Starting the New Semester

I hope this Friday evening finds you warm and toasty as the weather outside is indeed quite DREADFUL!  As we prepare to enter a new grading period and begin a new unit of study I wanted to find a way to reach my students other than the traditional routes of emails and my use of a class twitter account. This blog will serve as a great way for me to relay information about what happened in class, discuss what we are doing the next day, and basically keep everyone in the loop!

Anyways, Monday brings us the start of the second half of this already AWESOME and AMAZING school year in room 101. We are planning to get the ball rolling with our unit on chemical reactions and properties of matter ASAP. This unit follows an interesting format of Magical Words Mondays, Text Tuesdays, Write It Wednesdays, Think About It Thursdays, and Fact/Fascinating Fridays. Each day will be devoted to specific, content aligned activities that help students to become well rounded learners in the science we are studying through the integration of technology, vocabulary, reading, writing, and experimentation! In the end, the goal is to get the students to achieve mastery of the content that we are exploring.

The schedule for the week looks like:

• Monday: Magical Words Monday, Notebook Prep, Pre-test on Chemical Reactions/Properties of Matter
• Tuesday: MAP Testing (Making up from the snow days in December)
• Wednesday: All About Atoms...Introducing the Atoms Family!!
• Thursday: Exploring the PTE Demo Day (YOU DON'T WANNA MISS THIS!!!)
• Friday: Exploring the PTE with QR Code Scavenger Hunt

In the chance that we will have a snow day or two (pretty likely), I'll be sure and update the schedule and let you know!

One last thought for the day as we embark on 2014...Make this year remarkable!