Parents,

Thank you!! Thank you for the extra time, support and understanding you have been providing for your kiddos these past few weeks! This is a new process for all of us, and as teachers and parents, we know that it has not been easy, but we are grateful for all of the “extras” you have been providing to your home these past few weeks! Here is the link for this weeks work. Again, this is our working document, so please know that changes will probably occur!!!

You will notice that there are 3 days of work and then Thursday is a work day to complete anything from the last few weeks that needs to get done before we go into break! It is also a day to give the Passion Projects a go if your kiddos or family are interested in those.

Please let us know how we can support you, your kiddos and your family in the coming days. We are in this together! Sending support and prayers your way. We truly miss your kiddos and spending our days with them. Give them hugs from us!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6ZA7un0yMCFF_Wo7i2dPXooQD2HEkJ5x1l88T21CfQ/edit

Parents,

We are linking our weekly document to the blog as some of you like to see the full week. Please know this is a working document, so we will be editing and making changes as the week goes on. We will share each day out with the students and you as well as we did last week!

Please let us know if you have any questions!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15JikapXNwNTHwPHMSGAOFm4GqI94RN0y80QNgDz-9_s/edit

Math – Page 304 (1-20) due Friday.  They will get class time tomorrow.  We will be doing the RTGO Review on Friday, and pushing the quiz back to Monday.

Spanish Writing: *Reminder*- Persuasive Writing is due tomorrow Thursday, March 12.

Spanish Immersion: *Reminder*-  Please submit your History of Mexico presentations by tomorrow Thursday, March 12.

Math – Page 288 1-15 due Tuesday, P292 (18,19) due Tuesday.

Coin Wars: A huge thank you for all the donations and money brought in for GCCS in the Philippines. We will do a final count on Monday, but we were amazed by the amount brought in. THANK YOU!!!

Middle School chapel: We will have middle school chapel on Thursday. 

Bible: Memory work due on Friday, Ephesians 3: 17b-19. We will look at Jesus’ final hours of life. His journey to the cross and His crucifixion. 

Social Studies/ Estudios Sociales: We will continue learning about the Silk Road and trade in Ancient China. Vamos a continuar aprendiendo acerca del Camino de Seda y el cambio en Antigua China. 

Spanish Immersion: We will continue learning about Mexico and its history. We will continue to review past perfect and past progressive. 

LA 2 (Spanish): We will continue with argumentative writing.

Homework LA 2 (Spanish): Students argumentative writing are due this Thursday, March 12. 

LA 1: We will begin reading Insignificant Events on the Life of a Cactus. We will be reading chapters 6-10. We will also learn about a reading strategy from the Notice and Note Book which is called Note- Memory Moments. 

Study skills (6L only): We will be working with an independent study topic that the students will choose. 

Math – This week we will continue to investigate ratios, and proportions.  We will try to have a review on Thursday and a quiz on Friday over those three lessons.

Science – This week we will be continuing to design our drop test for our mock cell phone case.  We will be building our case this week. If anyone has empty two-liter bottles I could use them by Tuesday.

Please make sure you answered chapter 5 questions from the book Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. 

Please make sure you answered chapter 4 questions from the book Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. 

Please make sure you answered chapter 1 questions from the book Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. 

Back Outside: Starting on Monday everyone will be back outside during break and lunch recess! Please make sure you come prepared for the weather! 

Spring Sports – Those participating in boys tennis at Holland Christian will start on March 16.  For those participating in track and field at Zeeland Christian, it will begin on April 13.  Practices will be tentatively on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  Meet dates are still being scheduled.  

Parent Teacher Conferences: We look forward to meeting with some of you this Tuesday. Students are not part of the Spring conferences, so they do not need to come with you. 

New Specials rotations: begin on Tuesday. Make sure you have your PE clothes if you need them!!!

Small Groups: We will meet with our small groups on Thursday.

8th grade play: Will be taking place this weekend. We will get to watch a teaser during the school day, and hope you come back to watch the entire play of “Charlotte’s Web.” 

Coin War: Continue to bring in your coins and bills for Leand! Friday the 6th is the last day!!!

Bible: We will continue to look at the end of Jesus life. We will look at the details of a Roman trial and Jesus travel and time to Golgotha. Memory work: Ephesians 3:14-17a- Due on Friday!

Social Studies/Estudios Sociales: We will finish our unit on the Han Dynasty and then we will begin to look at the Silk Road and the importance that trade had in improving Ancient China’s growth. Vamos a terminar nuestra unidad sobre la Dinastía Han y de allí vamos a hablar sobre el Camino de Seda y la importancia del intercambio en los avances de la Antigua China. 

Spanish Immersion: We will continue learning about Mexico, it’s history and biography. We will continue to review past perfect and past progressive. 

LA 2 (Spanish): We will review argumentative writing terms like fact, opinion, argument, persuasion, debatable claim, evidence, credible sources. We will sort claims and evidence as well. 

LA 1: We will begin reading Insignificant Events on the Life of a Cactus. We will also learn about a reading strategy from the Notice and Note Book which is called Note- Memory Moments. 

Study skills (6L only): We will be working with an independent study topic that the students will choose. 

Science – We will finish up our quiz on Monday.  Then, we will continue to explore how things get crushed and look at what types of materials absorb forces.  We will get deeper into our unit question of how to build a case that will protect a cell phone from damaging forces.

Math – We are still working on our survey project and hope to finish on Tuesday with analyzing our data.  They will present their projects on Tuesday and Wednesday. We hope to start chapter 7 on ratios, proportions, and percentages on Thursday.