Middle School Newsletter

October 30, 2015

Notes: The students had a wonderful Halloween party today! Thank you to our room parents Jodi
King and Kari Trejo for getting it together and to everyone who contributed.
Reading
Ms. Imboden
Finishing unit of selected short
stories and poems by Edgar Allan
Poe
Preparing for unit test via Quizlet,
Spelling City, and teacher-provided
study guide
Edgar Allan Poe test

Social Studies

Practice researching identified

information using class textbook and
Internet resources on early Americans
Presented research to peers in class via
oral speech
Some students opted to develop Power
Points to aid their speech with visuals

Mrs. Pasquesi

Writing short essay answers;

summaries; using adverbs and
adjectives
New novels: Guys Read and
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Students practiced note taking,
multiple choice questions, short
answers, and story maps
Spelling unit 13: Latin roots

Ms. Kanellopoulos

Science

Practiced Two column note taking

Concluded the unit on characteristics of
living things and classification
Performed a classification lab with a
variety of fall leaves

Study Skills

Analyzing work space at home for

homework completion
Interviewing peer about work space
Sharing commonalities and differences
in work space locations, their challenges,
and providing suggestions for
improvement

Group 1: Students learned applying

the doubling rule when adding
vowel suffixes to one syllable words
Group 2: Students practiced reading
and spelling vowel-consonant-e
Current Events
words
Group 3: Students were introduced
Students watched and discussed CNN
to a new syllable type: consonant-le
student news
Vocabulary and comprehension
We are looking for current news
activities for Peak
magazines to add to our reading corner.
Please send in any you intend on
recycling
Mrs. Blaul

Working on learning and using the

steps of the writing process
Wrote scary stories
Read and discussed Chapter 6 of
Ben Franklin
Megawords lessons and practice for
the -tion sound

Math

Math

Ms. Imboden

Mrs. Blaul
Addition and subtraction with like and
unlike denominators
Addition, subtraction, multiplication of
integers

Geometry angles test returned

Special quadrilaterals
Properties of special quadrilaterals

Mrs. Pasquesi

Group 1: Adding and subtracting

fractions and mixed numbers
Group 2: Percentages
Review word problems

Ms. Kanellopoulos

7th grade: Students practiced identifying

and extending increasing and decreasing
sequences
8th grade: Students practiced comparing
fractions with like and unlike
denominators