Ellsworth MS Newsletter
Here's what's happening in MS this week!
September 30, 2019
Dear parents,
We are half way through our first marking period! Please continue to check power school for up to date grades.
ENGLISH
8th Grade: We only have four more stories to read and we will have completed reading about The Trojan War and The Odyssey. We will dedicate more class time to working on our drafts of our hero essays and get them ready for submission to the competition. We will continue to work on chapter 2 in our grammar book and this week we will cover using vivid language and figurative language.
SOCIAL STUDIES
6th Grade: On Friday students took a quiz about using longitude and latitude to find the absolute location of a place. They will have the opportunity to do quiz corrections in the beginning of the week. I will give them up to half the value of the question back. This week, we will be discussing how geographers use conditions and connections to study a place. We will also be exploring conditions at different latitudes in the world.
7th Grade: On Friday students took a quiz about using longitude and latitude to find the absolute location of a place. They will have the opportunity to do quiz corrections in the beginning of the week. I will give them up to half the value of the question back. This week, we will be discussing how geographers use conditions and connections to study a place. We will also be exploring conditions at different latitudes in the world.
8th Grade: On Thursday the students wrote a broke up letter to England with specifics of why they needed to be on their own. We had a great video that went along with it which was a history spoof on the song, “Too Late to Apologize.” This will gear them up for this coming week we are going to get into how the colonists united together to make the change and what it took to do so. We ended the week with a quiz on Friday over the French and Indian War and how the colonists are starting to feel as England is exerting more power upon them.
MATH
6th Grade: Keep working hard on the I-Ready online math! 6th graders are hard at work learning unit rates and how they apply to real life. There will be a quiz at the end of the week.
7th Grade: Keep working hard on the I-Ready online math! Students will have a quiz Tuesday on adding and subtracting integers.
8th Grade: Keep working hard on the I-Ready online math! Students have been working on exponents, square, and cube roots.
SCIENCE
6th Grade: We will be practicing scientific investigation skills this week with a few experiments. We will be reviewing the steps of the scientific method throughout the week.
7th Grade: The students have been enjoying exploring waves by using slinkies and computer simulations to learn about the different types of mechanical waves and how they transfer energy. We had a quiz on Friday and then will be looking at wave properties such as speed, wavelength and frequency. Students are able to correct and retake quizzes for a better grade.
8th Grade: The students have been enjoying exploring waves by using slinkies and computer simulations to learn about the different types of mechanical waves and how they transfer energy. We had a quiz on Thursday and then will be looking at wave properties such as speed, wavelength and frequency. Students are able to correct and retake quizzes for a better grade.
ART
8th Grade: Our Celebrities Portraits, study in shape and shading are done. We will be working on clay animal/monster mugs and then working in paint and color later in the week.
MUSIC
6th grade has begun reading music in their yellow books that do not include letters inside the note heads. They continue to practice and improve everyday.
7th and 8th received new music for this week in preparation for the fall concert.
Please keep checking in with students on practice sheets. They are due every Friday.
PE
6th grade PE students had an excellent week developing striking and fielding skills. This week students will work on defending space and creating space as part of an invasion games unit. Developing/improving cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility will also be a major component of each class period.
Please remind your student that sportsmanship, acceptance of others, a healthy level of competition, and safety are more important than athletic prowess. “Character Counts!”
SINCERELY,
The Middle School Team
8th English: Amanda Terryberry aterryberry@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
6th and 7th English Michele Hinkle mhinkle@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
6th Sci, 6-7th SS: Sue Goslee sgoslee@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
6-8 Math: Erica Stuck estuck@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
7-8th Science: Clayton Faivor cfaivor@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
8th SS: Laurie Yost lyost@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
Art: Kurt Zimmerle kzimmerle@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
Music: Ashley Ford aford@ellsworth.k12.mi.us
PE: Mark Drenth mdrenth@ellsworth.k12.mi.us