January By: Maggie & Cali

Language Arts- In language arts we got the final print of our books and we started illustrating all of our stories. We have to get completely illustrated in the next 2 weeks!!!!! We all have different stories and ideas some more random then others (mainly Emily). Aside from illustrating our books we are starting a creative writing piece that is our choice. You could write about a unicorn named Steve who eats flowers (Celina thanks to all of her hours watching Barbie…. and yes Celina we know). A dog who lives on the street( Thanks to my good friend Emma).

Math-
Maggie- In math we are starting of Pre Algebra. We are learning how to solve for x, or z, or any variable.We are also coming up on our test I think....... Yay I think.At least I think we're doing Pre Algebra that's what Mr. Fish told us.
Cali- We’re working on ALEKS…like always. But, we created a new conferencing report! This report we’ll use through high school. Also, I’m almost done with ALEKS!!!!

Social Studies-
We finished our Ancient China unit. We learned about the different dynasties, great emperors, and not so great emperors. Then, we made brochures to visit Shang Dynasty. We learned about confucius sayings and then interpreted what we thought it meant. Finally, we took the test and Maggie and I scored great!

Science-
Maggie- I’m learning about different forms of matter and energy. Also, the different kinds including mechanical, sound, light, ect. Two big ones we are learning about are potential and kinetic. Potential energy is when you have the potential to run, jump, or even fall. Kinetic energy is energy of motion. So, that is when you are actually running, jumping or falling.
Cali-I’m making a Photo Story and a Smart Board Notebook with Janie about sound energy. We asked questions about it and then got them answered. Based on the answers we made a Smart Board notebook about how sound energy works. Then, our Photo Story is what introduces them to in depth details about this energy and also about how you hear, why you can’t hear in space, how microphones work, and much more!
Together- We made oobleck to study chemical and physical reactions. Then we wrote about what we recorded.

Spelling-
We just ended our packet about numbers 5-10. (Now I know what nonagenarian means!) Also, we took our test and I got a good grade. In spelling we played Hangman to find out what our new spelling words are. We had words like SHARP, and some more that I can’t think of any more at this instant. We also did a spelling packet. Inside the contents of this packet is a whole page of commonly confused words that we have to write ourselves.