Second quarter started this week! This past week we continued reading
our novel, Freak the Mighty, and we continued to delve into the themes
of friendship family, and self-acceptance. Students have been engaged in
whole class discussion, small group activity and individual responses.
Next week, we will finish reading the novel and begin our culminating
activity for it. Details will follow. Please encourage your children to
keep up with the reading and to plan for and meet deadlines.
This week in Health we discussed positive and negative stress as well as the way stress impacts our bodies. The students engaged in activities to help identify all the ways stress impact our lives. The students created their own personal stress kits and were asked to use at least one thing they identified in their "kits" over the weekend.
Family and Consumer Sciences: (Berman)
This week was the end of our Sewing Unit and the beginning of our Careers Unit. Next week, students will be taking a personality quiz to match them up with possible career options and then researching those careers.
Family and Consumer Sciences: (Stern)
Choosing a career and identifying career opportunities require careful thought and preparation. Students completed the Personal Development Unit this week with a quiz. Next week they will use the information learned in PD to help choose a career to research. They will be doing an in class career project all week. Students are required to bring in a 22 x 28 Poster Board along with a glue stick, at the beginning of the week, for next weeks project.
Mathematics: (Fernandez, Rehnback, McWilliams)
There will be a Unit Exam on Friday November 20th. In Accelerated the exam will focus on Chapters 4 and 5. In Regents the exam will focus on Chapter 3. Please be aware that the exams are cumulative and will contain concepts from throughout the entire school year thus far. The Performance Task on Toy Trains for team 7-1 is due on November 23rd and Team 7-2 is due on November 20th. Please ensure your child is doing homework every night and coming to extra help if they need support with the material.
Science: (Camacho, Kalner, Tobia)
This week in science, students went to the computer lab to work on data
tables and graphing for Science Symposium. Students also began the next
unit of study of the cell. Science Fair Projects are due: NEXT
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. Oral presentations will begin in-class on
Wednesday. The Science Symposium (viewing of the projects) is on the
evening of November 24. All students are expected to attend.
Social Studies: (Cook, Hoffman, Marr)
This week students used iMovie to create trailers for their assigned colonies. At the end of the activity, the students celebrated with a 12 Colony Movie day. Next Friday is the Chapter 3 & 4 Test. Review materials are already coming home and a quizlet will be put up for review. Please check the website at www.team72.co for updates and the page for student movies (which will be up by next week.) You must have a lbeachg account to view the movie trailers.
