News from 7-N

Math with Mr. Dansberry

It's a time of mixed emotions here at the junior high - excitement for the summer, but the loss of connections made throughout the school year.  It has been an honor getting to work with your children this year.  We've had some frustrations as the year progressed, but we had a lot of fun too!  Thank you for sharing your children with us.  

As for the boring part...For period 1, we will be finishing the year previewing some material for next year - writing and graphing linear equations.  For periods 3-6, we will be finishing the year talking about multi-step equations and inequalities.  

English with Miss Kohlbus and Mrs. Dansberry

In English, we are in the process of writing and editing our narrative stories. Students are letting their imagination run wild and I can't wait to read these fabulous stories your students have created. The final draft will be due on Friday, May 23rd. Students will have time to share their stories in class and we will continue to incorporate past concepts with new concepts in a fun way for the remainder of the school year. Although my time was short lived with your students, it has been a pleasure to get to know them and I wish them the best of luck in 8th grade!

Social Studies with Mr. Whiteford and Mrs. Dansberry

Special thanks go out to Morgan S. from our 6th period class for writing this blog entry.  Great job, Morgan!

Lately in Social Studies we have studied the Thirteen Colonies. We started by talking about Jamestown and how tobacco impacted that original colony. Then we moved on to Plymouth. We talked about the Pilgrims and how Plymouth impacted the colonization of America. Next, we talked about the New England Colonies, which included New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and Vermont. We talked about how religion impacted these colonies. Then we moved south to the Middle Colonies, including Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and New Jersey. Finally, we got to the Southern Colonies, which include Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina. We went more in depth for each colony. We are super excited to go to Gettysburg for our school trip.

Math with Mr. Josuweit

We are focusing on solving equations for the rest of the year since it’s a major building block for Algebra. There won’t be many more assignments this year so it’s imperative that your student complete every assignment and study for every quiz and test in order to be successful. It was a pleasure working with you and your student this year and I wish everyone much continued success and happiness in the future!

What’s happening in Academic Literacy?

We are in the process of putting together a research project. We investigated the topics of starting school later (a very poplar idea among the teenagers) and the topic of living forever. We’ve learned some interesting things about both issues and I think we all agree that citation is both important to do and also a little bit tricky.

~Mrs. Mahan

Science With Miss Taylor and Mr. Josuweit :)

With two and a half weeks left in the school year, we are all ecstatic that we finally finished  our units in physics.  We actually get to do one full unit of biology!  In the next two weeks will will discuss how we know if something is alive (along with an original characteristics of life song by Miss Taylor), as well as discover those little things inside a cell that we call organelles.  It has been a fun but busy year, and I think we are all ready for a nice summer break!