Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Agenda February 29

1 Worksheet Activity Velocity/Acceleration Graphing Review due today Graded on completeness

Sadie Hawkin's Day Look up the Reliant K song "Sadie Hawkin's Dance

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Agenda February 28

1 Activity Measuring Different Speeds of a Bowling Ball
2 Video Eureka Day 2 (any we didn't see, you need to watch on YouTube) due on Friday March 2

The first part of vacation I spent in Palm Desert with my family at my Dad's place. We played bocce ball and we went snow skiing in the nearby mountains. The middle of the week was spent here at school packing up some cupboards for the move. The Science Building is going up. The end of the week was spent in Santa Rosa where my wife and I put in new sprinklers and pruned trees. I have dined well all vacation but one of the nicest things was to come back to school and have a student ask me if I had lost weight.

Agenda February 27

1 Journal 79 Acceleration
2 Combine the two Speed of a Marble labs and fix graphs if necessary
3 Video Eureka 1st Day

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Agenda February 18

1 Activity Speed of a Marble Long Distance
2 Check Journals for Chapter 9 Pre Read, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning
3 Check HW Chapter 9 Directed Reading

Great day at Miniatures Club learning the care and feeding of paint brushes using our new fleet of planes to practice on. I have another $100 of planes I want and that isn't counting the bombers. Sigh. Well there is next year.

I am off to Southern California to ski with my dad and daughters.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Agenda February 16

1 Journal 78 Speed and Velocity
2 Activity Speed of a Marble on the Marble Rolling Ramp of Science (yes this looks like Journal 15) due today

Agenda February 15

1 Journal 76 Chapter 9 Constructing Meaning (done in class as a class activity) due Friday, Feb 17
2 Journal 77 Describing Motion

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Agenda February 14

Wearing of the Red
1 HW Chapter 9 Directed Reading Packet due Friday, Feb. 17
2 Journal 75 Chapter 9 Vocabulary (if time) due Friday, Feb. 17

The planes came in! Interesting to track the little guys. The were UPS Next Day Air. But come to find out that If an item is picked up on a Friday, next day does not apply. Watching their tracked movements, they most obviously came by truck. My favorite was they arrived in Sunnyvale of Feb 12 then left Sunnyvale to go to Salt Lake City and then back to San Jose and Sunnyvale all in a 24 hour period.

Agenda February 13

1 Trade and Grade Ch 8 Test
2 Return work
3 Journal 74 CH 8 Pre Read due Fri Feb 17

What a cool weekend. Got a visit from sister in law and niece for my wife's birthday. I got to visit the Hobby Expo in Petaluma. Battling Robots, Model planes, trains and automobiles, RC Tanks with guns and RC ships with guns. Way too many new hobbies to consider. A favorite was the 1/144 scale Zeppelin and the lady with the RC tanks who found out I have a farm (they need lots of room for their battles) asking me if I also had a BBQ. Hobbies are still just ways of sharing fellowship, conversation, and food.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Agenda February 10

1 Check Journals for Chapter 8 Pre Read, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning
2 Check Chapter 8 Directed Reading Packet
3 Turn in all the Chapter 8 Review and Enrich worksheets (especially if you haven't turned in the ones already collected)
4 Test Chapter 8 Standard 6 Chemistry of Living Things

Sorry no Miniatures Club today. I was very shocked to win the Golden Helmet Award for contributing to the Developmental Assets of our students. I am very proud that I was chosen by my peers. That means alot. I nominated 2 teachers myself so I know there are many deserving staff members out there.

Tomorrow is my wife's birthday. I hope she likes the gift. Ms Bazzini says it should always be jewelry. Not this time. But there is still Valentine's Day.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Agenda February 9

1 Turn in WS 8.2 Enrich Simple Hydrocarbons
2 Activity The Last Meal - Identifying Macromolecules
3 Chapter 8 Test tomorrow

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Agenda February 8

1 Video Mythbusters Worksheet due today
2 Turn in WS 8.1 Enrich "Charcoal"
3 WS 8.2 Enrich "Simple Hydrocarbons" due tomorrow
4 WS 8.3 Enrich "Degradable Plastic" due Friday Feb 10

Test is definitely Friday
Miniatures Club for this week is canceled. I have to be home by 5PM for a trip

I was not seated on a jury. The trial is scheduled to be done and to the jury by mid April which would mean no more Miniatures Club this year. I am glad that doesn't have to happen.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Agenda February 7

1 Journal 73 Life with Carbon
2 WS Chapter 8 Crossword Review due today
3 WS Chapter 8.1 Charcoal (Enrichment)due either today or tomorrow depending on class behavior.

I have Jury Duty Tomorrow so be good
Chapter 8 test will now definitely be on Friday

Agenda February 6

1 Journal 71 Carbon Compounds (continued)
2 Journal 72 Polymers
3 WS Rev Chapter 8 section 3 and 4 due Friday, Feb. 10
4 Activity Let it Snow

Friday, February 3, 2012

Agenda February 3

1 Activity Hydrocarbon Models due today
2 Now aiming at Thursday, Feb 9 for Chapter 8 Test

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Agenda February 2

1 Journal 70 Properties of Carbon
2 Journal 71 Carbon Compounds
3 Review WS Chapter 8 section 1 and section 2 due Friday, Feb 10

We are all set for the tournament on Saturday.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Agenda February 1

1 HW Chapter 8 Directed Reading Packet including ALL target Reading Skills due Friday, Feb. 10
2 Aiming at chapter 8 test next week about Friday