Health 7

Students participated in two getting to know you activities in class. Please remember to brin gin your signed syllabus if you have not done so already.

Health 8

Students completed a wellness assessment in class that was used to formulate a quarter health goal. Students are to share their goal with the parent or guardian who is to serve as their accountability partner for project. Their action plan should be completed for class on Thursday.

Science 8

Today we took an Intelligence survey, as well as a pre-test on Chapter 1. Both of these will help me understand how your child learns best and what they know. Please cover your textbook.

Literature 8

Getting to know our text. The students were introduced to their text and given a packet to demonstrate and apply how to use it properly. Work time was allowed so most finished in class.

Social Studies 8

Today we began our unit on United States Geography. Students viewed a two minute video which outlined the four major regions of the U.S. and pointed out major physical features of each region. We reviewed the regions and features as a class after the video.

Students turned in their completed table of regions and features for participation points today.

As a class, we labeled all the physical features of the U.S. that will appear on the U.S. Map Test (scheduled for next Friday).

Assignment: Label all the states (use abbreviations) and complete the States and Capitals Worksheet (list the capitals for each state). All the information needed to complete this assignment can be found on the inside back cover of the student agenda. The maps and worksheets will be checked tomorrow for points, then are the students' to keep to use to study for the map test.

Applied Math 7

Review Lesson A: Operations of Arithmetic, Parentheses, Arithmetic with Whole Numbers
We did the practice problems through #6 as a class.
Assignment: Complete Review Lesson A (p. 5-6 #7-30) - due tomorrow

Applied Math 8

Lesson 2-1: Frequency Tables
Assignment: p. 56-57 #4-17 NO #15 (due tomorrow)

Band 7 and 8

The Middle School Band Handbook was handed out in class yesterday. Although we went through some of the major points, students are to take their handbooks home and share them with their parents/guardians. The last page is a yellow copy of the handbook form. This form needs to be signed by students and parents/guardians and returned to Miss Becker no later than Friday, September 9th, 2009.