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Day 14 - Tuesday, April 7th (White Day)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
Mr. Louden's Devotional with MANY SPECIAL GUESTS! Click Here!
Happy Birthday: Be sure to include in your prayers a birthday wish for the following teachers, today and over vacation: Mrs. Seeholzer (today); Mr. Shifley (tomorrow); and Mr. Felten (on the 16th). --Mrs. Rooney
***IMPORTANT: There are materials for pickup that the PRE-ALGEBRA students will need for class following break. Please see Mr. Louden's email for pickup times and procedures!
Math
Our last day before Spring Break is a day to make sure all work has been turned in . Go to Google classroom for a list of assignments I am looking for you to "turn in". The easiest way is to take a picture and send it to me. If this will not work COMMUNICATE WITH ME and we will find a solution.
Pre-Algebra
You should have completed the activity on BuzzMath by this morning. If not, make sure it is done TODAY!
Today is the assessment/test on Chapter 8. You are welcome to use your spiral, but you should be completing the test on your own. I will be available from 9 - 2 to talk with you if you call the school office and go to my extension. Phone calls are forwarded to my cell. The test is a Google Form - go to Classroom to start. The test needs to be completed by 3pm TODAY.
Science
Test today. Go to Google Classroom and take the Google Forms test. MUST BE COMPLETED BY 3 PM TODAY.
Language Arts
Complete the entire first draft of your essay, including the conclusion, by the end of today.
Go to Classroom. I have posted one question about Tangerine to which everyone must respond today. We will have no more reading assignments until after vacation.
Go to Classroom for your daily poem!
Happy birthday to Richard (on the 11th)!
Happy Easter to you and your family! Have a blessed, healthy, and restful vacation.
Power of the Pen
Go to Classroom. There you will see a Google Doc for you to complete. This is due by the end of today.
Handbells
I have enjoyed the parodies that you have turned in! Please be sure to submit or email a video of you performing your parody by the end of the day today. See the assignment on Google Classroom for details. I am giving a link for one more example. I hope you have a wonderful Easter Break with your families!
Check out another Parody Example
Art
1. Due Today: Royal Grid Drawing
Directions and resources on Google Classroom
Please upload to Artsonia Classroom using code: Access Code: BZBF-MZKX Folder: Grid Drawing MS
Learning Goal: I can create an enlargement using the grid method.
**** If you follow all of the steps outlined in the video, Patty is very detail-oriented with her explanations, and that should be sufficient to explain how to actually approach the project. I have included a couple of videos below to help guide you as well.
Judging the relationships between objects Reteachroyalgrid
How to lay out details Notice that I am measuring the shapes created by the negative space behind the image and creating lines to measure the angles between objects as I go. This may seem hard, but it will train your eye to look for what is there!
2. Easter Break Activities
Vote on independent study for May Vote here
Technology
If you have not turned in the "Make a Spreadsheet from the Interviews", please follow the video instructions and turn in. Wishing all of you a blessed and holy Easter week.
Creative Digital Arts
Go to Google classroom for updates and start the Google site that you will be creating in April. Turn in by sharing your website link.
Look what you have not turned in and complete that. I should either have your Still life presentation with its images and your website link, or you need to email me about your work. Easter Blessings to you all!
Day 13- Monday, April 6th (Red Day)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
A Monday Morning Holy Week Devotion with Mr. Louden - CLICK HERE
Religion
You have reached Spring Break in Religion class when you have turned in all worksheets from our current chapter and submitted your Religion test document on Google classroom. Bibles and Religion books may be used.
History
M20 Test today! You may use your textbooks and notes. Please don't use any other resource. Please note there are three separate files. One form/quiz for matching, one form/quiz for multiple choice and then a document for the essay questions.
Power of the Pen
Go to Classroom. There you will see a Google Doc for you to complete. This is due by the end of the day tomorrow.
Middle School Choir
I have gotten some awesome recordings of your parodies! Keep working on them, and remember a recording or video is due on Tuesday, April 7 by the end of the day. If you need help attaching the video, talk to Taylor, Gabby, Ria, Beth, or Daniel. They have all been successful at uploading them. Submit your work in Google Classroom.
Words from Mrs. Ragland
Check out another Parody Example
PE
Please go to Google Classroom to complete today's assignment. Have a great spring break make sure the Doc from today and the hockey plank debrief are turned in.
Code-It
Go to Google classroom, and go to the assignment "Day 13 Sign into Khan Academy Start JS". Take a break from your Scratch or Tinkercad, and follow the video, you MUST join Khan academy through my class. See you online!
Day 12- Friday, April 3rd (White Day)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
Mr. Louden's morning video from his basement with messy hair! CLICK HERE!
Math
It's Friday, so let's do IXL! Go to Google Classroom for specific instructions on which skills to do.
Pre-Algebra
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE GONE TO BuzzMath and enter this code (ADEF-687B ) to activate your student account. I will be sending your homework from this site. Be looking for it.
Last lesson before test on Tuesday. Go to Google Classroom for activities.
Science
A slide presentation is posted that provides you with review for the Invertebrates Test on Tuesday. Check it out on Google Classroom.
Language Arts
Finish Tangerine, pages 170-199, and complete the questions in Classroom by the end of the day today.
Finish your three body paragraphs by the end of the day today.
Read the poem in Classroom just for fun!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYAN, ON SUNDAY!
Day 11- Thursday, April 2nd (Red Day)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
Mr. Louden and ANOTHER Special Guest! See the Video Here!
Good morning, seventh grade! Go to Classroom, and read the poem that I posted for today. See if you can make sense of it. You'll see what I mean. Have a good day! --Mrs. Rooney
Religion
We are ZOOMING today at 1:00! click here to join
The study guide we will use is attached on Google classroom.
History
We are ZOOMING today at 10:00 am! We will be reviewing for our Module 20 test that will take place on Monday. Click here at 10 am.
Power of the Pen
In honor of National Poetry Month, we will be writing a personification poem. Go to Classroom for the instructions.
Art
1. Impossible Triangle Due Today! Upload to Artsonia Classroom folder: Impossible Triangle
2. New project Due Tuesday, April 7: Royal Grid Drawing a la Deep Space Sparkle with Patty Palmer. ** Directions and resources on Google Classroom
Learning Goal: I can create an enlargement using the grid method.
If you follow all of the steps outlined in the video, Patty is very detail-oriented with her explanations, and that should be sufficient to explain how to actually approach the project.
I have included a couple of videos below to help guide you as well. Royal Grid Drawing Directions Resource Video
First steps First steps teacher video Using our 8x10 paper
How to lay out details Notice that I am measuring the shapes created by the negative space behind the image and creating lines to measure the angles between objects as I go. This may seem hard, but it will train your eye to look for what is there!
Upload to: Artsonia Folder: Royal Grid Drawing MS
PE
Please go to Google Classroom and complete day 6.
Handbells
See Google Classroom for details on our "Create a Parody" assignment.
Choir
See the choir Google Classroom for details on your parody assignment. Remember, if you are also in handbells, you just do the assignment once.
Technology
Go to Google Classroom. Pick which assignment applies to you:
If you finished the Interview Spreadsheet (thank you!), go to the new Day 11 Improve Your Spreadsheet , 1) watch the video what to fix, and 2) then fix/improve your spreadsheet. After the intro, you may slide to skip to your spreadsheet, although I thought it was fun to see what the other classmates came up with.
If you did not start the Interview Spreadsheet, go to Google Classroom assignment Make a Spreadsheet from the Interviews and 1) watch the new video. You don't have to watch all of it, but it shows some examples. Then design a spreadsheet from one of the interview list. YOU MAY NOT COPY one done in the video, you must do it different.
CDA Day 11
Go to Google Classroom. Pick which assignment applies to you:
If you finished the Still Life presentation, go to the Day 9 Learn how to make a Website to Display Your Creative Work, you will now have access to this assignment, and then practice making a website. Do not publish. Instructions in Google Classroom.
If you did not turn in the Google Slides still art, as instructed, go to Google Classroom assignment Day 6 Presenting Still Life- Continuing and Finish MARCH 31 and finish putting your still life into a Slides presentation, image borders, title, and camera model.
Day 10- Yadsendew, Lirpa Ts1 (Etihw Yad)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
Click here to complete your daily attendance: CHECK IN
Good morning St. Paul! It's Sports Team Day! Check-in with Mr. Louden - CLICK HERE
Good morning St. Paul! It's Sports Team Day! Check-in with Mr. Louden - CLICK HERE
Math
Today is QUIZ day. Go to Google classroom for the specific instructions. IT IS DUE TODAY!
Pre-Algebra
Don't you just LOVE Mr. Felten!!
Ask and ye shall receive. Since all the positive feedback from our last QR activity, today we have another one! You can access it here or from GC. Be sure to complete the evaluation on GC when finished.
Please go to BuzzMath and enter this code (ADEF-687B ) to activate your student account. There is nothing to do on it yet, just want it ready for when I do use it.
Language Arts
Finish reading Tangerine, pages 170-199. Complete the questions in Classroom. This is due by the end of the day on Friday.
Finish writing your three essay body paragraphs. This is also due by the end of the day on Friday.
Happy National Poetry Month and April Fools' Day! I have posted a poem I think you might like in Classroom. Just read it for fun.
Power of the Pen
In honor of National Poetry Month, we will be writing a personification poem. Go to Classroom for the instructions.
Science
DISSECTION DAY - Today we have a live lesson on Zoom at 10 am. I will be "dissecting" the grasshopper and if there's time, the crayfish. Once we are finished, there will be a slide presentation with pictures of structures that you need to focus on. Text your classmates to remind them!
Can you guess which team I will be representing?! What about you?
I have pushed the "test" from Friday to Tuesday. Friday will be a review day. No need to panic - you will be able to have access to your notes for the test. Hopefully your science binder is still organized.
Middle School Choir
Go to Google Classroom for our activities and response form.
Code It! Use It! Make It! (Monday/Wednesday Electives A and B)
Topic: Continue project in your existing Tinkercad or Scratch accounts. Don't make a new account, use the one for our class.
Sign on to your account, contact me if you cannot log in.
Assignment: Continue working on your own to improve an existing ORIGINAL file, or start a new one.
5 Points: In the assignment turn-in, take a screen shot when you are done working with your project today, and "add" it to the assignment. This screen shot is not the finished product, but to help you and I see progress each time. One of you has to send me the link to it.
If you have questions, you can email me or do a private post in classroom. (I don't get notification though in classroom, but I'll see it when I open it next)Skills: drawing to scale, using dimensions, working with spacial drawing, planning, editing, critical thinking.
Day 9- Tuesday, March 31st (Red Day)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
Click here to complete your daily attendance: CHECK IN
History
Only TWO days of history this week! Here is the plan before Spring Break. Tues - Wrapping up M20; Thurs - Reviewing through Zoom and Kahoot at 10am, Mon - M20 Test. So to wrap up M20 Renaissance here is what you can do:
Complete the Northern Renaissance activity in GC. You will look up a northern renaissance artist and analyze their art.
Complete the N. Renaissance EdPuzzle video posted in Google Classroom.
Complete the M20 review guide before our zoom meeting on Thursday.
Religion
Watch the video for today: click here
Then go to Google classroom for a summary of all that needs to be done.
Power of the Pen
Last Thursday, a new story was assigned. If you have not completed the story, it is due by the end of the day today. See Classroom for instructions.
Art
1.Teacher Video: Theme Optical Illusions
2.Today's Project (Due April 2/ Thursday): Impossible Triangle
This is based off of artist MC Escher and his impossible triangle. Watch this video to understand why he is so popular:
Learning Goal: I can create the impossible triangle drawing.
Please drop into the "Impossible Triangle" Folder in Artsonia
3. Today's optional Project: MC Escher Eye
Learning Goal: I can draw an eye like MC Escher.
Escher Eye Teacher Tutorial Video
When complete, you can drop into the "Escher Eye Middle School" Project Folder
Creative Digital Arts
In Google Classroom Day 6 Presenting Still Life assignment, create a Google Slides file as described in the assignment.
First watch the Video in Day 6 Presenting Still Life : Click here for the instructions for the project in Google Classroom.
This was posted Thursday, and has to finish today.
If you already have a grade for this in Google Classroom, look for an extra project you can work on in Google Classroom.
You must have taken still life theme. This was an assignment with a specific style of photography. If you do not know how to get your photos off, please contact me ASAP.
Handbells
See Google Classroom for note naming practice and a response form. Have fun!
Day 8- Monday, March 30th (White Day)
Daily Attendance: DO THIS FIRST
Click here to complete your daily attendance: CHECK IN
Math
Watch today's video from Lesson 8-3: click here
Then go to Google classroom for the assignment.
Pre-Algebra
Happy Monday!
Hopefully you completed IXL Y13!
Today we will be doing a stained glass window! Directions and video on Google Classroom.
Padlet link for turn in. (can also be found on GC)
Zoom - I will be on Zoom from 10 - 11 if you want to check in or have any questions on your work. I am thinking of doing this everyday!
Science
You will be learning more about arthropods by going through a WebQuest which is posted on Google Classroom.
*****Zoom video class on Wednesday @ 10 am - we will doing the grasshopper dissection! Not quite as good as doing it yourself, but I will show you everything! I will also have a review activity on GC for you. Our "test" on invertebrates is scheduled for Friday.
Language Arts
Quote of the Day: "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." --Christopher Robin. Remember this as you go throughout this coming week. I miss you guys. Love, Mrs. Rooney.
Finish Tangerine, pages 170-199, which will bring you to the end of Part II.
Complete the questions that are posted in Classroom. This assignment is not due until the end of the day on Friday because we are also starting our essays this week.
Go to Classroom to review the essay assignment and to write your introductory paragraph in Classroom. The introduction is due by the end of the day on Tuesday.
Power of the Pen
Last Wednesday, a new story was assigned. If you have not completed the story, it is due by the end of the day today. See Classroom for instructions.
Middle School Choir
Please go to Google Classroom to complete activities and Response Form.
Code It
New assignment in Google Classroom for Day 8 Check in. Work on your Scratch or Tinkercad idea, and then take a screenshot of your progress, attach to the assignment, and turn in.