Week 5

Well it was a rainy end to our week but a productive one! Here's the breakdown of the week by class.

Biology

We viewed our pond cultures again today and the egg cultures were definitely the winner! I may give these cultures a few more days to grow and pull them out again on Monday and see if we can see some of our protozoa on a larger scale. The ones we saw today were quite small! We were able to see a few Euglena and some Paramecium, however.

Please finish reading Module 3 next week and complete the OYO questions and vocabulary lists. We will have a short test on Modules 1-3 on Wednesday. Please have your notebooks up to date!


Chemistry

I returned the chemistry tests and gave the quizzes on the first 20 of the periodic table. The grades were fairly good but we do need to buckle down some. Remember to always label your answer with the correct unit!

Our experiment today showed helped to highlight the difference between covalent and ionic compounds in a tangible way.

Read to p. 113 in Module 4 for next week and complete the OYO questions. Our lab time on Wednesday will be very busy so please come prepared - that means read over our experiments before you come! We will be doing Exp. 4.1 and 4.2 in class. Steps 1 & 8 of Exp. 4.2 will need to be done at home before you come!! Make sure your lab notebooks are up to date!



Adv.Biology

We used our skeletal models today to help solidify our memorization of the skeletal system. Many thanks to Shelby's family for letting us borrow "Stinky". We also have "Steve" and "Bonita", our smaller models to assist us. There were quite a few coloring exercises for us to do this week so we did not get them all finished. Please try to go through these at home. The drawings of the cranial bones are quite good and will really help with your memorization.

For next week, read Module 4 to p. 110 and complete the OYO questions and vocabulary listing. We will do Exp. 4.2 in class but Exp. 4.1 will need to be done at home!



Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Matthews