Quarter 3, Week 5, 2/24 to 2/28

Daily Schedule (M, T, Th, F) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:38pm to 2:00pm Period 3 - 2:02pm to 3:25pm

Daily Schedule (Wed) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:28am Period 2 - 11:31am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:35pm to 1:16pm Period 3 - 1:19pm to 2:20pm

Mr. G's 6th-grade Homeroom Monday - Second Step Lesson with Mrs. Kaster. HW - None Tuesday - Garden Day! Wednesday to Friday - Students are working on the Student Podcasting Challenge. We have three groups already recording their podcasts!

6th-grade Science Monday to Thursday - We are going to start this week by having students finish their Heat Energy Transfer Claim, Evidence, Reasoning conclusions so they can publish their blog posts. Then we will begin the Hydro Dynamic Challenge. HW - Choose-A-Thon Pledge Sheet due today so that students can check in how they are doing getting sponsors. Those who got 1s or 2s on the Physics Test need to study to schedule a retake. Friday - Today 1st period will get Science because after lunch, during 2nd period, we will begin this year's Choose-A-Thon Cispus Fundraising event! If we finish early we will probably go to 3rd period so they might get some Science time today. No fish trapping this week - we had too much going on.

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Quarter 3, Week 4, 2/17 to 2/21

Daily Schedule (M, T, Th, F) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:38pm to 2:00pm Period 3 - 2:02pm to 3:25pm

Daily Schedule (Wed) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:28am Period 2 - 11:31am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:35pm to 1:16pm Period 3 - 1:19pm to 2:20pm

Mr. G's 6th-grade Homeroom Monday - No School - President's Day HW - None Tuesday to Friday - Students are still researching and writing scripts for the first podcasts as part of the Student Podcasting Challenge.

6th-grade Science Monday - No School - President's Day HW - Choose-A-Thon handouts including the Pledge Sheet went home with students Tuesday. Tuesday, students also found out how they did on last Friday's Physics Test! Ask your child how she or he did on the test. Tuesday and Wednesday - Teams will run heat energy transfer experiments and collect data with the EV3 bricks using the Data Logging part of the Lego Mindstorms software then write conclusions on their blogs. Thursday and Friday - Once we are done with the heat energy transfer data logging experiments, we will analyze the data so that students can write their Claims, Evidence, Reasoning conclusions. This week period 3 will set the fish traps one day, then return the next day to ID and count any fish we catch in the traps. We always return the fish to the creek.

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Quarter 3, Week 3, 2/10 to 2/14

Daily Schedule (M, T, Th, F) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:38pm to 2:00pm Period 3 - 2:02pm to 3:25pm

Daily Schedule (Wed) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:28am Period 2 - 11:31am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:35pm to 1:16pm Period 3 - 1:19pm to 2:20pm

Mr. G's 6th-grade Homeroom Monday - Second Step Lesson Today! Tuesday - Students are working on planning their first Podcast for the Student Podcast Challenge. HW - None Wednesday - Library Day! Thursday - Continue working on Podcasts. Friday - No School - Snow Make-Up Day

6th-grade Science Monday - Today students need to write and publish their Potential Energy Design Challenge blog posts. HW - Study for Thursday's Test. Tuesday and Wednesday - Students will be reviewing for the test with a self-paced Pear Deck and then a Classcraft Boss Battle to see how ready they are for Thursday's test. Thursday - Test Day! Those who finish their test before class ends can work on energy and forces Classcraft assignments. Friday -  No School - Snow Make-Up Day This week period 2 will set the fish traps one day, then return the next day to ID and count any fish we catch in the traps. We always return the fish to the creek.

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Quarter 3, Week 2, 2/3 to 2/7

Daily Schedule (M, T, Th, F) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:38pm to 2:00pm Period 3 - 2:02pm to 3:25pm

Daily Schedule (Wed) Homeroom - 8:50am to 9:32am Specialist - 9:35am to 10:25am  Period 1 - 10:28am to 11:28am Period 2 - 11:31am to 11:50am  Lunch - 11:50am to 12:35pm Period 2 - 12:35pm to 1:16pm Period 3 - 1:19pm to 2:20pm

Mr. G's 6th-grade Homeroom Monday - Today Mrs. Kaster will begin a series of Second Step lessons with our homeroom class! HW - None Tuesday - Today is our Garden Day! Wednesday to Friday - We are going to vote on the Minecraft Story Scene designs and the best ones will get printed!  Then we will begin working on the Student Podcast Challenge.

6th-grade Science Monday to Friday - This week teams should finish their Potential Energy Design robots, run the programs and collect data as well as calculate the potential energy and kinetic energy of their robot designs! This week we will also be responding to blog posts written by classes in New Mexico who are participating in this year's RiverXchange project. HW - Only on assignments that were not completed in class. This week period 2 will set the fish traps one day, then return the next day to ID and count any fish we catch in the traps. We always return the fish to the creek.

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