Monday, June 7th, 2010

Well, today was the first day of Summer, I hope you guys are all enjoying it as much as I have enjoyed mine. We ended the year on a high note, and I hope you will all be as successful next year as you were this year. As promised, I will post at least once a week to give you some different things to keep you occupied and your brain working through the Summer!!!

Mrs. E

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Today we take our final benchmark of the year before the TAKS test. We will start small tutoring groups for Science based on the results of this test. The benchmark will cover everything we have learned this year from The Scientific Method to Landforms, and Natural Resources.

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Today in class we briefly discussed maps. During this discussion, we read from our Landforms book that will be accompanying us during our investigations and experiments next week. We learned that maps can have many different uses, and that there are many different forms. Two very important types are political maps, and physical maps. Political maps give information such as streets, cities, populations, city/state lines etc. Physical maps show us "physical" features of the Earth such as landforms, bodies of water etc. Click on the linked words to see examples of each. We learned that cartographers, are also known as map-makers, and that we would be "becoming" cartographers next week.

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Today we did not rotate, so I did not get to see both classes. The students took their February Reading Benchmark today, and will take their Math tomorrow.

However, in the meantime, here is a link that discusses the recent Port Arthur Oil Spill that would be good for the students to watch and discuss in regards to adapting to your environment, and coping with the changes to allow survival of a species... etc.

January 28th, 2010

This week was Science Fair week and the projects were great, I saw lots of focus on following the procedures and analyzing their data. One thing that could have had more time spent on was noticing and paying attention to the variables. Please take time to discuss this concept with your students at home. Here are a few of the projects that were entered.