We are heading to the end of the 3rd nine weeks grading period. The cut off is next Friday Please check your class slides and gradebook: student portal to see if you have work that needs to be completed or revised. Early release is next Wednesday the 13th. Honors students will be starting Life Sciences next week.
Hello everyone. This is an important week. Please pay close attention to your class slides that are uploaded onto Advanced and Honors pages daily. Remember this is a list form, students are encouraged to update agendas daily and check grades often. There is still time to bring up any grades before interim reports are printed on Wednesday. Look for your reports on Thursday. Sign by parent and return to school on Tuesday if possible. Most all of your classes are learning new concepts. Ask questions, stay focused, and be prepared!
1/28/19: Classes are completing roller coasters and starting to design machines to explore the Law of Conservation of Energy. McGrawhill Text pages on Energy and Energy transformations are being completed. An All About Energy Foldable/Study guide is due as well this week. The Coaster Lab, and graded INTB pages from McGrawhill are needed to construct the foldable that is due Thursday.
All classes are finishing the weathering, erosion and deposition unit with a Claim, Evidence, and reasoning assessment. This will help students organize and demonstrate their learning while practicing good writing skills. Our next unit will be on Energy. This is an exciting unit with lots of labs and experiments. Stay tuned. On 1/09/19 all grades for previous 9 weeks will be finalized.
All students will have a district assessment for progress monitoring this week and next week. One part is 10 questions to be given on Friday. While part 2 will be taken on the following Thursday/Friday Dec. 6 & 7th. There will be a quick power point review starting Tuesday or Wednesday for part 1 and part 2. Students may be provided a handout to finish as a practice Or they will make noted in their logbooks. Part One has 10 MC questions and covers standards: SC.6.E.7.2; SC.6.E.7.3; SC.6.E.7.6; and SC.6.N.3.4. Part 2 has 16 MC questions and covers Standards: SC.6.E.7.1 and SC.6.E.7.5.
December 7th will be the 2nd clean-up of Lake Wire until 4:00. This is Red Ribbon Week. Monday: Sock it to Drugs by showing off your crazy socks. It is also Report card day. Tuesday will be "Be on a Drug Free Team" Wear your jersey and jeans. Wednesday: Turn your back on Drugs by wearing your uniform shirt backwards.
in Science: the Disaster brochures are due Tuesday. Along with some workbook pages 47 & 48. If you are working on your brochure, Wednesday. Also on Tuesday will be reciprocal reading to gather information on Energy from the Sun. By Wednesday, You may be able to design your own lab or at least view a demonstration or two. Continue working in the book. Remember to view the daily slides on your class page. Check your grades to make sure you are caught up. Be safe on Halloween and remember NOT to eat candy in class/halls. Hello everyone. You have finished the Prevention lessons with the nurses and are presenting your projects on a sphere interaction event. I have received some terrific ones online and enjoyed the skits, posters, movies, and power points presented last Friday. I know that tomorrow will be a great day of projects, too. This week you will select items to place in your portfolio for the upcoming portfolio night later this month. You will also be learning about Natural Disasters that are weather related as well as some that are not. You will be working on your next trifold brochure to be filled with preparation suggestions for a major weather related disaster for Polk County residents. (See Natural disaster rubric 1 and 2 to download now. A copy will be provided in class. Science will grade most of it, but Language Arts will also grade some of it.) You may also be writing a letter to Governor Scott with policy concerns and/or recommendations you think might help Polk County residents better prepare or deal with natural disasters. A-Team will be starting up next week. Be sure to download an advanced permission slip or pick up one from Mrs. Sitta this week. Keep an eye on the class slides so that you know of due dates and assignments ahead of time.
Students in science classes who have turned-in a Lake Wire permission slip from orientation AND a City of Lakeland Waiver form (Return by Oct 3rd) may participate in LCMA's Lake Wire Clean-up on Friday, October 5th until 4:00. Forms are available from science teachers. Students will earn community service hours for participating throughout the year on designated first Fridays.
Disaster Preparedness brochures will be due on October 5th. Laptops available for research when classwork is completed starting on September 25th. The rubrics may be located on class pages for download, after the one provided in class on 25th. Also remember picture day is October 3rd. Preorder with payment to Leonards. Hispanic Heretage day is coming soon. This week students will begin using their science resources: The Reading Essentials text that was sent home a week ago, the McGraw-Hill Interactive Comp. Sci 1 book which we have in class; and the online edition which can be accessed from classlink for students. Please view the class slides for daily assignments. You should write your assignments in your agenda as every class is a little different. Remember that you have a Famous Scientist Project due on the 12th which is an Early Release Day. Rubrics were handed out in class and are located for downloard on this website.
This week all students will be getting adjusted to middle school. All classes on science will receive a safety contract on Monday or Tuesday at the latest. It is crucial that the form is returned so that we can get started inquiring and learning with labs. I have put a due date of the 15th but will accept through Friday without penalty. Please let me know of any allergies or other health issues that would be important in a science lab. You will learn about the major safety issues in middle school, but this form is for the district and covers high school science classes, too. Not all the rules will apply.
You will also receive a Spotlight interest survey which I need returned by Friday to better prepare labs and groupings for your strengths. You may choose to write about your self if you want. I am so happy to have you in my class and look forward to a great year! |
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