Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of August 20-24
Announcements
Important Dates
- 29 - Informational meeting for the Washington, D.C. trip in the FMS gym. Students who are already signed up do not need to come to the meeting.
- 3 - No School ~ Labor Day
- 4-7 Penny Wars for the United Way
- 10 - No School ~ Teacher PD Day
Classroom Notes
ELA
Week at a Glance:
Monday: Team-building, classroom expectations
Tuesday: Team-building, pre-assessment
Wednesday: ELA STAR, team-building
Thursday: Team-building, writing assessment
Friday: Team-building, Intro to unit 1
Learning Target for the Week:
This week, the ELA teachers will be learning all about your kiddos and what they already know about ELA concepts. We will review the concepts of complete sentences and how to thoroughly answer a question using RAPP.
Important Vocabulary:
Restate
Answer
Support
Develop
Power Standards for the Quarter:
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.
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.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative, connotative, and content-specific meanings using context, affixes, or reference materials.
Use a given process to create clear narrative, expository, and argument writing that is developed, and organized for the task; including style, voice, purpose, and audience.
Present in a clear and audible voice while remaining on-topic, focused, and maintain voice level and pace
Math
Announcements: To see what we are doing in class, ask your child to show you their daily agenda on the Hyperdoc attached to Google Classroom. Here you can see the agenda as it is updated daily to reflect what students are doing each day.
Learning Target for the Week:
- I can compute a unit rate from a simple rate.
- I can compute unit rates from complex fractions
- I can convert unit rates between two units of measurement
Important Vocabulary: rate, unit rate, complex fraction, unit ratio
Power Standards for the Quarter:
Compute unit rates, including those that involve complex fractions, with like or different units7.RP.A.1
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities7.RP.A.2
Solve problems involving ratios rates, percentages, and proportional relationships7.RP.A.3
Solve problems involving the four arithmetic operations with rational numbers7.NS. A. 3
Four 4s
Four 4s
Four 4s
Life Science
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Learning Target for the Week:
- Model and describe good examples and non-examples of classroom expectations when participating in a variety of classroom procedures.
- Identify independent variable, dependent variable, controlled variable and form a hypothesis.
- Collect, analyze, and draw inferences from data.
Important Vocabulary:
- Scientific Method
- Independent variable
- Dependent Variable
- Controlled Variable
- Hypothesis
- Data
Power Standards for the Quarter:
- Provide evidence that living things are made up of one or many varied cells
- Explain that cells must carry out all of the basic functions of life. Understand the functions of the nucleus, chloroplasts, mitochondria, cell membrane, and cell wall and all organelles work together to make a cell function.
- Use evidence to argue that multicellular organisms are organized by varying levels of complexity.
- Describe the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of matter and flow of energy in and out of organisms
Social Studies
Learning Target for the Week:
- Learn how to navigate the online text book
- Explore how natives first came to the Americas
Power Standards for the Quarter: Explain how Native Americans adapted to their environment.