Big test coming up.  Thursday for B day, Friday for A day.

Here is the study guide.engineering design study guide (2) engineering design study guide (1)  On Tuesday and Wed you can ask questions about it.

I will be looking at your ISN and bellwork books that day. Please make sure they are up to date, neat, and with your name, hour and subject on the first page.

SPIRIT WEEK IS NEXT WEEK.  Monday is Jersey Day, Tuesday is Twin day, Wednesday is Hat Day, Thursday is Pajama day and Friday is Pink out day.              Join the fun.

Our fish tanks are ready to be populated.  We have 2 aquariums thanks to Ryan and Nuha.  Also, thanks to the donations of money and materials from students, we have filters, heaters, thermometers, rocks, plastic plants, background pictures, and statues.   We’re ready to roll.  Students are beginning to donate $5 to sponsor a fish,(or a group of students can sponsor a fish).  They’ll receive a certificate that will be on the wall and they can “name” their fish. I’ve never had an aquarium before but I’ve been reading up on it. I do know we’ll  need lots of help maintaining the tanks as well as some more donations for food, replacement filters, etc.  Students will be able to sign up to stay after school, or come in early every couple weeks for maintenance.  This will be a great experience for everyone to learn about responsibility of owning a pet.

Open the following link to remind you about what is expected in this CER.  The directions are on Google Classrooom.

CER inquiry cube

This is the Rubric for CER.   Follow this for a great grade.   CER rubric

End of the Card marking is Nov 2nd.  Any late work, redos, etc, must be handed into me NO LATER THAN Oct 31.

Understanding Density worksheet (glue into 9A of your ISN)   understanding density

Understanding Density notes  understanding density notes (1) understanding density notes (2)

Scientific Method definitions and worksheet.  scientific method words          and scientific method def.

Density worksheet (classwork from Oct 17 and 18)  Density worksheets (2) Density worksheets (1)

This week we read our Article of the Week and did Box and Summary and Talking to the text. We will wrap up  this assignment next Tues/Wed when we do some more Close and Critical questioning.  But today and Monday, the classes are working on a lab about pop cans floating and sinking.

This is the pages of the flipchart with the observation and inference work we’ve been doing.  October 1-5  Click on this link to see.

Also, we watched 5 min of this 53 min video about caves.  It tied in nicely with the Article of the Week about cave diving. Enjoy the entire episode, or watch from 24-30 to see what we watched in class. Planet Earth Caves

These are the worksheets we used as bellwork and classwork.  The classwork ones are on page 5A and 5B.  Also the frayer model and the Article of the Week.

ISN pg 5B  observation.inference.connection

Frayer half sheet

bellwork observation men camping

ISN pg 5A observation.inference match

AoW 1 diving TALKING TO THE TEXT.BOX AND SUMMARY (1)

AoW 1 diving TALKING TO THE TEXT.BOX AND SUMMARY (2)

Frayer

This link will show you how to get signed into Google Classroom as well as the assignment for your CER

google classroom sign up to start CER

NWEA Tuesday and Wednesday    Language Usage and finishing Science

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Here are a couple videos we watched this week.  They will help in completing the scientist brochure. Click on this first one  Mystery Doug.   Then click on the photo below:

The following are from the flipchart in class. It tell you what to write in the first page of your spiral notebook for bellwork as well as the first page of your Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) which is a composition notebook.  You must bring both of these books to class EVERY DAY.   It also gives the directions for the Scientist Brochure.

Click on this link:    Sept 6 blog

Science.   We did THIEVES for section 3.4 and the Guided Reading.  Go on Google classroom if you need the pages from the book.

Wednesday we’ll do section 3.5.

Thursday is a group project timeline.

Friday is the quiz for 3.4 and 3.5   Have the information in your ISN. ‘

Next week, Wednesday, is the science final.  We will be reviewing on Monday and Tuesday and playing Jeopardy games for points. Go back in previous posts and study those games to help you win.