Weekly Review – December 1st

Weekly Review – December 1st

We have been very busy recently with Thanksgiving and have not updated our weekly review for a while.  We hope you had a happy Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it) and our class is looking forward to the holiday season. The 6th grade is wondering why there has been no snow around our area recently.

In humanities, we just finished watching a video about medieval cathedrals in the Gothic style, mainly in France. It really taught us how medieval people felt about their religion. We learned how people made stained glass and how it took between 50 and 70 years to build a cathedral. Part of the walls of the first cathedral in the video fell down because the stone was too weak.  After replacing the stone, the people built a very tall spire to be closest to God. Cathedrals were not just used for religion but were places where education and trade took place and where the poor and needy were helped. Legal documents were stored there and of course, praying to God and learning about religion from looking at the paintings, the carvings and the pictures took place.

This week we completed our last edublogs challenge. We had fun doing all the challenges and learned a lot about attribution and copyright law. Out of the ten challenges, we completed six. Our class began this challenge the first week of school in September. We still have to decide if we want to take part in the next challenge in March. This is also the time to nominate blogs that people enjoyed.

On Tuesday, we had our last community service day where each student went to a place to volunteer. The places we went to are, two food kitchens, a day care center, a senior residence and outdoor trail sites. The entire  middle school has given 1,376 hours of community service to help others since September.

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