Week of Jan 13-17

               We are finally back from winter break in a new week, heres what we've been doing:

           On monday we switched math classes (some of us). This unit we are focusing on fractions and division. We also started Wordly Wise. We are on lesson 1, Wordly wise is vocabulary, understanding, spelling and grammar.
         Also on Monday we started spelling tests. Every Monday we do a Pre-Test and on Fridays we do a Post-Test. We have Twenty-Five words in total, and five challenge words.
        We have just finished our personal narratives. We started brainstorming ideas then we made a web. Then we wrote a rough draft. Next we edited and revised. Finally we were on  are final drafts. Some of us have Twelve pages on our drafts! We spend a while working on these. We looked at character description, setting description, dialogue and interesting details. And they were a big success.

 

        Also on Oregon Geography we learned the seven regions of oregon:
 the Coastal Range is where the Paciffic  ocean meets  Oregon,  the Klamath Mountains are right beneath the Coastal Range and above California , Willamette Valley is where we live, besides the Coastal Range and Cascade Mountains, Cascade Mountains touches every region we have located exept for the BlueMountains, next their is the Basin & Range Region borders part of California and part of Nevada, next is the Columbia Plateau is the biggest region in Oregon, and last their is the Blue Mountains (Also known as the Wallowa Mountains) which are in the upper right corner of Oregon.

        Now back to cities. We observed that the majority of the cities filled the Willamette Valley. None of these cities are in the Klamath Mountains Or the Basin & Range Region (or at least the ones we studied).These are the Thirty-Four cities we studied: Astoria, Albany, Ashland, Baker City, Bandon, Bend, Brownsville, Corvallis, Coquille, Coos Bay, Cannon Beach, Depoe Bay, Eugene, Enterprise, Florence, Grants Pass, Hood River, John Day, Jacksonville, Joseph, Klamath Falls, La Grande, Madras, McMinnville, Medford, Monmouth, Newberg, Newport, Oregon City, Pendleton, Pacific City, Redmond, Salem and Sisters. We all received a crossword with all the cities hidden in it and most of us are busy working on it.
      One of the biggest rivers is the Columbia river. It is the border between Oregon and Washington and flows into the Pacific Ocean. The Willamette river flows right through the Willamette Valley and ends up in the Columbia river. The John Day river ends at the North border and flows into the Columbia it is in the Columbia Plateau. The Deschutes river starts in the Columbia Plateau and also flows into the Columbia. And then the Snake river borders Idaho, Blue Mountains and the Columbia Plateau. The Umpqua river starts in the Cascade Mountains and flows through the Coastal Range into the Pacific Ocean. The last river is the Rogue river it runs through the klamath mountains to the Pacific ocean.
     These are the mountains we studied, The Three Sisters, Wallowa Mountains, Mt. Hood, The Steens Mountains, Mt Theilsen and Mt Washington.
     We recently added all the rivers, cities and regions to our Oregon Geography Wall. And we made little scrapbook pages about each mountain.
                                         
                                             So those are the highlights of are week.
                                                           By Philip & Renata