Hello!
I am home sick today, but I wanted to let everyone know what we have been doing this week and what we are going to be doing next week. We have been working on our rocks/minerals projects this week and working on lab activity papers to help with our understanding of rocks and minerals. Some of the papers the students complete will be turned in to me and some they will keep in their folders to be turned in at the end of the grading period for extra credit. We have more notes to take before we will be ready for the next test. I will put on here next week, when that test will take place. I do know that there will be questions on that test that cover minerals again, because many students did not do very well on that first test. I have some lessons on my Smart board that I want to use with the students, before we take the test. They will be taking notes from those lessons, too. I am hoping that our projects will be completed by Monday or Tuesday of next week, so we can begin the oral presentations. I will be on here next week to let you know on what day the oral presentations will start. Have a good weekend!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Week of Sept. 17, 2012
Hello, Everyone!
This week we are still working on our study of rocks. We will be starting our rocks and minerals project. The students have been given the directions for the project and we discussed what they will need to have in order to complete it thoroughly. Each student will have their own part in the project. Their information will be put on their class wiki. The wiki can be looked at by going to the internet. The students have the address for their particular class wiki. I hope you get the chance to see it. If your child looses his/her directions, then another copy can be printed off from the wiki. They will always have access to a copy of the directions this way. We will be working on these projects through next week and I will have other assignments for them to complete during this time, too. We will be working on Smart board lessons and activity sheets.
Don't forget that picture day in next Tuesday, the 25th, and interims will be out next Friday, the 28th. I hope that you enjoy reading the blog and finding out what we are doing in science class. Please feel free to comment. I look forward to hearing from you. I will be on here again next week with an update. Talk to you then!
This week we are still working on our study of rocks. We will be starting our rocks and minerals project. The students have been given the directions for the project and we discussed what they will need to have in order to complete it thoroughly. Each student will have their own part in the project. Their information will be put on their class wiki. The wiki can be looked at by going to the internet. The students have the address for their particular class wiki. I hope you get the chance to see it. If your child looses his/her directions, then another copy can be printed off from the wiki. They will always have access to a copy of the directions this way. We will be working on these projects through next week and I will have other assignments for them to complete during this time, too. We will be working on Smart board lessons and activity sheets.
Don't forget that picture day in next Tuesday, the 25th, and interims will be out next Friday, the 28th. I hope that you enjoy reading the blog and finding out what we are doing in science class. Please feel free to comment. I look forward to hearing from you. I will be on here again next week with an update. Talk to you then!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Week of Sept. 10
Hello to all!!
I didn't get to post anything last week and I am sorry about that. It was a busy week with our study on minerals. The students have been taking notes and will use those to study for their test. The test over minerals will be tomorrow, Wednesday. I told them about it on Monday. I have two classes, 6th and 7th periods, that will not take the test until Thursday because I did not tell them about the test till today. I want to make sure that everyone gets two days to study for the test. We will start rocks next. There will be a computer project to go along with rocks that will have minerals in it, too. For this project, we will use the class wiki. Most students are already in the wiki. There are only a few that still need to get in. We have been doing a vocabulary word everyday as bellwork. After the first 10, I had the students write me a story using those 10 words. They will do a different activity after the next 10 words. I like to do something different to keep things interesting and fun. I guess that is about it for this week. I will be on here next week to let you know how things are going. I still need to get the paper to you for this address, too. Until next week.......
I didn't get to post anything last week and I am sorry about that. It was a busy week with our study on minerals. The students have been taking notes and will use those to study for their test. The test over minerals will be tomorrow, Wednesday. I told them about it on Monday. I have two classes, 6th and 7th periods, that will not take the test until Thursday because I did not tell them about the test till today. I want to make sure that everyone gets two days to study for the test. We will start rocks next. There will be a computer project to go along with rocks that will have minerals in it, too. For this project, we will use the class wiki. Most students are already in the wiki. There are only a few that still need to get in. We have been doing a vocabulary word everyday as bellwork. After the first 10, I had the students write me a story using those 10 words. They will do a different activity after the next 10 words. I like to do something different to keep things interesting and fun. I guess that is about it for this week. I will be on here next week to let you know how things are going. I still need to get the paper to you for this address, too. Until next week.......
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