Week 2, 9/8 to 9/12

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 Last updated on Thursday, Sept 11, 2014, 7:14pm

 Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 9:08am 

2nd per - 9:12am to 10:35am 

Lunch - 10:35am to 11:05am 

3rd per - 11:09am to 12:31pm 

4th per - 12:35pm to 1:25pm 

5th per - 1:29pm to 2:20pm
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6th grade Science Monday - We will start by reviewing the promises students came up with last week (3rd period is still working on it).  Then we will continue working on the observation vs inference activity. HW - None if you got all of last week's homework done: Parents signed up for Remind and Class Dojo, parents visited the Parent's Corner of my website and took the short info survey, got the Informed Consent Agreement and Permission to Publish form signed, and are working on getting all the Cispus paperwork all done. Tuesday - Finish the observation vs inference activity.  HW - Same as Monday. Wednesday - Second and 3rd period need to finish the Observation vs Inference activity. Then we'll do the following, which 1st period started working yesterday): Paper blogging (for practice) Paper commenting following paper blogging. HW - Check Monday Thursday - Today students wrote their first blog posts on paper. We then passed the paper around so that they could practice commenting as well. Then I chose some at random to show the class under the document camera so that we could evaluate them. We were looking to see what makes a great blog post and what makes a great comment. (First period finished today so I gave them a preview of 3D GameLab and how they will be using it.) HW - Check Monday Friday - Today 2nd and 3rd period will finish evaluating different paper blog posts and comments.  Then students will setup their 3D GameLab accounts. HW - Hopefully none if you're all done with all the things listed on Monday's HW.

6th grade Exploratory Peace 4 Kids (This is my 1st period class come back for 4th period.) Monday - Teams will finish the 15 traits collage posters so they can share them with the class. HW - None Tuesday - Finish trait collages. HW - None Wednesday - Today teams will present/share their collages showing which traits they represented. HW - None Thursday - Today I read a story that focused on the traits self-esteem and goal setting. We had a class discussion. HW - Sept #2, Goal-Setting, School Home Link. Due tomorrow. Friday - Self-esteem and goal setting lesson. HW - None

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Week 1, 9/1 to 9/5

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 Last updated on Sunday, Sept 7, 2014, 9:15pm

  Daily Schedule 

1st per - 7:45am to 9:08am 

2nd per - 9:12am to 10:35am 

Lunch - 10:35am to 11:05am 

3rd per - 11:09am to 12:31pm 

4th per - 12:35pm to 1:25pm 

5th per - 1:29pm to 2:20pm
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6th grade Science Monday - No School - Labor Day HW - Get ready for school! :) Tuesday - Intro to Class  Personality Test - Balance Groups. Setup Notebooks (Lab Safety Contract, Blogger's Contract, Scientific Drawing Guidelines) HW - Read your class paperwork. Get Cispus and other paperwork signed and prepared to turn in! Mr. G's Science Class Intro Informed Consent/Permission to Publish The ClassDojo login information was given to each student to send home. Each student has his or her own personal account code for parents to sign-up so if they lose you'll have to ask me to email you your child's code. Wednesday - Finish Setting Up Notebooks. The marshmallow challenge! HW - Same as Tuesday if you still need to get paperwork signed and turned in. My 1st Period class, which is also my 4th Period Exploratory class, got their Cispus Packet today (I forgot to give it to them yesterday! Sorry!). Make sure you give that to your parents to fill out! Thursday -  Class promises activity three things students promise and teacher promises! HW - Same as yesterday. Friday - Finish class promises activity. Observation vs. Inference Activity (3rd period did not get this far) HW - Make sure you are getting all your Cispus paperwork done and turned in as well as any class paperwork that needs signing.

6th grade Exploratory Peace 4 Kids Monday - No School - Labor Day HW - Get ready for school! :) Tuesday - Class intro including intro to Classcraft. The traits! (Our first Peace4Kids activity.) HW - None yet for this class. Wednesday - Choose Classcraft teams and sign up for accounts. HW - Show parents the class (and Classcraft) information sheet. Thursday - Today we ran into some technical difficulties as we tried to start using Classcraft. I think we got everyone started. HW - None Friday - Today we spent the period still figuring out how to use the Classcraft accounts. HW - None

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Week 19, 6/9 to 6/13

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 Last Week of School! 
Updated on Monday, June 9, 2014, 10:44am

 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 some of my 6th grade classes will miss Science due to the 6th grade Track Meet and the Staff vs Students softball and volleyball games (both of those will be taking place either 5th or 6th period when I have a 6th grade Science class - sorry!).  This week students need to complete the following quests:  Youth Summit quest. GreenSTEMs Youth Summit Survey End of Year Reflection Water Webs (to do this quest students need to finish the Water Quality Data and the Water Quality Parameters quests) HW - Last chance this week to complete quests to get more XP for a better grade (or to reach the winning condition for 6th grade)! Tuesday - Same as Monday HW - Same as Monday Wednesday - Same as Monday HW - Same as Monday Thursday - Same as Monday (last chance to finish as many quests as you can to learn as much as you can and get the experience points to show that you did it!). HW - Same as Monday Friday - Last day of school and an Early Release day! We will meet in the auditorium for our end of the year awards, talent show, end of year slideshow, and ASB sponsored BBQ! HW - Thanks for a great year and have a wonderful summer! Do lots of great things this summer!

8th grade Science Monday - Dissections continued today. HW - Last chance this week to complete quests to get more XP for a better grade (or to reach the winning condition for 8th grade)! Tuesday - Dissections continued today. HW - Same as Monday Wednesday - Dissections continued today. HW - Same as Monday. Thursday - Dissections continued today. Turn in your Comparative Anatomy dissection packet to get credit for this week. HW - Same as Monday. Friday - Last day of school and an Early Release day! We will meet in the auditorium for our end of the year awards, talent show, end of year slideshow, and ASB sponsored BBQ! HW - Thanks for a great year and have a wonderful summer! Do lots of great things this summer!

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Week 18, 6/2 to 6/6

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 Last updated on Monday, June 2, 2014, 9:32am

 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 Thursday - Student teams will be preparing for the Youth Summit this week. Student teams will need to do the following: - finish learning their water quality parameter topic, - analyze their data and graphs based on their new understanding of their parameter, - craft a poster to share their learning and our project with the other kids at the Youth Summit, - make notecards of their presentation including an introduction, explanation of the project, our stakeholder (NOSC), and explain how their parameter is affecting Chimacum Creek and our salmon and trout. HW - Here's a copy of the Youth Summit packet, with permission slip, in case your child loses it. I'm still waiting on some students to turn their permission slips in. Friday - GreenSTEMs Youth Summit Field Trip! HW - None

8th grade Science Monday - Today 8th graders are supposed to be working on their snail or cockroach experiment conclusions. HW - None, if you are all caught up. Tuesday - Once students finish their snail or cockroach experiment conclusion blogs we will begin our comparative animal dissection study where we will be studying the different structures of marine and terrestrial creatures. We will start with sea sponges, then freshwater mussels, then earth worms, then sea stars, then crayfish, then grasshoppers, then perch fish, then frogs! Wednesday - We should be dissecting today if 8th graders completed their conclusions. Thursday - The plan is to be dissecting today. Friday - I will have a sub today to go to the Youth Summit with my 6th graders. Eighth graders will be working on their 3D GameLab assignments (quests).

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Week 17, 5/26 to 5/30

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 Last updated on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 3:50pm

 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! Tuesday - Many 6th graders didn't get their graphs done last week nor did they learn about their data by reading the water quality parameter websites so we are now a week behind schedule! This week ALL 6th graders need to finish their Water Quality Data quest (make both graphs and put on their blogs) and the Water Quality Parameters quest (read and learn about their specific parameter - each student will learn one, either dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, flow rate or turbidity). HW - Finish the two quests mentioned above and get your permission slips signed and returned before Friday. Here's a copy of the Youth Summit packet, with permission slip, in case your child loses it. Wednesday - Same as Tuesday. Thursday - Same as Tuesday. Friday - Same as Tuesday. Those who finish the above two quests can start preparing for their Youth Summit presentation by working on the Youth Summit quest and/or the Water Webs quest. HW - Finish whatever you didn't finish in class this week or last week!

8th grade Science Monday - Memorial Day - No School! Tuesday - Today we are starting our study of animals. Eighth graders can choose from snails or madagascar hissing cockroaches. Students will start by reflecting on what they already know about their chosen animal. Then they will research their animal and generate questions. Finally students will design an experiment around one of their questions to see what their animal prefers. HW - None if you are all caught up. Remember that they winning condition for 8th grade Science is 2900XP! Wednesday - Same as yesterday. By today teams should have had their experimental procedure approved by me so they can collect materials at home to start conducting their experiments tomorrow and Friday! HW - Gather your materials. Thursday - By today teams should be starting their experiments and collecting data or making observations. HW - None if you're all caught up and started your experiment. Friday - Teams need to finish collecting data and/or making observations today so they can write their conclusions.

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Week 16, 5/19 to 5/23

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 Last updated on Sunday, May 18, 2014, 6:46pm

 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 - While I'm away with 8th graders on the Olympic Odyssey outdoor education field trip 6th graders will be working on the following Chimacum Stewardship Project quests: Water Quality Data Water Quality Parameters Benthic Macros Using Macros to Score What's Chimacum Creek Biological Integrity HW - None if you are all caught up! :)

8th grade Science Monday - We'll be leaving for our first activities at about 8:30am! Tuesday through Thursday - Lots of awesome activities and outdoor learning going at Camp David, Jr. as part of our Olympic Odyssey! Friday - Today we will complete our last activities and return to school by about 3:15pm! Be there to pick up your child. :)

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Week 15, 5/12 to 5/16

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 Last updated on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 11:24am

 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 - Today Reed and Larry, plus other volunteers, from North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC), came with benthic macroinvertebrates (under water bugs) so that 6th graders can identify the bugs and see how different types of bugs can show whether a creek, stream, or river system is healthy or not. HW - None if you are all caught up. Tuesday - This week 6th graders need to work on the benthic macroinvertebrate learning we started yesterday, graphing their water quality data, learning what their water quality data means, and finishing their water pollution PSA's if they haven't already.  They can work on all of the above next week while I'm Odyssey with the 8th graders. HW - None if you are all caught up. Wednesday - Same as yesterday. HW - None if you are all caught up. Thursday - Today 6th graders will be taking their Math MSP test in the morning (so 3rd period won't have Science today). Fifth and 6th period classes will meet to continue working on their water ecology quests (the Macros, Water Quality graphing and learning, Water Pollution Public Service Announcements). HW - None Friday - Early Release Today! Same as before only for a shorter amount of time! HW - Have a great Rhody Weekend.

8th grade Science Monday - Today 8th graders worked on their available and in progress quest assignments. HW - None if you are all caught up. Tuesday - Today 2nd period gets to continue working on their quest assignments. Later, during 4th and 5th periods, all 8th graders will be working on their Odyssey Totem group activities. HW - None if you are all caught up. Wednesday - Today during 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th periods all 8th graders will be working on Odyssey Totem Group activities.  HW - None if you are all caught up. Thursday - Today during 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th periods all 8th graders will be working on Odyssey Totem Group activities. HW - None Friday - Early Release Today! Today is luggage check for all 8th graders. (They will have regular classes 1st and 6th periods though.) HW - Have a great Rhody Weekend!

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