Ms Kim's SALT-teens
Ms Kim's High School students
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**
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**
