8/23

8th Science - We looked at a practical school problem to solve with safety and traffic flow.  Students had time to think of possible solutions.

• Monday 8/27, students will be given 30 minutes of work time to discuss solutions and make a model to show their solution
• Thursday 8/30, models of their group's solution are due in class

7th Religion - We discussed the three questions in class today.  Quiz over Adam tomorrow.

8/22

7th & 8th Science - Introduction to science fair: we began to think of good ideas.  Good science fair ideas tend to:

• help someone or some group of people
• be interesting to the one doing the project and to those learning about the project
• solve a problem
• address contemporary issues in the natural world

Great science fair ideas incorporate multiple or all these aspects.

A calendar of science fair dates can be found on Mr. Luehmann's Homework page.

8/21

7th Science - Started the lab on page 688.  We will complete the graphs and discussion on Friday.  No homework.

7th Religion - Men of the Bible: Adam.  Questions 1, 3, and 6 on page 21 are due on Thursday (8/23).  They can also be found on this blog on day 8/20.

8/20

8th Science -  We took a quiz over chapter 1 in the science textbook and practiced with measurements on a lab - pages 28 & 29 in our textbook.  We will complete the work for this lab on Thursday.

7th Religion - We took a pretest over Adam, read through Genesis 1 and took note of important features.  This week's discussion questions for Adam (due Thursday) are circled:

8/17

7th Science - Introduction to life science, received textbooks, went over safety in the science lab

7th Religion - Know the categories for the books of the Bible.  We will begin with Men of the Bible's Adam on Monday.

Memory - Lamentations 3:22-23 & 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

8/16

8th Science - Look over the review material in chapter one (pages 6-27).  Be ready to answer some basic questions about science, the scientific process, models, and measurements.

7th Religion - Took notes on the types of books in the Bible.  First memory assignment will be due on Monday (8/20).

Weather Station

We have our own weather station!  Just this summer a new weather station was installed on the roof of the Next Generation Center which is broadcasting weather information for our school!  It's not the weather downtown, and it's not the weather at the airport - this is the weather right where we are!

Here is the link for the live information.
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/stjls/index.php?view=main&headers=0

It should look a little like this: