Famous Scientist Resume

We are starting a short lesson on scientist biographies and resume writing.  The students are assigned a famous scientist, say George Washington Carver for example, pretend that he is alive today and is trying to get a job with the US Department of Agriculture.  The students fill out a resume, then send it off to prospective employers.  The responses from Harvard, US Fish&Wildlife, or Sea World are great fun for all the students.  Talk to your child about who they are researching, where they would likely send the resume to, and what contributions their scientist made to the world.

Math Mid Chapter Quiz Tomorrow

Order of operations and integers will be tested tomorrow.  

Cross Country Meet Tomorrow at Riverbend Elementary

Girls run first at 330 and boys follow at 350ish.

Order of Operation

We have worked all week on becoming better at solving equations using the order of operations.  Homework this week is the blue packet.

Science Etymology Gallery Walk

Today we had our gallery walk.  Great fun and great participation from our students.

ALL MATH CLASSES- HOMEWORK PACKETS HANDED OUT TODAY!!

All math classes worked out of the pre-algebra book today.  We talked about powers, exponents and bases.  The main focus of the lesson was to show them that when we cube, square or whatever, we don't multiply the base by the exponent.  Instead,  we multiply the base by the base the number of times the exponent tells us to.

Science Etymology

In science today we worked on the etymology or "true meaning" of many common science terms.  Of note were diarrhea, gastropod, and hippopotamus.  We will continue working on this new skill tomorrow as we look at many of the science fields we will be discussing.