Agenda April 30

1 Video Bill Nye Outer Space due today
1 Video Bill Nye Comets and Meteors due today

95 degrees today.  Watch out for the dress code.
Miniatures Club meeting tomorrow at the beginning of lunch for safety tests on drill press and disk sander.

Agenda April 29

1 Activity Model of Planets' Orbit
2 Activity Expanding Universe Model
3 Make up Tests Thursday, May 1 after school.  Please sign up.

Agenda April, 28

1 Finish Test CH 12 and 13
2 Collect WS Video Sun, Earth, and Moon and Bill Nye Seasons
3 HW CH 14 Directed Reading No Target Reading due Friday, May 2
4 HW CH 15 Directed Reading No Target Reading due Friday, May 2
Yes I know that is only a week.  Bring it up with the lady at the district who set the schedule for testing.
Miniatures Club meeting at lunch on Thursday to take wood shop safety tests for drill press and belt sander. I am making drill press jigs this week

Agenda April 25

1 Test Chapter 12 and 13
2 J118 Chapter 14 Vocabulary due Friday, May 2
3 J119 Chapter 14 Constructing Meaning due Friday, May 2
4 J120 Chapter 15 Vocabulary due Friday, May 2
5 J121 Chapter 15 Constructing Meaning due Friday, May 2
6 The WS from the Bill Nye Seasons and Nat'l. Geog. Sun, Earth and Moon will be collected on Monday

Miniatures Club will be playing Wooden Warships with a different dice mechanic today.  The next 2 Fridays will see us back in the wood shop constructing armored divisions.

Agenda April 24

1 Activity Angle of the Sun's Rays (an oldie from the 6th grade which should go before the Reasons for the Seasons next year)
2 Test CH12 and 13 tomorrow

Agenda April 23

1 Activity Reasons for the Seasons (angle of the Sun's rays and Earth tilt)
2 CH 12 and 13 Test on Friday

Agenda April 21

Happy Birthday Dad  (He is 70 something today)
1 WS Video National Geographic Sun, Earth, and Moon due Friday April 25
2 WS Video Bill Nye Seasons due Friday April 25
3 due tomorrow CH12 and CH13 HW Directed Reading and CH 12 and 13 Vocabulary and Constructing Meanings

Spring Break saw a cold and an education on septic systems.  Easter Lunch after church with family friends

Agenda April 22

1 Video clip Bill Nye Phases of The Moon
2 Activity Phases of the Moon
3 Check Chapter 12 and 13 HW, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning

Internet very slow during our test of testing.  It took all period for my seating chart to appear on the attendance program during period 2.  It will be interesting to see what happens when all students are using our bandwidth.
muhahahaha

Agenda April 11

1 Test CH11
2 Check CH11 HW, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning
3 Check WS Video Bill Nye Buoyancy
4 HW CH 12 and CH 13 Directed Reading (no Target Reading) due Tuesday, April 22
5 J114 CH 12 Vocabulary due Tuesday, April 22
6 J115 CH 12 Constructing Meaning  due Tuesday, April 22
7 J116 CH 13 Vocabulary due Tuesday, April 22
8 J117 CH 13 Constructing Meaning  due Tuesday, April 22
9 Video Project due today

Agenda April 10

1 Activity Sink and Spill Measuring Buoyancy
2 CH 11 HW, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning due tomorrow
3 WS Video Bill Nye Buoyancy due tomorrow
4 Newton Video Project due tomorrow
I appear to have left off the Agenda for Friday, April 4  This agenda should have said:  Check CH10 HW, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning;  J110  CH 11 Pre Reading due that day; J111 CH11 Vocabulary due Fri. April 11; J112 CH11 Constructing Meaning due Fri. April 11; HW CH11 Directed Reading packet due Friday, April 11 with the CH11 Test on Friday, April 11

Agenda April 9

1 Activity Fountain in a Flask

Agenda April 8

1 Journal 113 Buoyancy Problems
2 Video Bill Nye Buoyancy  Worksheet due today

Open House tonight

Agenda April 7

1 Activity Bernoulli Day due today
2 Make up test day tomorrow after school
3 Spring Break - due to the testing schedule prescribed by District Director of Instructional Services Mala Ahuja, 8th grade Science has lost between 5 and 8 days of instruction before testing(it depends if you count hours or periods).  To help mitigate this, there will be homework over Spring Break.

If you are leaving early for Spring Break, come by on Wednesday to get your work.  Remember to turn in your Newton Video Project before you leave.

Agenda April 3 (yes I will accept the inevitable passage of time)

1 Turn in Activity Newton's Second Law Lab (the second one)
2 Test Chapter 10 CA Standard...

HW, J104 and J105 due tomorrow
You have GOT to do your project this week.  It is due Friday April 11
Miniatures - I am thinking up something for shore installations for tomorrow.

Agenda April 2 (or march 33)

1 Activity Newton's Second Law Lab with Hot Wheels cars (second try)
I moved the test to tomorrow because I think there is a better way to do yesterday's lab. 
2 Chapter 10 Test tomorrow

Miniatures Club - Flags for ships will be added this week to the smoke and reefs.  The Swiss and Paraguayan Navies will be fighting it out.  Or, just shoot at the white ships.

Agenda March 32 ("Wait. What?"Kendra)

1 Activity Newton's Second Law Lab with Hot Wheels
2 Video Clip Bill Nye Centripetal and Centrifugal Force from Spinning Things)
3 Video Clip Misconceptions about falling bodies from Veritasium
4 Return Work
5 Test Chapter 10 tomorrow

Kendra sent me a picture of her kitchen after the Friday 5.1 earthquake in La Habra.  The epicenter was 2 blocks from her apartment.