Schedules
3. Ear anatomy and the process of hearing ([19])
4. Voicing and hearing frequencies of various animals
5. Browse the "Eye" and "Ear" Kids' Discover pdf files
Daily Class Schedule
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 0 days left
Graduation Assembly (8:30-9:30)
Games Day
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 1 day left
Words of Wisdom for incoming middle school students
The "Not Necessarily Approved By Mr. Heumann Anti-Boredom First Aid Kit Items"
Possible HGD videos and discussions (by parent approval)
Teacher Idol (1:20)
Free time in one of the three rooms
Monday, June 13, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 2 days left
Field Day
1. From 9:00 to 12:00 you will cover stations through which the k-7 students rotate
2. Mr. Snyder asked us (teachers) to remind you to stay involved and at your station
3. Mrs. Leftwitch's room will be a time-out place (vs. free time place)
Yearbooks (1:15-3:05)
1. receive your book from your homeroom teacher
2. write your name in it
3. get entires (etc) from friends in any of the 3 rooms
4. don't write anything that their parents shouldn't see
Friday, June 10, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 3 days left
2. clean out your drawers... I have some bags
3. drive to Westgate Church
4. graduation practice
5. remaining social studies presentations during core
6. remember, science demos next week
7. we'll finish Po1 Monday morning
Thursday, June 9, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 4 days (left after today)
English
1. Do your fourth sheet
2. Power of One: reading and movie
Science
1. demos moved to tomorrow (afternoon)
Step Up Sessions
1. Scott, Dowling, Mazerik
2. Match your (clicker) number with theirs
3. Work folders, websites, and QnA
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 5 days
2. graduation materials out
English
1. grammar sheet number 3
2. Chapter 1 of "The Power of One"
3. A bit of the movie
Science
1. sign up for a LabBook demo spot
2. do each other's assessments & turn in
3. chapter test (in pairs)... to find out what was missed
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 6 days
2. Taylor Mali on Taking a Stand
English
1. Book club groups
2. Quizzes to confirm (brag!) about completion and comprehension
3. Second grammar page (one you didn't do yesterday)
Science
1. Using your lesson plan and demo(s), teach the other pair about sound or light
2. Administer assessments
3. Plan the lab you are going to do from the LabBook
Monday, June 6, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, 7 days left (after today)
English
1. passbacks
2. last 4 grammar lessons during the next 4 days
-ok to check w/ others, but w/o your papers
-turn in each day at the end of the ELA time
3. graduation paper
Science
1. sound and light tables (again)
2. design lesson, demo, and assessment (document)
3. choose your demo from LabBook (or other), sign up, and start planning
Friday, June 3, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, 8 days left
English
1. daily edits in order, stapled, turn in
2. parent appreciation cards
3. graduation glogs
Science
1. continue where you left off yesterday (light or sound)
Thursday, June 2, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 9 days left
English:
1. Today and tomorrow are the last daily edits
2. Common English errors, round four (and final)
3. List of parent volunteers and big card for each
Science:
1. Pair up and choose either chpt 21 (sound) or chpt 22 (light)
2. Make tables of a 21 pair combined with a 22 pair
3. "Learn" the chapter, design a demo, and decide how/what to teach
4. You'll eventually create an quiz for the other pair about your chapter
5. Tonight/tomorrow: choose a lab from the LabBook 694-749 to DO for us
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 10 days
English
1. daily edit: Tennessee
2. Comedy of Errors @ Latimer School
3. Pay it Forward (StuCrew only)
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 11 days
2. calendar events for the week
English
1. Daily Edit: Wisconsin
2. Mystery Books: Discussion session 2
3. "Oh Captain, My Captain" if time
Science
1. Passback and review waves assignment
2. Test questions using clickers
Friday, May 20, 2011
1. attendance and lunch
2. during core, enter cell phone into our form
English
1. Daily Edit: Memorial Day
2. The Pay It Forward Proposal...
3. More of the movie if time and desire (and rationale)
Science
1. Two BrainPop videos: Waves & Electromagnetic Spectrum
2. Quizzes in (not between) pairs
3. Read the last section and do its worksheet
Thursday, May 19, 2011
1. attendance, lunch, and 17 days
English
1. Daily Edit: Crater Lake, Oregon
2. any more receiver stories?
3. passback [N] (finally)
5. Getting rid of redundancies
6. how "school-ish" is the Pay If Forward stuff? How willing are you to commit?
7. more movie time, and start thinking of your actions
Science
1. do one of the three sections that you didn't do yesterday (same groups, no overlap)
2. post another thing that you wonder (revised spreadsheet)
3. making waves (with green rope outside)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
1. attendance, lunch, and 18 days
2. thanks to pond/pipe contributors. Help keep people off the rocks
English
1. Daily Edit: Mt. St. Helens
2. please give me a copy of your recipient story
3. Common English Errors (round 4)
4. browse the PiF sites
5. if/how to structure our Pay It Forward activities?
Science
1. Read chapter 20 sections
2. Do the interactive reader as you go
3. Write some questions that the sections bring up (on whiteboard)
4. Irrigation pipe installation?
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
1. attendance and lunch and 19 days
2. grad forms
English:
1. Daily Edit: Dino Named Sue
2. Three groups can start discussions
3. Shen/Schmidt & Borst/Bolei book reorganization
4. Pay It Forward: If time, share receiver stories (Heumann) or start them (StuCrew)
Science
1. Gentle experiments with slinkys
2. Wave interactions: slinky, slit experiments, wave pendulum, round pool waves
3. Passback quiz and finish the video
4. Spontaneous retro lesson: Thomas Zscherpel & a Wimshurst machine
Monday, May 16, 2011
1. attendance (no lunch), 20 days
2. Any more graduation forms?
English
1. Book check for Long Walk groups... Benedicts Society as alternative?
2. Any more letters?
3. Today/Tonight: Write the story of a single time when something good was unexpectedly done for you.
Friday, May 13, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 21 days
2. passbacks for StuCrew
English
1. vocabulary: 4 great words from freerice level 20 or higher
2. finish letters OR free (quiet) reading time
3. Long Walk groups... lets choose another book (from list)
Science
1. any questions on the ear page?
2. staple eye to ear (=[18]) and turn it in
3. online hearing sites
b. hearing with background noise
4. Bill on Waves
Thursday, May 12, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 22 days
2. bathroom problems
English
1. a letter to you at 18... my sample
2. find a place alone, work through the blocks, and write many pages
3. seal into envelope and put home address on center of front
Science
1. Turn in [18]
2. Optical illusion sites and color blindness tests
1. Definition, examples, and degrees of acids and bases
2. What an indicator is and does
3. Testing pH of some household solutions (instructions)
4. Videos:
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 23 days
English
1. Make a recording of you reading your essay
Science
1. Eye anatomy and the process of vision ([18])
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 24 days
2. how did your sci-book search go?
English
1. Daily Edit
2. Book group logistics: who has gotten the book, where, and how much was it?
3. Set initial reading schedule (100+ pages per week should be a reasonable guideline)
4. Discussion topics/questions
-What are the elements of a good mystery or suspense story (verbal, written, drama, movie)? Create a list and examples
-What was appealing about the book we've chosen and what assumptions are you making about it?
-Play the "zip-stop" game... find a spot, read a 3 minute excerpt, and then make up the scenario (background and future)
5. If time allows, play the "Stolen Checks" activity. I'll give you a set of checks and then your group creates a story about the owners of the checkbook.
6. If any/all of those activities flop, the kids can have you read and improve their "Year Round School" essay draft.
Science
1. Last-minute section summaries
2. Quiz
3. Preview the next unit
Monday, May 9, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 25 days
2. seats by pairs you choose, then pairs I choose
English
1. Mystery book status
2. The instructions page for the "School Schedule" essay
3. Writing time: use it well -- do research, write quietly, write well.
4. Reading your mystery, if you b(r)ought it
Science:
1. Passback [16]
2. Each-one-teach-one for chapter 19 (surprise quiz tomorrow)
3. Use the chapter review questions (564-565) as practice
4. Write a question for tomorrow's quiz onto the spreadsheet
Friday, May 6, 2011
1. the remote is back
2. lunch, attendance, 26 days
English
1. Lazy editor (piercings)
2. Year-round school essay
3. Group mystery writing
Science
1. Popular Science magazine article on MagLev train
2. Making a motor, troubleshooting, manipulating variables
Thursday, May 5, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 27 days
2. Cinco de Mayo assembly at 1:30 today
English
1. Turn in the opinion paper planning document
2. Finish the movie and questions 27-35
3. Making an essay from the planning document
Science
1. passback [17]
2. MagLev train: introduction video, promotional video
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
1. lunch, attendance and 28 days
2. DVD = double video day
English
1. Get questions (require you to observe, sleuth, predict, and explain)
2. Sherlock Holmes movie, as far as we can
Science
1. Magnetism video
2. Who brought their battery for the motor?
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
1. lunch, attendance, and 29 days
2. passback [15] and [Z] and other
English:
1. Book groups and the undecideds
2. More detail on the "Year-round School" persuasive essay
3. Now and during core you can work on that and/or the group mystery story
4. Sherlock Holmes movie with frequent stops & hunts for clues
Science:
1. Passback and review [15]
2. Bill on Magnetism if time and desire
3. Fly-by of electromagnetism: pix and titles for chapter 18, worksheet ([16]), and Bill with questions
4. How to make a simple electric motor (video). Bring it a "D" cell if you want to make one
5. Superconductivity dance video
Monday, May 2, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 30 days
2. switch in subject order today
Science
1. STAR practice test today... after the fact (why), and for me, not you.
2. Thomas: wire and graphite reacting to electrical flow
3. Simple motor with a battery, magnet, and wire
English
1. Daily Edit: Curious George
2. Book groups... get the books/downloads
3. Summer Vacation: pros and cons (from Scope)
4. Sherlock Holmes "reconstructed", from the DVD
Friday, April 29, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 31 days
English
1. Daily Edit: Teddy Roosevelt
2. Book club groups. Try to get books this weekend
3. Plurals... lots of 'em
4. Group mystery writing time
Science
1. Fine-tuning your wiring skills
2. Some home wiring videos: safety, A.F.C.I.,
3. How to map your home's breaker box
4. Bill on electrical circuits
Thursday, April 28, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 32 days
English
1. Vocabulary: get 4 words from VocabVideos and "enroll" via my account if you want more access
2. Previewing mystery books: browse, choose, read teaser, discuss, return, repeat
3. Primary vote, discussion of remaining, then choose 1st, 2nd, 3rd
4. Group discussion of minimum requirements and extra elements of group mystery stories
Science
1. Teddy Lewis on power generation and distribution
2. Wiring up a light circuit
3. Wiring up a three-way light circuit
4. Bill on Electrical Circuits (if we have time)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and 33 days
2. passbacks
English
1. Results from yesterday's online mystery reading
2. Additions/revisions to your group mystery, and setting up the doc
3. Reading a mystery book... we'll advertise and choose tomorrow
Science
1. Ted Lewis: electricity
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
STAR Tests:
8:40 - 10:15 ELA (part 2)
10:40 - 12:30 History (parts 1 and 2)
Block A: See the Academic Block Chart
Monday, April 25, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
STAR Tests:
8:40-10:15 ELA (part 1)
10:40 - 12:00 Science (parts 1 and 2)
12:00 - 12:30 Free time :)
Friday, April 22, 2011
1. lunch and attendance, 36 days
2. happy Earth day
English
1. Heumannoids: see ELA agenda from yesterday
2. Stucrew: see ELA agenda from Wednesday
Science
1. Two videos on electricity
2. History of Earth Day video
3. YoungTubers on Earth Day video
3. Design and build your solar oven (video1)
4. Supplies, strategies, suggestions, and storage
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Heumannoids: Civil War Simulation: Battle at Gettysburg (room 22)
StuCrew (with Mrs. Leftwich)
1. Daily Edit: Uganda
2. Missing [X]
2. Passback AutoBio excerpts (most) and CDs
3. Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs
-defining them and their differences
-matching some as a class
-work through [Y] individually and as a group
-turn it in
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
1. lunch and attendance, 38 days
2. solar oven supplies (foil) needed
English
1. Turn in [X] if you didn't yesterday (list)
2. Passbacks
3. Summaries of some mysteries... we'll choose on Friday
4. Lets play Taboo...
-class-wide game in pairs
-10 words (5 cards) in 3 minutes
-make your own cards in your own comp book and (if you want) at the online game
Science
1. Finish Bill on Static Electricity
2. Online simulation of electrical components
-use the "circuits" and "advanced circuits" to learn about electricity and components
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
1. lunch and attendance, 39 days
2. please do Selectives Feedback Survey
3. Heumannoids: field trip enthusiasm level?
English
1. Words video: write the homophones you hear onto back of Daily Edit sheet.
2. Biographical excerpts (on time) are done but not onto cd yet
3. Turn in [X] (rain words) as soon as you are done... by the end of the day
4. What mystery books did you bring?
5. Keep those here, bring others tomorrow
6. Begin building your mystery (use this sheet) in groups of 3
Science
1. Show me your notes from yesterday & last night
2. Choose an inventor or invention and find out more (notes)
3. How to explain & demonstrate it to us tomorrow
4. Find and try a static electricity experiment
5. Bill on Static Electricity OR read 17-1
Monday, April 18, 2011
1. Lunch, attendance, 40 days
2. New seats by unfamiliar groups
3. The true iFly experience (video)
4. Giants game interest level
English
1. Daily Edit: Baseball Season
2. Turn in Autobiography book assignments if you didn't on the 8th
3. Passback [V] and [W]
4. April Downpour ("rain" words) = [X] (alone and staggered starting points at first)
5 Next genre: mystery or suspense (discussion)
HW: Finish [X] (Rain Words) and bring in a mystery book you could recommend
Science
1. Browse the "History of Electricity" animated slides
2. Take notes (date, person, concept)
HW: Finish the slides and your notes
Friday, April 7, 2011
The Field Trip Plan
There 5 things due today, two of which are delay-able
English:
1. [N], [O], and [W]
Science
1. Nuclear energy letter
2. Electricity lesson idea sheet
Interactive Game Day
Thursday, April 6, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. don't slack off on your responsibility to keep the room clean
3. Game Day tomorrow: bring interactive board, card, or brain games to play
English
1. Some literary elements: simile, metaphor, allusion, irony, personification
2. SCOPE activity on literary elements
3. Show me vocab from yesterday
Science
1. Next steps for the letter
2. Re-explanation of the format of your lesson input
3. MIT graduates and lighting a light bulb... video
4. Help moving river rocks?
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
1 lunch and attendance
English
1. Vocab Page: Match words from this site and enter 4 in book (list)
2. Work on (finish?!) [N] and [O]
3. Try one of the activities on this site
3. Heumannoids: Field trip planning idea
Science
1. Add business format to your letter
2. Print a copy of your letter for me, highlight the science content
3. Browse chapters on electricity and write up a planning page
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. thanks for the beaker and bubbles
English
1. Heumannoids: see yesterday's schedule
2. StuCrew: Today, book clubs = writing seminar
Science
1. Status check on letters to "nuclear powers"
2. Eyes of Nye on Nuclear Power (part 1, part 2, part 3)
3. Online article from MSNBC (thx Matt)
Monday, April 4, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. How did the science fair go?
3. Take things home today please
4. Passbacks and file away
English:
1. Daily edit: Grammar Mistakes of the Rich and Famous (SCOPE)
2. Read "Can Violent Criminals Help Troubled Teens" article
3. Watch part of "Scared Straight" One,
4. Answer the 7 questions OR do a debate sheet
Science
1. none today due to Civil War presentation
Friday, April 1, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. substitute here, be good & helpful
English (8:30 - 9:00)
1. finish and turn in [U] (Context Clues)
2. finish and pin up BioPoem
3. Finish entering 10 words into this form
4. Work on Autobiographical Timeline and Paragraphs ([N] and [O])
Science (9:00 - 10:30)
1. Science Fair
2. Letter about nuclear issue and someone of influence
Thursday, March 31, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. any more panoramic picture orders? (to office)
3. some parent thing...
English
1. daily edits in order, stapled, and turned in
2. word meanings from context clues ([U]) Due tomorrow
3. Enter your "best" 10 words and sentences onto this form (x10) by Friday
Science
1. Write a letter of persuasion, compassion, or inquisition about nuclear energy
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. yearbook photos missing from...
English
1. Daily Edit: Bachelor President
2. Vocabulary from Visual Vocabulary
3. Enter your "best" 10 words and sentences onto this form (x10) by Friday
4. Continue bio-poem... try to finish tonight if you don't today
Science
1. Quiz on what you read yesterday
2. Table discussions about nuclear power
3. Media literacy challenge: find two opposing but authoritative websites about nuclear energy
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. iFly DVD's out
3. schedule for today
English
1. Daily edit: Coca Cola
2. I changed the full-credit date for [N] and [O] to 4/8
3. Today is your opportunity to make your paragraphs great
4. Guidelines for a paragraph: site 1, site 2, site 3, site 4,
HW: Browse the news about Japan's nuclear crisis. Write down "known, new, and next".
Science
1. Nuclear energy: science, ethical, economic, and environmental issues
2. YouTube Post, BBC News, and CNN Student News
3. Read 16-2
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. iFly forms
Science
1. Chapter 15 test: Ok to use notes you wrote
Movie
Thursday, March 24, 2011
1. Science project list completion
2. Lunch and attendance
3. Anyone want to help build the waterfall (Sunday)
4. Turn in [11] if you didn't yesterday
5. Movie choice for Friday
6. Passbacks
English
1. Daily edit: Silly Putty (bring them all with you tomorrow)
2. Reading or writing time (20 minutes)
3. Bio-Poem
Science
1. Science test is this Friday and the fair is next Friday (4/1)
2. Status sheet
3. The one remaining o-chem video
4. Study session: Assemble by strengths then rotate to weaknesses
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. any iFly forms?
English
1. Try the quiz at DailyWritingTips
2. Comp book entry for any 4 that you don't know
3. StuCrew: The second page of [S] is a quiz... do it alone and without page 1
4. Heumannoids: Teen Ink Book Reviews
Science
1. Check, review, and collect [11]
2. Chapter 15 test questions using CPS
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. iFly forms need multiple signatures and copy of photo id
English
1. The second page of [S] is a quiz... do it alone and without page 1
2. Autobiography books meeting 3 discussions
Science
1. Applied organic chemistry: O-chem (4 min) and Hydrocarbons (10 minutes)
2. Other chemical reaction: fireworks (3 minutes)
3. What is going on in Japan's nuclear reactors (video)
4. Start the worksheet for 15-4
Monday, March 21, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. details for upcoming trips (Brandon Mull, iFly, and DC)
English:
1. Daily Edit: Pocahontas
2. Passback [P] and [Q]
3. Turn in [R] if you didn't on Friday
4. Quotation marks: "pre-test", read guidelines & practice w/ partner
5. Do worksheet ([S]) on your own
Science
1. Passback [10]
2. Project choice list and status report
3. Interesting ideas (and events) videos
4. Organic chemistry: some of 15-4 and some of the Bill video
5. Nutrition calculations (on paper then online) 1, 2, 3
Friday, March 18, 2011
1. pass back and file away papers
2. missing work lists... board cleared, papers out
English:
1. My Parents & My Facebook (for those who didn't do/finish it yesterday)
2. Reading time: autobiography or other
3. Turn in [Q] when you are done
4. Compliment Sheets
Science
1. Return [1]... scored by Ms. Haag
2. Greatest Discoveries in Science: Chemistry (Bill for grades 8-10)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. Prospect & Westmont applicants to room 22
Extras:
Teen Hoboes of the 1930s
1. Why this topic?
2. Watch some of a documentary
3. Read article on pages 4-8 of 3/7/2011 Scope
My Parents and My Facebook
1. Read article in 3/7 Scope pgs 14-15
2. Write 3 yes reasons and 3 no reasons and 1 paragraph
English
1. Turn in [P] if you didn't yesterday (& passback graded ones)
2. Waterson Words
3. More practice with four editing skills from yesterday... 4 sides 2 people working together
4. HW: SCOPE Grammar Packet (=[Q])
Science
1. Finish & turn in [10] if you didn't on Tuesday
2. Bill on Chemical Reactions (oops) and Gravity
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
1. Prospect Honors English preference? Write a paragraph.
English:
1. Read SCOPE article "Out of the Rubble" (3/21/2011 pgs 4-9) & discuss
2. Read "Bug Bites" (pg 18-19) then do the FindIt/FixIt part
3. Get one of each sheet per table and divide them up. Each-one-teach-one.
Science
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. don't forget lunch duty if you have it
English:
1. Daily edit: Ides of March
2. Autobiography books, meeting #2
Science:
1. Read 15-2 and 15-3 and do the section reviews (ssb)
Monday, March 14, 2011
1. recycling coverage at lunch... 4 days @ 2 people per day (rm 29 does 1 day)
2. lunch and attendance
Science:
1. Element Fashion Show!
2. Or science fair project work time
English:
1. Turn in your autobiography excerpt (final, drafts, pre-writes)
2. Write a "Daily Edit" exercise into this form
3. Reading time for your autobiographies
Friday, March 11, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
English
1. Daily Edit: Keats
2. Any questions about the autobiography excerpt assignment?
3. Worktime... use it well and independently (so I can too)
Science
1. T-shirt blurb
2. Test corrections
3. Try the two simulations on my chemistry page
4. NOVA ScienceNOW show
Thursday, March 10, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. high school survey (again), with names
English
1. Daily edit:
2. Common English Errors (round 3)
3. Read "Dear Fellow Writers" on 594-596
4. Pre-writing and start rough draft of an autobiographical excerpt
HW: Finish rough draft (typed) of autobiographical incident
Science
1. Review videos: Ionic, Covalent, Metalic
2. Turn in [9]... whatever you got done
3. Chapter 13 test. Ok to use any notes you wrote
4. Turn it in to the correcting line, and then start corrections if necessary
5. Watch: NOVA ScienceNOW
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
1. lunch and attendance and envelopes
English
1. 10ish minutes of reading
2. Daily edit: Barbie
3. Word activity
4. Lumosity Brain Games (start with word bubbles)
Science
1. Get into yesterday's big groups
2. Continue molecule models
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
1. sit by reading groups
2. lunch and attendance
3. 2 volunteers to help @ recycling center today
English
1. last call for [J]
2. Autobiography (meeting 1)
3. Read & Discuss "Baseball" (624) and/or "Beginnings" (629)
Science
1. 10 minutes more on chapter 13 review questions (=[8])
2. Making molecules models with marshmallows & toothpicks
3. Video segment(s): 1, 2, 3
4. HW: Use [8] and [9] book to prep for chapter 13 test
Monday, March 7, 2011
1. enter by random number and order, choose seat and get approval
2. lunch and attendance
3. 8th grade picture envelopes
4. what is your home public high school?
English
1. Daily edit: Ice Shelf
2. Turn in [J] if you didn't on Friday
3. Autobiography groupings
4. Read 15 minutes and fill in [K]
5. HW: Make sure you bring AutoBio book tomorrow
Science
1. Passback [8] and m.w. list
2. iPad app on Periodic Table
3. Video segments 1, 2, 3...
4. Covalent bond model using marshmallows (pg 379-380)
5. Chapter review questions (pg 380-381)
6. HW: Review [8] to prep for chpt 13 test
Friday, March 4, 2011
1. seats by number and coin toss
English
1. Daily Edit: Alexander Bell
2. Essay exchange -- upgraded in, edited out
3. Idioms -- definition, examples, assignment
4. Work time for: essay upgrades, grammar games (yesterday)
5. Find your autobiography book and enter it on the form
Science
1. Turn in [8] if done
2. Periodic Table iPod app
3. Work time for: shirt, poster, packet (during...)
4. NOVA: ScienceNOW
5. Write your science fair project summary sheet
Thursday, March 3, 2011
1. Full-day field trip to NASA Ames Research Center
English
1. Find your autobiography book and enter it on the form
Science
1. Write your science fair project summary sheet
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
1. sit at tables of 8 or 4
2. lunch, attendance, and envelopes
English
1. Daily Edit: Theodore Geissel
2. Vocabulary (comp books): enter a page, pick 4 words
4. Parent feedback for SteinBook essays... upgrades suggested but optional
5. Find your autobiography book and enter it on the form
Science:
1. Preview of tomorrow's field trip
2. Ionic and covalent bonding videos: 1, 2, 3
3. Other cool reactions: 3, 4
4. Worktime for science fair project, shirt, poster, packet
5. Write your science fair project summary sheet
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
1. sit with those that read same autobio yesterday
2. lunch and attendance
English
1. Daily Edit: Whooping Crane
2. Discuss what person you chose and why... expectations?
3. Discuss yesterday's autobio in general... what stories tell
4. Go through answers and fix yours up, especially the paragraph
5. Common English Errors round 3
6. Find your autobiography book and enter it on the form
Science
1. Making a line graph from yesterday's data
2. Interactive Reader pages for 13-1
3. Bill on Chemical Reactions
4. Write your science fair project summary sheet
Monday, February 28, 2011
1. open seating: new people, new places
2. lunch and attendance
3. addition of "Due Today" to the back wall and HW to daily schedule
4. about the missing work board...
English:
1. Passback [G] and other things
2. Autobiography: Read one from Literature Book and answer questions on paper
3. Find your autobiography book and enter it on the form
Science:
1. Status check and work time for your T-shirt or poster
2. a sample chemical reaction
3. Write a proposal/summary of your science fair project
Friday, February 18, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. envelopes: report card and Wednesday
English
1. Organize & turn in daily edits (order on the board)
2. Organize & turn in Steinbeck essay (final, edits, organizer)
3. Speeches
4. Finish "Of Mice and Men"
Science:
1. Finish [6] if you haven't yet
2. Finish "Test" if you haven't yet
3. Poster or T-shirt work time
4. Science Fair ideas
Thursday, February 17, 2011
1. Lunch and attendance
2. Passbacks
English
1. Daily Edit: Michael Jordan
2. Speeches: Jessica, Matt and Johnny, Nick, Laura, Ashley
3. Steinbeck project worktime or Of Mice and Men
Science
1. Finish "Chapter 12: Periodic Table" packet
2. Chapter 12 test...lets see how effective the teaching & packet were
3. Work time for poster or T-shirt... they'll be due the friday after vacation (3/4)
4. Mrs. Stuart on science fair
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
1. Lunch and attendance
2. How was tour-guiding yesterday?
3. Passbacks
English
1. Daily Edit
2. Speeches: Jana, Erin, Ciara, Cade and Norma, Chloe, Sasha, Devin
3. Expectations for Steinbeck essays
Science
1. Finish teaching sessions for final four groups
2. Clickers 'quiz'... did the teaching sessions & packet work?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
1. lunch and attendance
2. tour guide info
English
1. Daily Edit: Susan B. Anthony
2. Speeches
3. Book groups:
A: discussion as needed
B: make an 11x17 chart of SteinBook projects
C: do pre-write discussion and document for essay
Science
1. Start "The Case of the Exploding Lawnmowers" & document progress
2. Do the final four element groups then teach the teacher
3. Element research and project design (resources below)
http://www.middleschoolscience.com/elemtradcds.pdf
http://www.periodicvideos.com/videos/012.htm
Monday, February 14, 2011
1. Happy Valentines Day
2. Lunch and attendance
English:
1. Daily Edit
2. Speeches: 4 people
3. Progress of SteinBook projects
4. Mr. Jones' journey & my challenge to you (xc too!)
5. Start "Of Mice and Men
Science:
1. Rotating progressive notes on each column in the periodic table
--> 8 groups of 4 --> read and decide --> all do notes --> choose 1 to stay
--> rotate tables when I say --> teach the guests --> when home, teach who stayed
2. Details of T-shirt and poster design
3. Begin "Case of the Exploding Lawnmowers"
Science
English
Core: Interest-Based Mini Courses: overview, presentations, submitting your preferences
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Science
English
Friday, February 11, 2011
1. G et your science folder, store S1 science, passbacks for S2 so far
2. Two options for element exploration: poster (for ceiling) or T-shirt (for fashion show)
3. What content to include. Sample shirts and sample posters
1. Daily edit: Maisy
2. Speeches
3. Next round of dictionary
4. Colon & Semicolon ([F], due tomorrow at end of the day)
1. attendance, not here for lunch
2. snack and lunch -- keep in a group bag in the car
1. More detail about the element exploration project (poster or T-shirt)
2. Chapter 12 reading guide
3. Start designing your project
1. Daily edit:
2. Speeches
3. Worktime (again): [E], CARS, SteinBook Vocab, SteinBook Essay, SteinBook reading
1. attendance & lunch
2. class meeting today @ core
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
1. envelopes, lunch, attendance
2. Ib be gone :(
English
1. Daily edit: Abraham Lincoln
2. Any more [E]s to turn in?
3. Speeches
4. Worktime for Cars quickwrite, SteinBook vocab, or SteinBook essay
Science
1. Any more test corrections to turn in?
2. Element allocation
- make a boardroom, get 3 half sheets and a pencil, listen for your numbers
- write atomic number, element symbol, and name on each sheet
- research more about those elements and put notes on the sheet
- arrange on the big table
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
1. lunch & attendance
2.
English
1. Turn in CapsPack for full credit
2. Daily edits
3. Evocative speaking sessions
4. Book clubs: vocabulary option and writing option
Science
1. Chapter 11 "test", part 2... getting a perfect score (finish)
2. Finding periodicity... making the line and then the chart
3. Periodic table's founders, features, and futures
Monday, February 7, 2011
-review home energy audit data
3. Student Council report and election of new representative
1. lunch & attendance
2. presenters for PG&E energy fair come here at lunch today
4. Behavioral standards and consequences. New seats for StuCrew
English
1. Turn in CapsPack if you're done
2. Show me adult words (3 points today)
3. Daily edits
4. Evocative speaking sessions
5. How To Answer Questions (short essay responses)
6. Lightning McQueen paragraph (~10ish sentences). Due Wednesday.
Science
1. Chapter 11 "test", part 2... getting a perfect score
2. Videos on Atomic Structure: Basics, Bohr, EchoMan, Quarks, AtomBomb (intense), FourForces
2. Bill on Phases of Matter
Friday, February 4, 2011
1. lunch & attendance
2. presenters for PG&E energy fair
English
1. Show me adult words (4 points today, 3 Monday, etc)
2. Daily edits
3. Common English Errors round 2
4. Cards to the DCS Founders
Science
1. Chapter 11 Content Separation Activity
2. Correcting line
Thursday, February 3, 2011
1. lunch & attendance
2. presenters for PG&E energy fair
English
1. Show me adult words (5 points today, 4 tomorrow, 3 Monday)
2. Daily edits (two for Heumannoids today)
3. Choose from the following:
A. Read SteinBook
B. Find, read, & practice your speech. Use FlipCams if you like.
C. Missing work
E. Social Studies or Science work (last choice)
Science
1. Videos of the ORWG's of Atomic Discovery
2. Notes from 11-2
3. Chapter 11 Worksheet (=[5])
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Meeting
1. lunch & attendance
2. Bike assembly
English
1. Write:
How/why do you get yourself to do something that is hard?
A response to the issue(s) I raised?
An analysis and proposal of/for core.
2. Vocabulary (tonight): four words from an adult
Science
1. Finish balancing equations
2. Do Jeopardy Game on KD Atoms & print score sheet when done
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Meeting
1. Lunch and attendance
English
1. Daily edit exercise. Alone, pairs, table, class. Keep them for collection later
2. Reading book clubs
3. Vocabulary for books: spreadsheet or approved alternative
Science
1. Pair up, compare, and trouble-shoot the balancing equations sheet
2. Kids Discover on Atoms: CW Puzzle and jeopardy game questions
Monday, January 31, 2011
Meeting
1. Lunch and attendance
2. Item distribution of grammar survey
English
1. Reading book club books for 15-20 minutes
2. Daily edit exercise. Alone, pairs, table, class. Keep them for collection later
3. Adding (some) suffixes to words ending in e
Science
1. Pair up, compare, and trouble-shoot the balancing equations sheet
2. View timeline of our knowledge of atoms then each person read about one person in 11-1 & combine knowledge
3. Bill on Atoms & Molecules, if we have time.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Meeting:
1. Lunch and attendance
English:
1. Grammar Pre-Test results
2. Evocative speaking session sign-ups
3. Pronoun and anticedent agreement
Science
1. Review the photosynthesis and respiration processes (energy and chemicals)
-preview and start the back side -- due today at the end of core
Science
1. Did all the data from yesterday get entered onto the form
2. Making the transition from physics to chemistry....
3. Photosynthesis - Respiration processes
2. Balancing other chemical equations
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Meeting:
1. Lunch and attendance
2. Table mates?
English:
1. Grammar Pre-Test... barriers
2. I nspirational or Evocative Speaking... finding a speech (assignment)
-energy flow, locations, components, chemical equation, balancing atoms
-using Lego's to demonstrate
-preview and start the back side of [1] (Photosynthesis & Respiration)... due tomorrow at the end of core
Science
1. Energy vs. temperature graph
2. Making a BETTER calorimeter to measure (roughly) the energy stored in a peanut (lab)
3. List of sections in unit 4 and 5, with iconic impression and initial level of knowledge & interest
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Meeting:
1. Lunch and attendance
2. Envelopes in
English:
1. Common English Errors round 2
-browse a few, choose 1, learn it, write/draw summary, teach it to 5, turn it in
2. Vocabulary: 4 words from the 1000 list into comp book
-write the word, then 2 sentences. See if people can get meaning w/o hints
-then write the meaning
3. skip -- Inspirational or Evocative Speaking... finding a speech (assignment)
4. Grammar quizzes: Capitalization & Punctuation and Grammar Review
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Meeting:
1. Lunch and attendance
2. Message from Mr. Jones about S.A.F.
English
1. Book groups.
A. Book availability discussion and draft a reading schedule.
B. Preview the book... setting, characters, plot, themes, purpose
C. "Thank You M'am": Turn one answer into a great paragraph answer
-1, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5(all), 6b
-write it, read it (to group), then improve it based on suggestions
Science
1. Review conduction, convection, and radiation rap video and another
2. Energy vs. temperature graph of the phase change of water (pg 289)
3. Making a calorimeter to measure (roughly) the energy stored in a peanut (pg 291) lab
Monday, January 24, 2011
Meeting:
1. New seats by numbers and coin toss
2. Lunch and attendance
English
1. Write about a goal you have for second semester
2. Book groups. Try to get a book by tomorrow.
3. "Thank You M'am" short story and questions (=[A])... due Tuesday after Core
Science
1. Heat sensation vs. temperature & burning a balloon
2. Convection, conduction, and radiation
3. Bill on Heat with 5 point quiz OR chapter 10 vocabulary worksheet (you choose)
4. List of sections in remaining chapters, with iconic impression and initial level of knowledge & interest
8th Grade Academic Blocks Schedule:
Columns show what the teachers do, colors show what the students do
Homeroom class color codes:
Red = Heumann Students
Green = Leftwich Students
Yellow = Stuart Students
Eighth Grade Academic Core Room Rotations:
Second Semester