7th Grade News: September 30-October 4, 2019
General 7th grade information
Last week of 1st quarter
This is the last week of the 1st quarter. This means students have to submit any missing or makeup work by Friday since teachers will have to submit final grades. Parents/guardians will receive their student's report card at conferences (see below for more info). If you have questions or concerns about your student's grade, contact their teachers. A contact list is below.
HilFest is THIS SATURDAY
Don't forget that the first Hilfest at our new building will be on Saturday, October 5th from 10:00am-1:00pm. We look forward to seeing everyone there!
The Hilsman Healthcare Center, located behind the gym, will have its grand opening on October 8th, and will coincide with CCSD's Community Health Night! The overall goal of Community Health Night is to connect families with local health resources. Last year, we had a variety of health and wellness related vendors including asthma & diabetes educators, vision & dental resources, the Clarke County Health Department, National EMS, behavioral health providers, exercise and nutrition resources, and many more. We had over 75 vendors and 500+ attendees!
Community Health Night 2019 @ the Hilsman Healthcare Center
The doctor is in at Hilsman and Gaines! All students and staff at Gaines Elementary will soon have easy access to sick visits, well visits, immunizations, dental services, counseling services, and more.The Hilsman Healthcare Center, located behind the gym, will have its grand opening on October 8th, and will coincide with CCSD's Community Health Night! The overall goal of Community Health Night is to connect families with local health resources. Last year, we had a variety of health and wellness related vendors including asthma & diabetes educators, vision & dental resources, the Clarke County Health Department, National EMS, behavioral health providers, exercise and nutrition resources, and many more. We had over 75 vendors and 500+ attendees!
Parent Conferences - October 16-17
New schedule for conferences this year! On Wednesday, October 17, students will be dismissed early and teachers will hold conferences until 8pm. On Thursday, October 18, students are off all day and teachers will hold conferences from 8am-8pm. There is no school for students or teachers on Friday, October 18.
You will be receiving more information from your student's homeroom teacher soon as they begin to schedule conferences for each student.
You will be receiving more information from your student's homeroom teacher soon as they begin to schedule conferences for each student.
Upcoming events
Save these dates on your calendar. More info will be available about each of these events as their date approaches.
- October 5 - HilFest from 10am-1pm
- October 8 - Grand opening of the School-Based Health Clinic at Hilsman (located in the gym between Hilsman and Gaines)
- October 11 - Fall picture day
- October 14-18 - No Afternoon 21st Century Programming
- October 16-17 - Parent Conferences
Hilsman Sports
- Basketball tryouts will begin on October 11. Students must have a completed physical on file to participate in tryouts.
- Cross Country boys won their meet last week. Congratulations! Here is their schedule. Email Ms. Seymour (seymoure@clarke.k12.ga.us) with any questions.
- C Team Football is practicing. Email Mr. Watkins (watkinsra@clarke.k12.ga.us) with any questions.
- Volleyball games take place on Tuesdays (usually). Email Mr. Watkins with any questions.
Content news
ELA News
Students have started their Writing Workshop unit, and they are on their way to becoming published authors! Next week, we are working on coming up with our first story idea, creating realistic scenes and characters, and creating a story arc of our first story! Be sure to check out your student's writing journal if they have it to see what story they are creating!
Math News
Next week 7th grade math will revisit various unit 1 standards based on the data received from the unit 1 test that was administered on Thursday. Students will get remediation and enrichment on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of rational numbers, and will be provided opportunities to demonstrate proficiency of the related standards.
Accelerated Math: Students will explore relationships between surface area and volume of a rectangular prism to the cases in which dimensions are not restricted to whole numbers. In this case, the minimum surface area for fixed volume is a cube with side lengths the cube root of the volume. They will investigate the idea of packing cubes in a large box, but several perfect cube numbers are offered, so that students can see that those are especially nice cases with which to deal.
Want more information? Here are the lesson plans for 7th grade math.
Accelerated Math: Students will explore relationships between surface area and volume of a rectangular prism to the cases in which dimensions are not restricted to whole numbers. In this case, the minimum surface area for fixed volume is a cube with side lengths the cube root of the volume. They will investigate the idea of packing cubes in a large box, but several perfect cube numbers are offered, so that students can see that those are especially nice cases with which to deal.
Students will also be given hands-on experience in comparing surface areas and volumes of prisms. They will encounter the special properties of regular polygons and the principle that, for fixed perimeter, the polygon with the largest number of equal-length sides has the greatest area.
Science News
Science Lesson Plans are linked here: Science Lesson PlansOverview of the Week in Science Class:
- Monday = Review 8 Levels of Classification & 6 Kingdoms of Life
- Tuesday = Dichotomous Key & Taxonomic Key Review
- Wednesday = Unit 1 Test
- Thursday = Food Chains
- Friday = Big 10 Quiz #9
*Students need a composition book in class every day!
Social Studies News
Students are still learning about the Arab-Israeli conflict and the factors that led to the creation of Israel.Monday - Makeup and missing work day
Tuesday and Wednesday - Summarize major events in Arab-Israeli history
Thursday - reading letters from Jews and Palestinian teenagers
Friday - Open note quiz and writing in journals
Important dates:
- Tuesday, October 1 - Unit 1 test retakes (multiple choice only) -- students must have done 3 things to retake the test: 1. signed up in their SS class 2. completed a unit 1 test correction sheet 3. bring a test retake ticket on Tuesday to be admitted to the retake. If there are any questions, ask your socials studies teacher on Monday!
- Friday, October 4 - The last day to turn in social studies work for quarter 1 + also, an open note quiz on the creation of Israel, the Israeli-Arab conflict (students can use any of their notes or document analysis sheets on the quiz)
Want more information about what students will be doing this week? Check out the lesson plans for 7th grade social studies!
Connections news
Band News
The Cedar Shoals High School Band invites all 7th grade band students to join them for the home football game between Cedar Shoals and Clarke Central High School on October 4, 2019. If your student is interested, please complete and return the permission slip sent home with your student on Thursday.
7th Grade Faculty
Math
Mr. Mark Aqui, aquima@clarke.k12.ga.usMs. Levita Benson, bensonl@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Wayne Cook, cookba@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Tyron Scott, scottt@clarke.k12.ga.us
ELA
Mrs. Tammie Bryant, bryantt@clarke.k12.ga.usMrs. Kasey Solis, solisk2@clarke.k12.ga.us
Ms. Lauren Wood, woodl@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Barry Bozarth, bozarthb@clarke.k12.ga.us
Science
Mrs. Maxine Dalton, daltonm@clarke.k12.ga.usMs. Audrey Hughes, hughesa@clarke.k12.ga.us
Social Studies
Mr. Nick Hussain, hussainn@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Stan Stewart, stewarts2@clarke.k12.ga.us
Jim Waters, watersj@clarke.k12.ga.us
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