Weekly Reflection

Sorry for the late post.  I had a busy Friday night and didn't get a chance to sit down and update you all on what we covered last week.

Last week we learned the following concepts:

LA- we continued to discuss persuasive writing and how to organize a persuasive paragraph.  Over the next couple of weeks Conventions will be our focus.  We started a novel study called "How To Steal A Dog."  The students have been asked to read to chapter 7 for Monday and complete at least 2 comprehension questions for each chapter.

Math- in Math the grade 6's continued to learn about factors, greates common factors,multiples, and lowest common multiples.  The grade 6's compaired long and short division.  On Friday we had a basic introduction to Fractions.  For the next 3-4 weeks our focus in Math will be on Fractions.  Grade 7's have been writing FSA's.

Robotics- we started our Robotics unit.  We will be doing Robotics every morning for 3 weeks.  This week we learned about the difference between an electricity, a scientist and an egineer.  The students learned how to keep an engineering journal.

Gym- we played three ball baseball and basketball.

Science- we started our universe and galaxies unit.  We explored the Big Bang Theory, Edwin Hubble and Red Shift Anlaysis.

Social Studies- we will be learning about Early Man this week.

Thanks for an awesome week!