Sam Harrelson

I met many of your parents this evening and they were all really nice… tell them thanks for coming to Parents’ Night!  By the way, they all now know about www.mygradebook.com (even your Mom, Layna!).
Tomorrow we’re going to be reviewing some more of Ch. 11 and starting a really fun (well, I think it’s fun) [...]

Don’t forget that PICTURE DAY is Monday!
Wear your dress-up Monday attire (white shirt, ties, fancy shoes, etc) and smile!
I’m wondering if they’ll let me wear my Einstein wig in the pic… probably not.  I can dream, though.
Also, great job to our speech makers today… you both were fantastic!  The speeches this year have impressed [...]

The Hammond website now has a really cool calendar feature that lists everything going on at the school.
Here’s a link…
http://www.hammondschool.org/daytracker/index.php
Also, there will be a link in the "Important Links" section of this site (on the right hand site of this page…you might need to scroll down a little).
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I want to let you all know that you’re accomplishing learning of material that is normally at least 10th grade for many students.
YOU ROCK!
Tomorrow, we’re going to go over the 11.4 stuff that we’ve been working and/or struggling through the last few days.
I promise that it will pay off!!
Believe me when I say this (or [...]

Just thought this was interesting since "SkyhawkScience" is technically a blog and I’m a big dork when it comes to all this technology stuff…
Google added a new service called "Google Blog Search" today.
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Basically, this will allow you to search out blogs for any topic that you might be interested in.  Now, I can read blogs [...]

Oddly enough, we’ve discovered a black hole that should be in the center of a galaxy… but we can’t find the galaxy!  What a strange universe we live in!
astronomers have detected a massive
black hole but can find no traces of the surrounding galaxy that should be
feeding it.
At the center of
most large galaxies, our own Milky
Way [...]

Remember to get your homework done if you didn’t finish the classwork sheet. 
First Period will get the sheet tomorrow since we didn’t have time to get started on it today, so bring your thinking caps.
See you in the AM!
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Just got back from dinner at Yo Burrito tonight (mmm… rice and beans burrito with jalepeno’s) and bought some of my favorite chocolate (Ritters from Germany) at World Market.  Big night for me!
Anywho, thanks to everyone who commented so far tonight.  Mrs. Harrelson definitely appreciates the thoughts.  I’ll post tomorrow and let you all know [...]

Tonight (Sunday) only, you can get +2 extra credit on Tuesday’s big quiz if you comment below.
Pass the news around to your classmates and let them know!
Let’s get this site going and as useful as it has been in the past!!
Mr. H
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Remember to look over your notes from the Dot Diagram worksheet and the 11.1 sheets that we did on Thursday and Friday.
On Monday we’re doing some more work with formulas and you’ll get your poster grades back. 
Then on Tuesday, we’re having a quiz on dot diagrams, 11.1 and formulas.  It should be pretty easy [...]