Dental Clinic

Children's Dental Service is providing a low-cost dental care clinic on Wednesday, March 20 in Hopkins at myHealth For Teens and Young Adults. Please read the flyer for details and instructions on how to make an appointment.

Maud Hart Lovelace Trivia Competition

If your student (alone or with a group) read all 10 of the Maud Hart Lovelace II book nominees this year, they can participate in a trivia competition! The competition will take place on Thursday, April 11 in the Media Center. The registration guide provides instructions on how to sign up. Good luck!

Yearbooks

Yearbooks are on sale for $35.00 and available only at Jostens. No orders will be accepted after May 18.

Please save a printed/electronic copy of your receipt in case questions arise. For more information, or if you are not sure you ordered one yet, please contact Terri Bostrom.

Math

What We've Been Working On

• The students have been introduced to algebra tiles, which have helped them understand unknown quantities. We then used the tiles to figure out area, perimeter, and evaluating expressions.  

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What was the hardest part of figuring out perimeter with a unit tile? 

What We're Working on Next

• After the students test on Monday, in Unit 7, we will be working on the following learning targets:
  
  • Calculate rates, including unit rates.
    
  • Compare ratios and rates with different units.
    
  • Divide more efficiently with fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals.
    
  • Rewrite expressions by combining like terms and using the Distributive Property.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What does combining like terms mean?
• What is the Distributive Property?

Accelerated Math

What We've Been Working On

• The students have been working on finding parts of a whole, understanding percents can be increased or decreased as in sale and discount, tax, and tip, as well as simple interest.  

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What is the difference between simple and compound interest?

What We're Working on Next

• Next, the students will be taking ratios and putting them into a proportional relationship to solve a missing value. Then, in Unit 8, we move onto:
  
  • Use measures of central tendency, histograms, stem-and-leaf plots, and box plots to represent and compare data.
    
  • Decide if a question is a statistical question
    
  • Describe, analyze and compare sets of data using measures of central tendency, such as mean and median, and using the variation, including range and interquartile range (IQR).

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What is interquartile range (IQR)? 

Language Arts

What We've Been Working On

• Research, research, research! Students have pick a science related topic to research and find 60 facts. We have learned about reliable resources and paraphrasing the information gathered.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What is your topic for the research project?

What We're Working on Next

• Students will be working on a 5 paragraph essay about their research topic with mini lessons focusing on a good introduction, conclusion and how to use transitions in writing.
• They will also be creating a presentation to share what they learned with their classmates.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What have you learned about your topic?
• What are the 3 body paragraphs focused on in your essay?

Science

What We've Been Working On

• We just finished our Sound portion of our Waves Sound and Light Unit. The students did a great job on vocabulary and concepts.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What are the parts of a Longitudinal Wave?

What We're Working on Next

• We began our Light portion of the Waves Sound and Light Unit on Wednesday. The students were introduced to the vocabulary and concepts of light.
• We will study the anatomy of an eyeball and will dissect a sheep's eye on Wednesday March 21.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• Why are red objects the color red?

Notes

• Please, check Skyward for any missing work (NHI) and have your child finish these items and turn them in. Also, encourage your child to have "EAST MODE" in mind these last two weeks before spring break - stay positive about school!

Social Studies

What We've Been Working On

• We have just finished our perspectives project in social studies. Students spent about two weeks learning about the US-Dakota War then had to choose a specific perspective to represent in a project that we shared to the class.  

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• There were many creative projects shared in class- ask your student to show you their Perspectives Project!

What We're Working on Next

• In the next two weeks we will be covering Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 in class. These chapters cover how the US changed after the civil war, leading into the Gilded Age. We will study the St. Anthony Falls Flour Industry, Lumber Industry and The Iron Industry here in Minnesota.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• Ask your students about Entrepreneurs we are learning about, how they were successful and their impact.

Notes

• We will be going to the History Museum this spring! Please contact your student's Social Studies teacher if you want to join us :)

Phy. Ed.

What We've Been Working On

• Mozey and DeVoe: Basketball skills and SMART Goal Fitness Training

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What is your SMART goal for Spring?

What We're Working on Next

• Pacer Aerobic Capacity Assessment, Fitness workouts, basketball skills and games

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What's your favorite way to work out? Group activity, games, or fitness? 

Notes

• Please remind your student to bring their PE shirts home before spring break to wash them! 

Choir

What We've Been Working On

• Writing in solfege and using this as a tool to teach our voice part

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• Can you sing a skipping pattern starting on Do?

What We're Working on Next

• Students will be learning to mark music to help their memorization.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What is a personal marking you could make in your music to help you remember? 

Band

What We've Been Working On

• 3/4 time and new note extention up
  
• Assessed 3/4, new note and dynamics
  
• Melody Solo

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What are you working on in Melody?

What We're Working on Next

• Assess Melody solo
  
• Chromatic scale

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What is a chromatic scale?

Orchestra

What We've Been Working On

• Eighth Notes
  
• Solo Challenge Songs

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• How does learning new rhythms expand your possibilities on your instrument?

What We're Working on Next

• Eighth Notes
  
• Solo Challenge Songs

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What has been your favorite part of the solo challenge and why?

Art

What We've Been Working On

• Students have worked on their color wheel, mixing the secondary and intermediate colors, and tints, tones, and shades for each color.
• Students glazed their crazy coil pot.  

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• How did you mix the secondary and intermediate colors? What new things did you learn mixing these colors?  

What We're Working on Next

• We will finish the color wheel, write a reflection on the coil pot, and do a figure drawing unit.  

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What technique can you use to draw the correct proportions of the human body?  

Tech Ed.

What We've Been Working On

• Finished Treasure Box
  
• Took WPM mid quarter
  
• Started building robots for the robotics unit

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• How did you do on your WPM test and should you be practicing for the final WPM?

What We're Working on Next

• Programming/Coding using move and sensor blocks

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What is your favorite sensor and why?

Spanish

What We've Been Working On

• We have been describing ourselves.
• We have completed the writing test about what we like and don't like to do, along with describing ourselves.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What adjectives in Spanish describe you?

What We're Working on Next

• We will be taking the speaking and reading tests for the same unit.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What creation did you use in your writing that you can also use in your speaking?

Gifted & Talented

What We've Been Working On

• We wrote SMART goals to share with parents at conferences; we will reflect on these goals each month to help keep us on track.
• We are finishing our perseverance unit with a break out box.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What is your goal and how are you going to achieve it?

What We're Working on Next

• We will continue with break out boxes, but in MTSS we will be starting our unit on Teen stress: what it is and how we can help to alleviate it.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• How does stress affect you?

Young Scholars

What We've Been Working On

• We wrote SMART goals using the current MAP scores.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About What We've Learned

• What is your goal?

What We're Working on Next

• We will be checking in on our MAP goals each month and starting a unit on stress.

Question(s) to Ask Your Student About Upcoming Material

• What stresses you?

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