Middle School

General News We had a great (we mean capital G-R-E-A-T!!!) first week! Considering the amount of change we’ve all ingested, it was actually a freakishly wonderful first week. The honeymoon may end, but we said that the entire last year and it STILL continues. Thank you! Here’s a snippet from our first week’s student survey that will give you an idea of how the kids are feeling. (We’re off to a good start! ❤️) Reading/Writing Update Same as math, we didn’t have a ton of time devoted to structured ELA class this week as we were busy with community building […]

Math: The 7th graders jumped into their geometry unit this week. Monday, they had a lesson over complementary angles and supplementary angles, and learned the interior angles of a triangle have a sum of 180 degrees. That independent practice extended into Tuesday where they also practiced measuring and drawing angles with a protractor. On Wednesday we read Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi to learn pi is equal to the circumference divided by the diameter. We then used the number pi to calculate the circumference of circles. Thursday the completed a maze to practice finding circumference and then started

General News See an important from Shari regarding new sign-out procedures for upper school students. Next week (Tuesday, January 13th) we will head to the Bob Bullock museum to experience our delayed field trip! We have plenty of drivers now (thank you!) Reading/Writing Update We will be incorporating the 5 major world religions into our reading and writing lives this quarter! We will read many different stories (mostly through the form of picture books) that include elements of these different religions before creating our own picture books towards the end of the quarter. Ms. Ansley’s friend from grad school actually

We survived “Flumageddon” this week, with an average of 50% of our Epsilon students in attendance throughout the week. We appreciate those who stayed home to limit the spread of the illness, and we even managed to get a little learning done! Math: This week the 7th graders covered non-proportional relationships and studied for their check-in next week. The 8th graders worked on reviewing angle relationships with parallel and transversal lines. Towards the end of the week they completed an art project to help them identify angle relationships. The Algebra students completed an escape room to review the entire semester.

Math: The 7th graders worked on finding the constant of proportionality this week. They can identify the constant of proportionality from verbal descriptions, tables, graphs, and equations. The 8th graders started their geometry unit with angle relationships. They had a lesson of 7 angle relationships formed by parallel lines cut and a transversal line on Monday. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday they used those relationships to find missing angles. The algebra students took their check-in over system of equations and inequalities on Monday, then began reviewing for their midterm. Humanities: Short stories were turned in before the break, and students