Today we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, one of the most fun days of the year. We are also doing a St Patrick’s Day music show. We are doing the Unicorn song. Third grade will be doing Danny boy. First grade will be doing the song Four Leaf Clover. The whole school is out of uniform. The colors that we are dressed in are green,gold,and white.
We will also have an honors assembly. This is so that the people who have earned honor roll get recognition. Also, we will have the Stations of the Cross. It will be led by fourth and fifth graders. The reason that we do Stations of the Cross is to show how we love God. It teaches us about his greatest sacrifice for us.
Today was pi day. We had circle shaped treats and pie ... of course. We had a pi bee to see who could remember the most digits of pi. We had some pi based homework and some extra credit points. Also, some people wore pi shirts. On their shirts were at least 20 digits of pi and a funny saying.
Pi day is a highlight every year in Ms. Lucas's class. We always do something fun like shirts or our famous pi bee. The winner of the interesting pi bee happened to 'bee' 6th grade's own Sunny. He earned a homework pass and a pass for out-of-uniform. Also in second, Jadon Ward of 7th grade earned a homework pass. This year may have been the best pi day yet.
Today our 8th grade class voted for a new pope. There were a lot of cardinal candidates. Some cardinal candidates were Cardinal Francis George, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Cardinal Sean O' Malley, and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. There were four voting times. A couple of times Cardinal Sean O' Malley won. A couple of other times Cardinal Francis George won the raffle. We never found a pope because you need 11(in our class-77 in real life) votes to confirm a pope. At the end of the day, we found out who actually became pope. He was Cardinal Bergoglio. He is from Argentina and changed his name to Pope Francis I. We watched him appear on the balcony with the entire Jr. High!
This week we were Terra Nova testing. On Monday we did the Inview which tests the IQ of the student. There was a total of 100 questions in five different sections. On Tuesday we started the day with the Reading test.This was about a two hour test.Then after we finished the Reading test we started the Science test which was only two sections that didn't take very long because we finished within an hour. We also took Social Studies and Math tests. During the week we made sure to bring a snack, stretch before a test, and eat mints that Ms. Teubert calls brain mints because studies have proven that the mint increases brain waves.
Today in Math, we used shaving cream to write out the problems. It was a little messy but it was still fun. We wiped the shaving cream on our desks. Then we solved the problems and Ms. Lucas checked our answers. We learned about algebra and how to solve the problems.
Today, in our 7th grade class, we were with Ms.Lucas' sister Ms.Lucas she was nice and very helpful and answered all our questions. When we finished correcting Simple Solutions she gave us a Terra Nova practice packet which we worked on in our groups. We worked on the packets and when some of the groups were done we went on the computer, or we worked on Simple Solutions. For some people she let go on the computer and take turns using them to play math games. We had free-time to do homework, read, or talk. After, the class was done we told Ms.Lucas bye and that we would see her tomorrow.
Today in my 6th grade art class we continued doing our spider sewing projects. It was kind of like a mix between math and art. The project was fun, but hard to do. We had to concentrate using the needle. Everyone is doing great on their art project. Also, everyone is using different color thread, which makes each project unique. Below is a picture of my finished project. Have a great day!!!!!!
Today in 6th grade science class we drew plant and animal cells, then put them on a wall and pretended we were in an Art Museum. It was really fun because we got to explain our pictures. For example, I got to explain the cell wall and mitochondria of the plant cell that a friend and I drew. Also, we got to look at the animal cell drawing that two of my classmates drew. They did an amazing job, and they even made the animal cell look 3-D! Also, the cells all looked different in color, shape, and size! So no two cells were alike. I wonder if REAL plant cells are blue....hmm.....
Today was an epic day because it was our Junior High Math teacher’s birthday. She turned twenty-six years old. It was so fun. It was a surprise party but she already knew. She knew because a party is thrown every year. But she acted as if she was surprised and did not know. There were cookies, cupcakes, and brownies to eat.
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