January 11th Highlights

In Language Arts this morning, we continued to discuss goal setting, and examined the quotation: "Most people who fail at their dream, fail not from lack of ability, but from lack of commitment."
This means that quite often when we fail to achieve our goals, it is not because we could not accomplish them, but because we did not have the proper plan in place to achieve them.
When we wrote goals for the month of January, we also wrote out how we will achieve our goals. By writing down a plan with strategies, we are more likely to be able to accomplish what we set out to do. 

During Religion today, students were reflecting on the Annunciation, Epiphany, and the Magnificat. 
When we talk about the Annunciation, we are referring to the moment when the angel, Gabriel, appeared to the virgin Mary and announced that she was to bear a son and name him Jesus. 
Epiphany marks the end of festival season for most Christians. We celebrate this date on January 6th, and it celebrates the visit from the 3 Wise Men to the baby Jesus. 
The Magnificant is Mary's song of praise and thanksgiving. 

In our Classroom Chemistry unit in Science, today we started talking about methods for separating two liquids. If two liquids do not mix, they can be separated by decanting, which can be done using an eyedropper to separate one liquid from the other. When two liquids do mix with one another, but have different boiling points, they can be separating using distillation. This process is demonstrated in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXjuOKgUMo