Tuesday February 26, 2013

Today the students will be working out of the science textbooks covering ecosystems.

Monday February 25, 2013

Today the students and I went through the "Ecological Interaction" notes.  You can find the link to those on the post below.

Power Points for Next Week

Click HERE to get the notes we will be going over Monday next week. (Ecological Interaction)

Click HERE to get the notes we will be going over next Tuesday. (Flow of Energy)

Friday February 22, 2013

Today was the Language Arts boot camp.

TEST LINK

Click HERE to go the test.

Thursday February 21, 2013

Today the students are taking their exams.  The grades will be posted on the gradebook sometime this afternoon.

Wednesday February 20, 2013

Toda y the studens finished up the 20 vocabulary words they had started on Tuesday.  We then played a review game for the test coming up tomorrow.

Happy 540th Birthday Nicolaus Copernicus

The man that questioned our place in the universe has a birthday today and is quite old I might add.

Click HERE for a biography of him.

Tuesday February 19, 2013

Today the students were handed their reviews for the upcoming exam on Thursday.  They were then asked to define 20 vocabulary words from the upcoming unit on ecosystems.

For the list of the words and definitions click HERE

Monday February 18, 2013

Today was a school holiday.  HAPPY PRESIDENT'S DAY!!!!

Friday February 15, 2013

The math benchmarks were today and it was a half day

Thursday February 14, 2013

Today was Math Camp and I went over length, volume and metric conversions with the students.  Click the links below to get the three different powerpoints that I covered during the class.

Measuring Length

Metric Conversions

Measuring Volume

Wednesday February 13, 2013

Today the students watched a video that introduced alot of ecosystem vocabulary words and took a video quiz on it as well. 

Tuesday February 12, 2013

Today the students and I looked at the sun/ocean interaction in the water cycle.  We discussed what would happen if we didn't have a sun or if we didn't have a ocean and the effects that either would have on the water cycle as a whole.
We also view a neat song thta would help the students understand the water cycle better.  Click HERE for the song.

Monday February 11, 2013

Today the students and I watched a video over the water cycle and the importance of water to how organisms interact and live in their environment.

Friday February 8, 2013

Today the students took the weather and climate notes that I had posted about a couple of days ago.

Thursday February 7, 2013

Today the students had a spiral quiz over their science spirals. 

The students then had a chance to catch up on their vocabulary words, workbook, and chapter reviews.
Click HERE to get the Health Stress Notes we took in class and will be having a test over Friday.

Wednesday February 6, 2013

I was out sick today but had the students work out of their textbooks on the chapter 3 review pg.c88 #1-25

Tuesday February 5, 2013

We looked at Weather/Climate Vocabulary
This is a picture of the vocabulary words and the three questions the studetns had to answer concerning each word:

 

We will be doing a vocabulary activity on Friday over these words

Monday February 4 ,2013

Today the students worked out of their notebooks on pg. 149, 156-158 and it was due before the end of class.

Tomorrow we are going to start a power point that will cover weather and climate and the differences between the two.  Click HERE to get the link to that powerpoint.  You are welcome to print it out. 

Spiral Quiz Next Wednesday

We are having a spiral quiz next Wednesday.  Make sure your table of contents is update.

Friday February 1, 2013

Today we looked at weather symbols and played an activity where the student had to match the symbols up with their definitions.

Click for HERE the link to the weather symbols we discussed today.