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Good Saturday morning to you! How about that weather these last few weeks? Anyway, I’d be remiss not to congratulate all of the brave middle school students who participated in last week’s spelling bee. A tip of the cap to Trennan and Telsa for earning the right to represent WCDS at the county level. They have already made us proud!
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 practiced writing dialogue scenes with proper formatting.
- Congrats to Trennan for winning the spelling bee this week, and congrats to Telsa on coming in second place.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles, Wed. January 29
- The students will take a quiz on using the Pythgorean Theorem next Wednesday, January 29.
- This week, they demonstrated their confidence with solving for a missing side of a triangle.
- Against much reluctance, we applied the Pythagorean Theorem to real world problems; AKA – Word Problems! Their challenge was drawing the picture. Once they understood how to draw out their triangle, they solved the problems with ease. These word problems will be on their quiz next week.
Math w/ Mrs. Howells –
- Upcoming Test – Aimsweb on Monday, January 27
- Students took the Chapter 3 test on Inequalities. Their grades will be added to Google Classroom.
- We started some very preliminary work on our next topic: Rational Numbers.
- Next week, we will jump into this topic, classify rational numbers, and begin operations with rational numbers.
Science w/ Mrs. Farris –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – Environmental Design Quiz week of Jan 27th
- Introducing our two teams and experiments – Ask your child what team they are a part of.
- Team Sprouts: Maximizing Resource Efficiency by Exploring the Benefits of Hydroponics with Lunar Regolith as a Growing Medium
- The Astro Alligators: Investigating Brassica’s Temperature Tolerance and Its Potential as a Nutritious Lunar Crop
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?”
