Forty, the Ultimate Biblical Number

Bible Trivia is held on Friday's in the 7th & 8th grade classroom for devotions.  This past week the students answered the following questions...read the following 20 questions and see how you would do?  The results for the two teams from Friday are below.  Blessings ~

1) Who was told by God that rain would fall for forty days and forty nights?
2) Who boasted that he had 5x received the punishment of forty lashes minus one?
3) Who prophesied that the pagan city Nineveh would be destroyed in forty days?
4) What wise king reigned in Israel for forty years?
5) Who was forty years old when he married Rebekah?
6) What did Noah release from the ark after forty days?
7) With whom was God grieved for forty years?
8) Who was the target of an assassination plot by forty men?
9) Who was tempted by the devil for forty days?
10) Which prophet asked, "Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
11) Who pleaded with God not to destroy Sodom for the sake of forty righteous people?
12) What man-and-woman military leadership team gave Israel forty righteous people?
13) What food did the Israelites eat for forty years?
14) Who was in the midst of a cloud for forty days?
15) What did Moses receive after being with the Lord forty days?
16) Who explored the land of Canaan for forty days?
17) Why did God make Israel wander in the wilderness for forty years?
18) What leader did forty thousand Israelites muster under?
19) Who subdued the Midianites so that Israel had forty years of peace?
20) Who bragged for forty days in front of the Israelite army?

One team got 16 right and the other 15 right...close call.  Very proud of these kids and the knowledge they have of the Bible at this middle school level.

And, We Are Off!

The 2015-16 school year has begun for MVCA.  I am blessed with 7 students for grades 7th/8th in the morning and 7 students for grades 5th/6th in the afternoon.  So excited for these two classes and the activities we are going to get into over the next nine months!

How cool is it to have a lab on the first day of school!  Well, the 5th & 6th graders had just that...making observations with quantitative and qualitative data.

Even Mrs. Nelson has a first day of school photo.  I'm shown with my son and daughter, both MVCA students.  My daughter is in my classroom and my son is right next door ~ keeping close tabs on both of them all day long.  I don't know if they like it, but mom sure does!

Lesson Plans for 8/31 - 9/4

Lesson Plans for August 31st - September 4th

Videos for US History ~ Chapter 1

Cahokia Mounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-u9FBBnhc


How Portugal Became the First Global Sea Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdO0QTmxIU


Roanoke: The Lost Colony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0l6EO4BH0

Khan Academy - Pre Algebra Review for 8th Graders

Since your online Algebra I class does not begin until September 8th, you will review some pre-algebra concepts via Khan Academy.  You will find the link below.  Please work through all the videos and questions  in order...
1) Negative Numbers and Absolute Value
2) Factors and Multiples
3) Decimals
4) Fractions
5) Ratios, Proportions, Units, and Rates


https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra