Band

Today in band we were learning a new song to play on our interments.

In French we are doing the tree little pigs. I'm le grant mechant loup (the big bad wolf)

Enrichment

In enrichment we do all sorts of things in this class my group is video production my movie is called the dam busters

ELA

Yesterday, Mr.R gave us an assignment in ELA to do a power point on the book Hatchet and we have to right down from A to Z a word in the book

ALEC

PE

at Elkhorn yesterday we won all 3 sets

Hatchet

Today we finished reading the hatchet book. Brian Robeson gets rescued buy a pilot who didn't mean to find him. Brian accidentally left on an emergency transmitter that he thought didn't work and the pilot found him.

Social Studies

We are doing a peace poster in Social Studies

Nouns

Today in grammar we learned about singular and plural nouns. Some of the rules are:
Most nouns just need a "s" to become a plural. ex: frog- frogs, hand- hands
Words that end in "o" need either an "s" or "es" ex: piano- pianos, toe- toes

Some of us finished our word search, we found synonyms for our words and put them in a word search then one of the teachers had to solve them.

Volley Ball

This Thursday the boys have there sec-kind Volley Ball tournament in elk horn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today in Social Studies we drew pictures about peace and what peace looks like.

Social Studies

Today in social studies we ate working on our peace posters.You can put any thing that involves peace,no words and you can't copy others.

Math

Today in math we learned how to multiply things like 4oX500 or 0.05X200. To do a Question like 40X500 you first multiply 4X5 then you move the imaginary decimal to the right how ever many zeros there are in the question. The answer should be 20 000.

Social Studies

Today in Social we started on our peace poster! The peace poster is about you drawing stuff that links to peace! I love drawing!

E.L.A

Today in E.L.A we read Hatchet we are on are last two chapters it is really interesting. Right now Brian has not been found I wonder if he gets found in the last chapter.

Social Studies

In social studies we are starting our peace poster! the poster is about peace, we are suppose to create a poster about peace!

science

We are almost finished are unit in science. We are learning about the Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Cycle and the the Carbon Cycle and the water Cycle. We are having a test this week or next week.

On Thursday I got a invitation to go to the life Skills sweet and having a pizza party.

math

Today in math we did multiplying power of 10.
eg 345x 10=34 500

Math

Today we learned about Multiplying Powers Of 10.
It is when you multiply numbers by 10 100 1000 10 000 and numbers.

Ex: 250 X 10
2.5 X100.

We are having anothor volleybal tournanment in elkorn on Thursday

Nouns

A noun is a person place or thing. anything you can see, touch,
or feel is a noun.

Spelling

Today we had a review spelling test. There were 100 words but we only did 25. Some of the words were unusual, entertainment and acquaintance

math

In math right now we are learning about how to estimate and than add the same question.

Enrichment

In Enrichment i am making my initials out of wood!!

I used a jigsaw to cut my peices. But the blade kept snapping!!

Mr.Schwindt is the wood working teacher!

Wood working is alot of fun, you should do it next time!

Grammar Rock Nouns

Today In Grammer We learned the differents between a Proper Noun and a Common noun.

E.G. Common Nouns Proper Nouns

Teacher Mr.Routledge

School Virden Junior High

A Store Co-op

In Social Studies we finished our chilldrens rights and we had to mark people and you had groups of 2.

Social

Today in Social Studies,
we finished presenting our
Children Rights.

Sience

Today we got our sience tests back most of us got good marks

In Math today we did estimating.
45 946 = 50 000
+23 146 = +20 000
69 092 70 000

Proper Nouns and Common Nouns

Today In ELA we learned about proper nouns and common nouns. A common noun is a word that names a general things and do not start with a capital letter. Unless it is at the beginning of a sentence. A  proper noun is a name giving to a specific person place or thing. Proper nouns always start with a capital letter.

Proper Noun: Mr.Routledge
Common Noun: desk pencil paperclip.

In Drama we were doing 4 truth and 1 lie.

Nouns

Today in grammar, we learned about nouns. Nouns are people, places, things or qualities. some examples of nouns are school, Virden, and Lou Frank.

Nouns

Today in grammar we learned about nouns. Nouns are a person, place, thing, or quality. An example of a noun is a school.

Spelling

Today in e.l.a we did spelling. it is a review unit of the units one to five. We didn't have a pretest because its 100 words. On the real test Mr.R wiil pick 25 out of the 100 and we wright those words. Then we do work out of our spelling textbook.

Today we had a quire come to our school. They were really good at singing and dancing. They sang a whole bunch of songs too.

Alec

Science

On Tuesday we have our sec kind science test!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Math

Today in math we started a new unit. We were estimating adding and subtracting.
An example is 2345 - 2000
+ 6578 - +7000
____ ____
9000

social studies

We are doing projects in social studies about children's rights. One right is the right to free education.

On Wednesday we had a volleyball tournament the girls went to elk horn and the guys went to reston. our team almost won one game.

scientific notation

scientific notation is where you take a number, 193833 and you move an imaginary decimal over so the number is in between 1 and 10. 1.93833 and then multiply it by how many times the decimal moved over to the power of 10. 1.93833 x 10 to the power of 5.

In Drama we played 4 truths and one lie.Some of us stumped the whole class on what are lie was!!!

In the math test yesterday we had to know our factors for one part of the test example: 40-(1,2,4,5,8,10,20,40)

Art

In art class we are learning how to explore with colors and we are making our names in graffiti.

Its pretty cool.

Alec

Math

Today in math we had a test. this test was sort of hard but simple enough.

In Drama we played for 4 thruths 1 lie and what you had to do was tell 4 things about yourself that was true and 1 thing about you that is a lie and it was really fun.

Band

Today we had a rythem test in band. Mrs.Y walked around the room behind us while we played. We looked off the smartboard at the rythems. then she marked us.

Band

Today in band we had a test about rhythms. We had to have a puck and drum sticks and do the rhythms!

Math Test

Today, we had our math test. I covered all of Unit 1. Some of the things that were included were exponents, factors, divisibility and place value. Factors are two number, when multiplied together, equal a number. Ex: The factors of 25 are 1, 5, 25. ( 1x25 and 5x5) The number 5 does not need to be listed twice.

Drama

Today in Drama WE Played the game
" 4Truths And 1Lie" . You play the game like this: You tell 4 Truths about yourself and 1Lie about yourself. After WE went through all of ours, WE picked parteners. Lets see if we can do it with parteners.

Novel

Today in novel we answered questions on either chapter 11 or 12. I learned that pessimism means being negative.

We had a math test today on unit 1.

Volley Ball !!!!!!

On Wednesday we went to Reston and had our first volley ball tournament

Reston v-ball

WE WENT TO RESTON ON WED AND WE TANKED

Today we had a math test. Its was
everything we learned in Unit 1 like
scientific notation, rounding, factors,
exponents, standard, word, and expanded form,etc.

six levels of life

We had a science test where we had to list the six levels of life. They are individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, Biosphere.

Grammar

Today we had a grammar test that involved Synonyms, Antonyms, Prefixes, Suffixes, Compound Words and Contractions. Synonyms mean the same and Antonyms are opposites. An example of a contraction is Doesn't which is the words Does Not.

Art

Today in art some students finished their graffiti and cut it out and it looked cool.

Idioms

Today in grammar, we learned about idioms. Idioms are short phrase that together, are a funny way to say something. An example would be " bite off more than you can chew." That means that you have planned more things to do than you can manage.

A couple of days ago we ran a fitness run and we had to run to keep ourselves healthy and we ran for 8 minutes and and every month we run a fitness run.

Next Wednesday we have our first boys volleyball game.

Yesterday we got our science test back. The test included questions about abiotic and biotic forms of life. We also had to list the six levels of life.

Gym

Yesterday in gym we had fitness run we have to run for so many minuets. We run every month and every time the time goes up.

Novel

Today in Novel we looked up words from chapters 9-10 that we didn't know. One of the that I didn't know was convulse. I now know that convulse means a violent contraction in your muscles.

Gym

Today in gym we worked how to be a team in playing volleyball.We Also played are first game.Some of us are on the VJH team we have are first mini terminate on the 13th!!!

Volley

Today we had volleyball practice was fun we learned how to bump, serve, and set.

boys volleyball

On Wed. we are going to Elkhorn to play volley ball

E.L.A.

Today in E.L.A. we did some test with math, spelling, sentences, oral compression. Anything you could think of.

GYM

In GYM today we did our fitness run. It was the very first class of day one.
We had to run around the GYM for 8 minutes.

GYM

We are doing problem solving in math.


What am I?if you multiply me by 26 and add 64, the result is 1000.

36x26+64=1000

Gym

Today in gym we had a vollyball game using the four moves we learned, under hand surve, over hand surve, bumping, and setting.

Science

Today in Science we went over what we are going to have on our test. We learned what a carnivore is it is a animal that only eats meat. What a herbivore is i is a animal that only eats meat. What a omnivore is it is a animal that eats plants and meat. Remember we have a test tomorrow.

science

Today in science we were talking about carnivores , herbivores and more.
carnivore-eats meat
decomposer-eats dead materials
herbivore-eats plants and grass
producer-produces there own food
scavenger-finds food there selves and if they find animals they kill them
omnivore-eats both plants and meat

Math

Today in math we went over scientific notation..
Scientific notation is when you have a big number and you make the number
bigger than 1 but less than 10.. Then you times the number by a power of 10..
An example is:
standard form: 324 000 000
scientific notation: 3.24 times by 10 to the 5th power and you get 324 000 000 again..