English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Aimsweb will be on Tuesday, September 9th next week.
- Students started their reading and discussion of I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys.
- They started using Guided Reading Bookmarks to supplement their reading.
- Students also had discussion questions for their readings.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Quiz – Wednesday, September 10. Chapter 1, Sections 1-5
- Aimsweb will be on Thursday, September 11th next week.
- After some confusion about absolute value, the students reviewed it and did more practice to understand the concept.
- We worked on simplifying fractions and finding equivalent fractions.
- The students also worked with finding common denominators and which helped them compare and order rational numbers (decimals and fractions).
- Next Monday, we will review for the quiz on Wednesday.
Deep Dive w/ Mrs. McFadden & Mrs. Wallace –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none scheduled
- We zoomed with a former student of Mrs. Wallace who grew up in Costa Rica.
- We continued to learn more about the countries of Central America.
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes-
Science w/ Mrs. McKay –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – none
- Students performed greenhouse effect simulation, learned about the electromagnetic spectrum, and interpreting graphs.
Music w/Mrs. Chelsey –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes –
- This week students learned a short body percussion routine and tried it as a round. They also decorated their music journal folders and went outside for our first entry of “how does the world and sound around us create its own music?”.
