I am pretty sure that I am well off the right number of weeks by now. With some breaks and short weeks and general tiredness, we might well be off by 5 or 6! Still, it was nice to get back to the classroom and see all the familiar faces.
We spent a great deal of time this week in LA doing writing. We finished up a composition piece we started before the break, which many of us had finished already, then jumped into another composition right away. "Just like riding a bike," might be the metaphor we would use to describe our process this week. We will be moving to news article writing next week, which will allow us to combine Social Studies and LA by looking at the provincial election. We also continued to move forward in our novel study of The Cay, dealing with related subjects that come up as we are reading this interesting story.
Speaking of Social Studies, we have been studying Representative Government, both its processes and examples of it. Focusing on the representative associations that exist here in Alberta, notably the ACFA and MNA, we are looking at how representative government can provide services and represent the interests of its members. Students researched these associations and presented to the class on their findings.
In Science this week, we spent our time watching a movie based on the early days of flight. A number of intriguing and historically based flying machines were shown and we were entertained watching those machines fly or not. We will jump into explorations of the properties of air next week after we do our unit pre-test.
In CE this week we looked at martyrdom, starting with the story of Stephen in Acts 6-7 and expanded to look at current persecutions of other Christians that are happening today.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and we will have another great week next week.
