Apr 20
Week 5 – April 20 to 24:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Recap of Week 4: Monday the 13th was business as usual, which means Bloomz Post for parents for the week at about 9 am, a random event for each of the three classes …
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Apr 14
Week 4 – April 13 to April 17 (back from spring break!):School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Starting the 4th week of our school being closed, really my 3rd week teaching online, I had to extend the deadline for the Hydro Dynamics Project that we …
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Apr 14
Week 3 – March 30 to April 3 (and spring break, April 6 to April 10) School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Chimacum is a small, rural town in Washington state. As rural towns go, it’s small and the nice thing is that it’s close …
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Apr 14
Week 2 – March 23 to 27:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My students’ 2nd week of being out of school was really my first because the week prior was spent working with my district admin and with my fellow teachers helping us all get …
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Mar 15
Updated 3/15/20 at 3:15 pm PDTSchool Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 My school district was being proactive. Seeing how the spread of COVID-19 was causing many schools around us to shut down, we started to meet to discuss what we would do in the case …
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Aug 24
Ten days ago I decided to start planning early for the start of the new school year so I would be ready and not feel rushed that week teachers get back to work before the kids start. I found myself blocked and scattered and that took me aback. I spun my wheels and decided to …
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Aug 16
I’ve managed to procrastinate for another two whole days! I had set aside time every day this week to get a head start on getting ready for school. Most of the day yesterday and some of the day today I spent working on a video my superintendent asked me to make for a STEM Kickoff …
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Aug 14
I’ve been procrastinating on getting ready for school. Now that school is a few weeks away from starting I decided to start getting ready. Well, I tried but I haven’t been able to start anything. There are so many things floating around in my head that I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START! I can’t remember …
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Mar 25
On March 14, 2018, Chimacum Middle School students gathered by the track in honor of the 17 people who died in the Parkland, FL shootings. It was amazingly well organized and students were attentive and open to listen. Not all students chose to come out. It was by choice yet most of the middle school …
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Jul 15
Well, more like Watershed Guardians. Last year I found out about this NOAA project called Ocean Guardian School. When I read the description I knew Chimacum Middle School had to apply to be an Ocean Guardian School! Our Environmental Stewardship Project was perfect! Even though we focus mostly on our neighborhood creek, Ocean Guardian Schools …
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