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Where do I even begin? There are no adequate words to describe the appreciation I have for 7th grade families being the second class schoolwide to reach 100 percent participation during 29 hours. Your investment. Nothing we do can be accomplished without your support.
English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none.
- We are entering the students into an MLK essay contest with the following prompt: write about a time you influenced someone’s happiness in a positive way. We are sending home a media consent form for the contest, if you don’t have any objection to the form, please fill it out and send it back with your child. It’s due on Monday.
- Students continued their reading and discussion of Maze Runner.
- Their warm-ups covered dangling participles, prepositional phrases, and active /passive voice.
Deep Dive w/ Mr. K and Mrs. McFadden –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – No Tests or Quiz Scheduled
- Wrote an original myth to explain a natural phenomenon
- Used the wheel of fortune to pick “cabins” as in Percy Jackson
- Reserached the god/goddess associated with that cabin. Next week we are building the cabins!
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes: None
- We spent Monday and Tuesday reviewing the laws of the exponents test.
- Wednesday, the students started the test but were unable to finish. Due to absences, we continued the test on Thursday. All students finished on Friday.
- Next week, we’ll review the order of operations and move on to square roots.
Math w/ Mrs. Howells –
- No Upcoming Tests or Quizzes
- We worked through solving equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division!
- We had a quiz on those skills on Friday. You can check our Google Classroom to see your child’s score.
- Next week we begin two-step equations.
- There are practice games and activities on our class website: mhowells.weebly.com
- Please encourage your students to email me if they are struggling with homework, and I can set up a time to help them.
Social Studies w/ Mr. Jividen –
In 7th grade, we discussed the presidential transition period. We compared and contrasted past transition periods in order to understand what makes a transition successful.
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – No Tests or Quizzes Scheduled
Science w/ Mrs. Farris –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – None scheduled
- We identified what all living things “wants” to survive and discussed whether organisms could adapt to survive without these needs.
- Students were introduced to extremophiles, breaking down the term into extrem- (extreme) and -phile (to love). Trennan offered a spot-on definition: an organism that loves extreme environments.
- Each student received an extremophile card and searched the room for a potential location on Mars where their extremophile might survive. This activity encouraged critical thinking and showed students the value of making well-reasoned choices without a single right or wrong answer.
Elective
- Coding – Nutcracker Ballet – An email was sent to all parents regarding sign-ups for the Nutcracker Ballet. Please sign up for a performance here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n9zMbqkHVC5MWuLtX2m6IShSoMvbeayohNxEuY101kg/edit?usp=sharing
- Adulting 101 – We have started a new trimester and we all know what that means, new elective! Mr. Jividen and I are excited to have our kiddos for Adulting 101. During this elective we will be taking a look at everything from changing tires to how to budget for a meal. We will also be taking a look at how to write a professional email and learning about stocks and how they work. We hope that the students will learn alot in this elective and we can help them navigate their way to becoming an “Adult”.
- Design- We dove right in on day one and had each student create a table using only a few objects- paper, pipe cleaners, tape and straws. Logan Huffs table won the “most weight” contest and there were some pretty interesting designs. We spent a class period learning about the design process. Ask your child the 5 steps in the design process and ask them about their groups idea for improving our middle school campus classrooms.
Cultural Cooking/Chopped – We learned about traditional Japanese dishes and gtried our hand at sushi, miso soup, and ramen.
- Movie making- The students worked hard all trimester writing, filming and editing their movies and now you can enjoy them at home
This is the link to the final project- https://youtu.be/E14gfX2uIz0
