BLOG UPDATE TEAM 7N
Math with Mr. Josuweit
In
Mr. Josuweit's Math class, the students and Mr. Josuweit are working on
transitioning into the Junior High. While Mr. Josuweit is learning the
Red Lion Junior High way, the students are learning about what is
expected of them. We have reviewed a lot of the basic skills that
students will need to be successful and will be moving on to learning
new and exciting concepts like expressions, variables, and order of
operations.
Math with Mr. Dansberry
We
are wrapping up our review lessons and are getting ready to start
discussing the initial frameworks of our Pre-Algebra course. In the
near future, your child should be able to explain to you why all of us
should "Please Excuse Mr. Dansberry's Awful Stench." Other topics we
will be exploring will be graphing, properties, and mathematical
relationships. You should expect your child to have homework on a
nightly basis from this point on, so don't be afraid to ask them about
it!
Social Studies with Mr. Whiteford
In
Social Studies, we will soon be finishing our first unit of the year,
The 5 Themes of Geography. We have already talked about Location, Place
and Region, with Human-Environment Interaction and Movement finishing
up our unit. With Human-Environment Interaction, we are discussing how
people and the environment impact each other. Students are working with
a partner to find visual examples online of different ways that people
help or hurt the environment as well as ways the environment helps or
hurts people. They are using these pictures to create a Google
presentation. We will finish our 5 Themes unit with a writing piece.
For this activity, students will choose a any destination in the world
and pretend they are vacationing there. They will write a postcard,
describing what it is like at their destination. In this description,
students will provide examples of each of the 5 Themes of Geography.
In
addition to geography, we have talked about several very important
events in Social Studies this year. We spent the day talking about
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the 50th anniversary of
the march on Washington. We also spent some time discussing the events
of September 11, 2001, as well as learning about the United States
Constitution on Constitution Day (September 17).
English with Ms. Wachter and Mrs. Dansberry
(Students
practiced their new knowledge of the scoring domains by answering
questions using their personal devices on PollEverywhere.com.)
In
English class we are working towards the first five paragraph essay of
the year. We just finished a review of the parts of speech to prepare
for our upcoming grammar concepts. Students will be learning about
simple, compound, and complex sentences. Using this new knowledge,
students will write a five paragraph essay of their choice using the
informative essay writing guidelines. We also have a book assignment for
a novel of their choosing due October 18th. We are loving using the
personal devices and interactive student notebooks to keep track of
notes!
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Academic Lit with Mrs. Mahan
Mrs.
Mahan’s Academic Literacy class is working on identification of main
idea in reading passages. We’re reading various passages and looking for
clues about what the real point or purpose of the passage is.
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Science with Miss Taylor
Miss
Taylor's classes are working hard on the first unit, Nature of Science.
After finishing the scientific method and completing an exciting
bubbleology lab, students have been working hard learning about the
system of measurement used in science. Their measurement quiz will be
coming up in the next week, and we will be finishing this unit with a
short section on graphing. Thus far, the students as a whole are doing
awesome! We had a record 95% of students get A's and B's on their first
quiz!
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