11.10.10

Good afternoon ladies and gents,

I just wnated to shoot out a quick update about the happenings in Science for each grade level! First off, each grade has completed their tests (aside from a few individual students) and I must say the results were not bad, but always room for an improvement! Overall, I am pleased and I thank you guys for the effort and hope that it continues through the course of the school year!

Grade 6:
We have began our investigations of volcanoes! We began with an article about the recent volcanic eruption that took place in Indonesia and introduced what volcanoes are and the type of erutpions that can occur! Your homework was a word search with vocabulary words relevant to this material and defining the words on the back side of the same sheet of paper! Might be a good idea to review those words in case you see them again in the very near future! **hint hint**
You were also given a project that will be due on 12.3.10 about volcanoes and you were given the instruction along with a rubric for this project!

Grade 7:
We have began our studies of circulation and respiration and most of the things in between! We are starting in the cardiovascular system. We have been introduced to the heart, what it is, why it is so important, the major functions of it! Nice job on last night's homework assignments, your short stories were pretty good and I enjoyed hearing them! Today your homework was designed to be a little more playful and hopefully a little more fun for you guys! You were supposed to create a "valentine's day" card that you would be giving to your own heart thanking it and expressing your love for it and telling it why you were so thankful for it! You were also supposed to find out why the <3 heart is so widely used instead of a picture of a real heart and where this design came from. You also had an extra credit assignment if you chose to do it (NOTE: I will not repost that, because it's extra credit, if you want it, you should've written it down).

Grade 8:
I did not have you guys today, but this week when have began discussing chemical bonds as an extension of the Periodic Table of Elements. You guys had the electron trading card assignment that will be due tomorrow, along with the bonding basics worksheets.

SMALLS