Alfonso Gonzalez

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.

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Water Quality Websites Up and Running!

The 6th grade Water Quality Webs are finally uploaded and linked! Check them out. Kids worked on these right down to the very last day of school and some minor fixes can still be made.

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2007/07/03/water-quality-websites-up-and-running/

Last Week of School!

This is it, 6th graders are going to try and finish their water quality websites on Thursday! Look here to see them once I upload them either the weekend after school lets out or the Monday after that. Seventh graders finished their websites and got feedback from a Western Washington University Geology professor! I might …

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Two Weeks to Go!

We’re almost done! Seventh graders are finishing up their Earth Movement websites and I should be uploading them Monday, 6-11, or Tuesday, 6-12! Check this page to see them when they’re ready. In 6th grade students are working furiously to complete their websites! Look here after the last week of school to see their work. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2007/06/11/two-weeks-to-go/

Chimacum Middle School Youth Summit

For 6th graders: if your child loses his or her June 8th CMS Youth Summit permission slip, just click here (CMS Youth Summit) to get another copy. Or visit this week’s homework page.

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2007/05/29/chimacum-middle-school-youth-summit/

Deadlines and End of Year

This is it. The year is quickly coming to an end and students have quite a bit of work to do. Here are deadlines needed to complete all the final projects. 6th grade: This week we have to finish the PowerPoint presentations. Then I will show kids how to storyboard and create their water quality …

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Progress Reports

Progress reports will be passed out to all students on Monday, May 14. Remember that anything on the progress report can be made up for a better grade. I warned all my 6th grade students that it was easy to get a passing midterm grade this trimester, but I cautioned them against getting too comfortable. …

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Victoria Field Trip Reminder

Here is the trip reminder that we sent out with students.

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2007/05/09/victoria-field-trip-reminder/

Victoria Field Trip Info

In case you lost the Victoria Field Trip information packet with the itinerary and all the costs, just click here to download your own copy. Mr. G

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2007/05/03/victoria-field-trip-info/

Midterm – May 10

The midterm is coming up and I will be reading through over 120 notebooks this trimester because I’m having my Latin Exploration class keep notebooks as well. I will do my best to have progress reports for everyone by the 10th but may need to hand them out after the Victoria field trip. There’s a …

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Next Phases of Science Projects!

This week we are having our last two water quality field trips! Tuesday, April 24, all 6th graders will go tree planting along Chimacum Creek with the North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC). NOSC is paying for our busses so that our kids can provide a service for Chimacum Creek by helping restore its natural habitat …

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