Week 17

I may not have a chance to post these until later this week, so I thought I'd go ahead and post tonight what I plan to do tomorrow - if something changes, just look under this post for "comments" and I'll post changes there. I'll see you bright and early in the morning!

History Sentence: Tell me about the leaders of WWII
Music: Pretend to blow a tuba
WWII: ASL "W - W - 2"
AXIS leaders were: cross arms in front of body, like an X
Hitler: finger under nose for straight moustache
of Germany: drive car (like Volvo)
Tojo of Japan: karate moves
and Mussolini: forcefully pretend to hold a staff (as in dictator)
of Italy: kick foot (our sign this year for Italy, as it looks like a boot on the map)

WWII: ASL "W - W- 2"
ALLY leaders were: clasp hands above head (as in victory)
Churchill: two hands fingertips touching (as in a rooftop of a church)
of England: pretend to sip tea (our sign this year for England)
Roosevelt: ASL "R"
Eisenhower: touch eye
and MacArthur: salute
of the U.S.: point to where we are standing (our sign this year for U.S.)
and Stalin: use fingers to draw a moustache
of the U.S.S.R.: pretend to pound hammer (their flag has a hammer)

English: So Rise and Shine
A noun, a noun, a noun names a person, place, thing...activity, or idea

Math: To the tune Wheels on the Bus
The circumference of a circle equals 2 pi r, 2 pi r, 2 pi r, the circumference of a circle equals 2 pi r...for all circles!

Geography: Jesus Loves Me
Germany (drive car)
Switzerland (hands look like mtn tops)
Austria (hands on hips)
Hungary (rub tummy)
Czechoslovakia (draw a check in the air)
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Hungary
Czechoslovakia

Science:
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion states that
force (pretend to push)
equals mass (stretch arms out wide)
times acceleration (run in place)

Timeline: see email with attachment of hand motions
1. The Monroe Doctrine
2. Traveling the Erie Canal
3. Jacksonian Democracy
4. The Cotton Gin Establishes the South
5. Slavery in the South
6. The Cherokee Trail of Tears
7. Remember the Alamo
8. Westward Expansion

Latin: song (we'll take turns singing into the microphone - this seemed to work well last week)

Fine Arts: Degas