I teach 5th and 6th grade STEM in the lovely Pacific Northwest in a small, rural town called Chimacum. My goal is to help students discover that all learning is life-long and that 21st century tools can be used for work as well as fun.
Nov 10
This Friday, 11-13-09, 6th graders will be participating in the annual 6th grade day of service. Sixth graders will be helping North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC) in their restoration efforts on Chimacum Creek as we study the water quality of Chimacum Creek. This year students will be walking to the Grange, as last year, but …
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Nov 06
From our district office: As you are all aware, Mike Blair will be retiring at the end of this school year.  John Fotheringham from Northwest Leadership Associates has been selected to conduct a search for a new superintendent. John will be in the district next Thursday, November 12th to meet with staff, community and the …
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Oct 30
Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you …
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Oct 24
I’ve updated grades for all my Science classes. If you took your notebook with you this weekend make sure I get it before parent/teacher/student conferences. I will be available Thursday most of the day until 8pm and Friday until noon. No appointment necessary just drop on by and visit all your child’s teachers in the …
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Oct 17
I’m helping to raise funds to #beatcancer, by blogging, tweeting and posting Facebook status updates.
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Sep 23
Greetings students and parents. I’ve setup my Science progress reports for my 148 students. For all of my students who had a Skyward Family Access password I just used that one and if any student didn’t have one I made one up. Just ask me for your password and I can give it to you. …
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Sep 01
This summer I re-applied for the new cycle of Learn and Serve Grants. This year they are working on funding sustainable projects and one area of sustainability they are funding is the environment. Well, our 6th grade Water Quality Project fit right in so I applied and got awarded $5,620 for this year! I’m also …
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Aug 23
As summer comes to an end we are getting ready for another wonderful school year. This year I have this blog to update families of things related to my Science classes including my weekly, and sometimes daily, updated homework/daily activities webpages. I will also use a new Moodle site I created for students to use …
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Jun 16
I want to thank everyone for a wonderful year! I hope you all have a great summer and I look forward to seeing many of you again in the Fall. To my 8th graders feel free to visit and enjoy your time in high school. Don’t forget that I will keep all your blog accounts …
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Jun 04
For 8th grade parents, here is a copy of the permission slip that went home with students on Thursday, June 4. If you are okay with having the 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, and Odyssey pictures of your child burned onto our 8th grade class DVD then you didn’t need to do anything. 8th …
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