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
Grades Updated
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
Beat Cancer
I’m helping to raise funds to #beatcancer, by blogging, tweeting and posting Facebook status updates.
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Sep 23
Online Grades Ready
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
Ways to Get Equipment
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
Summer’s Almost Over
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
Thank you!
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
8th Grade Picture Permission Slip
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
End of Year Approaching Fast!
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
Odyssey Week
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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