Week 7- October 5-9

This week was one of the worst I've had. The kids were so rowdy Monday-Wednesday, Thursday was a pep rally, and Friday was a blissful curriculum day (thank you, god of substitutes).

A lot of really stressful things happened, including my cat bringing in a baby squirrel (who we took care of for 2 days before he passed) and signing the closing papers on my house (OH MY GOD I'm a homeowner!).

Monday
Energy Vocabulary. We filled in our blanks and drew our pictures.

Tuesday

We began on the first half of our forms of Energy: Chemical, Potential, Kinetic, and Radiant.

The foldable was a modified version I found in this bundle. The output page was something of my own devising. It is now available on My TPT.

Wednesday

We did the second half of our forms of energy: Electrical, Nuclear, Thermal, and Sound. We continued on the pages that we had begun yesterday. We glued the other output page at the very bottom of a page, and today's output page at the very top (we're trying to make sure we don't run out of pages by the end of the year!)

Thursday

Today we talked about alternative energy sources. We completed a page of fill-in-the-blank notes and drew pictures of how each form of energy is gathered.

Our output page I found here. The kids got the hang of it after a few examples.

Friday

Curriculum day! I needed a break from being "on" all day every day. I left my sub with a Vocabulary Quiz and an episode of Bill Nye (the Energy episode).

Here's hoping I can finish painting my new home in the next week, so I can MAYBE move in!

Cheers

Ms. Kat

Week 6- Sept. 28- Oct 2

This week was equal parts crazy and chaotic. We had a school pep-rally on Thursday, and a district homecoming pep rally on Friday. Back to back shortened schedules on the last 2 days of the first 6-weeks. Yikes.

Monday
We did a measuring up on Solutions. They really struggled with this one. I had to help a lot. We numbered our paragraphs, re-worded questions, and drew some things out.

Tuesday
We played Trashketball using our review sheets. Here is a copy of the review.

And here is a copy of the Smartboard Review Game

Wednesday
My kids took their first real Unit test for me over the Physical Properties of Matter.
And they did so well! I was so pleasantly surprised that only 1 or 2 failed, and most got either an A or B. Proud Teacher moment!

Thursday
We did our best to complete the Mixtures lab I had originally planned for last week.
Here is the Lab Sheet. There are 3 pages, and it is outlined using the Scientific Method. We separated Iron from Sand, Sand from Pebbles, and Water from Potting Soil.

This was the kids first REAL lab. They had a great time! I had to create a makeshift sieve by poking holes in an old aluminum pan. I used Iron washers (as they were the only small iron objects I could find). I had potting soil left over from the compost columns from last year. Everything worked out so well!

Friday

We had 30 minute classes today, so I put on an episode of Captain Planet and we chilled. The kids loved it, even more than my 7th graders did last year! I think I created some Planeteers!

Hope you had an excellent first 6-weeks!
~Ms. Kat