Weekly Update May 12th

Progress Reports: Grades have closed! Progress Reports will be coming home Tuesday, May 14th.

I-Ready: Students will be completing their last I-Ready testing for the year on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.  Be ready!  We recommend going to bed early and eating something for breakfast!

Class Updates: 

Social Studies: Students spent the week working on an in-class research project on the Middle Ages. Students will wrap up the Medieval unit with a performance task on Monday and Tuesday. We will start the Renaissance on Wednesday.

Science:  We'll be wrapping up our unit at the end of this week with an assessment.  Students can log on to their unit anytime to review the concepts that we've been learning about.  At the end of the week they should be able to tell you exactly why the moon jelly population exploded in the Glacier Sea!

Literacy:  We have returned to The Omnivore's Dilemma to enjoy learning about how an ecological, sustainable farm works!  In the week ahead we'll get the final unit of Latin roots started, and take the final round of iReady tests.  

English: Students submitted their final independent reading projects for the year last week!  We also began a new article in Study Sync, entitled "The Dangers of Social Media."  It has yielded such wonderful, honest discourse in class, and I'm proud of our students for respecting alternate points of view.  We discussed author's purpose as well as counter-claims within the article.  The article mentions the "Wait Until 8th" Pledge, which we then explored in class.  Students will spend time this week creating pledges of their own and working in small groups.

Math: Students are wrapping up our statistics unit we are still working with sample variability and random samples this week.  The study guide will go home on Tuesday and the test is Friday, May 17th.  Make sure to study and ask questions.

Weekly Update: May 5th

Progress Reports: Grades will be closing this week!  Make sure you are caught up.  Progress reports will be going home the following week.

Spirit Week!

We'll be celebrating SPIRIT WEEK this upcoming week!  Please remember all dress code rules apply!

Monday: Pajama Day
Tuesday: Crazy Hair Day
Wednesday: College Day
Thursday: 80's Day
Friday: Color Wars - Grade 7 is RED!

School Walk-A-Thon:  Each team will be participating in a walk-a-thon to benefit our school's PTO.  Collection envelopes for our school fundraiser were sent home with Badger students and are to be returned by Friday, May 10th.  Any amount helps!  Thank you for your fundraising efforts!

Book Orders are due to Mrs. McGuire no later than Thursday, May 9th!

Class Updates: 

Social Studies: After returning from vacation, we spent time wrapping up the late Middle Ages. We recapped the Black Death along with researching the story behind Joan of Arc. Students were assessed on Friday. Next week, we will be starting an in-class research project!

Science:  We had a great time on the field trip!  It certainly was the highlight of our science lessons.  Next week we will be completing a mid-unit assessment.  Students are well on their way to figuring out what happened to the moon jellies.  

Literacy:  It's been a very productive week.  Students have been working diligently in class on their Art of Civil Disobedience essays. We have had Chrome Books available all week, so that students can type their work once the editing and revision processes are complete.  The finished document, typed and printed, is due by the end of the school day on Monday, May 6th.  All papers received after that date will be considered late.  The Latin Unit 11 Mastery test is scheduled for Thursday, May 9th!  Students need to be sure that they are studying that material, too! 

English: Just a friendly reminder that final IRP projects are due Thursday, May 9th.  An example has been posted to each Google Classroom.  Badger students worked on a district common assessment this past week, which required them to read nonfiction and fictional excerpts.  We continued with another nonfiction article in our Study Sync unit about the dangers of social media.  This article yielded excellent discourse in class!  Be sure to ask your student some of the topics we addressed together!

Math: We have covered histograms and box plots, now onto populations and samples.  Student did a great job on their last quiz and we are flying through this unit!  This week we will be learning how to determine the difference between a population and a sample.  Using samples we will then learn how to select a sample and determine how to take a random sample.  Our next test will be Friday, May 17th.