The Opera!

Today we had a very wonderful presentation by the Rimrock Opera. They came to our school and performed The Night Harry Stopped Smoking. I must say they did a wonderful job. Although the production was geared for more the elementary/middle school level, everyone that attended enjoyed themselves, including those way too cool high school students.

As it so happened today, I actually had spare time. The past 4 days I've been nothing but busy, with virtually no breaks. Well today, because of all my hard work earlier this week, I actually had some "down" time. Here's the problem, I don't know what to do when I have down time. Well, today's down time activity included looking on the internet for any science activities that I could incoporate into my classes. Too bad I didn't find anything I thought would help enhance the material I teach.

Science fair projects are fully underway in both 7th and 8th grade now. 7th graders are at the point where they can actually begin doing their experiments and research. 8th graders have finally determined the question(s) they will be trying to answer and are now doing some background research. Hopefully most of the students will be done with their experiments by the end of the month.