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The
students have been busy too! After our unit on health, the class put together
enough information for a educational page on the circulatory
system. More recently we have focused our time towards geology. The
students are now aware that the land, air, and water we take for granted
every day comes from volcanoes. Our journey of geology will take us to
minerals, rocks, the rock cycle, and testing minerals/rocks like a real
geologist.
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- Social Science
has continued our investigation of the regions of the United States.
Currently we are focusing on the Middle West and Illinois. Spring will
wrap up this with the Southwest, the West, and a culmination activity.
- Mr.
Mika's Online Classroom has links for multiplication and division
games you can play on your computer! Still need work on your facts before
we move onto measurement, fractions, and decimals? Start now!
- Our reading class
has begun our second novel study. In the genre of fantasy, we are reading
both Castle in the Attic and Battle for the Castle. This unit will bring
us knowledge of past governments, castles, and daily life. Check the
links page for several sites dealing with medieval
times.
- The poetry writing
unit will wrap up shortly in February. We will return to our prose and
search out a nonfiction element of expository writing (possibly combined
with plants). Check out a few of our poems on the student
work page.
- Are you a teacher?
Several of my lesson plans (as soon as I have time to write them down)
will be posted on my new Teacher's Resource
page. If you're studying any of the topics above, do some research and
borrow some ideas here!
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