Science 5/18 – 5/22

Mon. 5/18 CW: (1) Finish posters & present them (2) Class A got to do the lab on mirrors. HW: wear closed toe shoes this week

Tues. 5/19 CW: (1) Light Technology pp. 530-535 – cameras, lasers, holograms, fiber optics & polarized lenses.  (2) laser & hologram demonstrations – Wasn’t the pig cool?  (3) Bill Nye DVD on Light Optics (4) wkbk. pp. 156-158 over this lesson graded for accuracy  HW: wear closed toe shoes

Wed. 5/20 CW: (1) Mirror lab (2) finish & check wb pp. 156-158  HW: Awards ceremony tomorrow.  Dress nicely if you are receiving an award

Thur. 5/21 CW: (1) Review vocabulary puzzle for chp. 18  HW: wear closed toe shoes

Fri. 5/22 CW: (1) Finish vocab. puzzle  (2)  Science World (3) Clean out lockers HW: no backpacks next week Monday is a holiday.  Tuesday & Wednesday the last days of school will be filled with lots of written work.

SUGGESTION FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR: Please wear tennis shoes or other closed toe shoes for the rest of the year. We have several students & teachers get their toes injured. Kids are a little excited at the end of the year and not paying as close attention to where their feet are. We wouldn’t like to see any more toes hurt

General News: Field Day is on Wednesday from 9:40 – 11:05. We participate by team one class against another. Be sure you wear tennis shoes on Wednesday.

Science 5/11 – 5/15

Mon. 5/11 CW: (1) Work on biome project. Any student not capable of working on a biome project in a cooperative group will be assigned to copy the biome information from the book. 25% of the grade is the ability to work cooperatively in the lab group. HW: (1) bring posters, information, & colored pictures for your biome to use in class (2) definitions with colored pictures and each word used in a sentence for chp. 18 are due Wed. The only people exempt from this assignment are the ones who took the 76 Think Link question test at home right before TCAP. I still have those tests & have reminded those students who they are.

Tues. 5/12 CW: (1) Working on biome projects in lab groups. Be sure you bring in your pictures and information from home if you need them. HW: FIELD DAY IS TOMORROW – WEAR TENNIS SHOES (2) efinitions with colored pictures and each word used in a sentence for chp. 18 are due Wed. The only people exempt from this assignment are the ones who took the 76 Think Link question test at home right before TCAP. I still have those tests & have reminded those students who they are.

Wed. 5/13 CW: FIELD DAY HW: Be sure you have what your group needs (posters, information, pictures, colors, etc.) to put together your posters tomorrow

Thurs. 5/14 CW: (1) Complete posters on biome HW: none

Fri. 5/15 CW: Present biome poster HW: none

Science 5/4 – 5/8

Mon. 5/4 CW: (1) complete lab analysis & results p. 575 # 5-9 & write your conclusion all in your lab group (2) group competition (3) complete vocabulary sheet HW: test tomorrow chp. 17 all – study

Tues. 5/5 CW: (1) Test (2) Science World HW: none

Wed. 5/6 CW (1) Finish all tests, puzzle sheets, Science World sheets, & begin on eye HW: It’s Random Acts of Kindness Week – do something nice for every person in your house without being asked or telling them why you are doing it.

Thurs. 5/7 CW: (1) Take a look at chp. 18 lesson 3 about parts of the eye, near & far sightedness, & color blindness (2) In your lab group create a skit, poem, song, or combination of these to present to the class about the parts of the eye (3) wkbk. pp. 155-156 about the eye HW: definitions for chp. 18 – words, definitions, colored pictures, & using each word in a sentence is due next Wednesday.

Fri. 5/8 CW: (1) Go over test chp. 17  (2) with lab group do lessons 1 & 2 chp. 18 & workbook pp. 151-156 lessons 1-3  (3) group biome project handed out, reviewed, & biomes assigned.  Students will work in class next Mon. – Thurs. (Wed. is Field Day). & present biomes on Fri.  This is the last test/project grade for this nine weeks.  We will still have daily, quiz, hw, & lab grades.  HW: definitions for chp. 18 – words, definitions, colored pictures, & using each word in a sentence is due next Wednesday.

Mon. 4/27 CW: (1) Light and It’s Uses chp. 17 lesson 3 pp. 495-500. Read together & discuss. (2) workbook pages 146-148 Section 3 # 1-26 (3) textbook pp. 510-511 # 1-14, 19, 20, 21, & 23 HW: be ready for tomorrow’s field trip – comfortable shoes, big breakfast, & pack your lunch & drink.

Tues. 4/28 CW: Field Trip to Pink Palace Museum HW: none

Wed. 4/29 CW: (1) Light & Color pp. 501-505 read & discuss. (2) Decide if different colors really do absorb more energy. Write up lab Which Color is Hottest p. 575 HW: lab tomorrow – dress for it.

Thurs. 4/30 CW: (1) finish writing lab (2) wkbk pp. 148-150 (3) vocabulary puzzle on chp. 17 HW: Dress for LAB tomorrow and textbook pp. 510-511 # 1-14, 19, 20, 21, & 23 due tomorrow. Test over chp. 17 light will be Tuesday

Fri. 5/1 CW: (1) Complete & check workbook pages for chp. 17 & pp. 510-511 LAB HW: Test over chp. 17 light will be Tuesday

Also, Wednesday is Earth Day. Disney has produced a movie called Earth that comes out this week. It is REAL life and death stuff for the animal families that the documentary follows. So know that there will be fighting among the animals for survival and death of animals. Anyone on our team who would like to meet at the Collierville Malco for the FRIDAY 4:40 showing of Earth, please come meet and go with us. You will need to be picked up at 6:15. If you don’t get to go with us, and you want to see the movie, please try to see it sometime before next Wednesday. Disney will plant a tree for each ticket sold the first week of the movie.

Science 4/20 – 4/24 We have our Family Life curriculum this week. This is a GREAT chance for you to let your kids ask you questions. We will have fun one night with homework this week learning about dominant & recessive traits. We will see why some of us can roll our tongues and others can’t. At any time this week if a student asks a question that is not specifically & exactly covered in the curriculum we teach for the 6th grade level, I will respond, “That’s a great question to go home and ask your parent!”

Mon. 4/20 CW: We talked about the Endocrine System today. We talked about how glands make hormones which are chemicals and they regulate all kinds of things from metabolism to sugar to male and female characteristics. We began a discussion of dominant & recessive traits. HW: Trait chart is due Wed.

Tues. 4/21 CW: Dominant & recessive genes & sex linked traits like color blindness. Begin drawing of person based on the traits you ended up with from flipping your penny twice. HW: Trait chart is due Wed.

Wed. 4/22 EARTH DAY! INTERIMS WENT HOME TODAY CW: Review which traits on the chart were dominant & recessive. Make final drawing of person on manilla paper. On back. write about your person’s traits and talents. HW: we need kleenex, please send a box if you can. If you want to meet to see Disney’s Earth movie – we are going Friday at 4:40. Meet at Collierville Malco around 4:30 & you need to be picked up at 6:15

Thurs. 4/23 CW: Film about puberty with Mrs. Butner (guidance counselor).  She encouraged students to go home and start a discussion with parents.  HW: If you want to meet to see Disney’s Earth movie – we are going Friday at 4:40. Meet at Collierville Malco around 4:30 & you need to be picked up at 6:15

Fri. 4/24  CW: HIV/AIDS and open notes family life test  HW: If you want to meet to see Disney’s Earth movie – we are going Friday at 4:40. Meet at Collierville Malco around 4:30 & you need to be picked up at 6:15

Reminder: Our field trip is next Tuesday. IF you have not returned your $8 & permission slip, you need to do so immediately. We’re very excited about our day at Pink Palace to see the Scoop on Poop exhibit and the IMAX on Egyptian tombs.

This week is TCAP testing week. Students need two wooden #2 pencils (NO mechanical pencils – they damage the answer sheet) AND they need a good night’s rest, and a protein filled breakfast (meats, cheeses, eggs, and/or nuts). This is their homework every night!

Your student’s scores are vital for the exciting programs offered at middle school: enriched Language Arts, enriched math, & in 8th grade Physical Science for high school credit. I’ve told all of the kids that I want them to do as well as possible so that that they have the option of ALL the classes (enriched or regular). Students must score at high percentages to qualify for enriched classes.

Science 4/13 – 4/17

Mon 4/13 – CW: TCAP review HW: This week is TCAP testing week. Students need two wooden #2 pencils (NO mechanical pencils – they damage the answer sheet) AND they need a good night’s rest, and a protein filled breakfast (meats, cheeses, eggs, and/or nuts). This is their homework every night!

Tues 4/14 – Fri. 4/18 CW: TCAP testing This week is TCAP testing week. HW: students need two wooden #2 pencils (NO mechanical pencils – they damage the answer sheet) AND they need a good night’s rest, and a protein filled breakfast (meats, cheeses, eggs, and/or nuts). This is their homework every night!

Science 4/6 – 4/10

Mon. 4/6 CW: (1) Check pp. 478-479 (2) TCAP review over chp. 15, 16 & EM spectrum on 17. (3) Write 10 good questions and answers you would expect to see on tomorrow’s test. If your question is good AND original and I use it on tomorrow’s test, you get bonus points. HW: TEST tomorrow over chp. 15 & 16 – all and the EM spectrum in chp 17

Tues. 4/7 CW: (1) TEST (2) Bill Nye Light & Color HW: TCAP review sheet on Chp. 2

Wed. 4/8 CW: TCAP Review HW: TCAP review sheet on planets

Thurs. 4/9 CW TCAP Review HW:   I have made a great practice for TCAP.  IF you do it, print out the answers, OR you & one of your parents/guardians sign that you did it.  Also, tell me which numbers were hard for you.  Go to www.thinklinklearning.com    log in as a student     click on the yellow button  & enter the code TG 4307    If you do this, you WON’T have to do definitions for the next chatper.  Have a great Easter. See you Monday. Have two wooden #2 pencils ready for TCAP

Fri. 4/10 Happy Easter – no school today

Mon. 3/30 CW: (1) pp. 457-461 mediums & sound, pitch, frequency, loudness & amplitude. (2) MSB video on sound. HW: wb pp. 133-134 due tomorrow. I signed all students’ agenda books with homework for the entire week.

Tues. 3/31 CW: (1) Wave interaction pp. 463 – 469. (2) MSB video on echolocation. HW: wb. pp. 135-136 due tomorrow

Wed. 4/1 CW: (1) noise p. 473 (2) EM spectrum pp. 487-494 (3) Drawing of EM spectrum detailing what each type of wave is, how much energy it has, & what the waves are used to do. HW: (1) Dress for lab tomorrow (2) wb p. 137 due tomorrow TEST NEXT TUES. OVER CHP. 15, CHP. 16, & pp. 487-494 IN CHP. 17

Thurs. 4/2 CW: LAB today & check hw HW: wb pp. 143-144 due tomorrow TEST NEXT TUES. OVER CHP. 15, CHP. 16, & pp. 487-494 IN CHP. 17

Fri. 4/3 CW: (1) check wb pp. 143-144 (2) Review sheet over sound (3) p. 478 -479 # 6-16, 18-20 & 22-25 TEST NEXT TUES. OVER CHP. 15, CHP. 16, & pp. 487-494 IN CHP. 17

Mon. 3/23 CW: (1) Review wave parts (2) Wave Interference – pp. 436-441. (3) wkbk. pp. that go along with pp. 436-441 HW: (1) pp. 446-447 # 6-17, 19-21, & 23 due Wed. (2) QUIZ Thursday over chp. 15

Tues. 3/24 CW: (1) Review wave interaction (2) Check wkbk. pp. 122-129 (3) Bill Nye DVD on Waves HW: (1) pp. 446-447 # 6-17, 19-21, & 23 due Wed. (2) QUIZ Thursday over chp. 15

Wed. 3/25 CW: (1) check pp. 446-447 (2) Review for tomorrow’s quiz. (3) Vocabulary Review sheet HW: QUIZ tomorrow over chp. 15

Thurs. 3/26 CW: (1) Quiz (2) Slinky Lab HW: none Remember EXTRA CREDIT is due Monday. Pick a room in your house with a stereo. Turn on the stereo. Walk around the room & map the loud & soft sounds. Explain how interference makes it happen – the loud spots are where there is constructive interference & the soft sounds are where there is destructive interference.

Fri. 3/27 CW: (1) Begin Sound waves chp. 16 lesson 1- how humans hear & draw diagram of ear HW: emember EXTRA CREDIT is due Monday. Pick a room in your house with a stereo. Turn on the stereo. Walk around the room & map the loud & soft sounds. Explain how interference makes it happen – the loud spots are where there is constructive interference & the soft sounds are where there is destructive interference.