Here are the links I promised to post for information on the oil spill. Hopefully the live feed will work on your personal computer since we couldn’t see it at school. Have a nice weekend!
http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37133684/ns/gulf_oil_spill/from/ET
I have a had a lot of students show concern about the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As you know, we talk alot about the oceans, ocean tides, and even the “conveyor belt” during first and second semester of science. It’s been amazing to me for the kids to ask me so many questions about how this oil spill will effect not only our coastline, but what the effects will be around the United States, and not to mention the world. It has also been amazing for them to apply what they have learned throughout the year, and put into “real-world” thinking. It is such a neat process to witness our youth taking their knowledge and concerns and being so vocal about it. It really makes me so very proud of them and solidifies my decision in becoming a teacher.
As you have all heard, the oil spill is expected to enter the Gulf Stream in the next day or two. As tragic as this is, it has shown me the hearts of so many concerned students at Challenger. I have posted a link that lists several agencies that can be contacted for information on opportunities to volunteer. Take a look and see what you are interested in.
I am proud of each and every one of you guys. 
Hugs to you all!
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/05/bp_oil_spill.html
This week we will be working on our booklets during class. We will be listening to The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack while doing so. It’s so glorious! Below are the requirements:
For each chapter you must have 2 paragraphs of information consisting of 5-8 sentences each. You must also have a hand-drawn, colored picture for each. Pictures from the Internet are allowed, however they must be IN ADDITION to your hand-drawn picture.
Cover: Title, Name, Class Period
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Nebula and Protostar
Chapter 2: Main sequence
Chapter 3: Giants and Supergiants
Chapter 4: White Dwarfs
Chapter 5 : Supernova, Neutron and Pulsar star, Blackhole
(paragraph and colored picture for EACH)
Chapter 6: HR Diagram (only one paragraph and picture is not required. Bonus will be given for hand-drawn picture of the diagram)
*Remember: Every page must be filled. There can be no blank pages. This is due May 10, 2010. We will be working on this project during class Monday-Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday we will be in the computer lab simulating our night sky!
Enjoy and I can’t wait to see all the creativity on your booklets!
2010-2011 CMS Cheerleaders
Congrats to the following girls:
Kelly Chandler
Kayla Duffy
Lakin Aycock
Alicia Mulqueen
Cacie Coyle
Anna Crain
Allegra Allen
Lauren Brewer
Morgan Williamson
Hannah VanAllen
Taylor Klinkhammer
Sara Baugher
Addy Baugher
Cierra Lester
We will have a mandatory meeting Monday, March 1 from3:15-4:15 in H-107. All 2010-2011 Cheerleaders must be in attendance.
Yesterday was a great day in the Science classroom. Each student acted as a water droplet and experienced an “Incredible Journey” through the water cycle. We all remember the water cycle, right? Precipitation, evaporation, condensation, and transpiration. Well, the students learned that there are so many more details to the cycle of H2O than just these four well-known steps. Water can change states among a gas, liquid, or ice at various places in the water cycle. It doesn’t always go in the order that we all may have learned in elementary school.
Ms. Whitfield and I set up the lab with nine different stations including: River, Glacier, Lake, Ocean, Groundwater, Animal, Plant, Soil, and Clouds. Of course each student started with a yellow bead to represent the sun because afterall, it is the driving force of the water cycle. At each station the students would string a colored bead onto a piece of twine to remind them of their time there. As the students traveled from station-to-station, they had to record a reason as to why they went from say a cloud to a river, or maybe from a glacier to the ocean. Not all students would make it to the nine stations…..why? Some students would have to stay at cloud several times in a row. Why? Well, clouds are the result of evaporation of water condensing to form a cloud. When there is so much water vapor in the air, we will have some form of precipitation. However, if there is no precipitation, water vapor is remaining in the cloud. This explains why some students had to stay at certain stations longer than others.
Below I have posted my PowerPoint that I used to introduce the Water Cycle. If you were absent on the day we discussed this in depth, please refer to the slideshow below. I will be posting pictures soon of our “Incredible Journey” and will also post pics of our examples of transpiration. Please wear your water cycle bracelets to school tomorrow. They may help you on your test!
Hope you all enjoyed this experience as much as I enjoyed watching you journey through the water cycle. I loved seeing you make connections and understanding why your water molecule took the path that it did. Keep it up 6th graders. YOU are our future scientists!
WOW! What a week at cheer clinic. I was amazed at all the girls who came to tryout and am proud of each of you for all of your hard work. Thanks for everyones’ participation and enthusiasm. I am thankful I wasn’t in the judges seat. Having said that, congrats to the 2009-2010 CMS Cheerleaders!
Rachael Abrams
Lakin Aycock
Kelly Chandler
Caycie Coyle
Makenzie Crysel
Ayla Dennen
Brooklyn Dodds
Erin Funk
Dasha Gubarev
Hannah Henderson
Desi Spring
Michelle Massey
Alana Nelson
Makenzie Walls
Hey guys and gals! You all did a fantastic job in English today with sharing your Pop Parts of Speech project. A lot of you chose your favorite song and made up words that taught the class about your designated part of speech. Some of you chose to put on a short play to teach us about parts of speech, and finally, a few of you did an upbeat cheer! I am impressed with the creativity you showed today…especially since I only gave you two class periods to plan for this! I will be adding your videos shortly. When watching, make sure you turn up your speakers all the way! The microphone on the camera didn’t pick up some of your voices as well as others. Have a safe and happy holiday and I will see you all on January 5th.
Hey guys and gals! I was sent this through an email and think it is AWESOME! Check it out. I checked it out though snopes and found it to be valid!
XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL
If you go to this web site, http://letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!!
It is FREE and it only takes a second.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.
This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you’s.
Thanks for taking to time to support our military!
I have my first guest bloggers! Thanks to Kathy and Olivia for blogging for our English classes. I just uploaded the voicethreads. All classes are here except for 3rd period. I need to go back and save your HTML in voicethread and put the setting on public. It is on private right now and will not work if I uploaded them on here. I will get these up here as soon as I get back from Hawaii. Have a great week kiddos!
Be sure to comment and view all threads.
Ms. Hyche
Hey This is Kathy!!!!!!!!!!
We just learned about demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those). Ms. Hyche came up with an awesome exercise for us. She divided us into groups and each group got a digital camera. Then she let us go into the hallway and take pictures. We wrote sentences telling about the picture. After that we got to do voicethreads. Voicethreads is when we got to record what we said so you can hear are wonderful voices !!! Make sure to listen for me and Olivia’s ( the other blogger) voicethreads. Make sure to listen AND COMMENT to some voicethreads and visit Ms. Hyches’ blog!!!
~ Kathy
Hey everyone, Olivia here.
These past few weeks we have been learning about demonstratives adjectives. It was cool AWESOME! We did bunches of cool activities from taking pictures in the hall, to just sitting in the classroom and working on the active board. When we went out in the hall to take pictures we had an ah – mazing time. We took turns taking pictures with the schools cameras and then we wrote a sentence to go along with it. The sentence had to have at least one demonstrative adjective and one describing word. It was fun to go into the computer lab and the library to do voicethreads to go along with our sentences. Right now the voicethreads are on Ms. Hyche’s website/blog. It was cool to hear our voices on the voicethread. Make sure to check out me and Kathy’s [ shes writing another blog on the computer next to me] voicethreads :]
Yupper Doodles.
– Oliviaaa :]
