Science and Dalasta's Students

This week, the sixth grade began our third rotation in the afternoon class cycle. My class will be taking Interactive Read-Aloud with Ms. Stenfjord for the next few weeks. Mr. Dalasta's class will be in my science class for that same period of time. Welcome, Mr. Dalasta's students! It was nice to get to know you a bit better today. Below, I'm posting the same information I posted for my class when we began this unit.

For the next week, Mr. Dalasta's students will be bringing home a small additional piece of homework: they will be tracking the phases of the moon. Each night for the next week, they'll need to step outside and spot the moon. They will use their Moon Journal to shade in the moon to match how it looks in the sky.

I really want students to go out and use their eyes to find this information each night. Given that this is the Pacific Northwest and we get clouds from time to time, it might not always be possible for students to witness the moon first-hand. On evenings when they can't see it, here's a website they can use to see exactly what phase the moon is in on any given day. Again, this is a back-up and shouldn't be used unless they can't see the moon.