Middle School Important Dates
Oct. 24th – Glow Fest Fall Party (7pm – 9pm @ Middle School)
Oct. 28th – Pumpkin Drop @ Middle School
Nov. 6th – 7th/8th Grade Around the World Exhibiton 5:30 pm @ Middle School
Nov. 10th – 6th Grade Face Your Face Exhibition 5:30 pm @ Ohio County Library
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English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none.
- Finished The Giver and our summaries. We wrapped up the week with watching the movie. Students will need a copy of Maze Runner by James Dashner.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none scheduled
- Students reviewed and practiced integral exponent rules on Monday and Tuesday.
- They started their test on integral exponents on Wednesday.
- Most students requested more time to complete the test, so they had Thursday and Friday to finish. I worked one-on-one with each student to ensure they understood the problems.
- Next week, we will work with order of operations problems using rational numbers.
Music w/Mrs. Chelsey –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes –
- This week we started learning “The Chipmunks Song” in our best chipmunk voices!!
- Our music journal entry was “Please respond to the piece ‘The Rite Of Spring’ by Igor Stravinsky.” It was a very controversial piece when it premiered in Paris in 1913 – ask your kids why!
Social Studies w/Mr. Jividen –
- 7th Grade students began an economics lesson
- Explored supply and demand
- Scarcity and incentives
SEL w/Mrs. McFadden-
This week we addressed the need for a lesson on perspective taking. We watched a video of “The Six Blind Men and the Elephant” in which each man touches a different part of the elephant and gets a totally different idea of what an elephant must look like. They argue that each one is right, until the wise man teaches them that we all have different perspectives based on our background experiences. They were all partly correct, but they needed to “see” each others’ perspectives as well to get the most accurate picture. Then we had an ink blot gallery walk in which everyone wrote down what they saw in each inkblot. It was fun to see what everyone else saw, and eye opening to realize that someone else’s perspective was most likely different, and quite possibly even more interesting, than our own.
Cooking w/ Mrs. McFadden – On Monday, we made African chicken and potato recipes. Both were delicious! On Friday, we went with a seasonal recipe – popcorn balls! These were also super tasty!
Deep Dive w/ Mrs. McFadden & Mrs. Wallace – We finished up our whirlwind tour of the 54 countries, then jetted off to Europe. We learned about the six different geographic regions, then split the kids into research groups to find out more about their region. The map is growing, and it looks amazing! We have many talented artists and a very talented cartographer in our group! We have also lured in a few geography loving 6th graders who work on the map during down time.
