On Thursday, Oct. 16, I will send home a last reminder letter of Outdoor School information. It will include information on special diets, times that buses are leaving Hosford and arriving back home, information on packing medications, and on a small handful of soil from a special place. Please look for this information. Here is a link to a copy of this letter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MpOPBiXv5sRG04TUJ0Q3ZYNkU/view?usp=sharingODS final letter, Oct. 16
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
NOV. 2-4 OUTDOOR SCHOOL FORMS OVERDUE! (Periods 1, 2, 5)
I drove the Outdoor School forms to the Outdoor School office today after work. In the introduction letter I sent home last week, I asked to have the forms back by Oct. 9. If your child attends science period 1, 2, or 5, the forms are now at the Outdoor School office. If your forms have not been turned into me, please get them to the Outdoor School office yourself. The office is off of Airport Way. The address is:
MESD Outdoor School
11611 NE Ainsworth Circle
Portland, OR 97220
503-257-1600
FAX 503-257-1592
The forms are due in the Outdoor School Office by Oct. 17. If your child has lost the forms, s/he can ask me for another packet. The forms are also available online at: http://www.mesd.k12.or.us/os/OutdoorSchool/ForParents.html
Forms for periods 6 & 7, attending Nov. 12-14, are due to me AT THE VERY LATEST by Oct. 22.
Thank you for your understanding.
FIND THE TEXTBOOK ONLINE
Several students have approached me lately asking how to find the textbook online. Here I give the basic directions. For the username and password, you will need to ask your child. I had students write their username and password on the inside front cover of their lab notebooks. At the text publisher's request, I am not publishing them online.
Log onto www.lab-aids.com
In the upper right hand corner of the screen, click on STUDENT.
On the next screen, enter the username and password.
On the next screen, click on the photo of the textbook, Life Science.
On the next screen, click on the Unit we are studying. At this time, we are concluding our study of Unit A.
This will bring you to the pages of the text.
Monday, October 6, 2014
MIDTERM PROGRESS REPORTS; MINING THE BINDER, LAB NOTEBOOK, BACKPACK
MIDTERM PROGRESS REPORTS are printed reports that are generated at the middle of the grading period/ quarter. Tomorrow is midterm day; all scores at midterm are set by 11:59 pm, when the central computer generates the reports. They are then sent to families. If you are tracking your child's grades via ParentVUE, the report will probably be old news by the time it arrives in the mail. The reports are designed to show parents their children's progress toward the final quarter grade.
AS YOU HELP YOUR 6th GRADE CHILD ORGANIZE her/ himself for school success, consider "mining" the binder, the science notebook, and the backpack. Frequently students tell me they don't have a certain worksheet or paper that I ask them to look for among their supplies. I am often able to quickly locate a lost item if a student will let me have access to the binder and notebook. This is a time in their lives when students are growing a multitude of neural pathways, so some disorganization is to be expected. Often a trusted adult, such as parents, can quickly help a disorganized 6th grader square things away.
I suggest you follow this blog for posts about assignments. ParentVUE is another resource for finding out what assignments are due when. Almost all science assignments are written in/ kept in the science notebook. Help your child organize the notebook on occasion, and keep the Table of Contents up to date. A once a week sweep through the backpack is also a good idea, as papers sometimes fall down this "black hole."
AS YOU HELP YOUR 6th GRADE CHILD ORGANIZE her/ himself for school success, consider "mining" the binder, the science notebook, and the backpack. Frequently students tell me they don't have a certain worksheet or paper that I ask them to look for among their supplies. I am often able to quickly locate a lost item if a student will let me have access to the binder and notebook. This is a time in their lives when students are growing a multitude of neural pathways, so some disorganization is to be expected. Often a trusted adult, such as parents, can quickly help a disorganized 6th grader square things away.
I suggest you follow this blog for posts about assignments. ParentVUE is another resource for finding out what assignments are due when. Almost all science assignments are written in/ kept in the science notebook. Help your child organize the notebook on occasion, and keep the Table of Contents up to date. A once a week sweep through the backpack is also a good idea, as papers sometimes fall down this "black hole."
Thursday, October 2, 2014
ACTIVITY 4, ACTIVITY 7, OUTDOOR SCHOOL
ACTIVITY 4, TESTING MEDICINES SCIENTIFICALLY
is a reading activity that students studied with my substitute, Mr. Leo, on Mon., Sept. 29. Students were assigned work that was begun in class and was to be finished at home. Due to the confusion some students feel when they are with a substitute, I extended the due date to Oct. 1 for their work. Many students complained that the textbook website was down on the evening of Sept. 30, so the new due date was today, Oct. 2. I have been scoring the assignment, Analysis Questions 4 & 8, as students work on Activity 7 in their table teams.
ACTIVITY 7, STUDYING PEOPLE QUALITATIVELY & QUANTITATIVELY
is a reading activity that students began on Oct. 1 and are continuing into the beginning of Oct. 3. Students take turns reading sections of text in their table teams, using a strategy called, "Stopping to Think." At each Stopping to Think paragraph, students discuss the reading in their teams and individually write a response in their notebooks. There are 5 Stopping to Thinks. The assigned and scored work is Analysis Q 2.
OUTDOOR SCHOOL MATERIALS WILL GO HOME TOMORROW and are due back to me by Thurs., Oct 9.
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