Classroom Creativity

Dear Basic Math Students, If you'd like more practice rounding, you may visit the following site http://www.adaptedmind.com/gradelist.php and click on "Rounding Whole Numbers." I hope it's helpful! --Mrs. Ross

Missions conference.  It came and went but not without a lot of hard work by the academy students.  One of the high schoolers' projects was to create a missions poem and perform it for the class.  The following was written by a member of the class of 2013. Sacrifice and Service by Thomas Hames Missionaries give their all, Nothing they're withholding. They have heard their Master's call, He their lives is molding Into vessels fit for use For His holy mission; Able to withstand abuse For Christ's Great Commission. Flowing from their every deed Is God's sovereign power. Hum'bly they God's voice do heed He who is their Tower; They to Him do oft resort, 'Lone they would but cower. And bring unto God the sort Satan would devour. Unto you with pleading voice Jesus Christ is calling. Will His mission be your choice: To keep souls from falling? All that is requir'd of you Is complete surrender. He

Years ago, an elderly woman handed me a poem after church one day.  I read it, hung it on my wall next to my desk and thought, "I really should have my class memorize that poem."  Year past year and finally, this past September, I included this poem in our poetry recitation.  You can read it at the following link:   http://www.potw.org/archive/potw199.html Because the poem ends in a way that could begin a new thought, the students had to create a final stanza.  Tony and Sarah (both pictured below) imagined themselves to be senior citizens with not a little history of their own to tell.

Keep On!   A Reminder from John Paul Jones By Michaela Pieczynski The brisk air of the British Atlantic coastline nipped at the faces of the American crew aboard the Bonhomme Richard .   As the rising sun met the Americans, the gallant Captain John Paul Jones stood upon the deck of his mighty vessel.   Sails with British colors glistened in the distance, outline two British ships, the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough .   The approaching vessels fired at the American ship, and the presence of a second ship only increased the odds. The sight of battle never startled Jones.   Nevertheless, the single American ship battled fairly with the two enemy ships.   Cannon fire echoed in the distance while strident men shouted orders.   The morning sky was filled with cannon fire.   The three-and-a-half hour battle started poorly for the Americans, but courageous Jones tried to overcome the British cannon fire by merging close to the enemy vessel, yet the Serapis

Placing oneself back in history and reliving the past through journals is an exercise my US History students do regularly.  From each chapter read, discussed, and taught, they venture back in time to a particular setting or event that particularly captured their imagination during our discussion of the unit.  Below is a journal written by junior Sarah Kuchta, who imagines herself wife to a wigmaker in the original colonies. ***************************** DECEMBER 23, 1735 Today was my birthday.   I cannot believe that I am now 23.   Tomorrow will be my seventh anniversary.   It is incredible that I have been married to my beloved husband Richard for seven years tomorrow.   What a joy it has been!   Richard’s occupation has made our endeavors prosperous.   As a wigmaker—the best in the colonies—Richard works diligently.   Today, he measured five men’s heads in order to make wigs for them.   As well, Richard bought hair from seven different ladies.   O

Today my juniors and seniors created some new words from the roots, prefixes, and suffixes they were studying for this unit. Can you guess the meanings of the following? Once upon a moon's eclipse, there lived an 1.) abautoite man. He could see where his body was going to go and stop it when it got there. His wife was 2.) contravidurely intended not to believe him until one day they became 3.) interquetuded. They died. 1. abautoite=to stay away from oneself 2. contravidure=to see the opposite 3. interquetude=being equal among oneself The loquacious 1.) perilogite, who always seemed to be talking, was discussing a nebulous topic. He seemed to believe he had 2.) intervisitare into this intense topic of 3.) interphyrites. 1. perilogite: one who reasons around 2. intervisitare: act of seeing between 3. interphyrites: one who is around nature My most favorite author is an intergramite who writes marvelous tales about contravisures of political views. One story tells of a