January 19-22, 2016

I really hope that's not too disrespectful, cause I really think its funny. 

I hope you had a great day off! This is a busy week, so I'm glad we got some extra rest. 

Tuesday we have scouts, Wednesday church, Thursday room escape, and Friday potluck. Gurl!! 

There is absolutely NO TIME to put school work off until another day or until that night. You're going to have to get it done. Also, if your day's work isn't done, you might as well just stay home that evening. That means a check by EVERY task for each day. 

For History we're finally moving into the Revolution. During the American Revolution, the 13 American colonies broke away from British rule and became a seperate, independent country. To start with we'll  be learning about the events that led up to the Revolution. 

Tuesday: Define theses words: revolution, allies, French and Indian War, George Washington, Edward Braddock

Read pages 216-219 and answer the questions on p. 219.

Wednesday: Define these words: Stamp Act, Parliament, House of Lords, House of Commons, petitions, repeal, Sons of Liberty, Townshend Acts, boycott, Sam Adams (no...not that one.) 

Read pages 220-223 and answer the questions on page 223. 

Thursday: Define these words: Redcoats, massacre, Committee of Correspondence, monopoly, quartered, Intolerable Acts, tyranny, First Continental Congress, Crispus Attucks, Paul Revere, John Adams, Patrick Henry. (I know its a lot ...but they are all important.) 

Read pages 224-228 and answer the questions on page 228

Friday: Define these words: Minutemen, Concord, Lexington

Read pages 229-231 and answer the questions on page 231. 

For Science we will be learning about joints and muscles this week. There are different kinds of joints and different kinds of muscles and we will be learning where each kind is and what each kind does. 

Tuesday: Read the Skeletal System Joints Lesson, watch the video and do the practice questions. 

Wednesday: Read the Smooth, Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles Lesson, watch the video and do the practice questions 

Thursday: Read the Muscles, Bones, and Movement Lesson, watch the video and do the practice questions. 

Friday: Play around with the games on this site .

In Math we'll be moving along to Chapter 2 which covers a lot of the same skills we were doing last week, but uses multiplication and division. 

Tuesday: Lesson 2.1-Numerical Expressions: Order of Operations.  We've talked about Order of Operations already a little bit, and you remembered me teaching Curt about it also. 

First let's talk about how we write multiplication and division signs in different ways. In the past we've used 2x4 to show multiplication. We don't want to write it that way when we're doing algebra though because we often use X as a variable, and it gets confusing. Here are other ways to show that we're multiplying in an expression: 

There are different ways of writing division in an expression also. 

Here is the same graphic using numbers instead of variables. 

So-now that we've established all that, what we need to know is what we should do first. 

Just remember the sentence "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" or PEMDAS

1. Parenthesis

2. Exponents

3. Multiplication or Division (whichever one you come to first in the expression)

4. Addition or Subtraction (whichever one you come to first in the expression) 

Now, read over lesson 2.1 on pages 41-42. Try a couple of the skill check problems and see how comfortable you are with them. If you have questions message me. 

Do page 43, numbers 1-33 odd. (I want to go over number 34 with you). 

Wednesday: 2.2 Evaluating Algebraic Expressions-This lesson is like one we did in chapter one, we're just using multiplication and division instead. Remember the different ways to write multiplication and division in algebra! That will be important. Read over the lesson on p. 44-45, try a couple of the skill check problems. If you have questions message me. Do p. 45-46, number 1-35 odd. 

Thursday: 2.3 Properties of Multiplication-This lesson deals with our old favorites, the associative, commutative, and identity properties of multiplication. They are much the same as addition with some slight differences. Look over the lesson on p. 46-48 and try a couple of the skill check problems. Message me any questions you have, and do p. 48-49, number 1-25 odd. 

Friday-2.4 Distributive Property-I don't know why, but when I was learning about the distributive property I always thought it was cool. I would be all "aww yeah...gettin' to use the distributive property!" 

If you think about the word "distribute" it means to pass out one to everyone, right? So that is what we're going to here. We have a number outside the parenthesis and we want to multiply it by an expression inside the parenthesis. Something like this: 

All you have to do is multiply the "a" that is outside the parenthesis with each of the variables inside the parentheses. Let's look at it with actual numbers instead of variables: 

Here is a video of Mr. McLogan doing a problem: 

Ok, read the lesson on p. 50, and try a couple of the skill check problems. Message me your questions, and then do p. 51-52, number 1-25 odd. 

For Spelling, we're doing Contract C this week. Your words are all from To Kill A Mockingbird. 

obliged    prowess   ramshackled   eerily    embalming

touchous    libel     accosted   lineaments   fanatical 

analogous    innate   contemporaries   rudiments   corncribs 

Make sure that the first thing you do with these words every week is to find the definitions of all of them. That will be a 15 point activity. 

For Reading you need to read a chapter each day of  To Kill A Mockingbird. On one day this week you will need to read two chapters, if you did not read a chapter on Monday. 

For Writing you need to work on making notecards this week. I will try to get to the library. Perhaps Daddy can take you one day while I'm at work. You will need probably 15-20 note cards. 

That's that with that, chica. Its going to be a fun week, even though its busy. Just remember: 

Don't Procrastinate!!