Sam Harrelson

Here’s the link for the Chapter 4 Test Review you recieved in class Wednesday…http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=bbrg2shhpcpk
This will help you tremendously on your test Friday.  If you have any problems with a question, please try to figure it out for yourself and then ask me if you cannot find the solution!
Good luck!
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Today, we took our quiz on 4.2/4.3 and began our lesson on 4.4 (Momentum).
The grades for the quiz are online and you can check your average.  Remember that interims are going out soon and the Chapter 4 test on Friday will be a major part of that!
STUDY YOUR NOTES!  If you’ve lost a set, [...]

Chapter 4 Test is Friday January 27, 2006.
The questions on the test will come from the following sources:
-Vocabulary words from Chapter 4 in your textbook
-4.1 Notesheet (Tuesday Jan. 17 - Wednesday Jan. 18)
-4.1 Quiz (Wednesday January 18)
-4.1 Quiz 2 (Thursday January 19)
-4.2 Notesheet (Friday January 19-20)
-4.3 Notesheet (Monday January 23)
-4.2/4.3 Quiz (Tuesday January 24)
-4.4 Notesheet [...]

Interesting article for all of you in Geometry or about to face it!
We’re hard-wired for geometry - Science Mysteries - MSNBC.com.
Even if you never learned the difference between a triangle, a rectangle and a trapezoid, and you never used a ruler, a compass or a map, you would still do well on some basic geometry [...]

I learned something this morning.
I have been peeling bananas the stupid way all of my life.
Evidently, it is much easier, less messy and quicker to unpeel a banana from the non-stem (bottom) side rather than from the stem side.
Try it and let me know how it goes for you!
Here’s a link to the article [...]

Good news on the puppy front… Schaefer came home last night from the hospital and seems to be feeling much better.  His kidneys had failed, but after lots of IV fluid and rest, he seems to have recovered back to his old sock-eating self.
Mrs. H and I just took him out to Congaree Swamp and [...]

Go to Steven’s new blog…
http://ileftmyhomeworkatschool.blogspot.com/
Help him get it going by posting lots of comments!
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While we’re on the topic of Pluto, here’s an interesting story.
The 11 year old girl who suggested the name "Pluto" for the newly
discovered planet is now 87, and is the only person alive to have named
a planet. BBC News has a lovely profile of Venetia Phair (née Burney),
who named the ninth planet:

On
the morning of 14 [...]

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took off today for Pluto.  I thought this part was really interesting for our current lessons…
"The robot ship was to speed away at
up to 36,000 miles per hour, the fastest flight of any spacecraft sent
from Earth, allowing it to pass the orbit of the moon in about nine
hours."

Here’s the rest [...]

Today, we started 4.2 (The Motion of Falling Bodies and Things Moving in a Curve).
I think it’s a really interesting chapter since we learn how bullets, basketballs and baseballs work (along with most everything else in nature) and how they actually move.
Here is the notesheet that we started today and will finish tomorrow…
http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=bbjwpf7gtg8
Your HW [...]