Mr. González' Classes Homework/ Daily Activities Week 3, 4/25 to 4/29

Math (2nd per) Monday - Today we will review problem 7.4 (from Friday) and then we will fill out our Unit Organizer for Covering and Surrounding. HW - None Tuesday - WASL testing - Reading I. HW - None, just get plenty of rest and eat healthy, balanced meals. Bring a snack to school. Wednesday - WASL testing - Reading II. HW - None Thursday - Today we will finish our Unit Organizer vocabulary. Then students will finish their Binder Check and take a Covering and Surrounding Self-Assessment. HW - Finish your Covering and Surrounding Self-Assessment if you did not turn it in today. Friday - SNOW DAY - No School! HW - None Future plans: Our goal this week is to finish Covering and Surrounding! Then we can finally start Bits and Pieces I.

Social Studies (3rd per) Monday - Today we will check the answers to the Canadian Vacation project Phase 1 Basic Info Packet. HW - Victoria field trip info sheet sent home. Please read it and make sure that permission slip is signed and returned ASAP and that the money is collected and turned in by Thursday, May 5th. Tuesday - Today we should be ready to start Phase 2 of our Canadian Vacation project where student teams will pretend to be a travel agency. They will create a PowerPoint presentation to showcase their Provinces and/or Territories. HW - None Wednesday - Canadian Vacation project Phase 2 cont'd. HW - None Thursday - Canadian Vacation project Phase 2 cont'd. HW - None Friday - SNOW DAY - No School! HW - None Future plans: We will continue to work on the Canadian Vacation project! This week I plan to start Phase 2 where teams will become travel agencies planning their PowerPoint presentations to showcase their provinces.

Science (5th per) Monday - Today we will continue to work on EMM lesson 4 testing to see how long a flashlight will stay lit by charging the batteries for different amounts of time. If we have time today, we will start the reading for this lesson on pages 30 to 35 (I will jigsaw those pages so that teams can read a small part and summarize what they learned to the rest of the class). The reading is about electric cars and using wind for power. HW - None Tuesday - Today we will finish reading and summarizing pages 30 to 35 then students will write up their lab. HW - None Wednesday - I gave students time to finish yesterday's EMM lesson 4 Lab Write-Up because many goofed off and didn't get time to finish (I really gave them more time today because students who used their time wisely also needed more time). Sad thing is that many students goofed off and socialized again, wasting more of their classwork time. Oh well, no more chances. Then we started EMM lesson 5 (Introduction to Forces). Lab 5.1 dealt with the elastic force of a rubber band (using a spring scale to measure Newtons of force). We couldn't get to lab 5.2 because students would not stop talking long enough for me to finish one set of instructions. It's so frustrating. HW - None Thursday - No Project Alert today because Heidi Dodd will be at a meeting. We will continue working on EMM 5.1. When students are done we will discuss what they learned. Monday we will start EMM Lab 5.2, which deals with gravitational force. Students will design their own experiment for 5.2 and then write -up the lab using the lab write-up worksheet that we used on lesson 4. HW - None, students were asking me all morning to find out their grades so I quickly corrected all the papers I had during lunch and planning, and a bit into 5th period, and managed to print out progress reports for everyone. Friday - SNOW DAY - No School! HW - None Future plans: We will continue to work on the EMM kit that I am piloting this quarter. It is a fantastic kit!

Language Arts (6th per) This week I will continue to block Language Arts with Science. We are doing our reading and writing in science during this time out of our Energy, Machines and Motion Student Guide and Source Books.

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