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On Wednesday we are going to kick off our next expedition, Sparks of Liberty. We aren’t going to have a regular class schedule that day, instead we will have “mini-workshops” of colonial activities like sewing and stenciling. We have started to learn about colonial times, from 1607 to 1776 as a way to prepare for the upcoming expedition. Our student teacher in Social Studies, Ms. Donovan, created and is teaching the unit which comes in perfectly designed folders that contain all our papers. It is very interesting to learn about such an important period of time. Mrs. MacDonald has shifted to colonial times too. Starting on Monday we’ll have book groups with books such as The Fifth of March about the Boston Massacre and The Shoemaker and the Tea Party about the Boston Tea Party.
In Math we’ve just started common factors, while in Algebra we’re working our way through the extremely heavy book, and we’re in chapter 3- Solving Linear Equations.
In Science we have all chosen a different animal and have been learning about them while simultaneously learning about the human body systems and trout. We have a tank of trout in the science classroom and we have been recording the water quality of the tank, the temperature, the daily development and so on.
In Scientific Communications, or new related arts class, we just wrapped up making our web pages about our animal. Using Mozilla composer and a product descriptor we learned about composition, balance, images, links, and above all TABLES TABLES TABLES!!!!!!!!! This is a lead up to our final product in our expedition. We’re going to be using Mozilla to create a diary for a fictional character living in colonial times.
We are having quite a learning experience in W7, which is, of course, the best house EVER!!!!!!!!!

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