Our week in learning 9/25

The eighth week of school is upon us! It's hard to believe the quarter is coming to an end, and soon students will begin preparing to switch classes after conferences. There is no school on Friday this week, and the Mother-Son event takes place at Archway Arete this upcoming Saturday. Science fair projects are due next week! On Friday, October 6, students will turn in their completed science fair packet, essay, and tri-fold board. This week, we will finish The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and next week we will hold an end-of-book party to celebrate the end of the quarter and the end of our last Narnia book!

This week in Language Arts, students will begin the writing process with pre-writing tools such as graphic organizers and outlines. They will be composing a descriptive essay about an imaginary field trip their class took. Please look for rough drafts coming home to help your students with spelling and grammar checks!

This week in literature, students will finish The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and update their notebooks in preparation for the last literature test of the quarter. They will be expected to place the events of the children’s adventures in the order that they occurred.

Finally, students will be preparing for their Latin and Greek Roots (1-25) test on Thursday. 

In science, we will begin to wrap up their chemistry unit, delving into the structure of the Periodic Table and how atomic properties give the Table its order. They will learn how atomic weights were discovered and that the order of the Periodic Table is extraordinarily regular. There will be an open-note chemistry quiz on Friday, October 6.

This week in History, students will continue learning about the Renaissance, focusing discussion with the Castiglione and Machiavelli readings, and the Renaissance in northern Europe. Study guides are going home today and will be due on Monday, 10/2. We will have a catch up day on Thursday for students to finish any incomplete notes, work on their study guides, and study for their test. The Renaissance test will be on Tuesday, 10/3. There will be a states location quiz covering the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions this Wednesday 9/27. We will be learning about the Midwest region of the United States this week.

This week in Math, students will continue with our fractions unit. We will work on understanding the relationship between fractions and division, addition of fractions, and subtraction of fractions. Math groups will continue this Wednesday, 8:00-8:45.