Agenda February 28

1 Trimester 3 Agenda and Journal check
Agenda 10/31-2/17
Journals 31-7-
2 Check CH7 Marking the Text
3 Check Rules and Procedures and Equipment Managers for Trimester 3

Agenda February 27 Monday

1 J73 and J74 due Friday, March 10
2 HW CH7 Directed Reading with Target Reading p124 and 134 due Friday, March 10
3 CH7 Marking the Text due Tuesday February 28
4 Turn in Art Project if you still have it.
Make Up Test days will be Tuesday, February 28 and Thursday, March 2.  All after school.
Agenda and Journal Check for Trimester 3 on Tuesday, February 28
Agenda 10/31 - 2/17
Journals 31 - 72
Bring Rules and Procedures tomorrow

Agenda February 17 Friday. A Day Without Power

1 J72 CH7 Pre Reading due today
2 J73 CH7 Vocabulary due Friday March 3
3 J74 CH7 Constructing Meaning due Friday March 3
4 Turn in Art Project Speeding Up Chemical Reactions
5 Trimester 2 Agenda and Journal Check on Tuesday, February 28

An after the fact note.  I got a text message from PG and E that the power was back on here at school after 5:30.
I was told once that school without the internet is like school in 1979.  School without power is like school in 1879.  Fortunately, this class had lessons that were not technology dependent.  I think we forget that we live in a world that isn't totally harmless.  As the Editors of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote.  We are "Mostly Harmless".
I am concerned that the district, in a cost saving move, took out all of our land lines and attached all our phones to the internet.  You know, that thing that requires electricity.  When I asked the district person about this when it happened, he assured me that if it does, we can send notes to the office and that it wouldn't be out for that long anyway.  Thank goodness we didn't have any classroom emergencies.

Agenda February 16

1 Test CH6

Agenda February 15 Wednesday

1 Activity Video How to speed up chemical reactions or to get a date to the dance.  A TedEd video:

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-speed-up-chemical-reactions-and-get-a-date

Students will be making a mini poster showing how to speed up chemical reactions and the corresponding analogy to getting a date to the dance.

Agenda and Journal Check on Tuesday, Feb. 28

Agenda February 14 Tuesday Valentine's Day

1 Zinc + Hydrochloric Acid Single Replacement Lab "pop"
2 CH6 Test on Thursday
3 Miniatures Club meets on Thursday this week because I have to catch a plane on Friday evening.

Agenda February 13

1 Activity Manganese Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition and Catalyst Lab
2 CH6 Test on Thursday

We attended a funeral for the parent of my wife's colleague on Saturday (my wife's birthday).  It was a very nice service for a person I wished I had known.
We went to dinner with our children to a restaurant in Cow Hollow in SF.  The restaurant was really nice in a fun way but the food was disappointing.  It is called Bistro Aix.  The backroom had an Olive tree in an atrium setting and all the tables had been cut from the same large Cedar tree.
Then we went home and my wife went to bed with a fever.  Not the best birthday.  We were supposed to go to a murder mystery dinner theater on Sunday evening but she was too sick.  It is Monday and she still has a fever.
We did some calculations and we have had over 72" of rain since October (the beginning of the rainy season).  Additionally, we have averaged over and inch of rain per day since the first of the year at almost four feet.
Lastly, we are watching the Orville Dam closely.  We go by that location regularly on the way to Lake Almoner.