Welcome back to school, Badger families!
This beautiful mural of waving hands adorns the wall in the main hallway outside of Mrs. Tino's classroom. The title, Let's Keep Moving Forward is the theme of our team this year. We are promoting the concepts of Growth Mindset, where students learn the value of making mistakes! It's so important for kids to know that they learn from their mistakes and failures.
Class Updates:
Social Studies: We are off to such a great start in Social Studies. We spent all of this week reviewing geography and ultimately setting up for the start of our first major unit in a week or so. We will be setting up our Google Classroom on Monday and that is where students will find nearly all of their resources for the year. I'm looking forward to a great year!
Science: We have spent some time learning about safety in the science lab and have moved on to the major tool of a biologist, the microscope. Students are learning how to use and care for the microscope. We will have a quiz on Tuesday to test their understanding. Links to study materials including Quizlet are on our google classroom.
Literacy: Latin roots and The Omnivore's Dilemma are both underway in Literacy! Your students should be spending time each day reviewing their flashcards for the first test of the year on Tuesday, September 18th. As you've hopefully seen, 90% of their report card grades are based upon mastery tests, such as the unit test this week. Students are also encouraged to use my Quizlet units to study. There is a link to Quizlet from the Literacy page here on the blog, as well as from the students' Google Classrooms.
English: We're off to a great start in English this year! Students have already reviewed Triple E Writing and will have their first quiz on Monday, September 17th! This past week students also read their first short story entitled "Seventh Grade," by Gary Soto. All students began crafting thoughtful reading responses during Friday's class, but will need to continue working on them over the weekend if they did not finish. Next week, book orders will go home with students. Although these are optional, they are helpful for building our classroom library! Books make wonderful birthday and holiday gifts. If you'd like to order online, directions can be found here.
Math: Our first unit for the year is proportional reasoning. So far we have learned to determine if a
table or graph is or is not proportional. This week we will be working with the
equation y=kx. Click here for more
information to support your student in class.
The image below is an activity the students did last Friday. Each group was given a blank table and had to
match a verbal description, table, graph, and equation for each situation.
