Mrs.Duncan's Doings » Uncategorized http://jldu.edublogs.org Duncan's Doings is designed to keep everyone up-to-date on what is going on in my classes. Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:56:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 8th Grade Earth Science http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/17/8th-grade-earth-science-2/ http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/17/8th-grade-earth-science-2/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:56:45 +0000 Jana Duncan http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/17/8th-grade-earth-science-2/ Today we checked on our rock crystals. Hope to see some big changes by Monday. We finished up the rock chapter and will be testing out on Tuesday. Monday we will review and do a rock identification lab.
Have a wonderful weekend.

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Have a wonderful weekend.

]]> http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/17/7th-grade-social-studies-8/feed/ 0 8th Grade Earth Science http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/15/8th-grade-earth-science/ http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/15/8th-grade-earth-science/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:07:55 +0000 Jana Duncan http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/15/8th-grade-earth-science/ Thursday we will finish up the chapter and get our sugar crystals going as we have “seeded” them.
We are growing sugar crystals to better see first hand the process of crystal development.

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]]> http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/10/15/7th-grade-social-studies-7/feed/ 0 Earth Science http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/earth-science-6/ http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/earth-science-6/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:42:52 +0000 Jana Duncan http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/earth-science-6/ Today we completed the minerals chapter and so for homework have the directed reading to complete and a vocabulary worksheet.
We were able to review today using the Promethean board. Thanks to Mr. Stearns and Mrs. Kurtenbach it is finally working.

]]> http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/earth-science-6/feed/ 0 7th Grade Social Studies http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/7th-grade-social-studies-6/ http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/7th-grade-social-studies-6/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:35:49 +0000 Jana Duncan http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/7th-grade-social-studies-6/ Today we researched a US holiday online and tomorrow we will share what we learned about our holiday.

]]> http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/7th-grade-social-studies-6/feed/ 0 7th Grade Social Studies http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/7th-grade-social-studies-5/ http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/7th-grade-social-studies-5/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:59:34 +0000 Jana Duncan http://jldu.edublogs.org/?p=39 Today we read about some Americans — Sacajawea and the Apollo 11 mission crew. We also read an excerpt from “Tom Sawyer”. We are studying the United States and that is the reason for the articles.

]]> http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/7th-grade-social-studies-5/feed/ 0 Earth Science http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/earth-science-5/ http://jldu.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/earth-science-5/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:55:38 +0000 Jana Duncan http://jldu.edublogs.org/?p=38 Today we learned the criteria that all minerals must have to be classified as a mineral. Tomorrow we will be learning how to identify minerals.

Today was Twin Day for homecoming and I saw some pretty clever outfits.

Fun times!

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Hope to see a lot of you at the open house on Tuesday evening.

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Hope to see lots of you at the open house Tuesday evening.

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