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7th Grade News                         September 2024

Literature

Mrs. Sanders:  We will be reading short stories in class working on comprehension skills, main ideas & details, summarizing, conflict  and text-based evidence.  The advanced class will be reading A Long Walk to Water and completing activities with the novel.

Mrs. Camp - We have finished initial testing, so we are getting into close reads and how to annotate them. We will also be starting our stories with comprehension questions and text evidence work.

All students should be reading 15-20 minutes each day.

Math

Mrs. Yalden

7th- We are working through scale drawings, ratios and proportions.

Advance- We are working through Unit 1. Understanding transformations and their properties.

Mrs. Pearson

Science

We will be studying about motion, forces, and energy.  Students will have a project to build a water bottle rocket at home and then we will test/launch at school.

Social Studies

We will be studying the early colonies.

English

Miss Archer - In September, we will still be working on our first major unit, the sentences unit, where students learn all the basics of writing proper sentences before we then start on the full essay unit, called the dystopian narrative essay.

Mrs. Camp - We are starting work on the parts of speech and what we need for a good sentence. This will lead us into writing complete sentences to build a good five sentence paragraph. Then we will start our narrative essay unit.

Computer

In September, we will continue our touch typing unit, as well as, using keyboard shortcuts.

Art

We finished our first art project, Graffiti About Me, and are beginning to learn about the Elements of Art.

Mural Makers will meet 9/4 after school until 4pm for those students who plan to participate.

Band

We have been working hard on our pep band music and it is coming along very well. We will march in the Honeybee Festival parade and start playing for home basketball games this month!

Important Dates

  • 9/2 No School/Labor Day
  • 9/6 1st Quarter Midterms
  • 9/17 Picture Day
  • 9/18 2:30 Dismissal
  • 9/20 PBIS Pie in the Face Celebration

Reminders

  • 10 AR points and a literacy skills test are due by October 10.  The advanced class needs 15 AR points.
  • Students need 1 science AR point by October 3.
  • You can see your child’s homework on the Mayo homepage under the PARENTS tab.