We then progressed to working on Reading skills including a vocabulary assignment. We talked a lot about books and several were checked out befor students left. The classroom is really getting to be a great little "library" and students are in constantly looking for aand checking out books. I order many books myself as Amazon will verify, but it is fun to get books that the students really want to read.
One of our 8th grade students won the Optimist's Club oratorical contest on Saturday including a savings bond and will advance to the next contest where even bigger prizes await !!
7th Grade Math students are finishing a unit on using percentages and will be preparing for the Algebra Placement test. Still going strong on First In Math - 3rd place statewide and 13th nationally.
6th Grade Math students are finishing a unit on percentages and are starting on Geometry so are becoming familiar with the protractor, measuring angles and terms like congruent and perpendicular
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