7th Grade Newsletter
7th Grade Newsletter
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January 16th, 2026
Thanks for another amazing week with students!
Thanks for another amazing week with students!
January Events
13th: Dollywood information and permission slips were sent home, please ask your student for this important information. Click on this link if your student has forgotten or lost their copy.
Students can bring signed permission slips ANYTIME. The sooner the better, students do not have to pay now. Payment is due April 15th. Payments can be made online using the QR code in the link above.
To help ensure a safe and positive experience for all students, please note the following eligibility requirements for our Dollywood field trip:
Any student who receives an out-of-school suspension (OSS) will be ineligible to attend the Dollywood field trip.
Any student who accumulates more than 15 hours (2.5 days) of in-school suspension (ISS) will be ineligible for the Dollywood field trip.
In addition, students must complete the academic requirements for the trip: all attending students must read a minimum of three independent reading books and complete a student project by April 17, 2026 in order to be eligible for the Dollywood field trip.
16th: End of the second quarter
19th-20th: No school for students
28th: Report Cards sent home
7th Grade & Schoolwide Updates
Parents and guardians, please talk with your student about the importance of hand washing to minimize the spread of germs. We are still seeing several cases of illness run through our school community.
Please send your student to school with a device and charger each day so they are prepared for classes. 7th grade students who do not have a device, charger or way to charge their computer to complete assignments will be tracked. When students reach the 5th disruption to their learning due to missing devices or charger, they will need to leave the computer at school.
Winter sports games: Check our school website for a schedule.
Dear Reynolds Staff, Families, and Community,
We are celebrating a great first semester of Community School initiatives and offerings. A few highlights include:
90 students participated in After school clubs. Here is an article in the United Way blog featuring a service project of the Cooking Clubs. https://www.unitedwayabc.org/news/stirringchange. A BIG shout out to Molly Dingledine, our Cooking Clubs leader who conceived and designed this multifaceted service project!
We hosted 7 Community Nights offering great meals, school work assistance, and special activities. Our Cookies and Coats Community Night was a huge success with over 250 attendees. Here is another article featuring this event! https://www.unitedwayabc.org/news/community-cookies-and-coats. We are so thankful for the staff, community partners, and volunteers that make Community Nights possible!
70 students participated in mentor groups on a weekly basis - building trust, sense of belonging, and personal skills. Special thanks to the community partner organizations who lead these groups! UMOJA, BBBS, UNETE, and Journeymen.
Students exhibited leadership through a number of activities including participation on the Resource Team, Student Leadership Committee, and as Student Ambassadors. We look forward to a whole-school Pep Rally on Jan. 23 which has been planned and organized by the Student Leadership Committee.
As we roll into the next semester, we will continue with the same clubs, and we will be adding a River Rats Club: an 8-week program starting on March 30. Parent permission forms will be made available for the River Rats club in February.
Community Nights start back on Feb. 24 and will be every Tuesday through May 5. Every Community Night offers a free nutritious meal for the whole family, homework assistance, attendance make-up, and access to community resources. We welcome all families in the Reynolds School District. Here is the schedule including special "themed nights."
Feb. 24 Celebrating Black History, hosted by the UMOJA group
March 10 Parent Focus Group, hosted in the Reynolds Resource Room
March 17 Painting Kindness ShamRocks (for students) and Parent Support Program (for parents and guardians)
March 24 Family Wellness Night, including health based community organizations and resources
March 31 Student Showcase (student led projects and displays)
April 14 Tie Dye Night
April 21 Global Cultures Night
April 28 Bingo Night
It is a privilege and honor to serve as your Community School Coordinator, and I look forward to a great spring semester of enriched learning, family engagement, integrated student services, and collaborative leadership.
Next Community Night: February 24th in the cafeteria from 5:00-6:30pm
Student and families welcome for FREE dinner and tutoring.
Students should come to school each day prepared with a charged laptop, something to write with and a curious positive attitude.
Students should come to school each day prepared with a charged laptop, something to write with and a curious positive attitude.
Please reach out to your student's homeroom teacher with any questions or concerns.
Core Class Updates
Topics covered this week:
What are the different types of precipitation & how do they form?
How is the sun's energy related to changes in precipitation?
What weather instruments can be used to help predict/measure precipitation?
Please continue to monitor your students grades in Infinite Campus.
Please consider donating $5 for lab supplies if you are able; you can send cash or check in with your student any time or follow the QR code below!
Welcome back! We wrapped up Unit 3 before break and continued our practice with negative numbers this week as we jumped into Unit 4.
Current big ideas are: order of operations, evaluating expressions and identifying parts of algebraic expressions. Next we will be combining like terms and then solving equations.
Remember that in third quarter, students only have 2 weeks to make-up work or complete corrections.
Students learned how the United States expanded westward in the 1800s, how industrialization transformed American life, and why millions of people immigrated in search of opportunity and freedom. They also examined how democratic governments grew—and struggled—across the Americas.
We then zoomed out to see how industrialization and European power reshaped the world, including the “Scramble for Africa,” the impact of the Berlin Conference, and the intense struggle for land and power in South Africa. To wrap it up, students became cartoonists—learning about satire, analyzing political cartoons, and creating their own to share with classmates. History, art, and critical thinking all rolled into one exciting unit!
We will finish unit 2 this week. Students will write an essay and then they will take their middle of the year commonlit assessment. This unit covers adolescence which is a pivotal time full of change and new experiences, yet it can also be difficult. In this 360 Unit, students will explore the unique, complicated, and even comical experiences and lessons of adolescence. They’ll read articles, stories, and poems about teens navigating this time in their lives. They’ll learn about changes that occur in the adolescent brain and consider how these changes influence teen behavior and decisions. While students weigh in on these important concepts, they’ll also learn new reading, writing, discussion, and grammar skills. At the end of the unit students will write an essay. Students were also told about the reading requirements for the Dollywood please contact your child's ELA teacher if you have questions.
Message from the PTA:
Message from the PTA:
- The PTA has a website! This page includes everything you need to know about the PTA! Join the PTA to make sure you receive information about upcoming events.
News from our Counselor...
News from our Counselor...
You can reach me at alison.rhodes@bcsemail.org
Welcome back! A new year and a new semester give us a great opportunity for a fresh start. This is a time for students to reset goals, build on what they’ve learned, and approach school with renewed confidence. We’re excited to support our 7th graders as they continue to grow academically, socially, and emotionally in the months ahead.
Visit my digital counseling site for more information on the school counseling program.
AIG News
AIG News
Happy New Year!
Prior to the break, the seventh graders did a pre-project on the Olympics by creating a mascot for the 2028 Olympic games in LA. We are continuing our Olympics unit this week by looking at how height and speed are related in sprinting. The students will do math to determine the relationship between speed and height, and discuss issues of fairness in sports.
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