ENGLISH:
This week students were introduced to their fourth quarter project: Breaking Barriers. Students will need to research an individual who has broken a barrier that impacted society in some way. They will need to read a book and use internet sources as well for their information. We will spend a number of days in class working on outlining, formatting, and organizing. We will also be continuing to work in our Expert 21 books with Workshop 4.
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES:
Students will start their “All About Me” projects. They will create their own ethical codes, complete personal inventories and conduct student interviews.
MATHEMATICS:
The Assessment Exam is finally behind us. All students gave their best effort this week. I am very proud of them!
Accelerated: We will begin Chapter 14 this week. We have three chapters to complete before we start preparing for the Final Exam on June 20th. There will be a quiz on Friday.
Regular: We will work on Chapter 7 starting this week. We will study angles and triangles in the next two weeks. There will be a quiz on Friday.
SCIENCE:
Interesting studies are taking place in Science! Last week,
students sorted organism pictures into two sets, based on the kind of physical
environment in which the organism might live, aquatic or terrestrial. They
assembled an aquarium and a terrarium in preparation for introducing organisms.
This week students observed aquatic organisms and terrestrial organisms in
isolation and recorded observations. They predicted how organisms would
interact when they are placed in their environments to create miniecosystems.
Students administered aquatic and terrestrial organisms into their aquarium and
terrarium and now will begin a long-term observation of the miniecosystems.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will continue our exploration of Manifest Destiny and the movement of the United States from east to west. We will be having a quiz on the material on Friday.
