The Starry Knights

It’s hard to believe it’s already the middle of May. Over the next few week we will be completing several projects and reviewing big concepts. Also, on Thursday, we will have a field trip to the Coors Field to watch Rockies Baseball. Please remind your child to wear comfortable shoes and a Rockies T-shirt.

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Review area/volume
*Final Draft Research Paper
*Complete Flower Book
*Outline AA Storyline
*Debate notes on Global Warming
*Baseball statistics

What students can do at home:
*Look over projects your most proud of any write a description for your AA video.

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Discuss both sides of Global warming for debates
*If you would like to order your child’s Fairy Tale please refer to the directions send home or go to Tikatok.com.

Pictures of Chapel and field trip to Whole Foods

Full speed ahead! Only four more weeks of school and the students are working extremely hard on their projects. Please remember that we do not have a field trip this week, but will wrap up our last field trip next Thursday watching some Rockies Baseball. 

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Review Integers
*Plotting Graphs
*Research Paper Editing
*Finalize Fairy Tale
*Scientific Flower Book
*Seals in Revelations 

What students can do at home:
*Edit and type final draft of Fairy Tale. 

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Discuss the seven seals in Revelations. Ask your child if this book is a book of sorrow or joy.

This is a big week full of many activities your child will not want to miss! Please remember we will be on a field trip Wednesday for the DaVinci Exibit and another field trip Friday afternoon for a Whole Foods tour. Also, this Thursday morning we will be watching The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and comparing it to the book.
What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Comparing, Adding and Subtracting Integers
*Prefixes
*Peer/Self Editing
*Fear the Lord Research Editing
*Fairy Tale Drafting
*DaVinci Field Trip (Wednesday)
*Farming/Biotechnology Review
*Whole Foods Tour (Friday)
*L.W.W. Completion/Movie Contrast
Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Look for foods at home that most likely have some type of food that has been biologically enhanced and discuss how and why. Your child’s knowledge might just surprise you.
*Grocery shop with your child and look for/buy foods from RSPO (handout from Zoo)

We are now in Block 7, the last block of the school year. One thing you will notice will be the wrap up of many activities and projects, as well as,  review of many concepts.

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Graphing/Data
*Intro to Integers
*Research Paper Drafting
*Fairy Tale Drafting
*Flower Classifications
*Endangered Species Research
*Trip to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

What students can do at home:
*Look at some bugs and point out the differences between Insects, Isopods, and Arachnids to your family.

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Please help remind your child to follow through with their at home goals. Your support means the world to them.

Blog wk 31

As we head into the last week of block six I’m amazed at how quickly time is flying and how much progress each student had made. Parents please remember this week will be our last Meeting of the Minds and spot fill up quickly. Also, keep in mind our class will be going to the Chimpanzee movie on Friday before Meeting of the Minds.  

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Scientific collection and categorization of insects
*Gods Story
*Research Paper Drafting
*Pollysysyllable spelling pattern 
*Human Impact on Chimpanzee Environment 
*Continue L.W.W
*Picture, Line, Circle Graphs
*Chimpanzee “Earth Day” Movie

What students can do at home:
*Comtinue working on goals for block 6 and revising them for block 7. 

Extended learning idea or questions/activities parents can do with their child at home:
*Make an edible model of an animal cell with a pizza and toppings. 

Week 29

Please remember this coming week is two days long. No school Wednesday-Friday in observation of Holy week.

*What we are going to cover/do/explore:
Easter Prophecies
Probabilities
Agriculture
Chapters 11-14 L.W.W
Final notes on Research Paper

*What students can do at home:
 Test your parents knowledge of probability with a deck of cards.

*Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home:
Discuss Easter Prophecies and include them into your Easter holiday.

Week 30

I hope each of you enjoy your Easter Holiday and are ready to jump back into school next week.

*What we are going to cover/do/explore:
Cell Structure
Cell Purpose
Research Paper Drafting
Prophecies
Spelling: doubles with -ing
Fairy Tale Exploration/Drafting
Connection to L.W.W.
Mathematical Data/Tables

*What students can do at home:
Work on Block Six Goals and reflect on the progress you’ve made.

*Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home:
Ask how your child’s “Fear the Lord” research is going and what they’ve learned.

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Llife and business of produce
*DNA & Biotechnology of farming
*Future farming ideas
*Spelling: doubles with -ed
*Percentages
*Probability
*Research Paper
*Holy Week/Passion of Christ
*Continue reading/analyzing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

What students can do at home:
*Work on after school goals

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*go shopping together and have students figure out the prices of items on sale.

Solar Ovens:

Donating CD profits to Tennyson Center:

A letter to the Tennyson Center from one of our students:

Dear Tennyson Center,
I am a 11 and 1/2 year old girl, named Sadie. We did a CD sale to support a charity in need and the charity we are helping is your kids that are in need… And my prayer is right here, Dear God, I pray for those kids, their friends and teachers because there abused and need help. I want to ask you to watch over them as the stars in the sky that give a hope and a future loving families that help today. Amen!

My favorite things to do are drawing, coloring, and gymnastics. The part I am most excited as a gymnast is completing my first session by completing a trial. The trials you have I hope go away as soon as possible and don’t let you stop looking backwards because my favorite quotes are “Don’t take the low road meaning the obstacles are supposed to be forever out of your mind and take the high road with happiness and know that Jesus is with you no matter what. The last quote is “Find out what is possible when you never give up!!!”. Bible verses that stick out to me are, Phillipians 3:14 which says, “I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength” and Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Love,
Sadie
Team Anastasis

It’s Spring Break!!! Remember the Toby Mac concert, to benefit Anastasis, is next week. I hope you all enjoy your time off and I’ll see you Monday, March 19th.

Here are a few things to look forward to when we come back.

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Conservation
*Reuse, Reduce, Recycle
*Solar Energy
*Plural changes in spelling
*Connections between Characters in L.W.W
*Proportions
*Percentages

What students can do at home:
*Practice your personal goals and reflect on the them.

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Discuss percentages with your child and explain how you use them in everyday situations.

Here are some pictures from our CD sales, class work, skyping with big wigs in the music industry, and Watato Children’s Choir.

Once again I’m amazed at how quickly the end of the block is already upon us. I guess it’s true, time flies when you’re having fun…and being productive! This week we will wrap up a few projects and continue to work on others. We also have Meeting of the Minds (Tuesday-Thursday) and Watoto Children’s Choir (Thursday).

*Quick Reminder: March 12-16 is Spring Break!

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Music Production
*Fear the Lord research
*The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Symbolism
*Goal Development
*Marketing/Sales
*Proportions
*Ratios
*Review Spelling/Vocabulary

What students can do at home:
*Continue to work block 5 goals and decide which ones you may need to roll over to block 6.

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Develop spiritual goals as a family that can be reflected in your child’s block 6 goals.

We are on the back end of block 5 and will continue to work on many projects from the past few weeks.

What we are going to cover/do/explore:
*Inflation
*Savings
*Investing
*Interest
*Measuring with Metric Unit
*Introduction to Ratios
*Suffix -ial
*C. S. Lewis Book Study
*Biblical Research  Paper

What students can do at home:
*You can find links, videos, and games for math we’ve studied here: http://tinyurl.com/Scottmath

Extended learning idea or questions/topics parents can talk about at home
*Review your child’s goals with with them