Happy New Year Bighorn Families! I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday break. Now, back to reality. :)
Projects: We started a new science project today. Students will be researching Rube Goldberg and designing, in groups, an 8 step prototype using simple machines to accomplish a simple task. Today we put together the trap in Mousetrap games, watched videos that demonstrated a series of simple machines working to accomplish tasks and went over the project and some of the guidelines. This project should be a lot of fun and the students seem excited about it.
7th and 8th Grade Reading: Flocabulary's Week in Rap featured the end of 2015 with top stories from the year. We spend A LOT of class time discussing and reading the stories, and 7th graders took a quiz. Eighth grade will take their quiz tomorrow.
Writing: Root of the week is "geo." Students worked on origin and sample sentences using words with the root "geo" in them. We also wrote freely, which students always love to do. We are going to go deeper into reflective writing this week and do IXL to learn to recognize sentences with vague pronouns.
Happy January!!!
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