Upcoming Events - September & October 2025
September 26th - No School (Institute Day)
October 13th - No School
October 22nd - Half Day
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Our Unit #1 has focused on geometric transformations. We have analyzed how a translation, rotation, and reflection has impacted an image and its coordinates. Our Unit #1 will end next week with completing a project where students need to perform all of the three transformations to a picture.
Our Unit #1 has focused on solving multi-step equations. We have reviewed topics discussed last year like Like Terms and Distributive Property to apply them to solving multi-step equations. We are also analyzing equations to determine if equations have one, no, or infinite solutions. Our Unit #1 Test will be on 9/25.
Science starts the year by reviewing science and lab safety skills and procedures. Once we've worked through these, we start our first unit of the year, the History of Earth!
This unit primarily focuses on how we utilize scientific evidence to explain major events that have occurred in Earth's history.
October brings our Tales of the Strange & Mysterious unit, where we will analyze classic short stories that are on the spooky side. We’ll continue to determine the meaning of words/phrases as they are used in a text, focusing on figurative and connotative meanings, and analyze the effect these have on mood and tone in a story. Students still need to be reading outside of class for 10 minutes every day. Ask your student what they are reading!
In Social Studies, we are using our bell work time to work on pulling the main idea and details out of non-fiction texts. We have also jumped into our first unit on The Industrial Age! In this unit, we focus on new inventions, monopolists and big business, and the working conditions of those in this era.
Students are wrapping up their Soundtrack of My Life projects. We will soon begin our Creative Narrative writing unit.