Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Dyer's classes participated in their first Fun Friday today. Students worked together to practice their square roots, cube roots, and ordering rational numbers.
September is Attendance Awareness Month. Good attendance has an impact on the success of students. We will be sharing different facts and resources during the month that can be helpful for parents. If you are looking for resources, check out https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/.
Students in the sixth grade ag classes have been studying beef cattle breeds. Students were tasked with decorating a cookie that showed a beef cattle breed discussed in class today.
Today in Ag class, the 7th and 8th graders decorated cookies that represented or depicted the FFA.
Students in sixth grade classes had their first meeting of Too Good for Drugs!
Mrs. Black's eighth grade students participated in rotation annotation stations. Students worked together in groups to highlight key ideas and take notes in the margins of their workbooks; therefore, students had a deeper understanding of the passage and the task encouraged them to read with a purpose.
Mrs. Mongold and Mrs. Eikenberry's 5th and 8th period class worked on using teamwork for problem solving practice.
Mrs. Mongold and Mrs. Eikenberry's 1st and 2nd period class worked on using teamwork for problem solving practice.
We will be holding an eighth grade Washington DC trip informational meeting on Monday, September 12th at 6:00 PM in the high school auditorium. If your child is interested in the trip, please plan on attending!
Students finished their unit on the FFA Creed today by presenting their Emoji FFA creeds to the class. Students were to say the paragraph of the creed they were given by using the emojis they drew and then explained why they chose that drawing for the words in their paragraph of the creed.
Today in the 7th and 8th grade ag classes, students finished discussing the FFA emblem. To test their knowledge of the emblem, students were tasked to build a 3D model of the FFA Emblem.
Mrs. Dyer's 8th grade classes applied their comparing and ordering skills to successfully organize rational and irrational numbers on a number line.
Students discussing questions involving group dynamics. Students had the opportunity to explicitly consider what makes a good group member and what makes a positive experience.
After the discussion, students negotiated and designed criteria for establishing individual norms versus group norms. This allowed students the opportunity for a more authentic learning experience.
Some of Mrs. Dyer and Mrs. Eikenberry's Algebra students got to do some serious investigations with palindromes today. They definitely used perseverance to look for patterns and make predictions.
We are excited to offer an electronic version of the free and reduced lunch application! Use the link below to access the document. It is user friendly and quick to complete.
Please do not submit the electronic application if you already submitted a paper copy. If you have questions, please contact us. We are happy to help!
https://family.titank12.com/application/new?identifier=SQX4NZ
Mrs. Milnes' eighth period social studies class presented their first projects of the year! They did amazing!
Seventh and eighth grade students in Mrs. Schelling's Ag Classes are learning about the FFA Creed. Groups of students were each given a paragraph in the creed. Each group were tasked with writing the creed using emojis, drawings, or pictures. When students are finished writing their paragraph of the creed using drawings, they will present their paragraph to the class and be able to recite their paragraph of the creed using their drawings.
Sixth grade students in Mrs. Schelling's Ag classes are learning terms used in the agriculture industry. They began with animal species related terminology. After filling in their term chart, the students tested their knowledge by playing a matching game.
Ms. Thieman's classes worked on adding and subtracting decimals by completing a scavenger hunt.
Today in Mrs. Dyer's class, students completed the painted cube task. Students had to figure out if a 3x3x3 cube comprised of 1x1x1 cubes (think rubix cube) was dipped in paint and taken apart, how many cubes would have no paint, paint on one side, two sides, and three sides. We then extended it to 4x4x4, 5x5x5, and 10x10x10. The Algebra students were even able to develop equations to solve the problem for any number of cubes! #buildingthinkingclassrooms #mathisfun
