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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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Almost the Last Midterm!

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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Three Weeks Left!

Seventh graders will be scoring their plants labs (4th period will score 5th period’s and 5th period will score 4th period’s) on Monday, May 19. That is the last time I see them in those groups for two weeks. Tuesday through Thursday of the three weeks starting on May 19 seventh graders will be working …

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Another Progress Report!

Yes! I printed out another updated progress report so that all students can have great midterm grades in Science. I gave every class ideas on how to make up work, redo work, or do extra credit so there can be no excuses for low midterm grades. And this after asking students to make work up …

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End of 2nd Trimester & Student-Led Conferences!

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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THE Water Quality Project Has Begun!

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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Energy, Machines, and Motion Almost Over

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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Midterm

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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