Greetings Team Equinox Families:
We would like to invite families to join us on the morning of Friday, February 22nd for our Career Exploration Presentations. During our PLP time (Personalized Learning Plan), students have been researching a specific career they are interested in and they are creating a presentation to share. We hope that all students can also complete a job shadow or interview with a professional in that career, and include this information in their project. We will have a team breakfast from 7:30-8:00 am, and presentations will occur from 8:00-10:00 am.
Students of the Week
ELA: Ben Godin- Persistence
Science: Taylor Borman- Persistence
Social Studies: Alex Brown- Persistence
Math: Mackenzie Carter- Persistence
Here’s what your child has been up to this week on Team Equinox~
Science:
In science, students have started their STEMposium projects- which are due March 8th. The event will take place March 21st from 6-8PM. All students are expected to attend. Students who choose to go to the State Science Fair are expected to have completed a poster and abstract by March 8th. This week, we finished determining our questions, hypothesis, and data tables. We started working on creating our background paragraphs.
Homework: Work on background paragraphs.
Humanities:
In Social Studies, we have been learning about ancient Greece. This week, we engaged in an inquiry around mythology - we read sources about Greek myths in order to answer the question, “What meanings did myths about gods, goddesses, creatures, and heroes have for the ancient Greeks?” We also took a map quiz to practice our Geo Skills. We ended the week by participating in our own Team Equinox Olympics, representing ancient Greek city-states in a variety of competitions.
Homework: Students should finish any missing work, including the Ancient Greek Inquiry Packet and the accompanying Lucid Chart. Students can always study their Geo Skills using websites like Lizard Point and Sheppard Software!
This week in Language Arts we continued our unit on informational texts and argumentative writing with an examination of “fake news”. We read news articles about this topic and learned about different types of misinformation. These skills will prepare us for a writing assignment that we will begin next week.
Homework: Read January book to be caught up with Reading Calendar. Movie guide and
NewsELA article questions due if not completed during class time.
Independent reading for 30 minutes each night (for 5 of 7 days per week).
7th Grade Math: This week students continued to work on adding and subtracting positive and negative fractions and decimals. Students also worked on interpreting word problems involving positive and negative numbers, writing equations and using number lines to represent the situation. Next week students will begin exploring multiplication and division of integers and rational numbers.
Parent Resources:
Homework: Students homework assignment this week was to complete Lesson 7 Exercise 3 and 4, adding and subtracting rational numbers. Copies of homework assignments can be found in Unified Classroom on the Grade 7 Math Classroom page under the homework section.
8th Grade Math: This week students continued working on solving word problems involving systems of equations using tables, graphs and equations using the substitution method. Next week students will continue this exploration and also begin to explore when there is one, no or infinite solutions to a system.
Parent Resources:
Homework: Students homework assignment this week was to complete lesson 24 problem set involving systems of equations. Copies of homework assignments can be found in Unified Classroom on the Grade 8 Math Classroom page under the homework section.
Executive Functioning/Speech-Language Pathology:
Executive Functioning Tool: Executive Functioning is taking a task, Picturing what that task looks like when done, imagining the future emotion you will feel when a task is done, then doing the necessary steps to get to that end feeling.
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