PARENTS SECTION  

Please check here weekly and help keep your students accountable as they accomplish assigned tasks.  

Weekly Calendar and Class Activities:

Week 14 - November 19 - We will continue our discussion on fungi in Chapter 7 and review CRQs before the test. Students are to bring their group answers to the Handwashing Lab, along with other uncollected lab worksheets (Labs 2D and 4D). With your permission, they can bring collected, not store-bought, mushrooms to class for bonus points (totally optional). Please remind students to continue working on their Living Kingdom project, due on December 3.

Week 13 - November 12 - There will be a quiz on Chapter 6 vocab. Lab 4D (Spudoodle) Lab is due. We will finish Chapter 6 on Bacteria and Viruses with a lab exercise on handwashing. Then we will begin Chapter 7 on Protists and Fungi. We will be moving fast as we begin our study of whole organisms, so please encourage students to stay on top of their chapter readings. 

Just a reminder that their Living Creation scrapbooks are due on December 3, so please remind them to continue working on their scrapbooks.

Week 9 - October 15 - Students are to finish putting together their paper nucleotides at home and bring them to class. Student will use their nucleotides to build a DNA strand with their lab partner. We will continue discussing Chapter 3 and have the test towards the end of class.  Students are asked to bring a penny, a nickel, and a quarter next week for an upcoming lab. The coins will be returned to the students after the genetics lab on October 29.

Quarterly grade reports should be sent out by the end of the week.

Week 8 - October 8 - Dividers for Living Kingdoms Classification project are due in class. Chapter 3 SRQs and AR 3A & 3B were assigned. Due in Google Classroom the night before class. Students are to bring colored pencils for the DNA paper model.

Week 7 - October 1 - There will be a quiz on Chapter 3 vocab.  Vocab terms for the chapter are assigned. We will build our DNA paper model. 

Looking ahead, Dividers for the Living Kingdom Classification project are due on October 8.

Week 6 - September 24 - Chapter 2 test will be given this week. Selected CRQs and Activities Review 2B assigned and to be uploaded the night before class. Students were given gradesheet and instructions for Living Creation classification scrapbook on Week 5. Students were advised to go over project instructions with parents.

Week 5 - September 17 - SRQs are assigned and due in Google classroom the night before. Microscope quiz online due the night before class. We will do Lab 2D. Continue work on Doodle Notes (to be finished in class). Students have instructions on how to do this.

Week 4 - September 10 - We will begin our study of cells. There will be a quiz on Chapter 2 vocabulary. Finish Lab 1E (from Activities manual) at home and submit worksheets in class. We will  continue Lab 1D on microscopy.

Week 3 - September 3 - We will review and finish Chapter 1 activities and students will take their Chapter 1 test before the end of class. Activities Review 1C is due in Google classroom the night before class.

Week 2 - August 27 - Quiz on Chapter 1 vocabulary. Selected section and chapter review questions (SRQ/CRQ) are due in Google Classroom the night before class. Continue studying Chapter 1 to prepare for test the following week (see Class Calendar). Students are to upload completed Review 1A (done in class). We will do Activities Review 1C and Lab 1E in class.

Week 1 - August 20 - Student introductions. Chapter 1 vocabulary list to be uploaded in Google classroom the night before class. Bring hard copy to class. Read Chapter 1 in textbook; read Activities 1A & 1C in Activities book, but do not answer (we will do this in class).