Life is Precious

We started our day gathered around the new Life Monument on our front lawn. We prayed together the intentions from last evening's dedication. Becky told us about attending the dedication last night. Thanks Becky. When we returned to the classroom, students wrote a response to "life is precious." Please visit the new monument... to think... to be quiet...to remember... to pray.

Critical Esays on The Old Man and the Sea were returned to students. Most essays were well-written. There is still room for improvement in citing quotes and organizing an essay. We then read aloud Tears of a Tiger and discussed the author's style and our connections to this story.

For Geography 7, students presented their "wanted posters" for poachers in the rainforest. Then we worked on our legendary bugs. Students will create a bug (or animal) and write a story about the life of this bug in the Amazon rainforest. The should include topic appropriate vocabulary and include information about the rainforest: emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor, predator, prey, camouflage... Students will have Thursday to work on this assignment and stories and bug visuals will be presented next Monday.

After the age of hunting and gathering societies began to produce/grow crops and raise livestock. 6th Grade World History students will plan a stone-age farm.
They are to include a pasture for grazing animals, plots for crops, a source of water and stone-built home. Students will also write a narrative about a day in the life of an early farmer.
A couple of students still have math work to make-up. It is important for them to "show" their work on math problems. I regard the process as important (if not more) as the answer.

8th graders used the last period to work on their children's books for the 1st grade class.

Yes, NO school tomorrow... we are off to Rice Lake for a conference. Keep us in your prayers. Thanks... talk to you Thursday.