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We will explore the world of science, and discover the wonders of how nature works through our lessons and exciting activities in our Science Laboratory. Our 8th grade is starting their exploration in the scientific method and data analysis. Soon, they will design their own experiment to determine what causes kennels to pop faster as they conduct a controlled investigation to support or reject their hypothesis. As for 7th grade, we will continue to apply scientific processes: questioning, planning, and conducting investigations, using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations. Both grades are required to communicate their results using a lab write up format. ****Mrs. Pham****
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8th grade Language Arts has been very busy! This first quarter and opening months of the school year in Reading is going to be exploring our new curriculum. We adopted an online curriculum from McGraw Hill that allows our students to learn in a 21st Century environment. They will be able to read and respond to text online. We are spending time on author's purpose, theme, context clues, and story elements. In Writing we are working to connect the reading curriculum to writing. Students will respond the prompts about stories we have read as well as have extended writing projects. Students will be working on their writing skills this month and they completed a pre-assessment for writing. ****Ms. Sadler****
mportant Upcoming DatesAug 20 Back to School Night
5:30-7 pmAug 28 Picture DayOct 1-2 Parent/Teacher
ConferencesOct 5-9 Fall BreakNov 11 Veteran’s Day (No School)
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on to other genres of Narratives before we move writing Personal Experience are starting of the year program of instruction. We Beginning and Beyond” the “Write from the as last year when we used same rigorous curriculum Writing returns the near future.the Chromebooks in the are looking forward to using student workbooks, but we digital Teacher’s guide and what we need from the For now we are printing out dedicated to our classroom. new set of HP Chromebooks be accessed via our brand completely digital and will curriculum will be almost loaded onto the server the student login data has been curriculum. Once all Hill digital reading year with the new McGraw-excited to start out first In Reading we are very
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**Mrs. Aguilar & Ms. Hoskin**assignments on time.clarification if needed and to turn in all your child to pay attention in school, ask for astrology and biology. Please encourage math connects to science in the case of bacteria that often grow rapidly. This type of would be used to identify tiny particles of planets. Numbers with negative powers of 10 see when we are comparing distances of positive powers of 10 are numbers that we large and very small numbers. Numbers with notation is used as a way to express very explain each of them to you. Scientific each one is it's own law. Ask you child to of a Power. They may all sound similar, but Property, Power of a Quotient, and Quotient Property, Power of a Product, Zeroth Power Power of Power, Negative Exponent exponents which are: Product of Power, they have learned the 7 properties of into the topic of scientific notation. So far about exponents. This topic is leading them In 8th grade math the students are learning
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In both 7th and 8th grade Social Studies this year students will be exploring America's History. The 7th grade students right now are investigating the history of our Countries' first colonies (Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth). On the other hand though 8th grade is beginning to learn about how the U.S. Government was established and structured, as well as the function it serves. It is very exciting to report that our School District has adopted a new curriculum for Social Studies this year. It is a much more modern textbook, but also has a very integral technology piece that comes with it. The curriculum is now also available online for students, which will make for a very exciting school year.
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Happy Birthday to all August students! Agendas are an important tool for teacher and parent communication. Please sign on a DAILY basis . Also, the only code written in the agenda will be MI-Missing. It is also the only one that will be crossed out when a late assignment is turned in. Thank you for your support!
In Mrs. Partida’s 7th grade math class we have been exploring the exciting world of ratios and proportional relationships. Students have been analyzing data in tables, finding the constant multiplier, and creating graphical representations using coordinate graphs. We will be continuing our journey in proportions by creating equations to match our tables and graphs, finding the constant of proportionality, calculating unit rate with fractions, and using scale drawings in various situations. We will also be working on fluency of basic 7th grade math skills and charting our progress each week, setting goals to improve and/or maintain our achievement scores. The students have been working hard, learning new vocabulary, equations, and ways of thinking. Be sure to ask your student how a proportional relationship can be determined in multiple ways! ****Mrs. Partida****
