Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Your Kids on TV!!

Some of the sixth grade Wiley science students participated in a lab Wednesday, and the lab footage and some interviews with students will appear on KIDK out of Idaho Falls this Sunday- November 7, 2010. The spot will air both at 5:30 PM and 10:00 PM. The spot will again air on the Monday morning show between 5:30 AM and 7:00 AM.

the spot will also be available on kidk.com starting Monday afternoon.

Conferences Part II

Conference Letters will be going home Thursday- November 4, 2010. Sorry for the lateness of these letters, scheduling conferences this year has been more difficult than in past years! Please send this conference sign up back to me ASAP, so we can get everyone appropriately scheduled. If you have and questions feel free to contact me!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Quarter #2 and Conference Info!

November 2 officially begins Quarter 2. In science we will be continuing in the same book called
WATER AND THE ATMOSPHERE.


November 2 & 3: As a special project this week, all science classes will be participating in a project called RIVER OF WORDS (ROW) which is an international art and poetry contest. The project will be directed through pARTners which coordinates and integrates the arts into the core academic classes. Artists in residence will be in the classrooms.

November 4 & 5: Study of oil spills and impact on the ocean environment. Lab activity: "Oil Spills, a Sticky Business": a simulation of oil spill cleanup methods.



November 8, Classes will be starting Chapter 3 " The Atmosphere" with the interactive text, myscienceonline.com, labs, quizzes and tests.


Conferences will be held November 9 & 10. (Tuesday and Wednesday). Notices of times will be sent home today.
All grades are posted on Power School. It would be helpful for you to go over your child's grades before conferences.

During this quarter, science classes will be doing a project called "Natural Disasters" which involves researching a natural disaster such as: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Avalanches, Tsunamis etc. and doing a Power Point multimedia presentation. More details about this project will be forthcoming.We will begin this project November 15th!

All information is posted on the blog: http://geoscience-wiley6th.blogspot.com/

Thank you
Mr. Wiley