2009-2010 8th Grade Physics and Astronomy
1st Day Letter
Mr. Bird

During this semester you will be learning about Astronomy and Physics. The other semester is Chemistry with Mrs. Mori. The class website is located at:

http://www.pusd.info/teachers/rbird/physical/physical.htm

At this website you can access a number of things:

  • Grades through LearningPoint
  • Class Calendar of daily activities and homework
  • A list of the assignments that will be completed during the trimester
  • A quick link to important notes for the trimester
  • Video Tutorials
  • Previous created student videos
  • STAR test questions
  • Podcasts of Class activities


Your son/daughter will be with me for this semester only. This is a standards based science-technology program.  You can view the standards by following this link:

8th Grade Science Standards: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp

Supplies:    Brings these everyday to insure your success

  1. 3 ring 1.5" notebook: with and ongoing section, passed back and notes section
  2. Interactive Reader
  3. Pencils, mechanical pencil preferred, pen, colored pencil and highlighter
  4. Calculator with a square root function
  5. Notebook paper and graph paper in the binder
  6. Ruler with metric measurements (optional)
  7. Usb or iPod (with cable) electronic storage device (optional)

I highly recommend that you buy a USB storage device for your student.  They will be able to use this all over campus on both Mac and Windows operating systems for all school work and personal files.  A 1 gig USB storage device will be large enough to hold everything and anything we do here at school.  I have never had a student forget his iPod, but I have picked up a lot of USB storage devices in my class and the lab. 

 

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