Wednesday, May 10, 2017

In U.S. History, we covered a great decade for out nation...the 80s.  As we are now getting into the 90s, the students are realizing why our current culture is so corrupt.  We are reaping what we have sown.  We studied highlights such as the Challenger disaster, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Desert Storm Operation...which happened when I was in 5th grade.  I feel old!

Mr. Kipfer has moved onto our current culture and how it clashes with Christianity.  Topics such as abortion, homosexuality and addictions can be pretty sad to study...however Mr. Kipfer does a great job of telling funny stories and cracking jokes to keep things light.

In M.S. Health, we finished our Unit on drugs and alcohol.  We are doing some outside research on healthy eating and diseases for the next few weeks.  We plan to review the entire 9 weeks with a final the last week of school.

In Economics, the students did a fantastic job being entrepreneurs!  We had a "KA Karnival" day on May 9.  The activities and goods included Lego sales, face painting, farm animal petting and pictures and Taco Cookies.  Congrats to Payton, Makayla, and Rachel for being the most lucrative business!  They made 115 dollars, but more important than money (monopoly money), everybody had a blast! 

In Chemistry, we are finishing the book learning a concept called REDOX reactions.  We plan to use the last 2 weeks to review everything we learned this past year with a worksheet packet.

In Physics, magnetism finished the book.  As we review, I think back on how it has been a great year with the 3 Juniors (Gretchen, Deena, and Tim) and we got into many good discussions in class...some about Physics and some about life.  We will miss these 3 Juniors as next year, they will be dual crediting all their classes and not attending KA. :-(

Have a great and safe summer everybody!

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