Friday, March 30, 2012

Agenda March 30

1 Homework and Journal checks for Chapter 11 moved to Monday, April 2
2 Video Bill Nye Buoyancy
3 Video Bill Nye Flight
4 Chapter 11 Review WS packet due Tuesday April 3

Miniatures Club cancelled today

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Agenda March 29

1 Bernoulli Day Activities

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Agenda March 28

1 Video Bill Nye Pressure

Agenda March 27

1 Activity Mystery Canisters Density and buoyancy with film canisters and sand
2 WS Isobars and Pressure

Monday, March 26, 2012

Agenda March 26

1 Turn in Video Project
2 HW Chapter 11 Directed Reading Packet No Target Reading due Friday, March 30

Had a great game day on Friday and we got a visit from Matt Gilbert. Good luck on your interview in Arizona. Mario, and Justin came with me to play DBA at the South Bay Game Club. Marion also brought Micah and Daniel. The normal members were very impressed with both their skill and their politeness. One fellow commented after the guys had left that that was the only time he had played a young person and won because the young person had bad luck. That was high praise.
Had a great week with Kendra and got her off to school for the last quarter. Katharyn was a bridesmaid for her college roommate in Orange Co. and we enjoyed the rain at home.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Agenda March 23

1 Trade and Grade Chapter 10 test
2 Journal 86 Chapter 11 Pre Read due Friday, March 30
3 Journal 86 Chapter 11 Vocabulary due Friday, March 30
4 Journal 86 Chapter 11 Constructing Meaning due Friday, March 30

Take Element Poster/Models home
Video Project due Monday

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Agenda March 22

1 Chapter 10 Test Forces

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Agenda March 21

1 Video Bill Nye Motion
2 Check Chapter 10 Review WS Packet
3 Trade and Grade Bill Nye
4 Test Chapter 10 tomorrow

A note as a result of today's team meeting. Any student with a U for 3rd trimester in Work Habits and/or Citizenship will not be attending the Great America Field Trip. When polled, all 8th grade teachers said they give a U in Work Habits if the student has earned a grade of F.
Related to that is my end of 3rd Trimester late and missing work policy. The last day to turn in ANY late or make up work for 3rd Trimester is Tuesday, May 29. Do not ask for any papers or what you can do to fix your grade after Friday, May 25. You need to address this issue in the beginning of May which is a little less than a month and a half away.
About Citizenship. This is a qualitative grade except for me and chewing gum. If you are caught in my class or any other place on campus chewing gum, then you fit under my rules about gum chewing. Please see my beginning of the year rules about this.
Any questions? email me.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Agenda March 20

1 Activity Momentum of Colliding Cars
2 Trade and Grade Bill Nye Video Gravity

Monday, March 19, 2012

Agenda March 19

1 Trade and Grade Bill Nye Balance and Friction
2 New Seats
3 Video Bill Nye Gravity

Grades for second trimester are due into the office today. Students should not wait until the end of a trimester to fix their grades. Last day this trimester for make up work to come in will be the day after Memorial Day. Don't ask for missing papers. Just don't lose them.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Agenda March 16

1 State Hearing Test
2 Check Journal 81, 82, 83, and Chapter 10 HW
3 2nd Trimester Journal and Agenda check (all the way back to Nov 14)
4 Chapter 10 Review WS packet with 2 pages on Newton's Laws4

Good news at our house. Our daughter Got re hired as a teacher for next year at Loma Prieta. More news to follow.

We had a small but dedicated turn out for our first day at DBA miniatures. I ran 5 games simultaneously.

More on knee injury later

Agenda March 12

1 Activity Motion Stations Day 2

Short Periods all day due to Talent Show Assembly in the afternoon.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Agenda March 14

1 Activity Motion Stations Day 1
2 Agenda and Journal check moved to Friday
3 Aiming at Thursday Next week for Chapter 10 Test
4 New seats on Monday

Agenda March 13

1 Video Bill Nye Friction
2 Journal 84 Newton's 3 Laws
3 Journal 85 Law of Conservation of Momentum
Agenda and Journal Check moved to Friday

Monday, March 12, 2012

Agenda March 12

1 Newton's Laws Video Group Project Introduction due Monday, March 26
2 Video Disney Imagineering Newton's Three Laws due today
3 2nd Trimester Journal and Agenda Check on Wed. March 14

Agenda March 9

1 Journal 82 Chapter 10 Vocabulary due Friday March 16
2 Journal 83 Chapter 10 Constructing Meaning due Friday March 16
3 Video Bill Nye Balance

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Agenda March 8

1 Activity Sticky Sneakers due today
2 HW Chapter 10 Directed Reading (including Target Reading Skills on p 175, 180, and 187) due Friday march 16

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Agenda March 7

1 Trade and Grade Chapter 9 Test Standard 1 Motion
2 J 81 Chapter 10 Pre Read due Friday March 16
3 Bring shoes/sneakers for tomorrow's activity

Agenda March 6

1 Test Chapter 9
2 Turn in Chapter 9 Review WS's completeness

Agenda March 5

1 J 80 Energy
2 Trade and Grade Graphing Acceleration and Velocity WS
3 Chapter 9 Review WS Packet due tomorrow

Agenda March 2

1 Activity Acceleration with real Skate board
2 Video Disney Imagineering Energy due today

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Agenda March 1

1 Activity Acceleration lab with Tech Decks due today
2 Work on those Graphing Velocity and Acceleration WS's from yesterday