This week, we've been delving into proportional thinking with the beginning of our unit on percents. Students have been deepening their understanding of the connection between percents, decimals, and fractions- all of which represent a part of a whole. We've discussed various methods for solving percent problems and have focused on real world applications of percents.

A couple of reminders:

• Students may join me for lunch on Tuesdays or Wednesdays for a reteach.

• If students would like to revise and resubmit their statistics project, they must do so before Sunday evening.

• CYU questions are updated daily and can be found in Google Classroom

Tiny house walls are up and insulation is being installed. Students are testing their understanding of how to minimize or maximize energy transfer (Standard ET2) by choosing different insulating materials. Groups are gathering baseline data before installing insulation and then testing again after insulation using IR thermometers. Photos of insulated houses are also being taken with an IR camera to see where heat is being lost. We want to give a big thank you to SPARK for providing the materials for the Tiny House Project. The IR camera is a hit! 

Next week we will be moving back into the gymnasium. The week before Thanksgiving break we will have some indoor games and fitness activities, and when we return from the holiday we will begin our gymnastics unit. Over the course of the unit students will have the opportunity to practice their tumbling skills, and work on various apparatus such as: the balance beam, mini trampoline, and the vault.