Flight Behavior, Wind, Rain and Friday ...

Yesterday, we had rain off and on all day with the wind picking up in the evening (30-40 mph) ... our electricity was off for over an hour.  On my way into school this morning, several trees were down and lots of limbs.  One of your best butterfly plants was damaged.

Today, we wrapped up some activities in Selected Topics.  We recorded the weather from NOAA and used the USGS site to survey earthquakes over the world during the last seven days.  Later in the block, we worked to finish our Rock Lab and most students were able to finish.  We will wrap up earth science next week and move on to a unit on astronomy.

AP Bio next week will include our Enzyme Lab on Tuesday.  Club Schedule is on Monday and the APES program will take most of the class out on Thursday.  As I often say ... We only have class when we have nothing else to do ... It will make a difference next spring when students will take the AP Bio exam.  Each block class a student misses is about 2% of the total class time for the year.  

In computer science next week, we will finish problems using FOR/NEXT and READ/DATA.  I am hoping to get to programming objects and animation before Thanksgiving Break.

I finished Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver this evening.  I good story but, IMO, some of the science was a little sketchy.  The southern mountain farm family dialogue was very good.