Week of: October 26 - October 30
Upcoming Dates
October 28: End of First Nine Weeks
(Missing work will be due by 10/26)
October 26: ELA Check-in
October 27: Science Check-in
October 30: Early Release
November 3: No School (TWD)
Week of: October 26 - October 30
Upcoming Dates
October 28: End of First Nine Weeks
(Missing work will be due by 10/26)
October 26: ELA Check-in
October 27: Science Check-in
October 30: Early Release
November 3: No School (TWD)
We have been slowing down with new content over the past few weeks, and I have already seen growth in your students' ability to focus more on what they are doing.
They will take a check-in tomorrow, which looks a lot like the EOG but shorter. Please encourage your student(s) to take their time and do their best.
We used Piggie and Gerald books to practice identifying theme. I am so proud of their hard work! I have included images below.
Students have also been working on writing pieces for a competition I am having them enter. Ask your kiddo about theirs! I am meeting with them 1:1 to look over them, and I am SO impressed by what I have seen so far. They are also only allowed to submit a piece (per the competition guidelines) that's 100 words or less; it's a challenge, for sure! I will submit them on Friday!
While we are working on these writing pieces, I am also teaching them grammar rules for writing.
Here are two of my (many) goals for them to accomplish by the end of the year:
Be able to read for 1 hour straight, without getting distracted.
I have started "daring" your students to read at home, so I hope they are taking the dare, and you're seeing them pick up a book. 🎉
Be able to compose a writing assignment that is grammatically-correct, without the use of a computer.
This week, we are going to work on using semicolons and commas, and then I will challenge them to write their assignments using these two punctuation marks correctly. 📓✏️
This week, we continue working on our "Art of Suspense" Unit; it's one of my favorites!! Students read the short story, "Button, Button," while I was out last week on Friday. We will begin by going over it and then starting "A Lamb to the Slaughter." Next, they will read "The Monkey's Paw" - just in time for Halloween (it's has a spooky tone and a great moral lesson).
Here are a few review games your student can use now to help prepare them for their EOG this year and their 10th grade EOC in high school; the terms are very similar for their exam they will take in 10th grade. If they practice now, they will be pros at defining them!
GimKit Link
Quizlet Link WITH images
Quizlet Link WITHOUT images
It's going to be a great week!
Mrs. Wooten ☺️
Some of our Happy Home activities last week!
"Book Tasting"
Theme discussion (without me - they had to lead the discussion)
Piggie and Gerald Theme Activity 🐷🐘
It's been a great start to a new school year. I'm looking forward to exploring the world math with every student this year.
For ALL Math students:
Homework will be given out on Monday and due Friday. Most students should be able to complete their homework. Times like before the late bell rings and during power hour and any oather time where their classwork may be done. Students can ask me questions about the homework during the week.
For Students in 8th Grade Math:
Welcomed to Unite 1 - Rigid Transformations. We start last week on translations, reflections, and some rotations of shapes on a grid. Translations move or shifts shapes, reflections mirror shapes over an axis and rotations rotate a shape about the origin. There were a could of classes that didn't quite finish with rotations. This week will be more exploration of these different transformations.
For students in Math 1:
Welcome to Unit 1 - One variable statistics. We started last week recalling the two measures of center of data which are mean and median. We also look at the common distribution shapes of data such as bell-shaped, symmetric, bimodial, skewness, and uniform. By Friday, we discovered that skewed left or skewed right shapes are based on mean of the data compared to the median. This week we will look at measures of variability of data sets. Also we will be analyzing and comparing multiple sets of data and drawing conclusions.
[9/13/26]
We have made great progress toward our chemistry exploration of "How can we make something new that wasn't there before?" by investigating the fizz that bath bombs make when added to water. Students designed an experiment to determine where the gas was coming from within the bath bomb. Our tests showed the gas is not released from air pockets within the chalkey bath bomb, but rather from a new substance being formed (gas bubbles) when water is added to the bath bomb. Then we tested each of the 10 ingredients of the bath bomb to determine exactly which ingredients are part of the chemical reaction. We will continue to develop our model this coming week to understand this reaction at the atomic level.
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Pencils
Box of tissues
Pink, yellow, and orange highlighters (we use these specific colors when we write constructed responses)
Markers/colored pencils
Social Studies is currently working on the Revolutionary War. We are studying major causes of the revolution, important historical figures, and the key ideals of liberty that inspired the colonists.
AIG Enrichment, Ms. Roop
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