This week the grade 6/7 students have begun to write lab reports about their bread mold experiments; and they have had the opportunity to examine their mold under the microscope. They also conducted an experiment to determine an ideal temperature range for yeast to grow.
Reading comprehension activities take on more meaning as we read about how civilization began with The Stone Age, The Sumerians, the Babylonians, The Assyrians, The Egyptians, The Phoenicians, and Hebrews and currently the Greeks, where we are now in Social Studies. We have used activities from Social Studies to enhance our Language Arts work. Greek mythology is an excellent and interesting way to help us with our descriptive writing. We are able to use literary devices like exaggeration, onomatopoeia, personification, just to name a few. Our next piece of literature to explore will be The Odyssey by Homer.
Students began working in their Mathathon books this week. They are doing them during their Learning Studio time. Pledges/donations are should be turned in during the week of Oct. 22—26. Students will be bringing their books home on Friday so that parents can see the work that was completed.
6th grade students have been learning how to find the Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple using Prime Factorization. Both the GCF and LCM are used when working with fractions. Next week we will begin learning about decimals.
7th grade students are beginning a quick review of fractions. Next week, they will begin learning about ratio, proportion, and probability.
