Tuesday and Wednesday

ELA 7: The classes worked on their rough copies of their letter to the future.
CE 20: After some notes and discussion on the Nicean Creed, the girls started writing their own creeds.
PAA 8: Lots of great sewing is happening in the lab. The sweaters will be ready to wear soon!
CE 9: We started a new section on emotions.
CE 7: The class created posters to encourage the school to live out the message of the Jubilee Year of Mercy.

January 4th

ELA 7: Outline for Letters to the Future
PAA 8: Sewing sweat shirts
CE/Health 7: Notes on the Extraordinary Year of Mercy. What does mercy mean to you? What does mercy look like to you? How can we show mercy every day this year?

Sept. 21-Sept. 25

ELA 7: The classes have been working on character sketches. Next week we will begin a novel study. I am so excited.
CE 7: Work on the comic strips about being whole continued Monday and Tuesday. After starting a self-improvement diamond poem, we learned a new song. The class will be exploring different types of communities and how they fit into them.
CE 9: Review of the beatitudes through a Beatitudes Burger activity.
CE 20: We continued to explore the question "Who is Jesus?" and began learning about the Holy Spirit.
Sewing 8: We have been learning how to sew buttons. After pushing through the frustrating beginning stages, the students are doing great work. No more excuses for missing buttons!

Sept.8- Sept.11

CEH 7: The class informally presented their coat of arms and met in small groups to discuss some personal interview questions. We took a personality quiz to find out a little more about ourselves and how we can use that information to understand and work well with others.
CE 9: We looked closely at the Beatitudes and applied them to our daily lives.
CE 20: The girls worked on their Prayer Booklets.
Sewing 8: After tracing out the sweater pattern, the class practiced threading the sewing machine and sewing straight stitches.
ELA 7: We worked on "Some Days You're the Puppy" questions. After doing a frontloading activity, we read "The Adventurous Life of John Goddard" and started to create our own To Do List.

Welcome 2015-2016 School Year!

I am so excited to be back at Rivier for a new school year. This year we have switched to a two-day cycle and it's going to be wonderful. Use this blog to stay up to date with my classes and major events at school.

May 11-15

CE 7: We will prepare for our Rivier Mass next week.
CE 20: We will finish watching "When the Game Stands Tall" and discuss the importance of promises.
Math 8: The class is finishing up a tessellation project that is due on Thursday.  Our last unit quiz will be Thursday, then we will begin reviewing for the final.
Foundations 30: We started our new unit Polynomial Functions.  This is our sixth unit out of eight so we are right on track.  We will work on 6.1-6.3 this week.
PAA 7: Sewing our aprons in the double and finishing up our theory in the single.
PAA 9: Sewing our projects in the double and discussing clothing options in the single.
PAA 9/10: We will finish watching "Julie and Julia".

April 27- May 1

CE 7: Happiness Recipes and True Happiness posters
CE 11: Work class on Wednesday for the Morality Project and presentations Thursday/Friday
Math 8:
Monday- 8.4 Work class
Tuesday- Mid Unit Review
Wednesday- 8.5 Construction Tessellations
Thursday- 8.5 Work class
Friday- 8.6 Identifying Transformations in Tessellations

Foundations 30:
Monday- Work Class

Tuesday- Mutually Exclusive
Wednesday- Half work and notes on Dependent Events
Thursday- Independent Events
Frida7- Work class

Sewing 7: Double sewing
Sewing 9: Double sewing

PAA 9/10: Yeast bread notes and work sheets