Agenda May 29

1 Guest Speaker Day 4 Answering Anonymous Questions
2 Turn in textbooks to the library

Agenda May 28

1 Guest Speaker Day 3 Birth Control and Healthy Relationships
2 Turn in Textbooks to library

Agenda May 27

1 Guest Speaker Day 2 STD's
2 Last Day to Turn in Textbooks.  Everything else goes straight to the library.

These next 2 weeks will really fly.  Make certain you check your grades tomorrow as I will be updating through out the day.

Agenda May 26

1 Guest Speaker Day 1 Parts is Parts and intro to STD's
2 Turn in Textbooks today.
3 No one leaves during the presentation

Went on a food tour of Sonoma.  The plaza there is where California started and at 8 acres, the largest of its type in the state.  We went to a number of restaurants and food shops.  My favorite was the chocolate shop.  Big surprise right?

Agenda May 22

1 Check T3 Agenda and Journal
Agenda 3/2/15 - 5/22/15
Journal 82 to 117
Tomorrow is my eldest daughter's birthday!

Agenda May 21

1 Day 4 Water Bottle Rocket Launching
2 Remember Agenda and Journal Check on Friday

Miniatures Club is an open game day with the Battle of the Atlantic and a Fantasy Role Playing game on the agenda

Agenda May 20

1 Day 3 Water Bottle Rocket Nose Cone and Decoration
2 Trimester 3 Agenda and Journal Check Friday, May 22
3 Make up Tests continue today at lunch
4 Promotion Speech Tryouts today after school
5 I am posting Citizenship grades this week but they can change.

Agenda May 19

1 Day 2 Water Bottle Rocket Strapping, Fins, and Nosecone
2 Trimester 3 Agenda and Journal Check on Friday, May 22
3 Make up tests continue on Wednesday

Agenda May 18

1 Day 1 Water Bottle Rocket Project

A great time for a graduation.  My daughter is officially done.  Next up is son in law on June 13

Agenda May 15

1 Test Chapter 12 through 15

Agenda May 14

1 Check Homework, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning for Chapters 12 through 15
2 Check all six Bill Nye Video worksheets
3 Check Astronomy Activities
4 Test CH12 - 15 on Friday

I still do not have enough 2 liter bottles to do the rocket activity for all classes.  Please send/bring them in.
No Miniatures Club this week.  I am going south for my daughter's graduation from graduate school.

Agenda May 13

1 Trade and Grade Astronomy Activities
2 Test CH12 - 15 on Friday.  Make ups will be Monday

Agenda May 12 51215-a palindrome

1 STAR Test day .  There is some discussion about where and when the scores for this test are posted.  We cannot find last year's scores.  Anyone out there get them last year?
2 CH12 to 15 test will be Friday this week.  Look up the CA Standard for Astronomy in your Science Textbook.  The test was generated from those 5 standards.
3 2L bottles are due in by Wednesday for the Water Bottle Rocket Project.We have 8 total.  We need 80.
Here is a link to the teacher's website we use to construct the rockets.
http://tclauset.org/21_BtlRockets/BTL.html

Agenda May 11

Happy Belated Mother's Day to all the moms of my students
1 STAR Test day 1.  Yes, it is finally here.  Everything on the test, I have covered.  I have covered way more than the test covers but that is because we are getting students ready to move on to high school not just finish middle school.  But enough.
2 CH12 to 15 test will be either Thursday or Friday this week.
3 2L bottles are due in by Wednesday for the Water Bottle Rocket Project.

Agenda May 7 and 8

1 Review Force and Motion and Investigation and Space
2 Activity: How do Astronomers Measure Distances to Stars?
3 Activity: The Expanding Universe Model
4 Activity: How is a Star's Color Related to its Temperature
5 WS Classifying Galaxies
6 Bring in 2L bottles by next Wed., May 13
I have recovered from yesterday's food hangover and my daughter made it safely to Southern California to take her last final in her masters program.

Agenda May 6

1 Review Motion and Forces
2 Check CH12, 13, 14, and 14 Pre Reading
3 Return Work
4 Request for 2L bottles for Water Bottle Rocket Project.  I need 2 per group by next Wednesday, May 13.
Thank you to all of you who donated to the Teacher Appreciation Brunch.  I, once again, managed to achieve a "food coma" and slept it off during my prep.  How many waffles was that?

Agenda May 4 and 5

Happy Star Wars Day and Happy Cinco de Mayo
1 Activity Model of Planets' Orbit due today
2 Activity Planet Speed Around the Sun
3 Check Pre Reading if time
4 Return Work if time
5 Finish Video if time
Bring colored writing tools for activity on Thursday/Friday

Agenda May 1

1 Activity Angle of the Sun's Rays
2 Check Pre Reading moved to Wednesday next week
Next week is block schedule except for Wednesday.

Good day on the race track.  Shaylin won at Daytona