Mr. Mansour’s Classroom Blog

The 6th grade completed their weather podcasts last week. Go to this link to check them out.

6th weather podcasts.

Here is a sample podcast from myself and Miss Walsh on the upcoming weather in Denver. The 6th graders are working on a podcast of their own this week. We should have them posted by sometime next week.

Unfortunately, the first page I posted for the podcasts doesn’t work right.  I spent much of last night trying to fix it, but to no avail.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to fix it soon.  In the meantime, I’ve re-encoded the podcasts as mp3s and attached them to a new page that actually works.

Check out the podcasts here.

This is the final week before the midterm report and a busy one for the science classes at JMSO.  In the sixth grade we’ll be reviewing our biome boxes and having a retake of the test from last week.  (This time, the sixth graders have to know about more than just the specific biome they studied). We’re also continuing to practice for our next Green Monkey presentation at St. Margaret Mary.  The seventh graders and I will be continuing our studies of DNA culminating in the extraction of DNA from a banana on Thursday.  In the 8th grade science class, we’re still working on our podcasts.  I mistakenly thought that 20 minutes was long enough for students to complete their podcast.  Since we only have two computers to work with this is going to take a little bit longer than originally planned. 

The 8th graders are studying wave energy and we’ve spent the last couple weeks learning the ins and outs of sound.  Currently the students are working on podcasts covering the topics we have learned about in class.  They’ll be recording the podcasts this Friday and next Monday.  I’ll post the link to the page once they’ve completed them.