Weekly Planning Sheet January 6th to January 10th

Grade 7 Weekly Planning Sheet

Monday, January 6^th to Friday, January 10^th, 2020

Happy New Year!! I sincerely hope that your Christmas break was a refreshing, restful time spent with family and friends and the Lord. I had a wonderful holiday and am ready and eager to return to the classroom where every day is one filled with the adventure of growing and learning together.
 

As we begin the 2020 part of grade 7, we have a few things to wrap up:

Christmas Homework Booklets:  Remember this? 

“I have created a Christmas Homework Booklet with the intention that children who are “bored” over the holidays will have something to keep their minds stimulated. I don’t mean for it to add extra stress on families who may already be stressed.J Students will be given a completion mark out of 10 and a 25 credit bonus when they return on Jan. 6^th, but I will just give an “excused” for those students who return the booklet with a note from their parents stating that they were too busy or unable to complete it.  (Parents could also email me.) “ Some parents have already emailed me.  Thank you! 

Weekly Challenge – Let’s start the year off by making intentional time for the Lord every day.  The challenge this week is to spend at least 15 minutes a day in worship, prayer, Bible reading or devotional reading.  I suggest you pick a regular time such as first thing in the morning or last thing at night, but I will allow you some flexibility in organizing your time to suit your lifestyle best.  In order to be more consistent in documenting this, I will require written evidence of this daily discipline.  Suggestions:  Use your agenda to record what you did each day on your “date” with Jesus.  If you are very techy, you can use an app to remind you each day and to even give you a week long Bible Study to work through.  You could use a calendar to mark off the days.  So let me be clear, on Monday, January 13^th, rather than just tell me your mark out of 7, you are going to SHOW me your mark out of 7.  No evidence.  No mark.  Got it? (P.S. this is going to be the way from now on.  Why? Because this is more what the Secondary will be like and I want to prepare you. You are ready for this!)

Social Studies:  We are going to do a bit of Contemporary World History this week.  I spent 5 days in New York City on a school trip with some of our high school students and visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum this Christmas. I realized that many students are uniformed about this piece of history.