Middle School

This just in!! This week each class strengthened its community by collaborating to choose their official name for the year. Drumroll please! The 6th graders are the Marionettes; the 7th graders are the Saplings; and the 8th graders are Vroomshroom. Math: 6th graders continued practicing ordering rational numbers Monday by working in groups to line up numbers least to greatest. Next they moved onto creating a piece of art that includes 5 real-life integers. They ended the week with a lesson on absolute value and opposites. 7th graders practiced adding and subtracting rational numbers including decimals and fractions at the […]

Math: What a great first week back! All students decorated their binders on the first day of school and reviewed procedures for class. This included how students will work their way through the Math Super Sleuth Academy whenever they finish their daily assignment early. On Tuesday, 6th grade students learned how to graph integers on a number line and practiced comparing integers by playing Integer War. Wednesday they practiced Tuesday’s lesson by sorting integer inequalities into a true or false column. After, students grouped up to play Stomped. Thursday the 6th graders completed two lessons. The first covered comparing and

Math: This week Da Sprouts worked on finishing up their geometry unit. They completed the last parts of the unit, then worked on the review for the check-in next week. The Evershrooms focused on determining the volume of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and triangular pyramids. They also worked on probability and played a game involving doughnuts, which worked much like a bingo game to answer questions. The Polar Bears completed work on surface area after finishing their robots last week. The Mountain Lizards focused on dividing radicals, then reviewed radicals for the week. They ended the week with their last

Math: Da Sprouts and Evershrooms worked all week to prepare for their check ins. Polar Bears dove into volume of cones, cylinders, and spheres. Mountain Lizards started their unit on radicals. ELA: We jumped into the week with a quick write and discussion about the quote, “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness is through and through.” Students connected this thought to a pair of sisters in our novel, The Second Mrs. Gioconda, and to the wider world. We held our final book club for the novel and had an AHA! moment when finally we figured out who the second

Math: Da Sprouts each worked at their own pace to finish 3 activities. First was a booklet that used their knowledge of finding area of rectangles to figure out how to find the area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids. Second and a solve and color practicing how to find the area of triangles. The third was a spin to win activity practicing how to find the area of quadrilaterals. Evershrooms took a check in over surface area on Monday, then continued on to their new unit over volume. Tuesday they had lessons over finding the volume of rectangular and triangular