We're almost into December already as we enter Thanksgiving break. This week is a short one being only two days long. I just want to quickly talk about last week. Going into last week as a class we knew things were going to be a little different with Ms. Kahler being gone. I just want to say that change in class you all handled it perfectly and made the week absolutely spectacular. I'm very proud of you as learners and hopefully we can carry on the enthusiasm we showed last week into the coming weeks. Keep up the good work everyone. A lot of you worked hard last week and it shows.

Science
Monday Nov. 19
Today we are going to pick up from were we left of on Friday last week and discuss what Thermal Energy is. On Friday we read in groups at our tables and answered questions based on the reading in our science notebooks. Today in class we are going to go over those questions and move on to Sec. 5.4 on measuring thermal energy.

Tuesday Nov. 20
Being the day before Thanksgiving recess we are going to have "Physics Game Day". During the course of the class I have given examples of web based games that are centered around specific principles of physics. Today we are going to play those games and describe which aspects of physics they display as a class. To find the games at home in Google type the name of the game followed by the phrase "flash game". The games are Orbits, Red, N3wton and Roll. For each of the games students will have to give a brief summery of the physics involved to play the game.

Worksheet: Physics_Game_Day.pdf

Ecosystems
Tuesday Nov. 20
Today we are going to start a segment we'll try to do every week on unique ecosystems from around the world. Today we will watch a short 5 minute video about the Altiplano in South America. After the video we'll talk about what was interesting in the video and what makes it such a unique ecosystem. Afterwards we'll spend the rest of the class period getting caught up with late work.