Happenings for November 27th – December 1st

*Welcome back from Thanksgiving break!!

8th Grade:

This week we will be finishing up our manufacturing unit. Students should have completed their commercials by Tuesday and then we will watch and critique the commercials on Wednesday and Thursday (if needed). Packets are due on Wednesday, completed.

Our next unit will be on hand tool, power tool, machine and general safety in the woodshop. Students who wish to bring in their own safety glasses are welcome to do so. We do have some here to borrow as well!

7th Grade:

Monday we complete measuring the length of the track and record time of our marble to travel in order to get the speed of our marbles in our paper coaster project.

After that we begin our new unit of Fonts. This new unit explores how writing influences advertising. Students will create their own unique font style after researching fonts found in current current computer programs such as Microsoft Word.

Our next, and final unit will be on architecture.

6th Grade:

Students are continuing with their new unit on manufacturing a board game. They played current board game on Friday and Monday and next we will set up rules for our board games and then constructing the games in groups of 3-4.