Week 7

Upcoming Events

• Picture Day Thursday Oct. 28
  7th grade 10:00 - 10:35
  8th grade 10:40 - 11:20
• 8th grade Sacramento Trip Fundraiser Garage Sale
  WHEN: November 6, 2010 from 7:00am – 5:00pm
  November 7, 2010 from 7:00am – 1:00pm
  WHERE: 3622 Sunbird Way, San Diego (Tierrasanta)
  Details coming

I want to thank all of our families who attended Student Led Conferences this week. If you did not meet with me, you can still make an appointment.

Although the turnout for Family Night was not the best, we still made $215! Thank you to everyone who brought food in, helped sell tickets, helped set up and serve. Almost every student was involved with this event!

Class Happenings
We spent Monday math honing our addition/subtraction integer skills one last time before moving on. Because of the rest of the week being half days we did not have a "traditional" math period. Math was integrated into our science labs.

Science this week was devoted to hands on labs. In "What's the Matter?" we investigated density, mass, volume, pressure and temperature.
*Our yummy candy bar lab helped students understand how density is a measure of mass per volume. They determined the mass from the actual packaging and the volume by measuring length x width x height. Reminder: Density = Mass/Volume or D = M/V.
*Balloons, boiling water, a soda can, and cold water helped us to discover what happens with changes in temperature. We learned that molecules get excited when they get hot and pressure changes. Parents: do YOU know what happens to a balloon when you put it into a freezer or into boiling water? Does it pop?melt?disintegrate? How about when you heat a soda can with about a centimeter full of water to boiling and then invert it into a bowl of cold water? Does it create steam?explode?float?sink? Although those are some of the ideas we thought might happen, we found out what actually happens by experiment! Next week we will find out why it happened.

Because of conferences, short days and no school Friday, we did not have our weekly Academic Language quiz. We will have it next Friday Oct 22.
Academic Language Quiz 4 will include the following terms:

density
mass
volume
pressure
temperature
Boyle's Law
Charles' Law