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.
May 03
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
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May 03
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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Apr 23
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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Apr 14
Sixth graders have some field trips coming up so I’m writing this to let parents know what to expect. Each 6th grader and each parent needs to fill out, sign and return two field trip permission slips to me. Mr. Olafson’s class will be the first to go to the Hood Canal on Wednesday, April …
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Apr 05
As Spring Break comes to an end we get ready to finish this year with a bang! The 6th grade Water Quality project is well underway and will take us through to the end of the year. The 7th grade is coming to the end of the Earth Movement project and will be moving on …
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Mar 21
I just finished grading all the science notebooks and I’ve printed updated progress reports for all my classes! Thursday, March 22, is the last day of the 2nd trimester and it’s the last day my 8th graders get to work on their websites. See the Computer Class Website for links to the students’ work. For …
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Mar 09
The 6th grade has officially started Chimacum Middle School’s Water Quality Project! The trimester ends on March 22 even though we are having our trimester break on March 16 (we never changed the date of the break even though the trimester end day was moved back due to the snow week). The 7th graders are …
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Mar 01
March is upon us and we are working hard to complete the Energy, Machines, and Motion kit work. We got farther this year than in previous years because I started this kit earlier than ever before. It paid off because we got to the second unit and students have been learning about inclined planes, pulleys, …
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Feb 08
I finally got all the tests and notebooks graded! I just printed out progress reports for the midterm (Thursday, 2/8 at 7pm!) and I will hand them out to students on Friday, 2/9. Please ask your child to show you his or her science progress report (or Computer Graphics and Web Design). Students have had …
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Jan 31
I’ve been letting students know what my schedule is this midterm for having progress reports ready and printed. February 5th is the midterm and that week is when I am striving to have progress reports ready to go home with students. I will hand them to the office to be mailed home on Feb 12. …
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