Greetings -- due to our 6th grade shadow day where the 6th graders got to shadow with a 7th grader for a couple of hours, we are a day behind where I thought we would be. We will review on Thursday for our test on Earth dynamics which has been moved to Monday. On...

Well, another week has gone by and we had another snow day. I have moved our scheduled test back one day due to the canceled day of school. We will finish chapter 8 on Thursday this week when we cover how the continents are built up. Lesson 4 worksheets will be due on...

This week we began our new chapter on how Earth changes and why. We will be investigating different types of stress and strain on the crust and how this creates different landforms. We will also be related each type of stress to a particular type of plate boundary.

This week we went over our chapter 6 test and broke open geodes. The students enjoyed wielding hammers and seeing the surprise inside the rocks. I pray that your family has a restful and blessed Christmas break. Next semester, we will begin our study on plate...

We have finished our chapter on erosion and deposition. On Tuesday we reviewed for our test and played a Kahoot as part of our review. Grades will be posted later Thursday night and this will be the last grades for the quarter. We will spend some time doing...

This week we have been studying erosion. We have looked at how wind and water carry away sediment and deposit it in different locations to create different landforms. We also learned how streams begin near the higher elevations, become larger and faster as the slope...