Eighty-Third Day of School

We have begun the second part of our Early World Civilizations unit in content knowledge. We are learning about and comparing Egyptian civilation to the Babylonians. We have learned that both civilations relied heavily and were built near great rivers. They each had writing systems for keeping historical records. In the course of our discussion we learned that there are 7 continents and 4 (or 5) oceans.

There is Math homework tonight. Two math reports will be scored and reported to Schoology soon.

Tomorrow (time and circumstance permitting) we will show what we know about opinion/arguement/persuasive writing as we take our writing pretest.

In Science we began a unit on earth science where we examine Earth's relationship to the sun. We learned the term 'perihelion'. And how important the tile of the Earth's axis is in determining our weather patterns.

We have begun our middle-of-the-year Reading battery assessment for mid-year reporting.

Thirty-Seventh Day of School

Today we took our end of unit assessment in Writing. 

Unsatisfactory Notices were sent home. The district requires that a notice be sent out when a student may receive a score of 1 or 2 on the following progress report. At this time, it is not necessary for a student to know they are getting an unsatisfactory notice. Parents may send a note through Schoology if they want more information or if they would like their conference to be earlier rather than during Progress Report time.

Also today, students were tasked with finding out what special name the number 144 has.