Tests tomorrow

Hello,

We have our continent test tomorrow.  Students are required to place the seven continents and four oceans on an unlabeled map of the world.  I think they are ready.  Ask them to sing the continent song to you, if you'd like a headache.

My math class also has a test tomorrow.  It will be very similar to last week's, just without the careless mistakes and skipped problems.  GCF, LCM, multiple digit multiplication, divisibility, and placing numbers on a number line are the major topics.

We started our geography picture dictionaries.  Today's terms to know were geyser, iceberg, badlands, cave, tunnel, desert, butte, mesa, and plateau.  Bonus for your child if they can tell you what an alluvial fan is.  (Let me know.)

We had a rough time doing an activity where everyone writes a sentence and then you pass the papers.  Each person adds on to the story that they receive.  Everytime they write a sentence, they pass it on and receive a new one.  We had trouble solving problems too quickly.  (One story had a mysterious disappearance of a baseball player, and someone unfortunately wrote, "They found him."  Mystery over.)  Other people "hijacked" stories.  Someone was having something explode in every story they got ahold of.  Not good.  We talked about it.  We'll try again in a month or so.

Lots of sickness going around.  I was very pleased to have our entire class present and working hard for the whole day.  Let's keep those hands washed!

Have a good night.

Mr. Shea