Report Cards: The end of the trimester is quickly approaching. Grades close Monday, December 3rd. Students, please check the grade book and ensure your work is submitted.
Team Donations: Our team supply of tissues and hand sanitizer seems to be dwindling, especially as we approach flu season. If you would like to donate these items, please send them to school with your child. Thank you to the families who have donated supplies thus far! We are most appreciative!
Holiday Book Orders: Mrs. McGuire is collecting book orders next week to ensure they arrive in time for the holiday break! Parents and guardians, if you would like to order books "secretly" for your student as a gift, please email me and we can make this happen! Book orders are due no later than Wednesday, December 5th!
SPIRIT WEEK is this week!!! Students are encouraged to participate to show their school spirit!! ALL OUTFITS MUST BE SCHOOL APPROPRIATE!
Monday: Advisory Day - dress similarly with your advisory
Tuesday: Vine Day - work with your advisory to create a six-word positive saying
Wednesday: Character Day - dress up like your favorite character
Thursday: Pajama Day - wear your comfiest PJs
Friday: Color Wars - grade 7 is BLUE!
Food Drive: Grade 7 donations should be LUNCH items only. Please bring in donations to advisory. Thank you for your cooperation!
Class Updates:
Social Studies: Students question stormed about the Peloponnesian War on Monday, tied it all together Tuesday, prepared for an assessment on Wednesday, and then were assessed on the last three major topics that we've studied on Thursday. Please review that assessment with your child as grades are closing soon! Friday we spent class catching students up and allowing other students to go deeper into various topics. We will start Greek culture on Monday!
Science: If you ate A LOT of carrots..... Would you turn orange? There has been a lot of disagreement among the badger students. Many think they will, many think they won't. This week we will follow the carrot through the digestive system to figure out if it is even possible. Check out the science blog here.
Literacy: It's been an exciting week in the computer lab with Mrs. Kauffman, learning fantastic, new technology tools! The kids completed the research of their Atlas Obscura, and learned the best way to write their narration script notes. The most exciting moments were when they actually used either the headset microphone, or the fancy Snowball microphone to record the narration of their slide shows. I'm incredibly proud of their hard work, but mostly of their desire to improve, and produce the best possible finished product. The final submissions are due by Monday evening. I suspect there will be many kids staying after school on Monday!
English: We started our character change unit this week! It was an exciting week learning new background information relating to our unit. Students also spent time in the library choosing their new December IRP books and working on contextual vocabulary. Next week, we will begin reading A Christmas Carol. We will focus primarily on the character change in which Scrooge shows throughout the novel.
Math: We are wrapping up our mini unit on writing and solving equations this week. Students will be tested on Thursday. Study guide will go out on Monday.
