February 23, 2012

Mr. Houck

Welcome to the Mr. Houck’s new class website!  More information will be posted here soon, but for now, visit the old class website.

In addition to direct contact with teachers, CSD is pleased to provide more granular access to specific notes from teacher classrooms. With this increased access to teacher updates published on the website comes a wide array of subscription options. Using the links provided on the Connect page, classroom families can easily define what information (news and/or teacher notes) they wish to receive, as well as how they receive this information; delivery options for each category of news and/or teacher notes includes email, text message (SMS), Twitter and RSS.

Corbett Middle School: No Grades? No Problem.

The following are two scenarios that could occur at a typical middle school. Scenario one: Sarah is given an assignment: a persuasive essay, due at the end of the week.  She picks a topic—‘Facebook should be outlawed in schools’—because she already knows a lot about Internet safety and school privacy (her aunt teaches high school… [Read More...]

Week 22 in Mr. Houck’s Class, by Kurt Larson

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 8th grader Kurt Larson.  Thanks, Kurt! This week in Mr. Houck’s class we researched more for our ancient China essays, talked about some of the religions in… [Read More...]

Week 21 in Mr. Houck’s class, by Laura Lindenthal

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 8th grader Laura Lindenthal.  Thanks, Laura! This week in Mr. Houck’s class we started studying our Ancient China topics, and to help us out we went to… [Read More...]

Week 20 in Mr. Houck’s Class, by Isaac Parker

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 8th grader Isaac Parker.  Thanks, Isaac! This week in Mr. Houck’s class we finished and presented our shoeboxes. Our shoeboxes had to show all of the six… [Read More...]

Week 17 in Mr. Houck’s class, by Courtney Hill

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 7th grader Courtney Hill.  Thanks, Courtney! This week in Mr. Houck’s class we did an abundance of things. In my opinion, most of those things were fun… [Read More...]

Week 15 in Mr. Houck’s Class, by Jason Hui

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 7th grader Jason Hui.  Thanks, Jason! This week in Mr. Houck’s class, we shared group projects, learned about levers and pulleys, signed up for speeches, and did… [Read More...]

Week 13 in Mr. Houck’s Class, by Ashlyn Sumner

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 7th grader Ashlyn Sumner.  Thanks, Ashlyn! This week in Mr. Houck’s class, we each wrote our own essay on something that had to do with ancient Egypt…. [Read More...]

Week 11 in Mr. Houck’s Class, by Jordan Jefferis

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 7th grader Jordan Jefferis.  Thanks, Jordan! This week in Mr. Houck’s class we started our unit on ancient Egypt. We talked about the pyramids, then we also… [Read More...]

CMS Math Team Takes First Place…Twice!

Corbett Middle School sent two teams of 7th and 8th graders to the annual math competition in Fort Vancouver, WA, and they came back victorious, taking two first places!  On a diet of pizza, jelly beans, pretzels and Capri Suns, they managed to tough their way through individual tests, teams tests, ‘pressure rounds,’ mental math,… [Read More...]

Week 10 in Mr. Houck’s Class, by Alyssa Veith

Every week one student in our class gets to sit out the super quiz and write the weekly update on our class.  This week’s update was done by 7th grader Alyssa Veith.  Thanks, Alyssa! This week in Mr. Houck’s class we learned about Persians (which for me was really fun because in our Mesopotamian simulation… [Read More...]