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English w/ Mr. Rouse – Aimsweb on Tuesday.
- Started Howl’s Moving Castle.
- I had them practice summarizing their reading for their substitute teacher.
- We ended the week with dialogue prompts, an activity where they practice writing dialogue scenes with proper formatting.
- Congrats to Tesla for winning the spelling bee this week, congrats to Trennan on coming in second place.
Deep Dive w/ Mrs. McFadden & Mr. K –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – No Tests or Quiz Scheduled
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles, Wed. January 29
- We continued using the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for the hypotenuse of a triangle.
- The students also learned how to solve for a missing leg measurement.
- While they were given the chance to use calculators to calculate square roots, the students had to round their answers to the nearest hundredth. We reviewed rounding numbers, which is a skill they needed a refresher on.
- We’ll move on to measuring lengths of triangles next week.
Math w/ Mrs. Howells –
- Upcoming Test – Chapter 3 – Inequalities Test on Wednesday, January 22
- We continued with inequalities this week.
- Students solved one- and two-step inequalities using all operations.
- We investigated why it is needed to flip the sign when multiplying or dividing both sides by a negative and then practiced this type of problem.
- Students were also challenged with solving word problems that really made us think!
- Study material for Wednesday’s test is on our class website.
Science w/ Mrs. Farris –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – Environmental Design Quiz week of Jan 27th
- We are excited to Plant the Moon!
- This week, the “Plant the Moon” challenge kicked off as students were divided into two teams to brainstorm testable questions.
- Teams narrowed down their ideas to form the basis of their initial experimental design.
Music w/ Mrs. Chelsey –
- This week we continued working on the National Anthem and started working on another of our choral pieces. The students wanted to sing “California Girls” by Katy Perry, so that’s what we’re doing!!
- Their music journal entry this week was “How does music influence your mood?”
