After a day of teacher inservice on Tuesday and Parent/Teacher Conferences last night, we got school started today.
We met in our homerooms for over two hours, lots of forms to fill out tonight. Principal Davis went over the student handbook ... rules and regulations. Teachers assigned lockers and several of the freshmen spent most of the day lost and asking for directions.
We are on an A/B schedule this year. Classes are year long and all eight classes meet on Mondays. Today was a Monday schedule and we met all our classes today. Classes in periods 1-4 only met for a few minutes. Fifth period was lunch so we had our regular class time. This was Introduction to Computer Science and we were able to get out some information on Karel programming, Karel commands and how to use the programming interface. Once students get their computer access we will be off to the races. This should happen for most students tomorrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_(programming_language)
Periods 6-8 were each about half an hour long so my eighth period computer programming class got started.
Tomorrow, classes in periods 1, 3, 5, 7 meet for about 85 minutes each. For me, this will be my 2 AP Bio classes and fifth period Computer Programming class. In AP Bio we will finish up introductions and start a regeneration lab using planaria. I will try and get some pictures. Introduction to Computer Programming will start on their first three programming problems.
I went to a spring near Holland to pick up planaria after school and found dozens hiding under rocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarian
http://www.life.illinois.edu/newmark/
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