Ah, the first day back from Winter Break. It's one of the hardest days of the year. We're not used to getting up so early after being spoiled for three weeks. And for those of us who recently arrived from another time zone, it seems doubly tough. Still we had a good time today, and we're slowly easing in to the normal workload.
January is named for the Roman god who looked backward to the old year and forward to the new one. We did both of those things today. We finished off the final section of the Open Court test for unit two. We started thinking about the new unit, Mystery to Medicine. Students made some advertisements for fictional drugs. You can see a couple of the best ones above. In History we also looked back by reading one of the last chapter in Island of the Blue Dolphins - the saddest one, the one where Rontu dies - and looked forward to the new unit on the American conquest and settlement of California. We again looked backward in Math with some quick division review, and looked forward to the first lesson in chapter 14.
We did some PE today, but the unusual heat made everybody pretty lethargic. We also started on the rough draft of a narrative about "My Fantastic Winter Break." Students have a fiction or non-fiction option here depending on whether or not they did much over the holiday. We'll be revising these over the week and doing final drafts later.
Homework: We're easing back into school. Just work on "Place the First Digit," Math, pages 260-261. Also, finish any unfinished work. For students who did not turn in their I-Search paper today, remember it is due Wednesday at the latest.
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