Math 7H Blocks 1 & 2
SOLs Covered: All Math 8 SOL 8.1-8.18
Math Unit: Math 8 SOL Review
Daily Agenda: May 31-June 2, 2022
Upcoming Assessments: NONE!!!
MSM2 Block 4
SOLs Covered: All Math 8 SOL 8.1-8.18
Math Unit: Math 8 SOL Review
Daily Agenda: May 31-June 2, 2022
Upcoming Assessments: NONE!!!
And that's a wrap! We've officially made it successfully through the 2021-2022 school year!!! The week consisted of various celebrations, starting with an awards ceremony during 1st block on Tuesday, which continued with in-class awards the rest of that day with a brief intermission to watch Dr. Strittmatter get his head shaved as promised for the school successfully meeting SOL goals. Wednesday had us starting with a little breakfast treat of McDonald's sausage biscuits, breakfast bars, and juice boxes. Today found us starting the day in the cafeteria for a final full-group catch-up; it was originally intended to be a yearbook signing event, but as you've all heard by now, the company still hasn't shipped our yearbooks, so everyone will need to pick them up next week (hopefully!) and we instead signed whatever notebooks the kids brought with them while chatting with friends. We got popsicles and bracelets in 2nd block and had lunch in class during 4th.
For math this week, I had the kids checking out some unexpected "real world" math by watching one of my favorite summer TV shows, American Ninja Warrior, and looking for where our various math concepts popped up throughout the obstacles. I then had the kids design some of their obstacles, though I think the kids missed the fact that they were meant to create a competition shows obstacle, not start their plans to become the next Dr. Evil by throwing in fire pits under the obstacles or filling the water tanks under them with sharks, who of course had lasers on their heads (or in one instance adding piranhas with top hats and monocles or another who just labeled the area as the "pit of doom"). But this wouldn't be middle school without these little add-ins, so what can you do aside from laugh. Today during class we had our final "circle time" (something some kids were always asking for, but we couldn't always find time for) and we just spent the time chatting one final time before we all head off for the summer and for some of us, myself included, off onto new adventures.
I know some of the kids aren't entirely happy with my announcement (some are still trying to convince me that I can't go, despite me telling them that I've already signed the contract), but again I promised them that I'm not abandoning them despite the fact that I won't be here next year. I can still be reached via my new school email address (klambert@pgs.k12.va.us) and through my linkree (linktr.ee/mslambiemath), which includes a link to my class Instagram (@mslambiemath). I'll still be their teacher and they'll still be my kiddos even if I'm not here, so please don't hesitate to reach out... just don't expect to hear back from me too quickly if it's still summer!
With that, I'm going to close things out and send this a little early, so I can just relax and chat with my last block of kiddos before waving goodbye to them all as the buses roll out this afternoon. I wish everyone an amazing summer!