Tuesday

Today we began with devotions followed by a Bible lesson. The Bible passage was from John and it was about how John describes Jesus both as God's word and also through his actions. We then looked at Bible memory which is Galatians 5:22-23 (The fruit of the Spirit). This will be due Friday. In science we began a new unit on motion. The students should complete the packet if they did not in class. In math 8th grade took a test and 7th grade worked on their review on pages 108-110 as their test will be on Thursday. Finally in civics we began with an activity on how a bill becomes a law. I separated the class into the house of representatives and the senate and I was the president. I gave them "bills" and first they had to divide into committees to discuss their bill. They either killed the bill or then presented it to the rest of the house. They then voted. If it got the majority it went to the other house. They did the same thing. If it passed in both houses it went to me and I either vetoed or signed the bill. I sent some back to the houses where they voted again and from both houses got 2/3 to pass it. We also watched the School House Rock video called "I'm just a bill." They students did very well!! We then continued with a lesson on the powers of Congress. This was followed by a few questions on pg. 80 #1-6. This should be completed tomorrow as well.