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October 17th

Advisory

This week was Start With Hello Week, a nationwide campaign set to prevent bullying. We discussed signs to look for if someone is feeling left out. Students also participated in Mix It Up Day on Thursday for lunch. Students were also challenged students to say hi to someone they might not normally talk to.

Odds and Ends

Your child was sent home with information on The Minute Challenge that will be starting on Monday. Attached to the flyer is your child's Clever log in information. Completing Imagine Math minutes will earn your student prizes!

Westlake News

Walktober is Here:

Throughout the month of October we encourage all students to walk to school at least three blocks or join our Walking School Bus and have their JIBE trip card scanned. Be sure to walk and have your card scanned as many times as you can between October 20th - 31st for a chance to win. Classes with at least 60% participation will win a party-in-a-box for their entire class. Let’s get moving! CLICK HERE for the information flyer. Don’t have a card yet? No problem, CLICK HERE to register today.

Middle School After School Live Athletics - Volunteer Coaching Opportunities:

We are excited to be relaunching our Middle School ASLive Athletics program, which is open to all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. We are looking for VOLUNTEER COACHES to make this possible. Teams will meet twice a week throughout the season for practices and games. Practices and games last from 3:15 – 4:15 PM every day except Wednesdays. CLICK HERE to complete the Volunteer Coach interest form to let us know if you are interested in finding out more about coaching flag football, basketball, or volleyball!

Week of 10/20

Humanities - Aichele/Ho

WEEKLY FOCUS

Language Arts:

RL 8.6 Point of View/Irony

Social Studies:

SS8.2 - Political Principles underlying the US Constitution

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

RL 8.6 Point of View/Irony

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

Read informational articles: Newsela

Reading skills: Lexia

Writing skills: Quill

(These resources will be linked as soon as they are introduced to students.)

Math/Science - Alexander/Lee

WEEKLY FOCUS

Math: Unit 2: Non-Rigid transformations, congruence, and introduction to slope

Science: Unit 2: Sound Waves

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

Math Unit 2 Benchmark: 10/20 (tentatively)

Science Unit 1 Benchmark: 10/27 (tentatively)

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

Khan Academy Unit 2 Extra Practice, Imagine Math Aligned Practice (login with Clever), Additional practice and activities posted in Google Classroom (login with Clever)

PE - Woodard

WEEKLY FOCUS

Throwing and catching skills while in motion Continued

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

Throwing to a moving target

Tracking and catching a moving target

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

PE Website

Art - Winston-Sandefur

WEEKLY FOCUS

This week, students will continue working on their Wixárika art projects using beads and beeswax.

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

Art - Ascheman

WEEKLY FOCUS

Middle School Artists have been learning about the element of art, space. We took a detour from our plans to create a work of art using black and white paper to show positive and negative space.

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

Next we made a small work of art about space using tape and only primary colors of paint. Next week we will finally start our larger artwork using tape and paint colors of choice to make a work about positive and negative space.

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

Mrs.Ascheman's Website

Spanish - Carter

WEEKLY FOCUS

Unit 2 on Rooms in the house

This week students will continue unit 2 on expressing where they are in the house. Students will learn vocabulary for rooms in the house to briefly describe their house and tell where they are.

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

No new assessments. Possible retakes for students hoping to improve their scores.

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

Duolingo, Blookit, Gimkit, or other language-learning apps.

Spanish - Hernandez

WEEKLY FOCUS

This week students will continue unit 2 on expressing where they are in the house. Students will learn vocabulary for rooms in the house to briefly describe their house and tell where they are.

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS

No new assessments. Possible retakes for students hoping to improve their scores.

RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE AT HOME

Website

Duolingo, Blookit, Gimkit, or other language-learning apps.

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