We had a big rain this AM but have cleared off tonight and turned cool. I hope my clover seed is still around somewhere. Our softball field was wet so we headed to the HS gym for practice this PM.
In AP Biology today we finished the write up on the Cardiovascular Lab and worked on our discussion questions for Mitosis and Meiosis ... will head to genetics tomorrow ... lots to review there.
In Selected Topics, we worked on Astronomy ... speed of light, stars life cycles and lots of general questions. Students are designing a Space Truck (deep space vehicle) for tomorrow!
Softball in the gym today and to BSA to hit tomorrow.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday - Clover seed and our scrimmage.
On Saturday we had a intrasquad scrimmage ... Our pitching/catching is ahead of our hitting and defense but it was nice to get on the field with a sunny warm day and just play a little. Makes it much easier to see what we need to work on this week in practice. It appears we will have another good team this year after finishing 3rd at the state tournament last year. Since 1997 we have had winning seasons and for the last 13 years at least 20 wins each year (and over 30 in many) ... also 13 straight Distict 15 titles in a row. This years team appears to be on track to keep the winning tradition rolling.
We have several people helping again this year and I really appreciate them all! We would not be able to keep as many girls on the team if were not for them. I am always hesitant to ask anyone to help ... no money really and a lot of sacrifice away from their families ... I know, because for years I have coached and often I wish I had coached less and spent more time with my own children now that they are grown and live away from Allen County. Like Coach Bear Bryant of Alabama once said ... "If you can live without coaching - do it". That would also be my recommendation. Now if you coach either of the BIG TWO ... then at least there is a little money in it!
Sunday included some hand seeding of white dutch clover in a couple of areas when I worked up last fall and seem to be bare.
John and Claire was up and that was great to visit and talk with them ... also talked to Rachel on the phone. Hannah checked in on Saturday. I am grateful to hear from them regularly!
Tomorrow back to work after testing on Friday. Things are really starting to green up as Spring continues to unfold ... makes it hard to stay inside!
We have several people helping again this year and I really appreciate them all! We would not be able to keep as many girls on the team if were not for them. I am always hesitant to ask anyone to help ... no money really and a lot of sacrifice away from their families ... I know, because for years I have coached and often I wish I had coached less and spent more time with my own children now that they are grown and live away from Allen County. Like Coach Bear Bryant of Alabama once said ... "If you can live without coaching - do it". That would also be my recommendation. Now if you coach either of the BIG TWO ... then at least there is a little money in it!
Sunday included some hand seeding of white dutch clover in a couple of areas when I worked up last fall and seem to be bare.
John and Claire was up and that was great to visit and talk with them ... also talked to Rachel on the phone. Hannah checked in on Saturday. I am grateful to hear from them regularly!
Tomorrow back to work after testing on Friday. Things are really starting to green up as Spring continues to unfold ... makes it hard to stay inside!
Friday, February 25, 2011
AP Test I over and Scrimmage on Saturday afternoon!
We had our first test in AP Biology today after 15 chapters and labs. It was tough ... with difficult Campbell questions (70 MC) and 1 Free Response from the 2009 exam. If you want to see the rubric from that year as well as, the free response questions the link is below ...
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_biology_sgs.pdf
I ran the scantron sheets and the class high (both sections) was 56 with a few 40s and many in the 30s. I always feel that if you can get half the questions correct, you are in the three range. The free responses seem good and the graphing of data was great!
On Monday, we are to hand in our Cardiovascular Lab and start back on discussion questions Chapters 11-14 ... mostly mitosis and meiosis. Should go quickly into genetics ... our flies and biotech labs (restriction enzyme analysis and bacterial transformation lab) have been ordered so we will probably start those week after next.
In Selected Topics, we finished our Earth Science Unit with a test. On to astronomy on Monday ... star life cycle, the universe and some planetary study. Should be fun! Our lab for this section is the modeling to scale of our solar system with the sun being a tennis ball. We will do some data collection from internet sources.
No softball practice today but, we have a Blue vs. Red scrimmage tomorrow starting at 1:30 ... players there by 1:00. Will get some picts.
We got our schedule for the Beech playday on May 12th ... Goodpasture, Hendersonville and Father Ryan ... all good teams for an AM rolling scrimmage. Also, we have our pool play games for the Owensboro Catholic tournament ... Madisonville North Hopkins, Fern Creek (Louisville - good pitcher!) and South Spencer (IN) ... looks good, maybe OC will have good weather this year!
A couple of our former players have started up their seasons in college. Emma at Campbellsville is playing well but the team has had a slow start. Caley at Bellarmine is starting in left field. Bellarmine played Georgetown this week and I have the link below:
http://athletics.bellarmine.edu/news/2011/2/22/SB_0222113052.aspx
I had a former student from last year now in the NAVY stop by school late today ... Chris. He is doing well and will be stationed in Hawaii ... his ship is out of port and he will join it in two weeks in Bahrain. He seems very happy to be serving in the Navy.
Daffodils are out and I will take a walk tomorrow to survey the Spring plant growth ...
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http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap09_biology_sgs.pdf
I ran the scantron sheets and the class high (both sections) was 56 with a few 40s and many in the 30s. I always feel that if you can get half the questions correct, you are in the three range. The free responses seem good and the graphing of data was great!
On Monday, we are to hand in our Cardiovascular Lab and start back on discussion questions Chapters 11-14 ... mostly mitosis and meiosis. Should go quickly into genetics ... our flies and biotech labs (restriction enzyme analysis and bacterial transformation lab) have been ordered so we will probably start those week after next.
In Selected Topics, we finished our Earth Science Unit with a test. On to astronomy on Monday ... star life cycle, the universe and some planetary study. Should be fun! Our lab for this section is the modeling to scale of our solar system with the sun being a tennis ball. We will do some data collection from internet sources.
No softball practice today but, we have a Blue vs. Red scrimmage tomorrow starting at 1:30 ... players there by 1:00. Will get some picts.
We got our schedule for the Beech playday on May 12th ... Goodpasture, Hendersonville and Father Ryan ... all good teams for an AM rolling scrimmage. Also, we have our pool play games for the Owensboro Catholic tournament ... Madisonville North Hopkins, Fern Creek (Louisville - good pitcher!) and South Spencer (IN) ... looks good, maybe OC will have good weather this year!
A couple of our former players have started up their seasons in college. Emma at Campbellsville is playing well but the team has had a slow start. Caley at Bellarmine is starting in left field. Bellarmine played Georgetown this week and I have the link below:
http://athletics.bellarmine.edu/news/2011/2/22/SB_0222113052.aspx
I had a former student from last year now in the NAVY stop by school late today ... Chris. He is doing well and will be stationed in Hawaii ... his ship is out of port and he will join it in two weeks in Bahrain. He seems very happy to be serving in the Navy.
Daffodils are out and I will take a walk tomorrow to survey the Spring plant growth ...
rr
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Cardiovascular Lab today!
In AP we have our first of three tests ... Ecology and the first 10 chapters of Campbell up to and including photosynthesis (PSII, PSI, Calvin cycle, photorespiration, C4 and CAM). Today we took a lot of blood pressure and heart rates under different conditions ... this lab write up is due Monday. Some students were ranked with good cardiac fitness ... it is all about stroke volume of your left ventricle as we learned!
In Selected Topics, we reviewed for our test on Earth Science and will have that test tomorrow.
It was hit at BSA day today under wet conditions ... tees, pitching machine and 140 live at bats with our older pitchers shouldering most of the work ... 51 strikeouts out the 140 at bats ... pitching is ahead of hitting for the most part ... no practice tomorrow but scrimmage at 1:00 on Saturday.
Stormy tonight later ...
In Selected Topics, we reviewed for our test on Earth Science and will have that test tomorrow.
It was hit at BSA day today under wet conditions ... tees, pitching machine and 140 live at bats with our older pitchers shouldering most of the work ... 51 strikeouts out the 140 at bats ... pitching is ahead of hitting for the most part ... no practice tomorrow but scrimmage at 1:00 on Saturday.
Stormy tonight later ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Five overtimes ... WOW!
In AP today we prepped up our Cardiovascular Lab today. We will do this tomorrow since everyone will be tired from the district tournament at Monroe County tonight. Our first test will be on Friday.
In Selected Topics today we continued our weather study and spent some time on the USGS website looking at earthquakes recorded during the last week on the earth and in the USA. We then finished our Rock Lab / Density calculations. We are going to try and finish up our Earth Science Unit tomorrow with our unit test on Friday.
We had softball practice on the field today... varsity/jv first and freshman team afterwards ... working on bunting. Tomorrow we are hitting in flights at BSA. OFF on Friday and a scrimmage on Saturday afternoon if we can get the field ready.
Drove up by some of our beehives on the way home after dark ... still having problems with skunks or raccoons scrapping the bottom boards out.
Boys varsity basketball team lost in 5 overtimes tonight in the first round of the District 15 tournament against Monroe County at Monroe County. Wow!
In Selected Topics today we continued our weather study and spent some time on the USGS website looking at earthquakes recorded during the last week on the earth and in the USA. We then finished our Rock Lab / Density calculations. We are going to try and finish up our Earth Science Unit tomorrow with our unit test on Friday.
We had softball practice on the field today... varsity/jv first and freshman team afterwards ... working on bunting. Tomorrow we are hitting in flights at BSA. OFF on Friday and a scrimmage on Saturday afternoon if we can get the field ready.
Drove up by some of our beehives on the way home after dark ... still having problems with skunks or raccoons scrapping the bottom boards out.
Boys varsity basketball team lost in 5 overtimes tonight in the first round of the District 15 tournament against Monroe County at Monroe County. Wow!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
AP Test moved to Friday and a picture!
With many students going over to Monroe County for the boys district tournament game on Wednesday night, I am going to move our AP test to Friday ... that moves our next lab to Thursday ... will try and prep it tomorrow and make that happen. Tomorrow we are continuing our review for the test, prep our lab and move on in Chapter 11.
In Selected Topics, we did our Rock Lab today and will finish it tomorrow. This means we can finish earth science by Friday.
Softball practice today was moved to 4:30 in the gym to work on signaling and defensive infield sets. We had a booster club meeting after that at 6:00 so, I was late getting home.
Below is our Great Plant Growing winner, WC. I had his uncles in science classes years ago. He has that same genuine personality and is a great to have in class. Congrats WC ... you can always get a job in horticulture!
In Selected Topics, we did our Rock Lab today and will finish it tomorrow. This means we can finish earth science by Friday.
Softball practice today was moved to 4:30 in the gym to work on signaling and defensive infield sets. We had a booster club meeting after that at 6:00 so, I was late getting home.
Below is our Great Plant Growing winner, WC. I had his uncles in science classes years ago. He has that same genuine personality and is a great to have in class. Congrats WC ... you can always get a job in horticulture!
Monday, February 21, 2011
AP, Selected Topics and Softball
We finished up our first unit in AP Biology ... all Ecology and the first ten chapters of Campbell through Photosynthesis, with six of the 12 required labs completed. We are trying to make up time and content since we missed three weeks of class because of snow. Test is on Thursday ... we are doing some review tomorrow and looking at some essay questions from the past.
In Selected Topics tomorrow we have the rock lab ... as we continue in earth science. Today we worked on plate tectonics and the rock cycle as well as, continued our weather observations.
After school we had a varsity softball practice ... we were able to get in over an hour and a half before it rained. Stopped by to see our shortstop, Macey, on the way home. Her broken leg is mending but not fast enough to suit her or anyone else. We are planning on her to return before season's end.
Lots of rain on the way home and listened to our girls play in the district tournament tonight.
I promised I would get WC on my website tonight as the winner of the Great Plant Growing contest but left my camera at school ... will do that tomorrow.
Last weekend checked my beehives and all were doing well ... noticed some workers with pollen on their back legs. It was red so I am assuming there may be some maple trees blooming. It won't be long to Spring and some flowers and I for one cannot wait!
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In Selected Topics tomorrow we have the rock lab ... as we continue in earth science. Today we worked on plate tectonics and the rock cycle as well as, continued our weather observations.
After school we had a varsity softball practice ... we were able to get in over an hour and a half before it rained. Stopped by to see our shortstop, Macey, on the way home. Her broken leg is mending but not fast enough to suit her or anyone else. We are planning on her to return before season's end.
Lots of rain on the way home and listened to our girls play in the district tournament tonight.
I promised I would get WC on my website tonight as the winner of the Great Plant Growing contest but left my camera at school ... will do that tomorrow.
Last weekend checked my beehives and all were doing well ... noticed some workers with pollen on their back legs. It was red so I am assuming there may be some maple trees blooming. It won't be long to Spring and some flowers and I for one cannot wait!
rr
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