7th Grade News: October 29-November 2, 2018

Fall Field Day was a success!

Thank you for your support as students competed in a flag football and a kickball tournament last week. Congratulations to everyone for their teamwork and camaraderie. Also congratulations to Ms. Benson's flag football team and Ms. Viera's kickball team for being champions!

Produce Market @ HMS on Thursday 11/1

From 4-6pm on Thursday, come visit the produce market at Hilsman. Get 1 pound of greens for free! Every additional pound will be $2.

Ag Class / FFA News

Tuesday - FFA meeting from 4-6pm in Mrs. Martin's room. There will be a costume contest if you would like to participate.
Wednesday - ALL Ag classes have an SAE check - 1 hour/1 picture due on the SAE presentation template. You will have time to update in class but you must have your pictures in your Google Drive. We have gone over the document in class and there are direction slides on how to insert hours and pictures on The template. This cannot be made up as a checkpoint is what you have done at this time. This was assigned the first day of class and students have been given reminders. There are hundreds of ideas on the SAE ideas document on Google Classroom.

ELA News

Monday, October 29th: Reading Chapters 3-4 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton
Tuesday, October 30th: Reading Chapters 5-6 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton
Wednesday, October 31st: Reading Chapters 5-6 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton
Thursday, November 1st: Reading Chapters 7-8 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton
Friday, November 2nd: Reading Chapters 7-8 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton

Students and parents in Mrs. Bevis's class should have received their book project packet, please join Class Dojo if you haven't already.

***Students must read 20-30 minutes each night.

ELAGSE7W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. ELAGSE7RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE7SL4: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
ELAGSE7L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

Math News

The current unit in your child's mathematics class this year is Stretching and Shrinking: Understanding Similarity. Its focus is geometry. It teaches students to understand and use the idea of similarity. In this unit, students will find relationships among figures that have been stretched or shrunk. They will analyze the resulting changes in properties of the figures, such as area and perimeter. Similarity will also be used to find the heights of real objects (such as buildings and flagpoles).

Homework is given on Monday; due on Friday.

Science News

Unit 2: Human Body Systems
Hughes Science Students: Notebook Check #2: Monday, November 5

Science Fair:
Students that are interested in participating in the Science Fair should see Mrs. Fassbender or Mrs. Maxey for information and guidance. Mrs. Fassbender and Mrs. Maxey are our school's gifted collaborators. Any student can participate in the Science Fair.

Social Studies News

Students are reviewing and then taking the unit 3 test on Wednesday, October 31 (topic: Governments and Economies in the Middle East). This will conclude our study of the Middle East. Here is a link to the study guide that is due on Monday, October 29.

On Thursday, students will begin studying Southern and Eastern Asia, with a focus on India, China, Japan, the Koreas, and Vietnam. They will study the geography of this region at their OWN PACE, using several assignments that their teachers choose for them to complete over the next 3 weeks. Each student will have their assignments specifically chosen for them from this list: bit.ly/u4geoticket.

Spanish News

Keep working with actions words and answering ¿Que te gusta hacer?

Upcoming dates:
Mondays: Binder checks; Tutoring from 4-5:30pm
Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz / Reading comprehension
Thursday and Friday we will celebrate Dia de los Muertos, featuring the film Coco