Week 10, 5/27 to 5/31

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 Last updated on Friday, May 31, 2013, 3:48pm

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday - Memorial Day - No School. HW - Have a great weekend! Tuesday - Sixth graders are getting ready for Thursday's Youth Summit field trip.  They need to analyze their water quality data as they learn what their water quality parameters mean. (Here's the book with water quality information on Chapter 4, here's a graphic organizer for taking notes, and here's an organizer for determining how Chimacum Creek is doing).  HW - If you have not finished your Salmon Webquest, macro comic book, tree planting blog or your water pollution public service announcement  then it's homework. Also get anything you need to finish your water quality stewardship poster for Thursday's field trip. Wednesday - Last day for teams to complete their posters for tomorrow's sharing circle presentations! HW - Finish your poster and bring a WASTE FREE lunch! Thursday - Today 6th graders will be at the GreenSTEMs Youth Summit all day! HW - None Friday - Today 6th graders had to determine where they are on what they need to get done this year.  Some are having to revisit their water quality parameter using the Everything Water eBook or using the websites to finish their notes and learn their parameter. Some are watching the graphing video at home to graph their data for the two weeks we visited the creek AND going back to 2002. Some are ready to start planning their stewardship website (which will include information about water pollution, benthic macros, salmon, water quality, tree planting with photos of the tree planting and the water quality testing plus the graphs). Teams will build a site using Google Sites as their final project! HW - Watch the graphing and using Google Sites videos!

8th grade Science Monday - Memorial Day - No School. HW - Have a great weekend! Tuesday - Some teams still need to present their plant projects to the class. I will give them some time to refresh their memories after being gone all last week. 5th period set fish traps today. Then they will complete their plant unit by completing reflection blogs. HW - None Wednesday - Today 2nd period teams still need to present. In 5th period all teams are done so everyone will be working on their plant project ref. 5th period will retrieve the fish traps to id and count the fish. HW - None Thursday - Sub today. Work on your plant project reflection blog today while I'm gone with the 6th graders. Here's the assignment: Share whatever you created for your presentation, which includes what you learned from your research. You need to embed photos, pictures, drawings, snapshots of posters, Glogs, Prezis, movies or anything you created plus copy and paste anything you typed up. Include a full bibliography using easybib.com. Explain your experiment, the problem question, hypothesis and your conclusion. Include any photos of your experiment to help your readers. Here's how to write your conclusion: A is for the answer to the question, the conclusion.  E is for evidence I is for inaccuracies or sources of error. O is for observations U is what did you understand? And sometimes Y is to ask a pertinent question. HW - None Friday - Students had today to finish their plant project reflection blog.  HW - If you didn't finish in class, finish for homework.

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Week 9, 5/20 to 5/24

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 Last updated on Sunday, May 19, 2013, 7:45pm

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday to Friday - I will have a sub this week while I am at Odyssey with the 8th graders.  Sixth graders have finished collecting water quality data at Chimacum Creek so this week they will learn what their water quality parameters mean and what their data is telling us about Chimacum Creek (here's the book with water quality information on Chapter 4, here's a graphic organizer for taking notes, and here's an organizer for determining how Chimacum Creek is doing). Students will graph their data then get ready for the Youth Summit happening on May 30. HW - If you have not finished your Salmon Webquest, macro comic book, tree planting blog or your water pollution public service announcement  then it's homework.

8th grade Science Monday to Friday - Eighth graders will be at Camp David, Jr. for their Odyssey experience all week and I'll be there with them! See you Friday!  HW - None

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Week 8, 5/13 to 5/17

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 Last updated on Thursday, May 16, 2013, 2:58pm

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday - This week we will be going to Chimacum Creek to test the water quality today, tomorrow and Wednesday as long as it's not raining.   Students need to finish their Salmon Webquest to learn about salmon life cycles so they can start learning what their water quality parameters mean (including the data they are collecting!). HW - Get your May 30 Youth Summit permission slip signed and turned in. I handed those to you last week because I'll be gone to Odyssey next week, the whole week before our field trip. Make a note of, and keep, the waste free lunch sheet. This is a field trip that we need chaperones for so ask your parents if they want to come with us. If you have not finished your Salmon Webquest, macro comic book, tree planting blog or your water pollution public service announcement  then it's homework. Tuesday - Same as yesterday. HW - Same as yesterday. Wednesday - Same as yesterday - this is our LAST DAY going down to the creek to collect water quality data! HW - Same. Thursday - Today was everyone's last chance to get their Salmon Webquest done. As of today, it's homework. (4th period was really done yesterday because I didn't have them in Science today due to their Math testing. HW - Salmon Webquest if you didn't finish in class plus anything listed on Monday. Friday - Today everyone will start learning and becoming experts in their specific water quality parameter! This is the preparation kids need for the Youth Summit on May 30. HW - Same as above.

8th grade Science Monday - Eighth graders worked on plant projects for four weeks and last week they began presenting their research and experiments to their class.  Today we will have more presentations. HW - None unless you need to get your presentation ready. Tuesday - Same as yesterday. Once we're done with all the presentations then students will write their reflection blogs to share what they did. HW - None  Wednesday - No Science classes today so that 8th graders can work on their Odyssey preparation. HW - None Thursday - Same as yesterday. HW - None Friday - No Science again today for gear check. We will finish the last few plant project presentations when we return from Odyssey. HW - None

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Week 7, 5/6 to 5/10

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 Last updated on Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:42pm

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 8:37am 

2nd per - 8:41am to 9:33am 

3rd per - 9:37am to 10:29am 

Eagle Time - 10:33am to 11:00am

Lunch - 11:00am to 11:32am 

4th per - 11:36am to 12:28pm 

5th per - 12:32pm to 1:24pm 

6th per - 1:28pm to 2:20pm

6th grade Science Monday through Friday - This week we will be going to Chimacum Creek to test the water quality.  Students are also trying to finish their Salmon Webquest to learn about salmon life cycles so they can start learning what their water quality parameters mean (including the data they are collecting!). Fourth period is a bit behind so they will start going to the creek on Tuesday. Our schedule will be different Wednesday through Friday for MSP testing but it will not affect Science this week at all. HW - Get your May 30 Youth Summit permission slip signed and turned in. I'm getting these to you early because I'll be gone to Odyssey the whole week before our field trip. Make a note of, and keep, the waste free lunch sheet too. This is a field trip that we need chaperones for so ask your parents if they want to come with us. If you have not finished your macro comic book or your tree planting blog or your water pollution public service announcement  then it's homework.

8th grade Science Monday through Friday - Eighth graders have been working on plant projects for the past four weeks. This week they will begin presenting their research and their conclusions! Our schedule will be different Wednesday through Friday for MSP testing. Since 8th graders will be taking their Science test on Wednesday and their Math test on Friday then work with their totem groups to prepare for Odyssey they will not have Science class on Wednesday or Friday this week. HW - Anything you need to do to be ready to present this week.

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