10/28

SCIENCE:
Nash opened us up with a prayer. We took a quick costume class pic (props on the super cool costumes) & read a devotional from Louie Giglio about earthquakes and that though the earth my shake & change, our God never does. Today was the last day for our fundraiser! We collected the envelopes and ASB came by with a chest of treasures for those who participated. All orders should be submitted online at this point. The students highlighted the Ring of Fire on their world worksheet and then we labeled the largest earthquake ever recorded in the world (9.5 in Chile) and in America (9.2 in Alaska). We watched a short video on earthquakes and reviewed our reading. After discussing compression, tension, and shear forces, we became engineers! With a partner, the students constructed a building out of a paper plate, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and stale marshmallows (they work way better than fresh ones). Nash tested each structures on the earthquake machine (read stacked books) against compression, tension and shear forces. Every tower that stood the test recieved an extra punch! We practiced earthquake safety and then off we went to the Spirit Rally! The students had a lot of fun freeze dancing and cheering for the raffles :)

GEOGRAPHY:

Nash led us in the flag salute and then chose a clue card that led us to Europe! We spent a bit of time discussing what a missionary is and working through the details of our missionary book homework. I showed the students the example book and walked them through the BookCreator website as it may be new to most. We talked through the types of things that they can include in the book. You'll find this info linked on the homework below. I'm so excited to read their stories. The rest of this class we were working with our team on an exercise (pop quiz!) reviewing continents and oceans. Most of the students aced it!

IEW:

We started our IEW time with our memory verse. They turned in their final drafts for "The Crow and the Peacocks." After a few students read their stories aloud, we collected them and were ready to begin our new story: "The Ants & the Grasshoppers." We worked together to create a KWO and then introduced the idea of a Sentence Opener. This week we will be working with only one sentence opener, the -ly word. Since the students were already familiar using -ly words within their sentences, most of them found this pretty easy. It was fun to see how choosing a different -ly work to start a sentence can drastically affect the meaning of the sentence. We spent the remaining time passing out Boo-Grams (I sent these home for your discerning pleasure - you're welcome) and dreaming up strong verbs & adjectives we can use in our story this week. Lasy, but certainly not least, we got to sing Happy Birthday to Nash and enjoy the delicious cupcakes he brought on our way out.

We missed you Evan & Isaac! Thank you for your help Mrs. Shaw!