Middle School

Math: The Meatballs had lessons for percent applications and percent change this week. That allowed them to work on a real-world application assignment that had them calculating percent change for airplane tickets, tax on in-flight purchases, and tips for the airport restaurant. On Thursday they reviewed for their check-in this coming Monday. The 8th grade class had a performance task on Monday comparing two bbq restaurants to use for a family reunion. The rest of the week they finished their unit with lessons on systems of equations, proportional vs. non-proportional relationships, and direct variation. The Algebra students worked on an […]

General News This week in SEL we used our flex time to talk about different types of communication. We discussed the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. Assertive is the goal! In small groups we roleplayed different common middle school scenarios one might encounter and ways one might handle that in various different communication styles. We are collecting food for the Hope Food pantry and have been using our Delta grati-turkey to reflect on the everyday blessings we sometimes forget to count. Our school is also “adopting” three families through an organization called Housing Support Services Alliance. Cameron (Ms.

Math: The Meatballs tackled measurement conversions and percents this week. The 8th grade class continued to work with slope-intercept form. They had lessons on multiple representations where they wrote verbal descriptions, equations, tables, and graphs of linear functions. The Algebra class had a check in over direct and inverse variation on Monday then jumped into the system of equations unit. They can solve systems of equations by graphing and substitution. Next week we will cover the elimination method. Humanities: Our Humanities topic of Short Stories is getting longer! This week, we continued our look at the topic by reading stories

General News We are wrapping up our outlines (due Monday) for Theme research on kids’ individualized self-selected history of the earth topic. Mr. Steve will be sending out a refresher video to help support kids as they learn how to make an outline. Reading/Writing Update Science meets storytelling! This week we worked on a really fun assignment! We continued our exploration of famous Earth scientists, but this time we added a creative fiction twist. After reading articles about modern-day scientists, students identified character traits, challenges, and moments of growth in their lives. We took a deep dive into Jane Goodall’s

Math: The Meatballs finished up their poster projects on Monday and completed a puzzle to practice proportions. Tuesday we had a lesson on unit rates. Wednesday we practiced more proportions with a train puzzle and a scavenger hunt. Thursday, for Halloween, we created Halloween scenes that needed to include various geometric shapes and definitions. The 8th grade students practiced finding slopes from graphs and given two points on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday they had a lesson on graphing linear equations in slope-intercept form. On Thursday they graphed linear equations that made the shape of a spider web! The Algebra students