Welcome back after Thanksgiving.    Only 3 weeks left until our Holiday Break.  The test will be Dec 18 (Bday) or Dec 19 (A day) so that they’re all completed before break. Students, you are required to have their ISN and bellwork notebooks up to date with all your  work correctly done because you will be able to use you books during the test and the test will even say what page you can find the answer. EVERYONE should be able to get 100% on it.   Go to google classroom and find ALL the assignments and where they should be glued.   I am at school by 7:00am everyday (Friday 7:30) and students can come in any day to ask me questions, make sure about their books, etc. I am not available after school this card marking.    Don’t wait until the day before the test, there might not be enough time.  Do it now, come in next week with your questions, then do it again next weekend with the new lessons and come in the following week with your new questions.  Stay on top of it to get the best grade you can.  I will post all the bellworks here in the blog.

December  21st is our field trip.

Here’s a fun website to practice body systems.  https://sciencenetlinks.com/media/filer/2017/12/20/systems_3.html

The retake for the living/nonliving test will be Thursday, Nov 29 at 7:15 AM    Check your google classroom tomorrow for the instruction for the work you will be required to complete in order to do the retake.

Nov 19/20 will be a quiz on living/non-living.  Look over your notes and be able to identify items that are living (living now, once lived or part of a living thing)   or non-living, (never been living, not made of cells…)   Know characteristics of living things.

Ms. Dowgiallo will also be collecting your ISN and Bellwork notebooks.  The flipchart from the last 2 weeks is attached so you have all the bellworks and pages of your ISN.  If you don’t have a copy of a worksheet, look at previous blogs and copy and complete the worksheet to put in your ISN.  These will not be accepted late. Watch the videos.

Semester 2 Flipchart Nov 2-16

These are 7 videos we watched in class:

Mystery Doug Fish

Living/Non-living

Living/Non-living with Squeeks

Mystery Doug Leaves

Characteristics of Living Things

Articles from the the Super Science Magazine:    Gobs of Gum   Go to Google Classroom to read the articles and to get the worksheets if you’ve lost them.              Page 17 of the worksheets (Stretch Test) is an extra credit page.                              Also, page 7 of the magazine, is a an engineering Challenge called Running Water.  If you complete this and can present it to the class on Nov 30, you will receive extra credit for this too.)                                                                                                                   Due Date: Nov 26/27 (after Thanksgiving)                                                                     If you turn it in Nov 19/20, (before Thanksgiving)   you will receive extra credit.      The last possible date to turn it in is Nov 30, after that you will not be able to make it up.     

********YOUR PLAN  SHOULD BE: Get it done before Thanksgiving, then you get extra credit AND your vacation is free of science homework.  

Parent/Teacher conferences are on Monday, Nov 12 4-7 and on Wednesday, Nov 14, 3:30-6:30.

REMEMBER THAT YOUR EARTHQUAKE READINESS ARTICLE AND PARAGRAPH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER NOV. 13 AND 14.

The following link has the pictures that need to be cut out and glued into your ISN on Pages 14A  (Liiving)  and 14B (Non-living), then explain why you placed each picture where you did.  living non-living pictures

On Friday (and Monday the 12th) we did a lab. Students rotated around the room to identify living and non-living  things.  These are pictures of each center.    

The first card marking has ended.  Report cards will be passed out at Parent Teacher Conferences. They are Monday, November 12, 4-7 and November 14, 3:30-6:30.  Please come with your parents to the conferences.

The new card marking has begun.  When reading this blog, there are due dates with 2 numbers.  They indicate A and B days, whichever day you have Ms. Dowgiallo.         ie…  Nov 7/8 means the B day is due the 7th, the A day is due the 8th.   Nov 8/9 means the A day is due the 8th, the B day the 9th.  Each assignment will have a FINAL day to turn in for partial credit. After that date, they will be marked as a zero and will no longer be accepted.  In order to get an A+ on an assignment, it must be 100% completed, on time and neat.

1. Frayer models are due Nov 2/5.   The first word is either Scientific Method or Engineering Design.  Each student was given a second word for the assignment. They should be complete, neat and colored for full credit.  Click on the following link to print out a new copy.  frayer model The last day to turn them in is Nov 8/9.
2. Earthquake Readiness reading is in google classroom.  You can print out a new copy if you’ve lost it.  The assignment was to do a Box and Summary, (underline important information in each of the 10 paragraphs, then write a one sentence summary for each paragraph) and do the Talking to the text for each paragraph.   (What questions do you have or what did it make you think about?)   We will discuss and do the final question on Nov 7/8.    It will be handed in Nov 7/8 for credit.  Any late ones will be accepted up until Nov 13/14.
3. We started our next unit.  We will be learning about characteristics of living things, how our body systems work together, cells and genetics.  The students created a poster of living and nonliving objects to see what they already know about the subject. Here are some examples.
4. 

This was announced in every class today.  Test Redo:

Test redo:Thursday, November 1^st.

You must be at the door nearest Ms.  Dowgiallo’s room (by the steps) to be let in between 7:05 and 7:15.  We will start promptly at 7:15 and no one will be allowed in if they are not at the door in time.

Bring a pencil.

There will be no talking or messing around or you will be asked to leave and not allowed to take the test. 

The new grade you receive on Thursday will be the grade you will have in the grade book.

No notes will be allowed, but you can pick up your ISN and bellwork notebook today so you have it to use to study.