Tomorrow students will present their simple machine projects to parents. Stop by the "dungeon" any time between 8:30 and 9:50 to see their creations!
Projects: Students are finishing up with simple maching presentations, and then we will move onto our next science project surrounding energy. We are still building the project, so more to come soon!
8th Grade Reading: Students are enoying To Kill a Mockingbird and are making a lot of connections and predictions about the novel. Tomorrow we are going to Mrs. Stockard's room to watch presentations on allegories. It will be nice for the 8th graders to have a glimpse of high school happenings. Poetry annotations for "Sunbeam Confesses its Love of Geometry" are due tomorrow, 2/17.
7th Grade Reading: We went over the rules to Paideia Seminar, which the students will participate in for their final reading test on The Outsiders. Students also started an analyzing chart related to the novel and will complete it in groups. We continue to read independently for at least 15 minutes every reading block.
Writing: Today we focused on sentence diagramming and Root of the Week, which is "omni." Ask your child what the root means and what its origin is. We will do some free writing and complete a writing prompt relating to The Outsiders this week. The prompt will be completed in one writing block and taken for a grade. This is part of my attempt to get the students writing quickly and efficiently. They all have the "how to" down and now need to work on writing under a time limit.
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