Stout-Harris

Wow what a busy year!

With just 5 more weeks in the school year I wanted to update information on my site.  I have updated contact info with the remind app directions.  I am going to make it my goal to update this site as well as remind weekly.  Remind will be a quick way to remind about changes in schedules or tests that are coming up.  Previously I was using class dojo but with our class constantly moving around the building it was hard to keep up with. Remind, my iblog, and email will be the best ways for communication and for you to see what we are working on in class.

Mi-Access and Testing

We have completed our state testing this month.  We will be taking the District test NWEA one last time this year in math, reading, and science. Next year we will not be taking NWEA instead we will focus on an assessment program called easy cbm which focuses more on students specific abilities.

Level Change IEP’s for 8th Grade

All level change meetings have been scheduled and completed by the end of this week.  It was great for the students to attend the meetings at the high school to meet some of their new teachers and see the building that they will be attending next year.

Grades 

Please continue to check student/parent connect for missing assignments and grades. The end of the year is soon approaching and final grades will be mailed home over the summer.

Social Studies

We are finishing off the year talking about the United States Civil War

Science

We are discussing the geologic time scale.  Students are working on powerpoint presentations on different time periods.

Math

We are working on reading and creating bar graphs as well as finding the probability of events occurring. We will be working on these skills as well as counting money and addition/subtraction/multiplication/division skills.

Supplies for Next Year

A supply list has been posted on my page for next year.  During late July/August these items are usually on sale and all over the stores.  I wanted parents to have a list of items before school starts so they could take advantage of the deals this summer.

—–Ms. Harris

It has been so great meeting parents at parent teacher conferences!!!

Math- We have been working on plotting points in a coordinate plane and will be taking our test soon.  We will also review decimal addition and value of coins.

Math- Argue

We have been working with number lines, positive and negative numbers, opposites, as well as temperatures.

Social Studies- We finished up the Bill of Rights unit and are moving into the political parities of America.  We will also be reviewing the difference between a country, state, and continent.

Science- We have begun talking about space and orbits.  Students have been working in groups to explore how earth revolves and rotates in space.

Lab- We spend much of lab reviewing what we learned each day.  We finish up any projects or homework that may not have been completed.  This is why you are not seeing much homework come home. However, it is still great if students read for 10-20 minutes daily or practice math facts with flash cards.

Ms. Harris

Where has the time gone?  We are already wrapping up card marking one this week.  All work and grades are due this Friday.

Math- We have taken our math test for multiplication, division, and exponents last week.  This week we will be working on our goals and reviewing math content.

Social Studies- We have been learning about the 3 branches of government and will be reviewing Monday and Tuesday for our quiz on Wednesday.

Science- We just completed our group powerpoint presentation on Newton’s Three Law’s of Motion.  We will be reviewing for our science test Monday and Tuesday.

ELA- Students have been working on researching an ocean animal in order to write a class book.

Picture retake will be Friday November 2nd. Pictures were sent home on Friday.

Math- We have been working on solving multiplication problems with pictures, objects, and multiplication charts.  We have begun working with exponents with 1st hour math.  We will continue to work on this skill as well as division.

Social Studies- We just completed our chapter 8 test on Monday and have begun our new chapter on the 3 branches of government.  The Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branch.

Science- We are moving right along unit 2 dealing with motion and force.  We will be having our second vocabulary quiz most likely next Friday. We created stomp rockets as well as balloon launchers to show what we have learned about motion.

Math- This week we completed our Fall NWEA Testing.  We also took our unit test on Fractions.  Throughout the month of October we will be working on multiplication, division, solving simple variables.

6th Grade- Multiplication with products up to 50.

7th Grade- Multiplication with products up to 100 as well as division.

8th Grade- Multiplication and division, exponents, and simple algebra with variables.

Social Studies- In Ms. Manning’s class we have been discussing the pros and cons of the Articles of Confederation as well as the Electoral College.

Science- We completed our first unit in Mrs. Dicks science class. We have also completed a computer science lab about force and motion.  We will continue this unit by creating team rocket launchers in the coming weeks.

Important Information:

Picture Day October 2nd during second hour.

Math: We have been working with fractions.  We will be having a fraction test next Friday September 28th.

First hour: We have been working on adding and subtracting fractions as well as changing fractions into decimals.

Third hour: We have been working on what is a fraction, numerators and denominators as well as fair shares.

Science: This week we took the fall NWEA MAP test for Science, we also had our first quiz on our science vocabulary Friday September 21st. We will begin our new unit as well as our rocket launchers in the next two weeks.

Social Studies: This week we had our first quiz on the colonies/French and Indian War. We have begun a new unit about the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation.

Picture Day will be October 2nd.  Information should be sent home next week.

The past two weeks have flown by and we are learning so much. Here is a recap of what we have been working on and what is to come.

Math

In math we have been working on adding and subtracting with regrouping and borrowing. This past week we began center rotations to help work on specific math skills.  We will begin working on fractions and equations with fractions for the rest of September.

Social Studies

We are very lucky to join Ms. Manning for Social Studies.  We have been working on map skills as well as the start of the 13 colonies in America. We will start to talk about the French and Indian War next week.

ELA

Students have Ms. Argue for ELA. They have been working hard with skills testing and will begin doing centers in the coming weeks.

Science

We are very lucky to join Ms. Dicks for Science. We have already been experimenting with prototypes of paper airplanes. In the next few weeks we will be creating rocket launchers.

Lab 

During lab we work on finishing up our assignments, reading, and working on the computer for math skills.  Wednesday we have social group during lab and Fridays we have fun Friday for students that earn 50 dojo points during the week.

Welcome to an exciting year at Stout Middle School.