Middle School

General News We’ll be sending home unfinished theme art projects next week for P&P (with no packet to complete other than an interest survey regarding our end-of-quarter continental culture project!) Reading/Writing Update This week we chose our topics and began researching to write five paragraph essays about medieval Korea. The topics selected vary widely and these will be very fun to research, write, and share! Across the Delta room we are learning about the government of the Goryeo dynasty, social hierarchy during this time, festivals, religion, and, of course, celadon pottery. We started the week off with choosing our topic […]

Math: 7th Graders practiced operations with rational numbers all week. Monday they completed multiplication and division application problems. Tuesday they completed mazes to practice multiplication and division. Wednesday they completed a scavenger hunt for rational operations, and an error analysis where they had to find mistakes in pretend student’s work. Thursday they created their own rational operation problems given certain restraints. The 8th graders completed their unit study guide on Monday and Tuesday, so they could take their check on Wednesday. Thursday they began their linear equations unit with simplifying expressions. The Algebra students completed a pyramid puzzle on Monday

General News Here is the presentation from parent night if you were not able to attend! TLDR, your kids are phenomenal, they are rocking this transition, we are giving them time to grow into new skill sets, and we love them! Reading/Writing Update Five paragraph essays seem intimidating at first but we tackled them this week and got into a great flow! Before we wrote a full on research essay we decided to take a step back and write 5 paragraph essays on topics we are already experts on. The topics were fun and light hearted: how to care for

General News Thank you so much for your open feedback on our Parent Support Night survey. If you haven’t filled out it yet–please do ASAP! We’d really love to make your night with us super aligned with your needs and we can only do that well if you tell us what you’re thinking! It’s snappy–we promise! Mark your calendars! Parent Support Night is next Tuesday evening, starting with a parent social at 5:30. With all the changes, we’d really appreciate your participation, if at all possible. Thanks! Big welcome to Lia and family! We’re so excited to have you join

Math: 7th graders added and subtracted rational numbers this week and started on their collaborative mural. 8th graders learned this difference between a rational and irrational number as well as practiced classifying numbers into sets. Algebra finished their first unit with infinite and no solution equations, proportions, and literal equations. The Algebra check in will be Tuesday! ELA: Our readers took a deep dive into our novel, Uprising, as we continued our journey into the immigration movement of the industrial age. Students journaled about their favorite characters and why they may have immigrated, reacting to the quote “No one leaves