Parent Conferences

Parent conferences are scheduled for next week and reminder slips went home with students yesterday.

Wednesday (21)

 8:10AM - 2:50PM       Students attend school
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM       Conferences

Thursday (22)

8:00AM - 11:30AM Conferences
12:00PM - 3:30 PM Conferences
5:00PM - 8:00 PM Conferences

My goal is to keep it fairly brief, since I know that you need to chat with other teachers.

If you have any concerns, we can schedule for a later time when we may meet after school.   

Roller Coasters

Students are well under way to creating this year's crop of roller coasters, and what fun we have been having! Some teams are meeting in my room on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:00pm - 5:00pm to construct their project.

Twelve days to go and all projects should be done. Remember to bring them to school on either Wednesday (21) or Thursday (22) during parent conferences.

Keep up the good work!

View the video of students working at a workshop.

Check ... Check... Double Check

Spring break is a month away. YES! A month. It seems to have snuck up on all of us.

Make sure to be checking posted grades regularly so that any missing work gets completed and any work that you did complete gets entered into the gradebook.

If you haven't made your atom model and still need help, see me after school Thursday (2/23). We'll brain storm and see what we can create with the supplies that are in the classroom. It's much better to turn something thing in than nothing at all. Right?  :)

Round Two

On Thursday (2/23), we will take the second round of testing of the Periodic Table.

Study... study.... study!

:)

Time's A Fleeting!

We are nearing the end of February. Where did the month go?

Friday (17) Jack Whiting visited our classes to talk to us for engineering month. He works for Daimler/Freightliner in Portland. Students had fun assembling a spaghetti bridge to test the compression and tension of both spaghetti and linguine.

Thank you ! We had a great time.

We have finished the first of three attempts to pass the Periodic Table quiz. The second attempt to with be Thursday (23).

This week students will also be receiving the roller coaster packets for our state work sample. Please visit our class webpage that offers additional information. Roller coasters will be due on either Wednesday (3/21) or Thursday (3/22) during parent conferences. More information will follow.

Second Semester

It's here!! The second half of the school year.

Remember that there is no school on Monday because of Grading Day.

On Tuesday you will go to the gym to pick up your blue schedule. Look to see if any of your classes have changed. You will still be in my science class, but possible in a different period than when you have been attending.

You're half way through the year.  :)

Periodic Table

Students are fininsing their created Periodic Table. It is colored with eight different metal/ nonmetla "families" and four font colors representing the physical state. On a separate piece of paper, students are writing the full name of the element and its mass.

Next we will look for a pattern to help us be able to calculate how many protons, neutrons and electrons are found in each element.

For fun, listen to different vesions of songs listing the elements  plus one that lists them in order.

See! Learning is possible via music.  ;)

Go to the class homework page for the list to memorize. Remember. LOOK for patterns.. ;)