LIFE SCIENCE BLOG, DECEMBER 3 TO DECEMBER 7, 2012

This week the students are going to learn about:

CHAPTER 8; PLANTS

·        Plants Responses and Growth

-      Tropisms

-      Seasonal Changes

-      Life Spans of Angiosperms

Tuesday; we will review all the content seen last week to be ready for the test (Chapter 8).

Wednesday, Dec 5, we will have our Fourth Evaluation for Second Quarter (chapter 8, Plants)

The students can practice for the test online, visit PHSchool.com Web code: cha-2080

The rest of the week the students are going to learn about:

CHAPTER 9; SPONGES, CNIDARIANS, AND WORMS

·        What is an Animal?

-      Structure of Animals

-      Functions of Animals

-      Classification of Animals

·        Animal Symmetry

-      The mathematics of Symmetry

-      Symmetry and Daily Life

STUDENTS WILL START WORKING IN CLASS AND WHATEVER THEY DO NOT FINISH, THEY WILL TAKE HOME.

Classwork / Homework:

Section 5, Assessment, p287

Study Guide, p288-291

Section 1, Assessment, p299

Section 2, Assessment, p302

Make Christmas 2012 special for a child

Don’t forget to bring your Christmas Gift for our friends from Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), this Tuesday, December 4^th, with the tree tag taped to it. Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose trees were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!

If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/. 

-Christmas is the season to open our hearts and share with those around us that need it most. It has been a tradition at Discovery School for students to come together and contribute in assembling baskets of goods for our support personnel.  We are asking for your cooperation in sending the following:

6^th grade students      1 5-lb bag of beans

Please feel free to send any additional goodies that you want to share with our devoted staff, such as canned goods, instant soups, cookies and crackers, or anything else that does not require refrigeration.  Please send these items no later than Friday, December 14^th. Your participation will be deeply appreciated.

-The Discovery School Song Fest (to be held on Tuesday, December 18 at 6:00 p.m.)  is around the corner!   The children will sing and dance beautiful Disney or famous movie themes.

SIXTH GRADE  - Will sing “Hakuna Matata” from the movie “The Lion King”. Students need to dress up as one of the movie characters (as it has already been assigned in class).

Make Christmas 2012 special for a child

Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphanged children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severly handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have anuts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 4^th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphange.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose trees were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!

If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/. 

LIFE SCIENCE BLOG, NOVEMBER 26 TO NOVEMBER 30, 2012

This week the students are going to learn about:

CHAPTER 8; PLANTS

·        The Characteristics of Seed Plants

-      What Is a Seed Plant?

-      How Seeds Become New Plans

-      Stems

-      Leaves

·        Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

-      Gymnosperms

-      Reproduction in Gymnosperms

-      Angiosperms

-      The Structure of Flowers

-      Reproduction in Angiosperms

-      Types of Angiosperms

STUDENTS WILL START WORKING IN CLASS AND WHATEVER THEY DO NOT FINISH, THEY WILL TAKE HOME.

Classwork / Homework:

Section 3, Assessment, p271

Section 4, Assessment, p281

On Wednesday, Nov 28^th; we will go to visit the exhibit “Our Human Body” in mall Las Cascadas. We will leave school promptly after their 1st period class (which is from 8-8:50).  We will return to school for the dismissal at 11:45 PM.

Wednesday, Nov 28^th, Early Dismissal

Monday, Dec 3^rd, we will have our Fourth Evaluation for Second Quarter (chapter 8, Plants)

The students can practice for the test online, visit PHSchool.com Web code: cha-2080

Christmas is the season to open our hearts and share with those around us that need it most. It has been a tradition at Discovery School for students to come together and contribute in assembling baskets of goods for our support personnel.  We are asking for your cooperation in sending the following:

6^th grade students      1 5-lb bag of beans

Please feel free to send any additional goodies that you want to share with our devoted staff, such as canned goods, instant soups, cookies and crackers, or anything else that does not require refrigeration.  Please send these items no later than Friday, December 14^th. Your participation will be deeply appreciated.

The Discovery School Song Fest (to be held on Tuesday, December 18 at 6:00 p.m.)  is around the corner!  This year, the Music Department is making a very special celebration as an extension of their Music classes. The children will sing and dance beautiful Disney or famous movie themes. The Music teachers need your cooperation by providing dresses for your child:

SIXTH GRADE  - Will sing “Hakuna Matata” from the movie “The Lion King”. Students need to dress up as one of the movie characters (as it has already been assigned in class).

Make Christmas 2012 special for a child

Nuestro Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) is an international organization that takes in abandoned and orphanged children, providing a home and education.  Here in Honduras, the NPH organization provides for over 500 children in at large ranch near La Venta and home in Tegucigalpa for severly handicapped children.   While many children at the ranch have anuts, uncles, or grandparents that come to visit them and can provide some Christmas gifts, some children at a ranch have no family to visit.  It is these children, whom we would like to provide for this Christmas.   On the second floor of the secondary building, a NPH Giving Tree will be set up.   Choose a paper tree that has a child’s information about his/her size for shoes or socks.  Purchase the new item and return it to Mrs. Agurcia’s Room (Rm. 7) by Tuesday, December 4^th, with the tree tag taped to it.  As well, there are tree tags for basic food items that will be donated to the orphange.  Cash donations will also be accepted to provide shoes and socks for children whose trees were not selected.  Thank you for giving this Christmas!

If more information about NPH’s work in Honduras, please visit http://www.nph-honduras.org/. 

LIFE SCIENCE BLOG, NOVEMBER 19 TO NOVEMBER 23, 2012

This week the students are going to learn about:

CHAPTER 8; PLANTS

·        The Plant Kingdom

-      What Is a Plant?

-      Adaptations for living on land

-      Classifying plants

-      Complex Life Cycles

·        Plants Without Seeds

-      Nonvascular Plants

-      Seedless Vascular Plants

STUDENTS WILL START WORKING IN CLASS AND WHATEVER THEY DO NOT FINISH, THEY WILL TAKE HOME.

Classwork / Homework:

Math Analyzing Data, p253

Section 1, Assessment, p255

Section 2, Assessment, p260

Wednesday 21, Thanksgiving Celebration, at 11:45 am

Thursday 22 and Friday 23, NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Holliday

LIFE SCIENCE BLOG, NOVEMBER 12 TO NOVEMBER 16, 2012

This week the students are going to learn about:

CHAPTER 7; Viruses, Bacteria, Protists, and Fungi.

·        Protists

-      Plantlike Protists

-      Funguslike Protists

·        Fungi

 

-      What are Fungi?

-      Reproduction in Fungi

-      The Role Of Fungi In Nature

STUDENTS WILL START WORKING IN CLASS AND WHATEVER THEY DO NOT FINISH, THEY WILL TAKE HOME.

Classwork / Homework:

Section 3, Assessment, p235

Section 4, Assessment, p241

Thursday, November 15, we will have our
Second Evaluation for Second Quarter (chapter 7, Virus, Bacteria, Protists, AND Fungi)

The students can practice for the test online, visit PHSchool.com Web code: cha-2070

Thursday, November 15, Midterm

Friday, November 16, NO SCHOOL  

LIFE SCIENCE BLOG, NOVEMBER 5 TO NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Monday 5; we will review all the content seen last week to be ready for the test (Chapter 6).

Tuesday 6; Test, Chapter 6

The rest of the week the students are going to learn about:

CHAPTER 7; Viruses, Bacteria, Protists, and Fungi.

 

·        Viruses

-      What Is a Virus?

-      How Viruses Multiply

-      Viruses and Disease

·        Bacteria

-      The Bacterial Cell

-      Obtaining Food and Energy

-      Reproduction

-      The Role of Bacteria in Nature

·        Protists

-      What is a Protist?

-      Animal-Like Protists

-      Plantlike Protists

-      Funguslike Protists

STUDENTS WILL START WORKING IN CLASS AND WHATEVER THEY DO NOT FINISH, THEY WILL TAKE HOME.

Classwork / Homework:

Section 1, Assessment, p215

Math Analyzing Data, p221

Section 2, Assessment, p225

Section 3, Assessment, p235