Sorry for being so silent for the last week or so. I was too sick to be an effective teacher, yet not really sick enough to justify being at home. I went through the motions, and we did learn some good things. We also learned the teacher is grumpy on cold medication. Anyhow, I feel better now, and I thank the many of you who offered your sympathy.
We corrected our Open Court Tests today -- well, the multiple-choice parts of it -- and the students did better than I expected they would. The vocabulary section is always the worst because the directions are confusing and while the students know the meaning of the word in the problems, many of the answer words are new to them. But most still did OK.
We read about the Mojave Indians and now they survived in the desert by developing agriculture. We continued work on a rhythmic-speech / body-percussion composition in Music. We discussed how it is possible to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators through the magic of finding a common denominator.
Home Studies: (1) Do the two pages introducing the Dreams to Jobs unit in Open Court. We probably will not get around to correcting this until Wednesday, however. (2) Finish the two pages about the Central Valley and Foothill Indians. This we will discuss tomorrow. (3) Begin the new packet in math. This will be due by next Monday.
For tomorrow's field trip, please be sure that your child has a lunch in a paper or plastic bag rather than a lunch box. We want to have to carry back as little as possible from the museum. Also, since we'll be walking, wear layered and light clothing and very comfortable shoes. We can still use a chaperone or two, so contact me if you're interested.
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