PTA Update Week 16

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ART: 

Thank you for attending Parent-Teacher conferences.  It was a pleasure to meet each of you. There are two more weeks for the quarter and  then your children will be moving into Home and Careers.  Any unfinished work needs to be handed in before Jan. 31st, extra help will be on Thursday next week for one hour. Encourage your child to attend. Thank you, Mrs. Knoop

ENGLISH:
This week we have begun delving into Freak the Mighty, a novel by Rodman Philbrick. We will explore themes of trust, family and friendship during the course of this novel. Next week, we will continue with the middle section of the book. Various homework assignments will be assigned, including reading, responding through writing, and more creative activities. Students have received their theme essay scores. Please have them share these results with you. They also took their most recent SRI on Tuesday.

MATHEMATICS: 

It was very nice meeting most of you at Parent Teacher Conferences.  Common Assessment # 2 will be administered on Friday January 24th.  We started reviewing this week with the Spiral Review Homeworks.  Your child should study over the weekend.  They can review the Spiral Reviews and make use of the bigideasmath.com website.  It is a great resource.  There are Self Check Quizzes at the end of each Chapter.  Periods 2, 5, and 8 will be tested on Chapters 1 - 5, and the beginning of Chapter 6.  Periods 1 and 4 will be tested on Chapters 1 - 9. Have a wonderful weekend!

SCIENCE:

It was a pleasure seeing you at parent-teacher conferences. Science Symposium Projects were finalized and turned in this week Friday, January 17. Students will begin oral presentations of their projects starting Tuesday January 21. The rubric for the oral presentation (in addition to all the other components) can be found in the science symposium packet. Extra copies do rubrics have been provided as needed.  The Digestive System is the unit we will continue to study next week. 

SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will be looking at the principles of the Constitution and continue to read various excerpts from literature involving utopias.