Here are next week’s middle school adventures:
- We have sent home the Meat Raffle tickets for our Boots for Buses event with your child. They are in their agendas in the front pocket, along with a flyer for the event.
Week of September 9th – 13th:
Upcoming Dates!
- This Sunday, September 15th, support a WCDS family:
- September 21st, Boots for Buses 6-9pm @ WCDS Main Campus Courtyard
WCDS families get to know one another and our WCDS faculty!
Purchase your event tickets here: https://www.betterunite.com/
Purchase a Meat Raffle ticket here: https://www.betterunite.com/
(Jacob & Son’s gift card: 1st prize $500, 2nd prize $250, 3rd prize $100)
- September 25th: WCDS Student Fall Pictures! Students may wear what they’d like.
Sept. 25th, Middle School
- September 26th: Join us on the main campus for Coffee Conversations at 2:00 p.m.! (This is a time to chat with the Head of School, faculty, and other families and discuss parenting, education, and current trends. If interested, a short article will be shared beforehand via Talking Points.)
- October 3rd: Save the Date for Grandparents’ Day!
Touring the battleship at the waterfront on Monday was the perfect way to kick off the week. I think I was as captivated as the students as we toured the various rooms, operated the machinery, and got brief history lessons on what was truly a timeless relic. The fun didn’t stop with the tour- we also hit up Wood Fired Pizza and Avenue Eats for lunch. I think the students are enjoying Northern!
English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Aimsweb on Wednesday.
- Students continued their reading of I Must Betray You.
- Students wrapped up their general essay.
- We covered various essayettes different from the standard persuasive essay.
Deep Dive w/ Mrs. Ochap and Mr. Jividen –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – No Tests or Quiz Scheduled
- This week, we took our first rides of the deep dive. On Tuesday, we rode on the Heritage Trail towards Warwood and made it 6 miles. Then, on Thursday, we rode towards Benwood and did a total of 4.5 miles. The kids had a great time and enjoyed the scenery along the way. Be on the lookout in the next few weeks for information on our next big ride.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – Quiz – Wednesday, September 18
- The students continued to learn and practice using real numbers.
- There will be a quiz on Wednesday, which will cover concepts using real numbers. I encourage the students to review and even rewrite their notes. This is a great way to study for the quiz.
- We will take a practice quiz on Monday, then review and go over how they did on Tuesday.
Math w/ Mrs. Howells
- No Upcoming Tests or Quizzes
- Following Tuesday’s quiz on integers we began the last section of Chapter 1.
- Its topics include: Properties, Powers and Laws of Exponents, Order of Operations, and The Coordinate Plane.
- We looked at the Properties of Multiplication and Addition and students completed practice activities to identify and use them.
- Please ensure that your student has headphones for math class.
- Homework assignments and helpful links will be posted on our Google Classroom and our class Weebly site
Social Studies w/ Mr. Jividen –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – No Tests or Quizzes Scheduled
- Students spent time sharing their current events.
- We also discussed the upcoming presidential debate at length.
- Students watched footage from the first televised debate from 1960(only one student asked how old I was in 1960.)
Science w/ Mrs. Farris –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – no test or quiz scheduled
- Monday afternoon we got our steps in by climbing 3 flights of stairs several times to take our body’s vitals. (heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure)
- Students compare their resting rate to their active rate. We tracked over the next several minutes to see how our bodies worked to maintain homeostasis.
- Cytology is our next topic! We began with cellular division – mitosis and meiosis.
Music w/ Mrs. Chelsey –
- This week we did a listening exercise, where four different songs were played and students came up to the board to write what they heard and felt. These were things like memories, tempo, instruments,etc. They enjoyed it!!
- We continued working on our basketball rhythms and started the first part of our actual “routine” that will become a performance at the winter evening of music and sound.
- Our journal prompt this week was “How has your taste in music changed over the years?”
