Math I: Yes.
Math II: No
Academic Calendar
Science
Academic Calendar
Science
St. Patricks Day Buttons Due on Monday, 3/18
Writing
Math I
Bits and Pieces 2 Test on Monday, 3/18
Math II
The 162/Hayes Calendar
3/18 thru 3/22 - Magazine Fundraiser
3/21/13 Mathletes – 8:00 am - Cafeteria
3/22/13 Hat Day – sponsored by Student Council
3/22/13 End of nine week grading period
3/25 thru 3-29 – Spring Break
4/1/13 Ordering Day (no school for students)
4/2/13 PTA Meeting – 6:30 pm – Library
4/3/13 Student of the Month Breakfast – 8:30 am – Cafeteria
4/8/13 Student Council Meeting – 8:00 am – Room 184
4/11/13 Mathletes – 8:00 am - Cafeteria
4/12/13 Grade Cards go home with students
4/17/13 Early Dismissal – 2:45 pm
4/18/13 Mathletes – 8:00 am - Cafeteria
4/23/13 OAA Testing – 5th Grade Reading
4/24/13 OAA Testing – 5th Grade Math
4/25/13 OAA Testing – 5th Grade Science
4/26/13 Staff Breakfast – 8:30 am – Library
4/29/13 Student Council Meeting – 8:00 am – Room 184
4/30/13 OAA Testing – 6th Grade Reading
5/1/13 OAA Testing – 6th Grade Math
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Wordstudy List #23 Test Breakdown....
100%-ers: Ben, Sam, Jake, Mya, Avery, David, Morgan,
Coty, Jenna, James, Gage, Holly, Logan, Devin, Lilly
A's: 20, B's: 1, C's: 1, D's: 0, F's: 0
Mean: 95% Median: 100%
WOW!!! Are you serious?!?!? 95%!! 20 A's!! That is AWESOME. Ok....You deserve it...Touchdown dances for you all--
Math Resiliency...
Way to go Math II!! Our best results from a Resiliency Question to date.
Way to go, Miah, Olivia, Nathan Cat, Andrew C, Aaron, Darshan, Fiona, Kaitlyn, Kathryn, Allyson, Andrew P, Kennedy, Leah, Sophia, Jaz, Alaina, Veronica, Michaela, Nate McD, Kurrt and Courtney!!
Ok...well...I suppose you all want something like Touchdown Dances....Okay, how about a Cat Dance:
Thank you Mrs. Paduchik!!!.....
Every year I do a little March Madness thing with the kids at school. Kids in both grades fill out brackets and return them to an envelope sitting in the hall just outside my room. I have a bulletin board I put up so students can see the rules, standings, and the results.
Well, Mrs. Gray was making fun of how raggedy my bulletin board was. Word has it that Mrs. Paduchik is really good with this kind of thing. So, I contacted her and she came in and made a much better one. Check it out:
Thanks again, Mrs. Paduchik!!
LED Project....
I really like how some of you are coming up with ingenious ways of creating a switch. I see a lot of good ones, but right now I really like what Andrew C is engineering. He is creating a housing unit with foam board to hold his battery, wires and switch. Once he completes that then he plans on building his button around it.
Here are some pictures from it:
Wait.....that's not right.. That's Brooklyn at dance yesterday. Here are you pictures....
Steve Spangler Activity on LED's.....
LED Throwies....
A combination of Science and Art. Two subjects that are closer to being alike than many people realize. When Science is at it's innovative best, it's art. The ability to manifest something that has never been created. To take a thought and make it materialize in front of you.
LED throwies are a hybrid of scientific ingenuity and artistic visualization.
Hook an LED, a 2032 battery, and a magnet and you can make a throwie. Look at what these artists created in the last two pictures.
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| An LED throwie |
LED's hooked up to a simple coin battery (3volts) will last 40 days if its left on continuously. So the bridge in the picture above stayed that way for a month and a half. Every night it would come out and give people something to marvel over or be inspired by.
I imagine many people may consider this to be a waste of LED's and batteries. I mean decorating the bridge doesn't really serve a direct function.
To me, it doesn't need to have function. I feel that people who express themselves in creative ways would be more dynamic in coming up with real-world solutions or applications, than if they didn't.
It's like this.
Since the beginning of time and school, kids always say this about Math..
"When am I ever going to need know this in my life?"
Whenever I hear them say that I usually agree with them.
"Ya' know, Tommy, I doubt 3/4ths of the class will ever need to use grid paper in their day-to-day adult lives. And I do mean, EVER.
BUT....
What do you think it does for your mind having learned it?"
To which I usually get an eye-roll and--
"Makes it hurt."
"Okay, Tommy...Let's use football as an example. How is it that an Ohio State linebacker gets so good at football?"
"It's because they lift weights"
"What kind of weights?"
"Stuff like...umm...the bench press."
"Ah, the bench press. You're right. But when is a football player ever laying on his back pushing weight in the air in the course of a football game??"
"They don't."
"So they shouldn't do the bench press, right?"
My point being,weights make the player stronger, and the same goes for learning. When you create, when you do Math, when you do art, when you learn. Your mind is pushing weight, and if it gets strong enough it can do amazing things.
Unfortunately, we can't see it like we can see the physicality of a football player....but trust me, its there.
:)
Friday Geocache Challenge....
Use your Google Map Skills to locate it and take an adult with you to find it. Good luck!!
Kennedy was the first to find it last week. Can she do it again?
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