PHYSICAL EDUCATION NEWS
We love volleyball! Mrs. Downs' classes have just finished a 3-cycle volleyball unit focused on setting, serving, passing, teamwork, and sportsmanship. Yomarelis-7L loves volleyball because "it involves a team and communication is very important." Jenny Mendera-Vallejo 7N says "Volleyball is fun and really helps you keep active." Carly-7I says "I love how the game is played." Mr. Gordon’s classes will be starting the volleyball unit this week.
The next 3-cycles, we will be focusing on aerobic vs. anaerobic activities. Aerobics will include Tabata intervals, A to Z circuit training, step aerobics, line dancing and more 20 minute cardio work-outs.
Also, we have just finished the Hoops for Heart program and our school raised $1560 for the American Heart Association. Great job to all participants!
7th Grade General Music
Students are learning about the elements of music and will be using them to analyze songs. This song analysis will show the unique factors of each music style studied.
7th Grade Tech. Ed.
Special area classes have made their final rotation switch. Students in Technology Education are off to a great start. Let's keep it up folks.
7th Grade FCS
The last rotation completed their Challenge Labs. This is the most difficult level for a food lab. Within each class, four teams compete. Their challenge is to work with 3 random, mandatory ingredients and utilize other non-mandatory ingredients to create a dish that is judged on their creativity, presentation, taste, group dynamics, and organization with 30 minutes to plan and execute. No recipe! The new rotation of students will be finishing up the ChooseMyPlate.gov unit and moving onto kitchen and food safety!
Music Department
On Saturday, March 29, the JH Show Choir participated in our 2nd annual district wide choral festival “Voices of the Pride”. Select choruses from each elementary school performed together, and then joined the SH and JH show choirs and members of the Red Lion Area District music faculty to perform a song commissioned for Red Lion Area District titled “Voices of the Pride”.
There are many upcoming spring concerts for the Junior High Music Department!!!
Spring Choral Concert (featuring the JH Chorus and the JH Show Choir)
Saturday April 12 @ 7:30pm located at the JH
Band and Jazz Band Spring Concert
Saturday April 26 @ 7:30pm located at the JH
Sunday May 18 - Orchestra Concert @ 2pm located at the SH
8th Grade FCS
In 8th grade Family and Consumer Science we are getting ready to start our hand-sewing unit. Over the next few cycles we will be sewing on buttons and learning the backstitch. The backstitch is a strong durable stitch that can be used in place of a sewing machine in a variety of clothing repairs. Ask your student to see their samples and give them a new chore. They will love you for it!
8th Grade Tech. Ed.
All classes have selected their product and are working on their final design. We researched products that would be competition to their product and are beginning to make a mechanical drawing. Next, will be to create a materials list and calculate the cost of the materials. Prototypes construction should begin in about 2 weeks.
8th Grade Art
Rotation 2 classes are all wrapped up and students Animated Vessels are now complete!
Students in the final rotation are in the process of wrapping up Unit 1 – Introduction by incorporating the elements and principles of art into the Bubble Drawings seen below:
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