Science: Here's the line up for MARCH:
Week of March 3rd:Grade 7's:
Quiz: Particle Theory and Mixture Review (same as last week's - STUDY PLEASE!)
Experiments: Evaporation and Condensation, finish Rate of Dissolving.
Grade 8's:
Quiz: All plant and animal organelles and function.
PRACTICUM: I will ask each student to prepare a wet mounted slide of a plant specimen and irrigate it with iodine. Watch for times to sign up for your individual PRACTICUM!
Experiments: Animal Cell lab and Osmosis (hypo/hypertonic) finished.
Theory: Learn about active and passive transport. Read this LINK to a note on my website.
Week of March 17 - March 28th
Grade 8's:
Looking at the major concepts in our Cell Unit and wrapping up with World connections and a unit test.
Grade 7's:
Two more weeks of Mixtures and Solutions and then one week in April to finish up with a test and a project ... THE GUMMY BEAR PROJECT!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!
Language: For the Month of March
Where did February go? We are steaming ahead, but we somehow missed our speeches! Novel studies will take up the first week of March. Make sure to hand them in completely by March 6th. I will mark them over the March Break and hand them back the first week following. That week, we will look at Public Speaking, descriptive writing and COMMAS!!!
