Tilford's Treats

Tilford's Treats

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Wednesday

ELA 8: The girls finished writing the good copy of their stories.
PAA 7: We worked on serging and the chest piece of our aprons.
CE 7: After practicing a little for mass next Wednesday, we talked about Lent.
ELA 7: We finished reading "The Wretched Stone" and wrote down the next assignment.  We will work on the pre-writing Thursday. 

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Tuesday

PAA 7: The students worked on some straight stitches and watched a serging demo.  Tomorrow in our double we will start serging our raw edges.
ELA 7: After getting back their writing assessments, the students edited their February break papers with a focus on either word choice, introduction/conclusion, sentence variety, or adding details.
CE 7: Our class is in charge of mass for Ash Wednesday next week.  We will be practicing in the chapel Monday and Tuesday.  If your child has a reading part, please help them practice.  The students made some skits showing how Jesus included everyone.  They were really funny.
ELA 8: After a homework check on their pre-writing, the girls worked on the rough copy of their stories.
CE 8: We read from the Marie Rivier text and answered questions.

Monday, 24 February 2014

Monday

ELA 7: The students worked on a free write about their February break.  We will be using them tomorrow to work on our writing.
ELA 8: The girls started a story with a focus on sentence variety, word choice, or organization.
CE 20: The girls read about St. Ignatius and Teresa of Avila.  They wrote a short story about a radical change in their lives and a poem about selfless love. Both are due on Friday.

Monday, 10 February 2014

Monday

PAA 7: We finished cutting our fabric for our aprons and practiced threading the sewing machine.
ELA 7: The students caught up on some silent reading we missed from the writing assessment last week.  After finishing their self evaluation, we did a quick character building game.
CE 7: We talked about babies and their place in life.
ELA 8: The girls finished their writing self evaluations and worked on the review for their quiz on Wednesday.

Friday, 7 February 2014

Friday

ELA 7: The students finished their writing assessments.  Anyone that is not finished must finish Monday.
CE 20: We had a lot of rich discussion about Jehovah's Witnesses, the Vatican III hoax and possible reforms for the Catholic Church.
ELA 8: The students finished their writing assessments.  Anyone that is not finished must finish Monday.

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Thursday

CE 8: We read about Marie Rivier's early life and worked on questions.
ELA 7: The students finished editing the rough copy of their CWA.  Tomorrow they will write the good copy.
SCI 8: After watching a short video, the students worked through some worksheets on eyes and cameras.
ELA 8: The students finished editing the rough copy of their CWA.  Tomorrow they will write the good copy.

Wednesday

SCI 8: We watched a short video on converging and diverging lenses and created some ray diagrams.
CE 7: We went to "Sleeping Beauty Jr" and it was delightful.
CE 20: The girls read about the Council of Trent and answered some questions that are due Friday.
ELA 8: The girls worked on the rough copy of their Common Writing Assessment.
ELA 7: The students worked on the rough copy of their Common Writing Assessment.

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Tuesday

SCI 8: The kids worked through an experiment with concave and convex lenses.
ELA 7: After some homonym practice, the students read.
ELA 8: We enjoyed watching Hercules in our double this afternoon.  The girls have a Venn diagram to compare and contrast Hercules and Heracles due Friday.  We also started the Common Writing Assessment with our pre-writing.
CE 8: We filmed our models of the Church songs.  They were wonderful.

Monday, 3 February 2014

Monday

PAA 7: We cut out the fabric for our aprons and practiced threading the sewing machines.  The fabric looks really good; I can't wait to see the finished aprons.
CE 7: The students wrote a one page reflection on what they see when they look in the mirror.
ELA 7: We made a new seating plan and began the pre-writing stage of the Common Writing Assessment.