Thursday and Class Trips

6th and 7th grades: These last few days we will learn about rocks and the geologic timeline. Incentive/Reward End of year trip. 6th grade trip: Downata - We will be leaving the middle school at 8 a.m. (good day to show up on time. $6.50 needs to be paid to Mrs. Winward, preferably by Tuesday morning. Students can bring their own food or bring additional money to buy snacks or lunch at Downata. We will be back to school by the time buses leave in the afternoon. 7th grade trip: Lava Hot Springs - leaving at 8:00 a.m. cost $5.50 for admission $3.00 for grilled hamburgers paid to Mrs. Braun by May 29th. Students will be back in time to take the bus home. Students can bring snacks or bring money for the snack bar as they will likely be pretty hungry before lunch at 1:30.

Wednesday

6th and 7th graders took their tests Wednesday. I got them corrected and most students did quite well. The grades are posted.

Tuesday

6th & 7th grade: We finished our review for the final. Students were allowed to write down any information that they needed to study for the test. The test will be worth 100 points. Students have been given the test concepts as notes for the entire year. These should be concepts that they know and understand.

Monday

6th grade students: We reviewed for Wednesday's test. 7th grade students: We reviewed for Wednesday's test.

Thursday

6th grade: We started looking at the rocks today. Students learned about the properties of rocks. Wednesday is the final exam. We will prepare for it Monday and Tuesday. 7th grade: Students learned about vertebrates today by doing ten minute reports. Each team read about a different vertebrate, created a report and gave it during class.

Wednesday

6th grade: We are learning about different types of rock, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. After the students reviewed yesterday's information, and did a short review for the final. We watched a video on how each type of rock is created. Tomorrow we will discuss the Mohs scale of hardness and determine which type of rock we are working with. 7th grade; Students learned about echinoderms today. We talked about sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sea stars (star fish) and sand dollars. After determining their characteristics, type of body, movement and how they eat, we watched two short clips showing how they eat and move. Late work must be in tomorrow or it will revert to a zero. All students have been reminded regularly for two weeks about any missing assignments.

Tuesday

6th grade: We have been studying about the land and soil. Today we learned about glaciers and the different land-forms they cause. We learned about the words till, moraine and drumlin. We made our own little glacier and were able to easily see how glaciers affect the landscape. 7th grade; Reports were turned in today by nearly every student. We saw some very interesting arthropods today. Students saw four videos of bees and ants. Most of the videos showed how they live. But one showed a group of researchers that were able to see a real ant colony. They found a deserted colony and poured cement down in the hole. It took a lot of cement. Then, they let it dry for one month. Finally, when all the cement was dry, they dug around the cement and found a huge system of tunnels and rooms that the ants had lived in. It was 8 meters deep and about 50 x 50 meters square. It was something. Please remember, all late papers must by in by the 17th or there will be no credit given.

Wednesday

6th grade: We took the test today, most students did quite well, at least better than the last one. We began studying about the different layers of soil. 7th grade; We corrected an in-class worksheet and watched a couple of videos with the animals we were studying.

Monday

6th Grade: It has been determined that we should retake the planets and moons tests. It did not go well. We will retake it on Wednesday - study, this is the last chance on this test. Today we studied the three types of mountains and used clay to make them. 7th Grade: We began reviewing for the final exam. Students were given a problem and asked to think of creative ways to solve it. We also are finishing invertebrates. It is the jump-rope assembly tomorrow. If you want to attend a workshop about jump-roping, bring $7 to the office tomorrow.

Thursday

6th grade: We took our planets and moon test today. We also, in most of the classes, graded last night's homework. 7th Grade: Students went to the computer lab to find information for their reports. The reports will be due on May 15th. The main idea of the report is: Scientific Ideas That Changed the World. We are having a jump rope assembly next week. Anyone who wants to take a class from these very talented people needs to sign up and pay $7

Wednesday 6th test and homework

6th grade: We studied for our moon and planet test for tomorrow and then students did D40-41. 7th grade: We had 6 students today. We are studying animals, so we watched videos on porifera, cnidarians, platyhelmintheses, nematoda, segmented worms, and mollusks. It was kind of fun.

Tuesday 6th test Thursday

6th grade: Students finished their posters today. They also demonstrated their knowledge about volcanoes. Many students will be gone on the music festival trip tomorrow. The homework due on Thursday is D40-41 1-20. Those in school tomorrow will work on it then. 7th grade: Students read and filled in a chart dealing with invertebrates. We hope to finish it on Friday.