September 13, 2024 Newsletter

7th Grade REquirements

You can begin to schedule PHYSICALS (including VISION and HEARING EXAMS) and at that time receive the required TDap VACCINE

DENTAL EXAMS are also required for all 7th grade students

We highly recommend that the physicals, immunizations, and dental exams be completed as soon as possible and turned in as soon as possible. Students who are not compliant with immunizations on the first day of school are subject to exclusion.

If you have questions, please contact Courtney in the Health Office at cehmke@lps.org or call (402) 436-1214.

art - covey

In Mrs. Covey’s art class we have been busy drawing our Mandala designs. This week we are ready for paint and will be learning about color theory and the science behind how colors work together. Students will be spending the next few weeks painting their Mandala using tints + shades to create a 3D effect.

computer science 7 - tobey & ebeler

Students in Computer Science 7 are engaged in the Web Development Unit. During this unit, students are taught about HTML and CSS coding in order to build a website on code.org. Students have autonomy to choose the topic of their website and are asked to code headings, subheadings, images, lists, and links. In the end, student should include all of those items onto two linked web pages.

counselor - fiero

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at jfiero@lps.org or call (402) 436-1214.

In the coming weeks, I will share our Counseling Lesson: Peer Conflict with families.

english 7/7d - rischling

English 7: We have started our novel for the quarter, Ghost. We will use the main character in this novel to talk about what we can learn from our past as we gear up to write our personal narrative in a couple of weeks. Students have weekly slides as well as daily bell ringers for grades right now.
English 7D: We have started Chinese Cinderella and will read this for the next few weeks. At the end of each week, we get into lit circles and discuss the novels, almost like adults do! Students are held accountable for their reading with weekly slides and check in with their groups to make sure they are keeping up with the reading pace decided upon by their groups. Students may check out a book from me if they need to catch up.

Mrs. Rischling rrischli@lps.org

health - beyer & ms. hoyt

In Health class, students have been learning about:

How emotions and thoughts can affect our decisions
How to reframe unhelpful thoughts
Positive self-talk

In the next week or so, students will be learning about:

Self-esteem and self-image
Emotional awareness and emotional intelligence

irving music updates

band - Linton

Class Syllabus (concert dates, procedures, grading)

Playing Checks:

Students should have 2 playing checks and the grade book and a third one due on Sunday 9/15 by midnight. Students may also come in after school Tuesdays or Friday to perform their playing check in person. More information is posted on Google Classroom.

7/8th Jazz Band Auditions

Auditions for the Irving 7/8 Jazz band will be due by Friday, September 20th by the end of the day. Students who are interested can pick up an audition packet in the band room. Auditions will be submitted through Google Classroom. This year, I will be accepting the following instruments:

Saxophone (clarinets may audition with the expectation that they would switch to saxophone if they make the ensemble)
Trumpet
Trombone or Baritone
Percussion
Piano
Double Bass

Students who do not play a typical jazz instrument but would like to learn jazz music will have the opportunity to join Jazz Lab in the spring semester.

orchestra - Hegert

Class Syllabus (concert dates, procedures, grading)

MATH 7/7D - GERL & LISS

Math 7: Students will take the the Benchmark A Test on October 3rd. After the test, students will begin Chapter 3 which covers arithmetic properties and evaluating expressions with more than one operation.

Math 7D: Students will take the the Unit B Test on September 26th. After the test, students will begin Chapter 3, Unit C, we will learn about percent change, mark-up, mark-down, and revisit theoretical and experimental probability.

PE - haag, essman, glazier, beyer, hoyt & mohlman

In PE, students are continuing to work on their softball skills. Students have been working on throwing and catching the softball with a glove. Teachers are looking for the correct throwing and catching form when we do our assessments on each student. This week, students are working on batting and being in the correct position when hitting the ball off of the batting tee.

rewards reading - hughes & baker

Rewards Secondary: We just started our first Unit where we are continuing to work on all kinds of reading and writing skills including vocabulary, fluency, prefixes and suffixes, types of sentences, sentence structure, spelling and comprehension. Students will be graded on participation, fluency, Unit tests and other miscellaneous activities.
Rewards Plus: We just started our first Unit about the East African Rift. Along with the story we will be learning vocabulary, spelling, fluency, types of sentences, sentence structure, spelling and comprehension. Students will be graded on participation, fluency, Unit tests and other miscellaneous activities.

Mrs. Baker (jrbaker@lps.org)

Mrs. Hughes (rhughes3@lps.org)

social studies 7/7d - ottley & davison

We are wrapping up our discussions on civic online reasoning and the importance of developing skills necessary to be able to prove a claim true or false, especially one you find online. It is important to be skeptical of what we find online, especially considering we will be completing online research throughout social studies class this year. This week, we will begin Unit 2: The Rise and Fall of Classical Societies, which will be our first history lessons of the year. We will be talking about empires, defining what an empire is, and how they impacted our early world history. Ancient societies in Greece (Athens & Sparta), Persia (Achaemenid Empire), Rome, and the Qin & Han Dynasty of China are the largest and most impactful empires we will be discussing in this unit.

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