Team Update:
Badgers dominated Spirit Week!!! Check out all our Pajama day participants.
Class Updates:
Social Studies: This past week we took closer looks at the Ancient Greek city-states Sparta and Athens and did a great job comparing and contrasting the two. On Friday we took a major assessment on Early Greek Civilizations and the kids did an awesome job proving their mastery! This upcoming week we will spend learning about Ancient Greece’s rival: Persia.
Science: In science this week students took one day to meet with their guidance counselors to participate in a career planning activity. We continued our investigations this week inside the bone cell. Students are working hard to figure out how diffusion works in our bodies. Pictures this week show some initial models students developed to explain how diffusion works in our bodies and some demonstrations that we used to figure out what diffusion is.
Click HERE to see pictures from science class!
Literacy: Students learned how to record the narration for their Google slide shows this week, using a quirky program called Educreations. Completed projects and notes are due by Monday evening! Plenty of class time was provided, so hopefully everyone is all set! We watched Akeelah and the Bee Wednesday, a movie that celebrates perseverance, teamwork, honest and studying Latin and Greek roots to learn vocabulary! Sounds just like Literacy class! The week ended with the Latin unit 3 test. Next week we will watch student Atlas Obscura projects, and begin the next Latin root unit!
English: We began our storyboard project on Greek gods and goddesses this week, and the students are having a lot of fun designing their projects! We also continued to read Greek myths when we weren't working on our projects. We read about Icarus and Daedalus this week, and next week we will read about Demeter, Persephone, and Phaethon. The storyboard project is due at the end of class on October 27th. All students should be working on their independent reading projects! The independent reading projects are due at the start of class on October 31st!
Math: We are finishing up our scale unit with a design project. Students are designing rooms to a specific scale and putting in the furnishings. The project is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday. We have been working on the project for three class periods, so no excuses. Tuesday we will start our Rational Numbers unit; integers, fractions, and decimals. This is the most important unit to learn for the rest of your mathematical life!! Sigma has a quiz Wednesday.
