I cannot believe how quickly our year is flying by. We have two weeks until Spring Break and then 11 weeks left of the school year! Every day has been a pleasure with this group of kids. I am grateful for the things they have taught me as well as the experiences we get to share. Thank you for all of your support.
Upcoming:
Tomorrow! March 15: Parent meeting for 7th grade trip to Zion National Park. 8:15-9:00 or 3:45-4:30
Tomorrow! March 15: Bike Ride to Penasquitos Canyon pack a lunch and water. We will start shuttling bikes and people from school at 9:15. If you can shuttle, we need help at 9:15 and again at 12:45. If you would rather meet us there please text me at 858-449-9127 before 9:00 am so I can count your student in attendance. We will meet at the end parking lot at Canyonside Community Park off Black Mountain Rd. Our plan is to be back at school by 1:15 so we don't miss Spanish class.
Next Tuesday March 22: Reuben H Fleet Science Center field trip. Please send $8 asap!
Next Thursday March 24: Exhibition Night 5:00-7:30
In Academics:
Math--- We have finished our unit on Exponents and Square Roots and have moved on to Solving 1 Step and 2 Step equations. The iXL program has been working wonders on helping students practice what they have learned. We have worked on I.1-I.10 as well as T.5. By the end of this week, they should be able to understand the practice problems in T.6-T.8.
Science--- Our Climate Change Calendars are looking good for exhibition! We will spend this week and next polishing up our work and getting the classroom ready for presenting our work!
News from Keith:
Vocab Words!
Update - We are going to have test no. 20 this week. Then we'll not have a list on the week of exhibition night.
I am planning after exhibition night to move to a slightly different form of the vocab assessment, moving away from online drop-down, to students simply writing a definition or correct use in a sentence. I believe this will be a more authentic test of their knowledge.
This week's words, many included to help with our multi-media presentations on climate change, are:
- Chastise: verb. to tell someone off, to criticize harshly.
- Polarize: verb. cause to divide into two sharply contrasting sets of opinions or beliefs
- Clandestine: adj. kept secret or done secretively, especially spy related.
- Gratuitous: adj. over the top, uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted
- Hypocrisy: noun. the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform
- Insatiable: adj.(of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy.
- Meticulous: adj. showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.
- Myriad: noun. a countless or extremely great number; a unit of ten thousand.
- Repudiate: verb. refuse to accept or be associated with, deny the truth or validity of.
Final Product: Podcasts:
This week will see groups recording their projects. Those not done by Friday with a solid effort I'll be in touch about them staying for Monday Make-up.
I will be out of town Friday March 18- Monday March 21. One of our previous 7th grade teachers, Jennie, will be subbing. She is excited to be with our kids after all the great things she has heard about them!
Have a fabulous week
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