4/28

Classwork: Students learned about camouflage and made butterflies to hide around the room, using what they learned.

HW: None

4/27

Classwork: Studying Populations notes http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVxVays3l2mcZGN4anNzaHhfMTAxNGpxNHFqZDU&hl=en

HW: None, but students should be coming to me during activty time IF they need catching up on their literature circle

4/26

Classwork: Students met for their first book talk and shared their completed job roles for the literature circle.

HW: None

4/23

Classwork: Students continued working on their literature circles, reading and filling out role sheets.

HW: None (the homework amount in science will go down because of the literature circles, so at home students should really be focusing on getting ready for their LA and Math EOGS)

4/22

Classwork: Students began their literature circles today. They are in groups of 4-6 and are reading one of the following books: Jaguar, Cryptid Hunters, Flush, or The Weirdo. The science department does not have enough copies for every student to get a book, so all reading and work will be completed during class. Parents will not see any copies of the book.

HW: None

4/21

Classwork: Students did not follow a regular schedule today, they did not see any core classes. Students took a mock writing test and did a team activity with their 5th and 6th period classes.

HW: None

4/20

Classwork: Students learned about their upcoming literature circles. Students will be reading one of the following books: Jaguar, The Weirdo, Flush, or Cryptid Hunters, so they ranked these books in order of which they would want to read them. We watched a Bill Nye on Populations.

HW: None

4/19

Classwork: Students finished performing their Planet Commercials. Students started defining Chapter 11 vocabulary.

HW: Finish defining Chapter 11 vocabulary.

4/16

Classwork: Students performed their Planet Commercials

HW: None

4/15

Classwork: Students received an extra word day to practice their commercials. Commercials will be performed tomorrow.

HW: Finish anything that needs to be done for tomorrow's commercials.

4/14

Classwork: Students continued working on their Planet Commercial.

HW: Any extra work that needs to be done for Planet Commercial.

4/13

Classwork: Students continued to work on their planet commercial. They will present on Thursday.

HW: None

4/12

Classwork: Students started their Planet Commercials http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVxVays3l2mcZGN4anNzaHhfOThnbngycnNjaA&hl=en

HW: If not already finished, finish telescope worksheet and end of section questions AND finish characteristics of stars worksheet and end of section questions

4/8

Classwork: Students went outside today to create our scale model of the solar system. Over the past couple of days we have been scaling down distances planets are from the sun and the amount of days in their orbit to create a scale model for us to use outside.

HW: None

4/7

Classwork: Students continued to work on scale worksheet, so that we can recreate a scale model of the solar system.

HW: None

4/6

Classwork: Students are working on creating a scale model of the solar system

HW: None