Wednesday, November 28

Hello!

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.  The kids came back and said that the break went by way too fast! ha! ha!  Of course I reminded them that Christmas break was coming up in three weeks and three days.  Sorry about that.  We are still working with atoms this week.  My student teacher is having them review the parts of the atom and how to build the elements from the periodic table.  On Friday, there will be a quiz over the 12 vocabulary words and the parts of the atom.  There will also be an extra credit part, where the students will be given an element from the periodic table and put into a model the correct number of protons, neutrons, and electrons.  They will use the information given from the periodic table to figure out these numbers.  I worked on this with them yesterday, because Miss McFarland was ill and left early.

Next week, we will be wrapping up atoms.  The students will be writing a song with the vocabulary words and the test will be at the end of the week.  Miss McFarland will be reviewing with them everything they need for the test.  She will tell them, next week, what they need to study from, so they can study at home.  I will give you more on that next week.  Well, that is about it for this week.  Until next week.........