Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Oh look. Its Wednesday. 

Welcome to Wednesday, sweet girl! (do you secretly say "Wed-nes-day" when you're spelling it? Cause I do.) 

So in History we have talked about the woodland and the creek Indians. We're still talking about the early days of America, so we're not going to talk about the Indians further west just yet..just know that they were there the whole time. The entire country was covered with tribes. Now they are concentrated in Oklahoma because that is where they were forced to go. We're going to start talking about the Explorers now. Until now in America, there have only been natives. Now the people from Europe are going to start coming in and things get a little cray-cray. (yup. Said it. #sorrynotsorry)

There were many famous explorers that left Europe and came to the Americas. (The Americas means North and South America, btw).  The first one that we're going to talk about is the earliest one that we know of-Leif Erikson. He was a Viking from Denmark. We don't know exactly where he visited in North America. He wrote of finding a place called "Vinland" because it had so many vinyards. Later ruins of a Viking ship were found in New Foundland in Canada. New Foundland closely matched the description Leif gave of "Vinland" so its believed that he came there. Apparently the Vikings weren't happy there, so they went back to Denmark. Watch this Crash Course History video and listen to John Green tell you all about the Vikings. 

Also-its #WCW!! woot woot! Who's it gonna be?? 

I see in Science that you only got 29% on your Practice. Read back over the lesson and come up with a list of questions. If you don't have any, try doing those practice questions again and see how well you do this time.

Keep working on XtraMath. You are steadily going up in points with every assignment. Keep at it!!

One thing to remember-try not to guess at the answer. If you don't know it immediately, figure it out. 

For writing do your Daily 10. Do the first two topics on week five: "Gun Control" and "Gag me". 

Make sure you're really putting 10 solid minutes of work into it! 

Review your Spelling words and definitions for your test tomorrow. 

Don't forget your Wii Fit routine! 

Read the next two chapters in your book and do the discussion questions . I'm not seeing where you have answered the discussion questions on the previous chapters. Please make sure I get those. 

I haven't forgotten about life skills. I just have to get some time to go Grocery shopping. We'll plan to do that Monday. Before then we'll make our Grocery list and find coupons. (Yay! Coupons!!) 

Make sure you get all of your work done really well! 

I love you like corn loves butter! 

And remember: