Middle School

Math: This week the 7th finished their unit with lessons over similarity and reviewed the entire unit. The 8th grade class read What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis to introduce them to the Pythagorean Theorem and had then lessons over it and its converse. They then started a poster to showcase the difference between the theorem and its converse. The Algebra class completed lessons over simplifying square roots, including monomials, on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday they completed the unit review, and on Thursday they worked on two extension assignments. The first assignment was a poster illustrating the product, power, […]

General News Friendship Day is coming up next week! See this list for class names. Remember, if you choose to bring in any Valentine cards you must bring one in for everyone in the class. We’ll do the traditional paper bag decorating and card exchange on Thursday of next week and decorate kindness rocks to place around the school. Whit (and his mom) are organizing a before-school coffee club! They plan to meet at Violent Crown Coffee some days before school and then the kiddos will walk to school together. Look for an email coming from Emily soon with more information

Math 7th graders spent their two days practicing finding the area of compound shapes, including application problems. The 8th graders finished up check-ins and started exploring the Pythagorean Theorem. The algebra students review the exponential functions unit with a math lib, task cards, and review sheet. Humanities The short week presented Humanities students with the opportunity to dive into their new novel The Book Thief, which chronicles the life of Liesel, a young woman facing the devastation of World War II in Nazi Germany. Students discussed their initial impressions of the novel through their study guides, and made comparisons to

General News We can’t believe it’s the weekend again already! We got a lot of great learning done in our two days together. 🙂 Our field trip planning for March 3rd and 4th is still in the works, but we have secured brave volunteers for chaperoning! (Thank you!) We’ll keep you posted as plans firm up. Reading/Writing Update We made the most of our weird, short week! We had a wonderful discussion about our new novel, Feathers! Kiddos seem to be really enjoying this book and using it to dig into the deeper “why” behind why people participate in religion.

Math The 7th graders covered finding the area of triangles and quadrilaterals on Tuesday. On Wednesday they had a lesson about finding the area of composite shapes. Thursday, they worked in groups of 3 to solve problems in a round table format. The 8th graders worked on a unit review Tuesday and Wednesday and started their check-in on Thursday. The Algebra students had 3 lessons over graphing exponential functions, exponential function applications, and geometric sequences. Humanities The week we worked to finish our examination of Warhorse and the experiences of World War I. Students prepared and completed Literary essays that