Spanish
In the month of November, students did current event readings and also made cartoon style-Spanish dialog strips.
Mr. Hernandez
Spanish
This month we are planning to have students do Spanish short story plays. It looks like a lot of fun!
Mr. Hernandez
Feliz Navidad
In December, the students made Spanish holiday cards, and had a poster contests for physical fitness events. It was a lot of fun.
Mr. Hernandez
Spanish
In November, we had fun doing role- playing and pantomime style exercises. We also did a lot of read aloud exercises.
Mr. Hernandez
Spanish
This month I am going to continue to encourage the students to draw and label comic strip type dialogs in Spanish. I will also look ahead to fostering more self motivated practice in listening skills.
Mr. Hernandez
Spanish
In December, we made a giant Christmas banner, sent get well cards to a sick staff member and even designed our own personalized 2010 Calendars.
Mr. Hernandez
Spanish
Students did some very fun and exciting activities in Spanish class. They focused on working with phrases and terms that are used in Latin-American countries regarding Thanksgiving. They had fun making expanded Alphabet books and even made posters.
Mr. Hernandez
Earth Science Lab
The experiments of the 10th grade lab class explore why certain incidents have happened on earth and how they have occurred. Some have been previously reported by meteorologists. Our students have interpreted glacial landscapes with a topographical map, performed experiments to determine the permeability of different types of soils, and tracked Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 hurricane which made landfall in the United States. Yet another experiment which the 10th grade has performed is calculating density, and accurately predicting whether an object and any size of the presented material will sink or float in water. The materials presented to them included aluminum, brass, copper, oak, pine, steel, PVC, Polypropylene, acrylic and others. Perhaps density could be calculated for a material not on the list for the given lab. That is what experiments are for. Did someone say gold? Did someone say planet earth? You would be amazed to see how easy it is to calculate the density of gold, earth, and a variety of irregular shaped objects and how it relates to life! With extra minutes in lab class, the experiments and discoveries are endless!
Ms. Farrell
Biology Lab
Each lab has provided our 9th grade students with exciting investigations and their own new discoveries. We have recently explored human cells, plant cells, live tenebrio worms and the internal anatomy of earthworms. Who would think we could analyze the actual cells of the human muscle, human blood and human bone? In fact that is what we did! The students experimented and discovered what happens when a cell is diluted with water and also with liquids of high concentration. From this lab, there were students who became interested and asked what I thought about them entering the medical field! There is only one answer: “Certainly, you can do it!” The earthworm dissection allowed each student to: inspect the various parts of the worm which makes up the digestive tract and pumping organs; learn how a worm knows where to go when it does not have eyes; how it breathes when it has no lungs or gills; and what our soil would be like without worms. Indeed there were students who were looking for yet another opportunity to dissect an animal, and this time a larger one! We have that coming too! Stay tuned…
Ms. Farrell
Gym
In the month of November the student learned how to bump and set a volleyball. They practiced how to serve the ball over the net, then we made teams and had fun playing against each other.
Mrs. Rosario