Today's lesson continued the focus on African Kingdoms. Mercer reviewed material about the kingdom of Kush, known as a Nubia located now in Sudan. Mercer learned about the Kushites trading with ancient Mesopotamia and India. He read material about the use of hieroglyphics, mummy dressings, and how iron was a resource that made this kingdom very wealthy. Mercer spent the remainder of the class learning facts about pandemics that affected many people during this era.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Today's lesson continued the focus on African Kingdoms. Mercer reviewed material about the kingdom of Kush, known as a Nubia located now in Sudan. Mercer learned about the Kushites trading with ancient Mesopotamia and India. He read material about the use of hieroglyphics, mummy dressings, and how iron was a resource that made this kingdom very wealthy. Mercer spent the remainder of the class watching fun facts about pandemics that affected many people during this era. Mercer was on task.
Today's lesson continued the focus on African Kingdoms. Mercer reviewed material about one of history's most wealthy people in the world to this day. Mercer learned that he lived from 1280 to 1337 and is considered the king of Timbuktu because of his influence on the city's commerce and culture. He also owned the Bambuk gold mines, which account for more than 50 percent of today's world supply. Its territory produced half of the world's gold stock. So it is not hard to believe that his wealth cannot be expressed in dollars, euros, or any other amount of currency. Mercer spent the remainder of class learning fun facts about kings in Africa.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Today's lesson continued the focus on African Kingdoms. Mercer reviewed material about one of history's most wealthy people in the world to this day. Mercer learned that he lived from 1280 to 1337 and is considered the king of Timbuktu because of his influence on the city's commerce and culture. He also owned the Bambuk gold mines, which account for more than 50 percent of today's world supply. Its territory produced half of the world's gold stock. So it is not hard to believe that his wealth cannot be expressed in dollars, euros, or any other amount of currency. Mercer spent the remainder of class learning fun facts about kings in Africa. Mercer was on task.
Student completed the identification of actions or occurrences as Potential energy or Kinetic energy. Then he added the illustrations to his Science notebook. Then we learned about the different forms of energy such as sound, chemical, thermal, electromagnetic, nuclear, and electrical energy. He they added the illustrations to his Science notebook. Next we learned the Law of Conservation of Energy which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be change into a different form.
Assignment: Add pictures and definitions of new vocabulary to science notebook.
Lesson 1 Introduction to Energy: We reviewed Gravitational, Elastic, and Chemical Potential energy. We reviewed that as weight and height increase so does the GPE and as speed and mass increase so does KE.
Reading Comprehension Literature Spelling Wordly Wise
Lesson Outline
We reviewed Wordly Wise words in preparation for his first test. We reviewed spelling words for his test. He must remember to take his spelling notebook home in order to complete his homework. We began reading and discussing chapter 4 of, "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." He worked on a Wordly Wise activity examining meanings, usage, and derivations of this week's words. We had another lesson on cursive writing.
Lesson 1 Introduction to Energy: We learned about the different forms of Potential energy such as Gravitational, Elastic, and Chemical Potential energy. We discovered that as weight and height increase so does the GPE and as speed and mass increase so does KE.
