Last Day of the Semester 2015!

Welcome Back Today!
Please put your Brain Books on my desk. Have a seat, enjoy the movie! We also have the Winter Fair today. Have a great day!

Winter Holiday Party

Thank you all for coming to the party today! You did a wonderful job of remembering to bring snacks, and you also did a wonderful job decorating. Please follow these few rules in addition to my normal rules:

Put backpacks out of the way

• No Popping Balloons or other Loud Noises (there are other classes that need it to be fairly quiet)
• No tablets (we are here to have a social party)
• No jumping or moving around quickly
• Don't take more food than you can eat, and don't touch food that you won't eat.

Health Final

Think about the Health. Think about many of the words you learned about health. Write a paragraph about "What does being Healthy mean?" Use as many of the words as you can in your paragraph.

Good luck!

Period 3 Final

Welcome back!
The final today consists of more practice in the skills we have been working on. What responsible young people you are becoming by taking care of your business with your time!
Today:
11:00- 11:30- Enter Google Calendar Events up to January 31, 2016
11:30-11:45- Plan the Party for Tomorrow
11:50- 12:40 Watch The Grinch

Calendar Events

Winter Break Week 1

Winter Break Week 2

Winter Break Week 3

Spring Week 1

Spring Week 2

Spring Week 3

It's the last week before break!

Welcome back!
Remember Monday is a regular schedule, and then the rest of the week we are on the finals schedule. You can check the 364theBeast calendar to see our schedule.

Today's Work
Period 3: As a class, read "The Cat". Then answer questions online.
Period 4: Daily Quiz, then Count in Transaction sheet and do 3 transactions.
Period 5: Anger: Blog post
Period 6: People Smart Notes and video, Blog post
Period 7: Bike Shop

End of Week 17

Happy Friday!
It is the end of Week 17, and there is only one week to go before Winter Break! Here is what we are doing today:
Period 3: Enter the rest of next week's events into your calendar.
Period 4: Weekly Test, finish the transaction sheet.
Period 5: Dr. Katz work, then Movie: Inside Out
Period 6: Movie: Inside Out
Period 7: Bike Shop

Mr. Grimm is on campus, but out of the classroom today

Hello! I have another all day meeting with the other teachers today, but here's THE PLAN for you.

Period 3: You have had several blog posts assigned recently: 1. What I did for Thanksgiving Break. 2. Browns and Greens 3. Compost Ingredients 4. Embedding a Google Doc. ( If you need more help, here is a picture)
Please make sure all of these assignments are done, then RSVP on the sign up genius form.

Period 4: Daily Quiz, check homework, correct homework, do 4 more transactions.

Period 5: Go on a walk, then come back in to class and read this article as a group. 

Period 6: Take notes


Read the introduction:


Watch the video and add to your notes.

Period 7: Bike shop work

Period 6

Hello, Mr. Grimm has a meeting, and you have work to do!
First, go to this lettuce article
Then, make a new blog post titled GREEN LEAF LETTUCE
Content: (copy these sentences and fill in the blanks from the article.)

Here are a few facts about Green Leaf Lettuce.
1. Lettuce is a mild-flavored, leaf ____________________ commonly  used in __________ and _____________.
2. Lettuce is commonly grilled, ___________________, braised, and _____________________ in a variety of recipes.
3. Refrigerate unwashed leaves in a plastic bag in the ___________________ drawer. Do not store lettuce with ____________, ____________, _____________, or other ethylene gas-emitting fruits as they will cause the lettuce to turn ____________.
4. If lettuce gets wilted, it needs to be refreshed. To refresh lettuce, _________________ the wilted greens in _______________  ________________ and keep in the _______________________ overnight.
5. Green Leaf lettuce has both vitamins ____ and _____.

Good Morning! It's the beginning of Week 17! Today is a minimum day.

Here's THE PLAN

Period 3
Vermicompost (Eduardo)
Fix printer (Angeles/Marysol)
Laundry- rags (Jacob/Grimm)

Embed New Google drawing into a new blog post. (Julian/Marcos/Elias/Patty)
Follow this link to see how to do it.
Title: Bicycle Maintenance Process

Period 4- Daily Quiz, then transactions

Period 5- Go on a walk, then lunch

Period 6- Water lettuce, plant other lettuce, saw 3.5x3.5 blocks.

Period 7- Work in the bike shop.

It's Friday, and we are almost on break!

First, check out this cool picture that I found on my board when I came back to class on Wednesday:

 Nice job Gabriel!

Here is our plan for today:

Period 3- Finish your blog posts from earlier in the week. Monday- "What I did for Thanksgiving"
Wednesday- "Browns and Greens" Thursday- "Carbon, Nitrogen, Elements." When you are done, your job is to come down to the garden area to work.

Period 4- We will start with a test. Then we will finish counting in our money that we started yesterday. Then we will do 2 full transactions and make a list of 4 more. The four transactions are due on Monday. 

Period 5- First we will go on a walk. When we get back, we will do 10 minutes of yoga. Then we can have free time before lunch.

Period 6- We will meet in the garden area, cutting 1 inch blocks of 4x4, tending to the lettuce, planting strawberries, moving wood, putting screws into the planter box.

Period 7- We will clean 364, then work in the bike shop until it's time to go.

Mr. Grimm will only be in class for periods 4 and 6 today

Hi all!
Period 3: Your Browns and Greens sentences from yesterday looked great! Nice Work!
Today you are going to take some notes, and then do a New Blog Post. Here are the steps:

1. Copy the notes into your Brain Book
2. Google search each of these words: Carbon, Nitrogen, and Elements. Go to the Wikipedia page for each word, and make a new blog post with the definition and a picture representing each word.

Post Title: COMPOST INGREDIENTS
Post Content: How Carbon and Nitrogen are balanced in a composter are important.
Carbon (definition and picture)
Nitrogen (definition and picture)
Elements (definition and picture)

Mr. Grimm is out today

Good Morning!

I will be working with Mr. Dowell, Mrs. Ramirez, and Mrs. Hurd today on campus, but I won't be in 364theBeast. I do have a few things lined up for you to be working on, so I expect you all to be in work mode, and work during your work times. Be the best productive, hard-working, cooperative self you can be today!

Period 3: Today you will to listen to and read this article, then type the following sentences with the answers in your own blog post titled BROWNS AND GREENS.

1. Brown and Green are general terms for different _____________ of organic matter used in a worm composter.

2. C:N means (____________ to _____________) ratio.

3. If the C:N ratio is too low, you can end up with a ______________ composter.

4. Browns are higher in _________________.

5. Greens are higher in _________________.

Period 4: Today you will take your daily quiz, then continue to work on the transaction sheet. You are to work together as a class to do items 4-8 following the teacher's lead, then do 9-10 on your own. The entire sheet completed will be due tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Welcome Back from Thanksgiving Break!

I hope you all had a great time! I traveled 6 1/2 hours to Chico with my kids and the worms! The kids are fine, but the worms are great! I monitored their temperature and moisture, and kept them within the perfect limits. The worm castings smell nice and earthy, and I know they will make excellent soil for our Growing Food projects.

You have a lot of important work to do this week:

• Move and organize wood
• put in screws to planter box, remove bolts
• plant lettuce
• Get the bicycle parts we need from Main Street Bikes
• organize the bike tools and parts
• Begin working on the 4 new bikes we got from the Sea Train
• organize the brown and green waste containers, and prepare the food
• get videos from student computers
• fix printer- youtube search "hp 2400 won't print"
• teach students how to digitize documents
• update calendar on front board- Any Announcements?
• BLOG Post: What I did for Thanksgiving Break- EDITING.
• DAILY QUIZ- 10:35

We are going on a Week-Long Break!

Hi again!
My friends, you have gotten a lot done!

You finished the last layer of the planter box! Many of the teachers have told Mr. McKee and me that it looks great and that they are very impressed with you all!

You completed 2 more bicycles and took them back to the sea-train! There are only a few more bikes to go!

The Pro Tech Deck is coming along nicely!

Marcos' computer is set up!

Most of the recycling is empty!

Thanksgiving Break Plans

Hello again!
We are getting ready to go on Thanksgiving Break! There is so much to do before we go! Here is a list:

• Mr. Grimm will take home the Worm Factory 360
• Marysol, Cheyenne, Prepare the rest of the food
• Who will take it home? Mr. Grimm
• How will the person know how to take care of the worms correctly?

• Figure out a plan for the lettuce
• How many plants do we have to find homes for?
• Who will take plants home? Marysol, Cheyenne, Jesus
• How will people know how to take care of the plants correctly?

• Finish the last layer of the planter box: Elias, Bernardo, Eduardo, Sal, Jordan
• Finish the bikes and bring all of the tools and materials to 364theBeast (so we can build a tool board)
• Keep building the Pro Tech Deck
• Set up Marcos' computer
• File all student work
• Thoroughly clean all desks, chairs, and walls
• Empty all recycling containers
• Make Art and post pictures of it on your blog
• Unplug all computers and other electrical things from the walls
• Lock up the tablets
• Set Goals for the rest of the year

Twitter

We are going to watch the first 5 minutes of this video and try to figure out the answer to this question: "What are the Top 3 Uses of Twitter?".

Follow the top 2!

Receipt

Take a gander at the receipt below.

Art

Leave a comment- What do you think of this picture and what it says?

Tuesday 11/17/2015

Hello again!

We are getting ready to go on Thanksgiving Break. We have quite a few things to do! First, let's look at the end of the week and figure out how we want Friday to be.

November 10, 2015

Hello again!

What an interesting week we will have! Yertsa and Cam are back, we have worms coming soon, the bike wheels will be here on Thursday, the lettuce is growing, we have money work to do, and we have no school tomorrow!

Today we will be exploring video techniques as we go through our day. Let's start here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_2mjkCj57A&list=PLyBsBRlgNbLsr_v-M2OA2Db-PXSuVqvLY

Some people started experimenting with sounds, and we learned a few things. First, there are many apps that have sound effects, if you have an iphone, you can search sound effects in the app store. After you turn in your homework, you can work on the sound effects videos.

Google Drawing

My first Google Drawing

Creating your Writing Rubric in Google Sheets

11/3/15
First, watch this video.


When you are finished watching the video, work on following the video's instructions to create your own Writing Rubric.

After you create your writing rubric, copy the values from the board into your writing rubric.

Then comment on this post using the following sentence frame:

The hardest part about this assignment was...

Hobbies and Recreation

My first embedded YouTube Video

How to Make a New Page

https://youtu.be/lhDBib077O0

Keeping a clean environment

It may not seem like a big deal, but it makes a bad impression when you leave your workstation in a messy state. Get in the good habit of cleaning up after yourself.

Let's have no more of this.

Teacher Feature

This week, we are going to examine WHO we know here at school with a Mind Map. I showed you a quick Mind Map video of mine last week, but I didn't give you very clear directions. That was my bad. Let me try again. This week, we are going to make a Teacher Mind Map. I call it...

THE TEACHER FEATURE.

The key is: What is memorable about this teacher? Is it what they look like? Is it what they drive? Is it where their classroom is? Is it what subject they teach? What is it that makes the teacher unique in your eyes?

We'll start like this...

Step 1: Put your name in the bubble in the middle

Step 2: Draw a short line to another bubble. Put a teacher's name in that bubble.

Step 3: From the teacher's name bubble, draw another short line to another bubble, and write a word or two that tells what makes that teacher unique. That's how it works!

When you are finished, take a picture of your Mind Map, and post it to your blog.

Get a Job

The most important thing to remember when trying to get a job is...

My Embedded Video

This is the Mind Map Video I made earlier today.

Start your Mind Map here

Lettuce Eat Lettuce

What was your favorite part about growing lettuce?

Comment below!

Blogs

We have not been working on our blogs, but we are definitely getting back into it!

End of Week 15

End of Week 13

Week 12

Have a great Spring Break!

End of Week 11

End of Week 10

End of Week 9

End of Week 7

End of Week 6

End of Week 5

Drake's New Album

http://mashable.com/2015/02/13/drake-surprise-new-album-if-youre-reading-this-its-too-late/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

Check it out and comment: do you like it? Why or why not?

End of Week 4

Leadership Presentation

End of Week 3 Spring Term

Be sure to get your progress reports signed!

End of Week 2

This was a very busy but fun week. In consumer english class we completed 3 days worth of jumble, we are red most of chapter 9 about expressing yourself, and we began making health triangle pyramids.
In c m c d class, we worked on word problems and single digit division problems, and we also lower need a lot about the relationship between effort and a cheap mint.
In consumer not class, we are studying games of champs. We are learning about calling slips and probability. We are also getting ready 2 build growing boxes in the garden area.
In job tryouts class, we practiced picking up applications, then we went into the community and actually picked up some applications. On thursday we practiced again printing out and selling out applications. We also went by eldorado broadcasters and we spoke with them about doing a tour there.

End of Week 1 Spring