English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- We will take Aimsweb on Tuesday, February 4th.
- We continued our reading, questions, and discussions for Howl’s Moving Castle
- We continued to work on dialogue (I’ve been doing it with most of my classes.), and I made 7th do a dialogue writing assignment following a conversation between two unlikely people.
- Did Unit #3 of vocabulary.
- Continued our warm-ups and studied sentence types.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – none scheduled
- The students took a test on the Pythagorean Theorem, which included calculations and word problems. The test will be corrected and reviewed next week.
- The next skill is solving 1-step and 2-step algebraic equations.
Math w/ Mrs. Howells –
- Reminder: Please check in with your student to see that they have working headphones that connect to their laptop. Thanks!
- Upcoming Test: Aimsweb next week
- The students classified rational numbers this week.
- They also worked quite a bit on converting fractions to decimals and vice-versa.
- Next we will begin rounding decimals and then jump into decimal operations: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals.
Social Studies w/ Mr. Jividen –
Students wrapped up the unit on ancient civilizations. They transitioned into the middle ages. We will focus on major events like the Rennaisance and the Black Plague.
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – No Tests or Quizzes Scheduled
Science w/ Mrs. Farris –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – no test or quiz scheduled
- Teams finalized their experimental designs—a challenging task in preparation for our grow date next week.
- Students then compared Earth’s soil to the Moon’s “soil,” discovering that the Moon’s surface material is called regolith.
- The regolith consists of fine dust, broken rock fragments, and tiny glass beads, all formed by constant meteorite impacts.
Music w/ Mrs. Chelsey –
- This week we focused more on matching pitch and controlling where our voice is when we sing, as well as energy and volume. We worked on a rhythmically challenging section of “California Girls” and continued to the next part of The National Anthem.
- Our music journal entry this week was “Is there any style or kind of music that you don’t like?”
