Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of Sept. 3-6
Classroom Notes
ELA
We had a great full week. We have gotten to know your kiddos through some team-building activities and finished an inferencing pre-test. Next week, we will be digging into their writing and studying inferencing. In addition, NWEA testing begins Tuesday.
Week at a Glance:
Monday - Labor Day
Tuesday - NWEA Testing, Unit 1 Starts (Inferencing)
Wednesday - NWEA Testing, Writing Samples
Thursday - NWEA Testing, Inferencing Continued
Friday - Inferencing Continued, Intro guided reading
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
Team-building breakout- We worked on our team-building skills to do an escape room. The 7th graders did a wonderful job working as a team and exercising their communication skills.
Important Vocabulary:
Inference
Drawing conclusions
Text support
Math
This week we will begin Unit 1: Scale Drawings. Our first week of this unit will focus on corresponding parts and scale factors and answering the question, "What are scaled copies?" Please view our Family Materials for lessons 1-6 to review important vocabulary and see sample problems.
Power Standard for Unit 1:
7.GM.A.1 - Solve problems involving scale drawings of real objects and geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing the drawing at a different scale.
Life Science
Week at a Glance:
We will continue going over lab procedures and review the vocabulary associated with it.
Learning Target for the Week:
- I can identify variables and understand their purpose in a lab.
Important Vocabulary
- Hypothesis
- Independent Variable
- Dependent Variable
- Control
- Constant
- 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:
Learning Target for the Week:
- Learn how to navigate our text book
- Explore how natives first came to the Americas
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