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.
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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Jun 01
Students are all getting paper copy of progress reports Monday, June 1st, in case you aren’t checking the online progress reports. I’ve been urging all my students to get all their late work done by now because for the next two weeks I will need to devote all my time to keep up with grading …
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May 15
I’ve been updating grades daily as late work has been coming in to help students and their families see how they are progressing. You can find your progress report here. I am also continually updated the HW/Daily Work section of my website detailing what we do in class every day with links to resources and …
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Apr 24
The week of May 4 will be the halfway week of our final trimester of the year. This tri there can be no extensions, no asking for more time, no waiting for the last minute to make up missing work. If you haven’t been keeping up you need to buckle down and get your work …
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Mar 17
We have begun the 3rd and final trimester of the year! Eighth graders are wrapping up their plate tectonics project (see the homework section of my website to download any missing handouts). After they are done with that we will explore earthquakes more deeply as well as return to erosion and weathering. This is all …
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Mar 11
Thursday, March 12, is the last day of the 2nd trimester and Friday, March 13, is our trimester break so there will be no school on that day. Sixth graders and I are busy scoring and reflecting on their work (specifically their websites) and 8th graders are busy making sure they get all their missing …
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