April 28-May 2

Tuesday is our final StarBase field trip and then Wednesday is the Career Day at the TANG Air Force Base, we are still in need of a chaperone or two for the Career Day trip.

Social Studies - Assignments due Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in Social Studies.  Test will be early next week, Tuesday or Wednesday depending on how much we can get covered in class.

Science - Students will have some at-home reading in Science this week and there will be a small quiz on Thursday's lesson on Friday and a small amount of homework due Monday.

Literature - Our Poetry analysis will be due this Friday, we will not have Red Thunder homework this week but there will also be our Unit 15 Spelling/Vocab. Test this Friday. (No RAH this week)

Religion - Thursday is our Act of Contrition test, students need to have the entire thing memorized! (No test this Friday)

Math - We have begun the review for the test, it will start on Thursday and we will finish it on Friday.

Spelling Words:

1. scorch
2. eliminate
3. complicate
4. moral
5. universal
6. courteous
7. trifle
8. severe
9. grieve
10. spectacle
11. discomfort
12. tragic
13. Paschal Mystery
14. Triduum
15. parallel
16. contemplate
17. controversy
18. mandatory
19. viscosity
20. oxidization

April 7-11

Math - We are about ready to begin working with fractions; comparing them to decimals, adding them, reducing them, etc.  This will be slow work as this is typically a rather abstract idea for some students so expect us to be working on similar material for the next couple weeks.

Vocabulary/Spelling - Our test will be this Friday (Apirl 11), students should be practicing their spelling words every night.

mutiny
pursue
alibi
negative
confederate
reign
discharge
swindle
frank
singular
modify
economical
kinetic
density
properties
acceleration
inertia
coax
solitary
tranquil

Social Studies - We will be finishing up our BizTown post visit information this week, next week we will be working back into the book and homework assignments should be expected.

Religion - This week and last week we have been talking about faith and its place in our life.  We have a burning desire to know and to learn but sometimes the thing that brings us closer to God is simply blind trust.  There will be a test this week on the Chapter.

Literature - Red Thunder has been moving right along, this week we will read Ch. 4-7 and will have a quiz on Ch. 1-7 this Thursday. 

Science - StarBase visit this Tuesday, (April 8), we have finished our Space unit and will begin Unit 13 on Matter.