The Water Cycle

The cherubs watched a really neat 17-minute video on the water cycle. Although it was geared for third through fifth grade, it had the neatest animation and graphics to explain how water molecules react in each of its phases of evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
We are also working in the textbook, pages 80-91, Fresh Water on the Surface of the Earth. Today, they looked at and define the vocabulary in this part of the text. Tomorrow, they will read the material and on Friday, hopefully, they will be able to discuss the material. Next week, we work on this, together.

Student-led Conferences
Next Wednesday and Thursday. My social studies class is meeting with me. Today, we went over the steps of introduction, what to discuss and what work samples will be shown, and all this must be done in a 15-minute time period. This is not a time for parents and teachers to discuss grades or behavior, but, to focus on what good the child does in school.

The Daughter Called
Here I am writing this blog and the cell rings. It's the daughter, Krysia. She just got back from a field trip. Remember, she is at Texas A&M's marine science campus in Galveston. Anyway, they took an afternoon boat trip around the bay collecting specimens of stingrays, jelly fish and squid. She is a first-year college student. I guess she did pick the right school to go to. It sounds like she is having a blast. I remember all my first years of college -- I gotta bunch 'o' college degrees. We never had fun that first year, it was all basic book learnin'.

Are you having fun your first year of middle school?