Spring has Sprung!

This week many homerooms were out enjoying the warm weather.  Green-up has only just begun but the sounds of spring are in full force.  As the weather continues to improve, we will be spending more and more time outdoors.  Lab Tech will start working in the garden when we have finished constructing our Rube Goldberg machines.

Science classes are in the midst of a big summative project about using different kinds of energy (kinetic, electrical, nuclear, chemical, and thermal).  This will be due Tuesday (3/20 )of next week with only a quick check in on Monday so much of the final polish work should be done at home over the weekend.

Speaking of work to do over the weekend, here is homework week 4

Here is the link to BrainPop's Kinetic Energy

Finally, here is the quiz for BrainPop so you don't have to do all that writing.

Before next Friday, let me know the first official day of Spring for an added table point!

Ahh the joys of doing homework during springtime!

Howdy!
     Here is a bunch of stuff for your homework...

Quarter 3 Week 1

Quarter 3 Week 2 ... again

Quarter 3 Week 3

BrainPop Week 1


BrainPop Week 2

BrainPop Week 3

And Now... SPRING! Whoo Hoo!  For those who are bummed that your friends in other schools are on break right now, just think of May.  All May (OK, 3 weeks in May) you are off having fun but only in warmer weather and more sunlight!  And for those who were inconvenienced by any delay in this posting, Tell me who should "beware the ides of March" by this Thursday (the 15th), and I will give you a table point.

Russo

Here come the Snow People

Hi again everybody!
     So This week's homework has some exciting pieces.  Want to see a copy?  Here ya go... Quarter 3 Week 2.  Forms of Energy of BrainPop and BrainPop Quiz. 

This week we got our science notebooks organized for Quarter III.  We documented our new vocab words:  Energy and Forms of Energy (Kinetic, Chemical, Electrical, Nuclear, Thermal).  We are also comparing and contrasting non-fiction texts. 

On Friday, the homerooms made snow-people.  It was gratifying so see almost 100 kids playing in the snow creating, working together, and enjoying each others creations.  Have a look.

Homework week 9 in advance!

I am trying to get the homeworks online before I hand them to students so........


Homework week 9

Brain Pop on Nuclear energy

Here is a link to the brainpop quiz on Nuclear Energy

Hi there everybody...
     first things first... here is the link to week 8 homework  and its corresponding BrainPop on Isotopes 
and in fact here is the whole list of Brain Pops so you can see more!

BrainPops

more BrainPops

Even More BrainPops

and I can't believe there are even more BrainPops

These are through a publishing company whose textbooks we use.

In other news... we had our family fun food fiesta last night and it was a lot of fun.  Over 100 folks showed up.  We ate, drank, learned new food ideas and flung grapes from a catapult.  Pictures are coming as soon as I can find the camera.

Quarter 2 Week 7 homework

In all the skiing excitement, I neglected to upload your homework and include the BrainPop link so...



Quarter 2 Week 7 homework




BrainPop on Weathering

Week 6 homework and

Hi there everyone,

First, the ski trip forms are due on Monday (Jan 9th, 2012) and it would be a shame to miss out on a day of fun in the "snow(?)"

Second here is week 6 homework and the Brain Pop on the Water Cycle... to bad it is not the ice or snow cycle or else we may get some snow our way too!

Third.  We start to use Dry Ice to explore how molecules work.  This will help us understand heat better when we explore that 3rd quarter.  Students will be inquiring what, how and why dry ice behaves the way it does.