Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of Sept. 23rd - 27th
Classroom Notes
ELA
This week, ELA has been working hard to learn what it takes to make good inferences. We did a QR Code Hunt where students watched Pixar clips and answered inference questions after each QR code. Next week we’ll continue talking about making inferences, drawing conclusions, and supporting these with good text evidence as we approach our first post-assessment.
Week at a Glance:
Monday - Inferencing Review, Guided Reading
Tuesday - Inferencing Post-Assessment
Wednesday - Close Reading, Guided Reading
Thursday - Close Reading, Inferencing Retakes
Friday - Close Reading, Inferencing Retakes
Learning Target for the Week:
This means I can recognize use background knowledge and the text to make a conclusion or inference. I can also support my claims with the text and the inferences I made.
Important Vocabulary:
Inference
Drawing conclusions
Text support
Power Standards for the Quarter:
RL1A: (fiction) Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI1A: (non-fiction) Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Writing: Use a given process to create clear expository writing that is developed, and organized for the task; including style, voice, purpose, and audience.
Speaking & Listening: Present in a clear and audible voice while remaining on-topic, focused, and maintain voice level and pace
Math
This week we will take the Unit 1 Post Test on Monday. Then we will begin Unit 1: Introducing Proportional Relationships. Please view our Family Materials for Unit 2 to review important vocabulary and see sample problems that you can do with your student at home.
Power Standard for Unit 2:
7.RP.A.2 - Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
Scale Drawings
Learning about Apollo Lunar Module
Scale Drawings of the Apollo Lunar Module
Life Science
Week at a Glance:
This week, we will continue to look at both prokaryotes and eukaryotes under the microscope to help us better distinguish between the two types of cells.
I can properly use a microscope to identify if the slide I'm looking at is made of prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells.
Important Vocabulary
- Cell
- Eukaryote
- Prokaryote
- Unicellular
- Multicellular
- Organelle
LS1.A.1: Provide evidence that living things are made up of one or many varied cells.
LS1.A.3: Use evidence to argue that multicellular organisms are organized by varying levels of complexity
Social Studies
Week at a Glance:
This week students finished their their Native American research and started working on a 2D or 3D project. Student projects will be presented to the class in a “Native American Museum”. The work they do will become an “exhibit” in our classroom museum. Community members from the Rotary will be visiting our classroom next week to see our Native American museum as the projects we have been working on have been funded by a grant through the Fulton Rotary club.
Learning Target for the Week:
- Examine different Native American cultures and explain several ways they used their natural resources to adapt to their environment.
Power Standards for the Quarter: Explain how Native Americans adapted to their environment.
Key Terms & Events: artifact, migrate, environment, natural resource, culture, cultural region, resourceful, and adapt
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Heather Yates - hyates@fulton58.org
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org