GKMS 7th Grade Weekly Newsletter
Week of September 5th, 2021
Mrs. Ewald’s and Mrs. Fowler’s Reading and Language Arts
Next week in ELA classes, we are diving into the first story in Unit 1 titled ¨Generations¨. With this story about Laura and Maurice, we will be answering the essential question, ¨What can one generation learn from another?¨ We will also be practicing vocabulary, answering comprehension questions and working with adverbs.
Mrs. Boyer's Reading Advancement Program
This week, we welcomed some new faces to our class. We reviewed our expectations and are ready to begin using our reading program, Achieve 3000. Next week, students will work on vocabulary and text analysis on an article about roller coasters and the thrill of fear. Students took their initial LevelSet to see where their Lexile level places them for reading, so now all the articles they read on Achieve 3000 will be at their own individualized reading level. It’s going to be a great year!
MATH
Next week students in all math classes will be working on Adding/Subtracting Integers as well as Rational Numbers. A firm understanding of these concepts are essential as students move forward in our curriculum, not only this year, but in 8th grade and beyond. We will have our first Quiz (CFA) the following week.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week, we finished Chapter 1, The First Americans. We took a quiz (CFA) on Friday in class, so be sure to check your student’s grade in Skyward at the beginning of next week to see how they scored on the quiz. Next week, we will be starting Chapter 2, European Exploration. In this chapter, we will focus on the reasons that European explorers came to North and South America. Towards the end of the week, we will read about Spanish conquistadors and their expeditions to the Americas.
SCIENCE
This week, we finished our introduction to microorganisms. We also learned about all the microorganisms that live in and on humans that actually help us stay healthy! Next week, we will be analyzing evidence to try and determine why “Patient 23” is getting sick. What could be wrong with his microbiome that is causing his prolonged illness?