Welcome Grade 5 students and parents! This nine weeks we will be learning about weather: the water cycle, air pressure, clouds, wind, air masses, fronts, climate, and hurricanes. We are currently learning about the water cycle and will most likely have a test this Friday. Before each test, students receive a review sheet and have two days to study for the test. I teach them various study skills and give them time to practice these skills in class. The week of September 6-10 we will study air pressure. Students will have an opportunity to study air pressure through two experiments, and then will be a meterologist and read the barometer to determine atmospheric pressure.
I look forward to working with you. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions or comments.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
SCIENCE GRADE 6: August 30 - September 10th
Welcome back to Neuse Charter! Grade 6 is studying plate techtonics, the Theory of Continental Drift, and earthquakes. We are exploring these concepts through various models, experiments, reading and writing activities, examples, and games. One exciting part of our unit is making fossils with plaster of Paris. Students will need to bring in an object from nature that could potentially be fossilized. Also, students should expect a test the week of September 6-10th. Before the test, students will receive a review sheet and two days to study. I look forward to working with you again this year!
SCIENCE GRADE 7: August 30-Sept 10
Welcome to the start of a new year! We are studying extreme weather in all of its forms: thunderstorms, lightning, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, including the technology used to measure and contain them. Expect students to have a test the week of September 6-10. We will begin projects on extreme weather after the 10th. I look forward to working with you again this year.
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