Thursday, March 21

Hello, All!!!

I am so sorry that I have not been on here in such a long time.  Things have been a bit crazy around here.  My son asked me to come to Arizona to help him pack up his house, so he could move back to Ohio, and bring back one of his cars.  He texted me on a Monday during lunch and my husband and I left that afternoon, when I got home from school.  We drove all the way through - 30 hours - and stayed the rest of the week.  It has taken be so long to get my sleep caught back up!  The end of the grading period was just around the corner and Terra Nova testing was the week I came back.  The kids seemed pretty confident about the science part of the Terra Nova, which is good to hear.  It is so hard to believe that we are in the last grading period of the year!!!!  Spring break is upon us, too!!!  Conferences are this evening and next Tuesday from 4-7 in the evening.  We have been working on cells - plant, animal, and unicellular.  Next week, the kids are going to be working on the body systems project.  Each group will be given a body system and they have to find certain criteria for the project.  I will be giving them a sheet on this on Monday and going over it with them.  It will take about a week to complete.  I am going to try to attach the directions to this blog site.  It will be at the top of the home page under the heading "Body", in case you want a copy, too.  Oh, I am still working on their cell models, so be looking for those grades in the computer soon.  They will be the first grade of the last nine weeks.  I was very happy with those models!!!  I have some really cool ones with some very creative organelles!!!!  It is so interesting for me to see what the kids can come up with each year.  Well, I think that is about it for now.  I will probably be back on here the week we come back from spring break.  Have a great break and I will talk to you soon!!!