Mr. Morphis' Blog

Tuesday May 4th all 6th graders (that turn in their permission form and have passing grades in all their classes) will be going on a field trip to the Bauman family tree farm, which promotes forest stewardship through education. Permission trip forms will be handed out today in class and MUST BE RETURNED BY: Tuesday April 13th. We have to have a strict deadline due to transportation and lunch for students.

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Welcome back from spring break! I hope you all had a chance to relax and have some fun as well. We only have 12 more weeks of school left, can you believe it? We have many many subjects to study until June 18th, and we will continue looking at properties of matter by observing changes in phases of matter and buoyancy this week.

Tuesday: 6th graders-Survey Monkey for Slick Tracy

7th/8th graders-Reading: Buoyancy

Wednesday: LAB INQUIRY-Finding the Density of Irregular Objects

Thursday: Finish LAB!

Friday: 7th/8th graders: Video-“Changes in the Properties of Matter”

6th graders-Slick Tracy

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Monday: Online Activity: What is Matter?

Tuesday: Reading-What is Matter?

Wednesday: LAB-Density/Mass/Volume

Thursday: Finish LAB

Friday: Video-Properties of Matter for 6th graders

4th period has a GUEST SPEAKER talking about body images in a “photoshop” world.

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All grades will start Physical Science this week!

Monday: 6th graders-Finish TEST! Catsup

7th/8th graders: Intro to Physical Science

Tuesday: Reading-Exploring Physical Science

Wednesday-Lab-Measuring the Mass and Density of Water

Thursday-Finish Lab.

ALL MISSING WORK IS DUE THURSDAY!

Friday-half day/grading day!

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Monday-7th/8th graders: Rock Cycle using Cartoon Life

6th graders: Bill Nye-Fossils

Tuesday- Erosion/Sedimentation reading and work on homework.

Wednesday- 7th/8th graders: Rock Cycle Lab

6th graders: Rock Cycle Cartoon

Thursday-REVIEW FOR TEST!

Friday-TEST over rock cycle, erosion, deposition.

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