Monday, November 2, 2015

Ryan Gosling believes in you and so do I!! Happy Monday! 

So I don't know about you, but I was blown away by the fall festival! I was talking with Mrs. Jan last night and she said that she started by praying, keeping the idea of 52 days in her mind. She first prayed that we would have 152 people, then 252, then 352, and finally she prayed for 520. God went just passed what she prayed for and we had 534. It reminds me of this story in the bible (2 Kings, chapter 4). There was a Mother and son who had nothing. The mother went to the prophet Elisha and told him, "my husband feared the Lord, but he is dead. Now the people I owe money to have taken two of my sons. Can you help me?" So Elisha asks the woman what does she have in the house, and she says that all she has is a jar of olive oil. So he tells her to go around to all of her neighbors and get empty jars and things that she could put olive oil in-and get lots of them. So they do this, and then he tells her to start pouring the olive oil from her jar into the empty jars. The oil never stops coming until they filled all of the jars and things that they had. Elisha tells her that now she can sell these and pay her debts and have money to live on. He also tells her that the oil would have continued as long as she had jars, so not to let her faith be small. I wonder, if we pray...really pray....What will God do for us?? I would love to see this happen with our Christmas Child shoeboxes! How many could we get?? What do you think?

For History today we're going to continue talking about Jamestown colony. Today we're going to talk about the period known as "The starving time." Jamestown was started by a business in England called "The Virginia Company." All the people who had invested money in sending these people to the New World had one goal in mind-Gold. The Spanish had found gold in South America, so they were hoping for the same thing in North America. They would continue to send money to help support the colonists as long as the colonists were generating wealth for the company, so the people there spent their time searching for gold. Now......the Native Americans hadn't build a Walmart or a Winn Dixie just yet, so ....even if they found gold they didn't have anywhere to buy food, right? So they needed to farm. The people weren't focusing on farming though-just searching for gold. Food supplies got really low, and of the original 144 people, only 38 were still alive after the first year-and we haven't even gotten to the Starving Time yet. John Smith started a rule that said that colonists HAD to farm at least 4 hours a day if they wanted to eat. In 1609, John Smith got a bad burn from gunpowder and had to go back to England AND a boat that was coming to bring them more supplies and help sank before it got there. Double Whammy. 

That year they punished some colonists by tying them to a post and leaving them there when they tried to steal food from the colonies store house, and one man actually ate his own wife. Things weren't looking good for Jamestown, but a new boat full of colonists showed up to help. 

They tried growing tobacco, but the colony failed as a financial venture. The King declared the colony bankrupt in 1624. The Virginia Company revoked the charter and Jamestown became the first Royal colony, ruled by the King. 

Take a look at these pictures. These are things that the Jamestown colonists ate during the Starving Time. Which things would you have been willing to eat and which things would you have refused to eat? Why? 

Read this quote, a primary source about the starving time, and then use it and the above information to answer these questions: 

 

• Name at least three factors that led to the “Starving Time” in Jamestown in 1609–1610.
• How did the food sources change during the “Starving Time”?
• What would YOU have done or not done if you were a Jamestown colonist during the “Starving Time”?

For Math do XtraMath, then move on to ck12 math. We're going to jump up to Multiplication today. For ck12 math, read the lesson and watch the videos. I know some of it is stuff you already know-maybe all of it, but its just refreshing your memory.  Do the first five problems of the list at the bottom. 

For Science do the practice questions for Active Transport. 

For Spelling we'll do a pretest on your next ten words. 

For writing we're going to be working on "Show not Tell" today. Watch this video of a middle school teacher teaching this concept to his class. We're going to be doing the same activity that they did in the video. 

We'll discuss Reading-I'll get with you about that tomorrow. 

In Grammar I want to review compound and complex sentences and start commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters. We'll discuss this also. 

For life skills, bring me your lifepac. I want to see where you are in child development and we'll go from there. 

Alright chica! I love you so much, and you make me smile :) And remember: