Mr. Reynold's Math
Here’s a recap of week 2.
Last week, students in Math 7 calculated the unit rates from real world scenarios and applied the unit rate from real world situations to describe a proportional relationship.
Week 3 Upcoming Lesson
- I-Ready Assessment will start on Monday 9/13 through Thursday 9/16. Students are encouraged to bring their own personal audio jack plug-in headphone for testing.
- Write equations in the form y=kx to represent a proportional relationship.
Here are some resources students can use to review the pervious lessons and upcoming lessons.
Proportional Relationship Equation
Last week, students in Math 8 accurately use transformation vocabulary to describe the relationship between a shape and its image.
Here are some resources students can use to review the pervious lessons and upcoming lessons.
Mr. Helsabeck's ELA 7
Last Week
Scholars studied and wrote personal poetry to share information about themselves with their English teachers and each other.
This Week
Scholars will begin reading Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman on Monday and should come to class with their own copy of the book. Normally, I would use a class set, but I am avoiding shared materials as much as possible this year. On Monday, a writing diagnostic will be administered in order to gather data on scholars’ abilities to clearly articulate thoughts through written expression. This marks the implementation of a new (to Deal), evidence-based, rigorous writing program called The Writing Revolution. I am very excited to begin this revolution with your scholars on Monday!
Help build my stack!
Please click here and consider purchasing a book (or several) to donate to my classroom library. Every year I ask families to help me add engaging, diverse, current titles to my classroom library. Please consider supporting Politics and Prose rather than Amazon (though I’ll accept books from any vendor!). Hardback cover books last much longer than paperback, but if you’d rather send me the paperback version to save money, that’s ok too! I’ll also accept donations of gently used books appropriate for middle school-age students.
Tips for accelerating learning at home: Many parents have already asked me what they can do to support the acceleration of their children’s learning from home. Here are some ELA-related activities you can do to support reading and writing.
- Read periodicals! Consider allowing your child to choose one or two magazine subscriptions to sign up for this year. They’re a great way to replace screen time with something interesting! Some popular periodicals include… I recommend purchasing the print subscription so that the excitement of a snail mail delivery might spark some interest.
- Start a family book club! Choose a book to read as a family each month. It is 100% developmentally appropriate for parents to read to their middle school-aged children, but you may also enjoy borrowing a couple copies of the same book from the library and spending quiet time together reading on your own.
- Routinize reflection time! Set aside time each Friday evening to review what everyone in your household has accomplished or learned that week. This will allow kids to reflect on their learning and allow parents to demonstrate that learning is a lifelong journey.
- Practice typing! All students have access to typing.com through Clever. Consider setting a goal of completing 3-5 lessons each week. Developing typing skills is an important way to prepare for the workload demanded by high school classes.
- Read or watch the news together! Now is the time when tweens become curious and critical of the world around them. Try to teach your child not what to think but how to think about the news they consume. Might the story be biased? How can they do their own fact checking? What can they do if they feel compelled learn more or take action?
Ms. Kaufman's World History and Geography: Ancient World
Hello Chan Chan Families--
7th grade Ancient Civilizations is off to a great start! Now that students have reviewed maps, BCE/BC CE/AD, and timelines, we've spent this week digging into the question, "What makes society work?". Today (Wednesday 9/8), we reviewed annotation practices and discussed what qualities are necessary in a good leader. They followed this with a ranked choice exercise to choose a new leader from four candidates. Tomorrow and Friday we will be using their rankings as a basis for their diagnostic paragraph. The students will get a completion grade only, and a diagnostic writing grade to use as a baseline this year to track their improvement.
Canvas Updates: I am uploading pdf copies of each day's slides in the module along with any handouts used in the class. Students can review these if they were absent or need to refresh their memory.
Assignments: In the first two weeks the students' assignments were to complete a syllabus review quiz on Canvas that was due 9/3 (a paper copy was made available to those who needed), and their diagnostic paragraph due Friday 9/10 in paper form, but they are allowed to type and email to me if they prefer. The goal is to complete in class, but if they need more time, it was their homework assignment on 9/9 to have ready for review on 9/10.
Best,
Annessa Kaufman
202-124-6590 (classroom phone)
Ms. Andrew's Science 7
Greetings Family!
This week in Chan Chan Science class students enjoyed standing on chairs and remembering various acronyms for graphing data. I do believe their highlight was conducting the beetle larvae investigation and apply their scientific understanding of investigations to plan and conduct their own investigations. Homework this week consisted of exploring and creating 3 types of graphs, graphing information from various data collection tables and lastly drawing conclusions/making inferences, identify variables and interpreting data. Next, we will week we will start our unit on human body systems. Students should come prepared with their three ring binder, composition journal, glue stick and color pencils or markers. In preparation for an upcoming lab, student should bring 1 empty 12 or 16 ounce Gatorade bottle by September 15th. If they are unable to secure one, no worries! One will be provided for them. Please log into Aspen on Monday to explore your child’ academic progress over the past two weeks. Students are encourage to attend Period 6 study block, Tuesday Turing and/or lunch help for additional support. Lastly, any donation of hp 61 black and/or colored ink would be greatly appreciated. You are appreciated.
Peace and blessing,
Mrs. Andrews
Ms. Finnell's ELA Resource (Not every student has Ms. Finnell)
We have successfully finished week two!
Looking back:
During week two, our class was focused on team building to create a supportive learning environment and writing haiku poems. Haiku is a traditional form of poetry that originated in Japan. Haiku poems typically focus on nature and the changing seasons, however, our students had the opportunity to create a haiku centered around one of their personal interests. Learning haiku format also reinforces the students' use of syllables to sound out unfamiliar words. To help continue this learning at home, challenge your student to determine the syllables in various fun, complex, or otherwise interesting words!
Looking ahead:
Next week, our group plans to learn about mood and tone in writing. This will culminate in our formative assignment, My Blackout Poem, which will be competed in class. We will then shift our focus to figurative language as we prepare to read our first narrative: Seedfolks.
My contact information is as follows:
Email: erin.finnell@k12.dc.gov
Phone: (202) 649-0304
