Ms Kim's SALT-teens
Ms Kim's High School students : for your reporting purposes, these are the classes your students are taking and curriculum used :
History: Asian History - Park Hill School District Asia and Asian American Studies
Geography: Asian Geography
Math: Abeka pre-Algebra with hands on opportunites, games, and more; not just textbook learning
Grammar - Abeka Grammer and Composition III (with a focus on creative writing)
Lit: Strong as Fire (completed)The Jade Peony (current book)
Science - Exploring Creation with General Science
Aug 21
History - studied Chinese blue and white pottery and painted (on paper)our own vases.
Grammar - more capitalization and creative writing about our dream jobs
Math - order of operations and Roman numerals
Lit - chapter 5 and 6 of Shadow Spinner
Science - repeatability and reproducibility with experiments of breaking surface tension in water and using dry erase markers to make floating people
Aug 27
History - Taoism, sampled Asian snacks, made clay fortune cookies
Grammar - spelling test, started paragraphs
Creative Writing - character development
Math - factoring and prime vs composite numbers
Lit - listened through chap 8 of Shadow Spinner
Science - what makes up dirt
Sept 2 History - Buddhism origin and some of their beliefs.
Grammar - spelling test and creative writing - if you could make a signature drink, what are the ingredients? They were divided between tasty and possible to this you make you very sick.
Math - Greatest Common Factors
Lit - Chapters 10 and 11 of Shadow Spinner
Science - potassium, nitrogen, and potash in fertilizer. We had a good discussion about where ammonia comes from and which came first - the ammonia or bacteria.
Sept 3 History - learned about pagodas and drew them
Grammar - started learning ASL alphabet to help us feel our spelling words.
Creative Writing - you give a dinner party. Invite 7 people including the character you are working on. What do you serve? What interesting happens? Can be a short paragraph and due Sept 4.
Math - reviewed greatest common factor and started least common multiple
Lit - chap 12 in Shadow Spinner
Science - finished talking about phosphorus and potassium in feetilizer
Sept 4- history made Crane and butterfly origami
Grammar - worked on sign alphabet and did a mad lib
Math - started fractions - reducing and equalivent
Lit - listened to chaps 12 & 13 in Shadow Spinner
Sept 9
History - started Tang dynasty of China
Grammar - k through o in sign, punctuation usage
Math - review reduce fractions, change mixed numbers to improper fractions and improper fractions to mixed numbers
Lit -Chapters 15- 16 in Shadow Spinner
Science - ancient Greek scholars of science and medicine
Homework - creative writing - your character is not paying to something important. What is the consequence?
Sept 11 History - 9/11 discussion and finished our The Great Wave paintings
Grammar - continued learning sign alphabet, creative writing - everyone gave a word and we all created poems and short stories using them.
Math - finished adding fractions and moved on to subtracting them
Lit - listened to chaps 19 and 20 of Shadow Spinner
Sept 16 History - looked at the Song dynasty and had a very interesting discussion about silk v spider web
Grammar - finished sign language alphabet. Creative writing - pick a book, open to the middle, the first sentence is your writing inspiration
Math - fraction multiplication
Lit - chap 21 and half of 22 in Shadow Spinner.
Science - science during Roman Empire and alchemy
Sept 18
History - saw some common games of the Chinese and played Chinese Checkers
Grammar - creative Writing - What do you do at the end of a hard day? Pop quiz on capitalization and punctuation
Math - dividing fractions
Lit - finished Shadow Spinner
Science - Copernicus and Vesalius
Sept 24 - we made pin hole cameras that really worked!
Math - finished fraction division
Lit - listened and discussed The Raven by Poe
Science - finished Kepler and created ellipses.
Sept 30
History - Chinese culture revolution
Grammar - worked on 0 - 20 in sign language. Quotation marks. **Homework- a paragraph letting your character be a part of a revolution**
Math - introducing decimals, add and subtract decimals
Lit - Agatha Christie Poirot Investigates
Science - Galileo
Oct 1 history - made revolution posters to go with our stories
Grammar - apostrophes ** homework finish handout page**
Math - multiply decimals
Lit - finished Christy story
Science - finished Galileo
Oct 2 History - drew Chinese dragons
Grammar - potour poems
Math - dividing decimals
Lit - Hop Frog by Poe
Science - Sir Isaac Newton
Oct 7 History - started Japan history, ninjas, warrior monks
Grammar - dashes, parenthesis
Math - changing fractions to decimals
Lit The Hounds of the Baskervilles.
Science - Darwin
Oct 8 history - Japanese string art
A video about present day Japan
Math - ratios
Lit - finish Hound of the Baskervilles
Science Finished Darwin
Oct 23 history - drew samurai and animate
Grammar - subjects and predicates
Math - proportion
Lit - chapter 2 and 3 of The Heart of a Samurai
Science - variables in experiments
Oct 28 History - video History of Korea in 15 minutes and differences and similarities of North and South Korea.
Grammar - started diagramming sentences (subject and verb)
Math - ratio word problems
Lit - chap 4 The Heart of a Samurai
Science - manipulating variables. Experiment - making water salty enough to float an egg
Oct 29 History - worked on Korean alphabet
Grammar - compound subjects in sentences
Lit - listened to chap. 5 and 6 in Heart of a Samurai.
Nov 4 history - Japan feudal system, samurai v knights
Grammar - diagramming compound subjects and verbs
Math - changing percents to fractions to decimals to ratios
Lit - chap 7&8 Heart of Samurai
Science - continuing using variables in experiments
Nov 5 history - tried out juggling and drew kimonos
Grammar - more diagramming compound subjects and verbs
Math - percentage word problems
Nov 6 history - Japanese sushi and how it's made. Made banana, Nutella, tortilla sushi
Grammar - complements in sentences
Math - percents less than 100
Lit - read chaps 11 & 12 in Heart of a Samuri
Lit - chap 9 &10 of Heart of a Samurai
**Homework** creative writing take your character on an adventure, a serious situation, whatever you want
to. Due Tuesday, no limit on size**
Nov 11 History - Veterans Day who is recognized, when it started, etc
Math - percents above 100
Lit Chaps 13, 14, and 15 in Heart of a Samurai
Nov 12 history - Shinto in Japan
Grammar - sentences and fragments
Math - more and less in percents
Lit - chaps 16, 17 in Heart of a Samurai
Science - the first computers
**Homework for Tuesday - be prepared to tell about a character of Japanese mythology. Write it, draw it, however you want to present it**
Nov 18 history - the true meaning of Thanksgiving
Grammar - mad libs birthday
Math - finding what percent one number is of another number
Lit - chaps 19 - 21 in Heart of a Samurai
Nov 19 history - how cranberries are grown and harvested
Grammar - parts of speech and creative writing What are you passionate about?
Lit - chaps 22-24 in Heart of a Samurai
Math review
Dec 2 History - India and the Ganged River
Grammar - linking verbs and creative writing "Hope"
Math - finding a number when a percent is given
Lit - chaps 28, 29 in Heart of Samurai
Dec 3 History - worked on batik project
Grammar - linking verbs
Lit - chaps 32, 33, 34, 35 in Heart of a Samurai
Dec 4 history - painted our batik
Grammar - creative writing about peace
Math - discounts
Lit - chaps 36, 37, 38, 39 in Heart of Samurai
Science - wheel and axel
Dec 9 - history Christmas traditions around the world
Grammar - different kinds of love/ love languages Creative writing use one of the types of love
Math - figuring net and gross profit
Lit - finished Heart of a Samurai
Science - wedges and inclined planes
**Reminder - if you would like to participate in our Dirty Santa gift exchange Thursday, please bring a wrapped gift( less than $5).
We are also bringing a snack to share and watching Polar Express.**
Jan 20
A great first day back! We will begin our day with journaling - either writing or drawing
History - the Harappan people of India
Math - began English measurement conversions
Adulting - began home economics class
Science - started on DNA
Jan 21
Journal - drew today
History - Aryan and Indus peoples of India
Grammar - started compare/contrast essays. **Homework- write your thesis sentence and start on the outline using your guide**
Adulting - laundry, cleaning, and meal prepping
Science - what makes DNA
Lit - They Call Us Enemy
Jan 22
We did a " my cool stuff" show and tell instead of journaling today
History - learned about Buddism and Hinduism and did a venn diagram about them.
Grammar - worked on thesis sentences and outlines * Homework - complete outline for Tuesday*
Math - dry and liquid measurements
Science - made model DNA
Lit - Asian fairy tales.
Jan 27 we had an abbreviated Zoom day due to weather and will Zoom tomorrow at 12:30
History- YouTube Nate and Kara's trip to New Deli, India
Grammar *homework - have outline done for Wednesday and essay is due next Tuesday* had some fun with mad libs
Math - time conversion
Science - DNA and nucleotide pairs
Jan 28 another snow day and tomorrow will be on zoom, too.
History - we left India and moved east to Thailand. They are a peaceful people living on a beautiful chain of islands.
Grammar - essay check up. They are due next Tuesday. We also did a couple of Mad Libs
Math - converting compound measurements
Science - a criteria for life is recognizing and reacting to stimulus so we saw how our skin is equiped with sensors and what happens if we do not have them.
Feb 3 History - drew elephants for India
Grammar started verb tenses
Math - more work on compound measurement
Adulting *homework- interview who buys groceries in your home. What do they usually get, what do you keep in your pantry, what are some household rules, who does which chores. Be prepared to share tomorrow*
Science - started learning about animal cells
Lit - Two Kinds by Amy Tan
History: Asian History - Park Hill School District Asia and Asian American Studies
Geography: Asian Geography
Math: Abeka pre-Algebra with hands on opportunites, games, and more; not just textbook learning
Grammar - Abeka Grammer and Composition III (with a focus on creative writing)
Lit: Strong as Fire (completed)The Jade Peony (current book)
Science - Exploring Creation with General Science
Aug 21
History - studied Chinese blue and white pottery and painted (on paper)our own vases.
Grammar - more capitalization and creative writing about our dream jobs
Math - order of operations and Roman numerals
Lit - chapter 5 and 6 of Shadow Spinner
Science - repeatability and reproducibility with experiments of breaking surface tension in water and using dry erase markers to make floating people
Aug 27
History - Taoism, sampled Asian snacks, made clay fortune cookies
Grammar - spelling test, started paragraphs
Creative Writing - character development
Math - factoring and prime vs composite numbers
Lit - listened through chap 8 of Shadow Spinner
Science - what makes up dirt
Sept 2 History - Buddhism origin and some of their beliefs.
Grammar - spelling test and creative writing - if you could make a signature drink, what are the ingredients? They were divided between tasty and possible to this you make you very sick.
Math - Greatest Common Factors
Lit - Chapters 10 and 11 of Shadow Spinner
Science - potassium, nitrogen, and potash in fertilizer. We had a good discussion about where ammonia comes from and which came first - the ammonia or bacteria.
Sept 3 History - learned about pagodas and drew them
Grammar - started learning ASL alphabet to help us feel our spelling words.
Creative Writing - you give a dinner party. Invite 7 people including the character you are working on. What do you serve? What interesting happens? Can be a short paragraph and due Sept 4.
Math - reviewed greatest common factor and started least common multiple
Lit - chap 12 in Shadow Spinner
Science - finished talking about phosphorus and potassium in feetilizer
Sept 4- history made Crane and butterfly origami
Grammar - worked on sign alphabet and did a mad lib
Math - started fractions - reducing and equalivent
Lit - listened to chaps 12 & 13 in Shadow Spinner
Sept 9
History - started Tang dynasty of China
Grammar - k through o in sign, punctuation usage
Math - review reduce fractions, change mixed numbers to improper fractions and improper fractions to mixed numbers
Lit -Chapters 15- 16 in Shadow Spinner
Science - ancient Greek scholars of science and medicine
Homework - creative writing - your character is not paying to something important. What is the consequence?
Sept 11 History - 9/11 discussion and finished our The Great Wave paintings
Grammar - continued learning sign alphabet, creative writing - everyone gave a word and we all created poems and short stories using them.
Math - finished adding fractions and moved on to subtracting them
Lit - listened to chaps 19 and 20 of Shadow Spinner
Sept 16 History - looked at the Song dynasty and had a very interesting discussion about silk v spider web
Grammar - finished sign language alphabet. Creative writing - pick a book, open to the middle, the first sentence is your writing inspiration
Math - fraction multiplication
Lit - chap 21 and half of 22 in Shadow Spinner.
Science - science during Roman Empire and alchemy
Sept 18
History - saw some common games of the Chinese and played Chinese Checkers
Grammar - creative Writing - What do you do at the end of a hard day? Pop quiz on capitalization and punctuation
Math - dividing fractions
Lit - finished Shadow Spinner
Science - Copernicus and Vesalius
Sept 24 - we made pin hole cameras that really worked!
Math - finished fraction division
Lit - listened and discussed The Raven by Poe
Science - finished Kepler and created ellipses.
Sept 30
History - Chinese culture revolution
Grammar - worked on 0 - 20 in sign language. Quotation marks. **Homework- a paragraph letting your character be a part of a revolution**
Math - introducing decimals, add and subtract decimals
Lit - Agatha Christie Poirot Investigates
Science - Galileo
Oct 1 history - made revolution posters to go with our stories
Grammar - apostrophes ** homework finish handout page**
Math - multiply decimals
Lit - finished Christy story
Science - finished Galileo
Oct 2 History - drew Chinese dragons
Grammar - potour poems
Math - dividing decimals
Lit - Hop Frog by Poe
Science - Sir Isaac Newton
Oct 7 History - started Japan history, ninjas, warrior monks
Grammar - dashes, parenthesis
Math - changing fractions to decimals
Lit The Hounds of the Baskervilles.
Science - Darwin
Oct 8 history - Japanese string art
A video about present day Japan
Math - ratios
Lit - finish Hound of the Baskervilles
Science Finished Darwin
Oct 23 history - drew samurai and animate
Grammar - subjects and predicates
Math - proportion
Lit - chapter 2 and 3 of The Heart of a Samurai
Science - variables in experiments
Oct 28 History - video History of Korea in 15 minutes and differences and similarities of North and South Korea.
Grammar - started diagramming sentences (subject and verb)
Math - ratio word problems
Lit - chap 4 The Heart of a Samurai
Science - manipulating variables. Experiment - making water salty enough to float an egg
Oct 29 History - worked on Korean alphabet
Grammar - compound subjects in sentences
Lit - listened to chap. 5 and 6 in Heart of a Samurai.
Nov 4 history - Japan feudal system, samurai v knights
Grammar - diagramming compound subjects and verbs
Math - changing percents to fractions to decimals to ratios
Lit - chap 7&8 Heart of Samurai
Science - continuing using variables in experiments
Nov 5 history - tried out juggling and drew kimonos
Grammar - more diagramming compound subjects and verbs
Math - percentage word problems
Nov 6 history - Japanese sushi and how it's made. Made banana, Nutella, tortilla sushi
Grammar - complements in sentences
Math - percents less than 100
Lit - read chaps 11 & 12 in Heart of a Samuri
Lit - chap 9 &10 of Heart of a Samurai
**Homework** creative writing take your character on an adventure, a serious situation, whatever you want
to. Due Tuesday, no limit on size**
Nov 11 History - Veterans Day who is recognized, when it started, etc
Math - percents above 100
Lit Chaps 13, 14, and 15 in Heart of a Samurai
Nov 12 history - Shinto in Japan
Grammar - sentences and fragments
Math - more and less in percents
Lit - chaps 16, 17 in Heart of a Samurai
Science - the first computers
**Homework for Tuesday - be prepared to tell about a character of Japanese mythology. Write it, draw it, however you want to present it**
Nov 18 history - the true meaning of Thanksgiving
Grammar - mad libs birthday
Math - finding what percent one number is of another number
Lit - chaps 19 - 21 in Heart of a Samurai
Nov 19 history - how cranberries are grown and harvested
Grammar - parts of speech and creative writing What are you passionate about?
Lit - chaps 22-24 in Heart of a Samurai
Math review
Dec 2 History - India and the Ganged River
Grammar - linking verbs and creative writing "Hope"
Math - finding a number when a percent is given
Lit - chaps 28, 29 in Heart of Samurai
Dec 3 History - worked on batik project
Grammar - linking verbs
Lit - chaps 32, 33, 34, 35 in Heart of a Samurai
Dec 4 history - painted our batik
Grammar - creative writing about peace
Math - discounts
Lit - chaps 36, 37, 38, 39 in Heart of Samurai
Science - wheel and axel
Dec 9 - history Christmas traditions around the world
Grammar - different kinds of love/ love languages Creative writing use one of the types of love
Math - figuring net and gross profit
Lit - finished Heart of a Samurai
Science - wedges and inclined planes
**Reminder - if you would like to participate in our Dirty Santa gift exchange Thursday, please bring a wrapped gift( less than $5).
We are also bringing a snack to share and watching Polar Express.**
Jan 20
A great first day back! We will begin our day with journaling - either writing or drawing
History - the Harappan people of India
Math - began English measurement conversions
Adulting - began home economics class
Science - started on DNA
Jan 21
Journal - drew today
History - Aryan and Indus peoples of India
Grammar - started compare/contrast essays. **Homework- write your thesis sentence and start on the outline using your guide**
Adulting - laundry, cleaning, and meal prepping
Science - what makes DNA
Lit - They Call Us Enemy
Jan 22
We did a " my cool stuff" show and tell instead of journaling today
History - learned about Buddism and Hinduism and did a venn diagram about them.
Grammar - worked on thesis sentences and outlines * Homework - complete outline for Tuesday*
Math - dry and liquid measurements
Science - made model DNA
Lit - Asian fairy tales.
Jan 27 we had an abbreviated Zoom day due to weather and will Zoom tomorrow at 12:30
History- YouTube Nate and Kara's trip to New Deli, India
Grammar *homework - have outline done for Wednesday and essay is due next Tuesday* had some fun with mad libs
Math - time conversion
Science - DNA and nucleotide pairs
Jan 28 another snow day and tomorrow will be on zoom, too.
History - we left India and moved east to Thailand. They are a peaceful people living on a beautiful chain of islands.
Grammar - essay check up. They are due next Tuesday. We also did a couple of Mad Libs
Math - converting compound measurements
Science - a criteria for life is recognizing and reacting to stimulus so we saw how our skin is equiped with sensors and what happens if we do not have them.
Feb 3 History - drew elephants for India
Grammar started verb tenses
Math - more work on compound measurement
Adulting *homework- interview who buys groceries in your home. What do they usually get, what do you keep in your pantry, what are some household rules, who does which chores. Be prepared to share tomorrow*
Science - started learning about animal cells
Lit - Two Kinds by Amy Tan
