Hello!!!
What a busy past couple of weeks we have had!!! We have not stopped or had a break! I am sorry that I was not on here last week to talk to you. The students have been learning about minerals and all the properties needed to identify a mineral. They got to test several different minerals for hardness, streak, cleavage/fracture, magnetism, and even looked at calcite's double vision! I had them listen to a song on you tube that a 6th grade teacher had written about minerals. They were singing it in the halls and have asked to see it again. The teacher is Mr. Parr and he has several songs out there that I let the kids listen too on our topics. They are really cool!!!
The students are taking an open book quiz today over minerals. The quiz has the headings from the book on it with the page numbers listed, too, so they can follow in the book exactly where they need to go to find the answers. I went over it with them to show them how it works. Sometimes, I will have an open book quiz like this. Other times, the students will use the notes we take in class to study from. If they don't get finished with the quiz today, then they can finish it up tomorrow. I was going to pick up where we left off yesterday, with igneous rocks, but I think we will show a video and look at some clips on United Streaming and Brain Pop. To me, that sounds like a good idea for a Friday. We can hit things again on Monday. Well, I think that gets us all caught up with our science class. I hope everyone has a great weekend!! Talk to you next week!!!
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