Ms. Kearns' Class Blog: Shoe Museum/Windy Monday

A late "hello" to you all, but nonetheless I am here. There's something delicious to be said about the taste of chocolate and peanut butter at this time of night, whoever thought it up...they were a genius!

Today we started the day with a new unit, Geometry and Spatial Sense. Fantastic opener, really stellar answers, everyone was pretty much on task today. We did Chapter 2 the opening warm-up and covered the Learning Goals. So far, so good.

After recess we continued our discussion on Osmosis. We reviewed what we already knew, and then looked at what turgor pressure was and how it worked. We also read about an investigation in osmosis and luckily with the help of our class we set up the model after lunch. The students did a compare and contrast on Diffusion and Osmosis (the two main ideas from last week and this week) and were given class time to complete this. We also moved on to human cellular organisms and began to learn about the many systems in the body.

French - If you haven't finished your French logo...you're in trouble, so get it done.

For the rest of the afternoon students were allowed to work on their Soundtrack projects, and I met with some of the groups to check on their progress as well as go over their ideas. I will meet with the remainder of the class tomorrow morning. So far some people have gotten some of their songs, others are on task and have started their jewel case artwork while some groups just have songs and no written work. The soft due date is Friday, and presentations start Monday of next week. So...time is running out and going fast!

All in all the wind made for an interesting day. Lots of crazy kids...and even a water fight using the water fountain. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Please enjoy the trip photos below, mixed with the Learning goals for Geometry. Sorry for the disorder but if I spent a lot of time on those details, I might be here all night.