Overview of What You Should Have Heard Today
Homework Tonight (Due by Friday)
2. Sign and return the "Emergency Contact Information Sheet" that you (may) have gotten from your homeroom teacher. If you did not get this yet, then don't worry; you will get this sheet tomorrow (Thursday).
3. Read, sign, and return the Lab Safety Contract and Classroom Plan. These sheets are back-to-back and can be found on the witsilscience.weebly.com homepage at the bottom.
4. If you received a "6th Grade Contact Sheet" from me or one of your other teachers, then please complete this and bring it in tomorrow.
5. Give the "Brag Letter" to a family member. This is an optional assignment and may be submitted whenever.
The Plan for Tomorrow (Thursday)
1. You will pass through the doors at the front of the annex.
2. You will get your breakfast right after you pass through the front annex doors.
3. You will go to the same homeroom you were in today.
4. You will have all of your classes! (Today/Wednesday you missed your B Block class because of extended homeroom time.)
5. Lunch will immediately follow C Block, running from 10:49 until 11:18.
6. Dismissal will follow the same procedure, but your half-day bus and your full day bus numbers are different. All of your teachers have bus lists, so feel free to ask any of us if you're not sure of your bus number.
Homeroom:
1. Homeroom is scheduled daily from 7:10-7:40. During this time you eat your breakfast, unpack/get ready for the day, and then work on some academic task like reading, organizing your notebooks, or completing online skills practice on the laptops (once everyone has submitted their signed forms.)
2. Tomorrow, homeroom will likely eat into your A Block class because of the significant number of paperwork, etc. things that have to be done when starting a new school.
Science Class:
1. We will review the sheets you received today. (Lab safety contract, Classroom Plan).
2. We will check out this web site.
3. We will review a few school policies.
4. We will conduct an observation activity where you will be applying the basic science skill of observation to an unknown object.
Extra Credit!
1. Read this article (click this line of text). Then answer the following question: "Why does the Annual Fish described in the article need to be able to reproduce so quickly?"
2. One of our class's talked about the Mars Curiosity Rover and how amazing the trip to Mars' surface was. Here's the video I was trying to find. (7 minutes, it's amazing!) To get extra credit, watch the video and then write a reflection on what you saw. You could write about why the video makes you want to be an engineer. You could write a list of 20 questions you had from watching the video. You could write a poem about the wonder that the video inspires. Anything that shows you thinking about this amazing achievement! Here is the video.
Challenge: Make a prediction just like the following article asks. Then watch the videos and find out (a) if you were right and (b) why you were right/wrong. Note: There is an explanation video and some of the comments are helpful. Here is Link.