Mr. González's Classes Homework/ Daily Activities Week 1, 9/1 to 9/5

6th grade Science: Monday - Labor Day - No School HW - Get all your supplies, get a good night's rest and be here bright and early for 1st period (note that your zero period, Eagle Time, class is not your 1st class - your 1st period class is the one you go to first when the bell rings). Tuesday - Today I will welcome students to middle school Science with a powerpoint presentation on Mt. Saint Helens (in preparation for our Cispus trip). Students will get a class intro letter today to read at home with parents and get signed (Cispus packet should come home today too so look out for that one). HW - Get your Science packet signed by a parent after reading through it with him or her. Also get started on your Cispus packet as we need that paperwork back ASAP (the yellow is yours to keep, the purple is due back by Monday, Sept 8 at the latest, sooner is better, and the white one, if needed, is due with meds by Monday, Sept 15). Wednesday - Today I will give students their yearly Informed Consent Agreement form to use technology in our district. We will go over proper use as well. Today we will start setting up our notebooks so that we can use them. Notebook setup includes adding a table of contents to the back of the very first page, then adding a guidelines for scientific drawings sheet on the back of the second page, followed by the lab safety contract when it's signed. Students will start numbering their pages with page one on the fourth page in their notebook. The front of the first page is for decoration (the theme of the decoration is water in the form of fresh water rivers, creeks, and streams. HW - Same as Tuesday (for any part that is not yet completed) and get your Informed Consent Agreement read and signed. Thursday - Today, after we finish setting up our notebooks, students will begin learning about volcanoes and about Mt Saint Helens in particular in preparation for our visit to the Johnston Ridge Observatory on Tuesday, Sept 16. HW - Same as Tuesday (for any part that is not yet completed). Friday - We will continue to work on our volcanoes and about Mt Saint Helens activity. Students today got through the first three volcano types (some did less and some did more). HW - Finish reading and signing any of the paperwork.

8th grade Science: Monday - Labor Day - No School HW - Get all your supplies, get a good night's rest and be here bright and early for 1st period. Tuesday - Class Intro and Syllabus, Blog Permission and How to Blog, and Lab Safety Contract. Notebook setup includes adding a table of contents to the back of the very first page, then adding a guidelines for scientific drawings sheet on the back of the second page, followed by the lab safety contract when it's signed. Students will start numbering their pages with page one on the fourth page in their notebook. We will decorate their front of the very first page with pictures of the Earth. HW - Get the Class Intro and Syllabus and the Lab Safety Contract and the Blog Contract signed by parents. Those students who blogged last year just need a parent signature and can keep last year's password if they wish. Wednesday - Today I will give students their yearly Informed Consent Agreement form to use technology in our district. We will go over proper use as well. HW - Same as Tuesday (for any part that is not yet completed). Thursday - Today we will start a lab to quantify the production of gas by vinegar and baking soda. Today we wrote our problem questions, our hypotheses, and we started our procedures. HW - Same as Tuesday (for any part that is not yet completed). Friday - Vinegar and baking soda lab. Today students finished the steps of their procedure, then they ran the lab and collected data. HW - Same as Tuesday (for any part that is not yet completed).

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