Agenda May 30

1 Video Laughing and Learning About HIV and AIDS
2 Check 3rd Trimester Agenda and Journal Check
3 Family Life Questions if time

Agenda May 29

1 Video Teens Talk AIDS
2 Family Life Questions

Agenda May 28

1 Video What Teens Want to Know About Sex
2 Family Life Questions
3 Turn in Text books by tomorrow

Agenda May 27

1 WS Sexually transmitted Diseases due today
2 Family Life Questions
3 Moving Family Life Test to either June 3 or 4
4 Third Trimester Agenda and Journal Check Friday, May 30
5 Bring in your text book

Miniatures Club - We will be trying Wooden War Armor (or Tanks).  Whichever sounds better.  Bring your tanks, artillery, and trucks.  I have infantry

Agenda May 23 Happy Birthday Katharyn

1 Parts Quiz
2 WS Menstrual Cycle due today
3 Activity Why Fertilization Won't Occur
4 May 30 Family Life Final Test 
5 May 30 3rd Trimester Journal and Agenda Check
6 Bring in your Textbook

Agenda May 22

1 Parts, Boys and Girls

Agenda May 21

1 Return Work
2 Disassemble Water Rockets
3 family Life Ground Rules
4 Family Life Questions

Miniatures Club will be playing Cruisers versus Cruisers again (with the DD's in as well).  I will have to determine if there is a need, desire, and availability to go to the wood shop one more time.

Agenda May 20

1 Water Rocket Lab Day 3 Launching

Agenda May 19

1 Water Rocket Lab Day 2 Construction (finish today)

Agenda May 16

1 Water Rocket Lab Day 1 Construction
2 Bring a nose weight of about 200g on Monday to finish this project.
3 20 bottles are still needed so please bring those in.  Especially period 2 and 5 who need to step up and do their part.

Miniatures was an all cruiser destroyer game.  We actually got in two games.

Agenda May 15

1 Collect Straw Rocket Lab Report and listen to excuses
2 Video Disney Imagineering Trajectory due today
3 I really want you to have the opportunity to launch water rockets so I am extending the deadline to before school on Friday.  This means build Friday and Monday and then launch on Tuesday.  However, if not enough bottles come in, we move on.

Agenda May 14

1 How to Build a Water Rocket
2 Straw Rocket Lab due Thursday
3 So far we have ten 2 Liter bottles.  70 more to go.

Mr Clauset's website with bottle rocket construction instructions:
 http://www.tclauset.org/21_BtlRockets/BTL.html

Agenda May 13

1 Straw Rocket Lab Day 2 - Show Hypothesis and Procedure; Do Experiment; Graph paper is available
2 Water Bottle Rocket Project - must have 80 bottles by Thursday or it will be canceled.

Agenda May 12

1 Straw Rocket Lab Day 1
Title, Purpose, Hypothesis, Background Info, Procedure
2 Upcoming water bottle rocket project:  Requires two 2 Liter bottles per group.  We must have 80 bottles total so all classes will have enough or this lab will be canceled.

Miniatures Club will play Wooden Warships this Friday.  We are still working on tanks, guns, and trucks but on our own at the moment.  I am working on The Great War (WWI) at the moment as this year is the 100th year anniversary of the start.

Agenda May 9

1 STAR/CST Day 2

Agenda May 8

1 STAR/CST Science Test Day 1
You have covered all this material.  Just remember it.

Miniatures Club in Wood Shop tomorrow (last day for tanks, trucks, and guns)

Agenda May 7

Wow.  PTSA Parents are the Best.  Thank you for the brunch.  I may not be able to eat until tomorrow.
1 Collect WS Temperature of Stars
2 Return Work
3 CST Release questions.  Check out one of these tonight please:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/cstrtqscience8.pdf

http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/previewtest?N/C/W/D/77351320186483
this one has the answers conveniently displayed.

Agenda May 6

1 8th Grade Physical Science Post Test.  While this could be considered a final exam it is actually the test taken in the beginning of the year.  It will be graded on completeness.  Hopefully you see you have improved.

2 Liter bottles are needed for next week.  We will need a minimum of 80 bottles so please bring those in as soon as you can.

Agenda May 5

1 WS How is a Star's Color Related to its Temperature? due Wednesday

Happy Birthday to my nephew Jacob and for Cinco de Mayo, I went old school red, white, and green for Italia.  Go Firenza.

Agenda May 2

1 Activity How do astronomers measure distance to stars? due today
2 Moving due date for HW, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning to Monday.  Not enough time to do the activity and check the work due to Testing Schedule  Turns out this only applies to Period 2.
Bring Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue colors for Monday
Great work day in the wood shop for Miniatures Club.

Agenda May 1

1 WS Classifying Galaxies due today
2 WS The Stages in a Star's Life Cycle due today
3 Bring a red, orange, yellow, blue, green, and purple coloring tool (Crayons, colored pencils, and the like) for an activity on Monday.
4 Make up tests today after school.