Week 7

Ruqayah.Zuhair@k12.dc.gov

Michael.Martis@k12.dc.gov

Kelynn.Offley@k12.dc.gov

Kaitlyn.Johnson@k12.dc.gov

Tierra.Peteet@k12.dc.gov

Emily.Bullock@k12.dc.gov

We are so very excited to meet you all and get this school year started! In our weekly newsletter we will have updates on events, class assignments, school news, and a little information about your teachers.

At Alice Deal Middle School - Here We Grow!

Risk Taker for September

Annie Cruz Azume

Kevin Goldstein

Sign up for your Student-Led Conference

Deal will host student-led conferences on Thursday, October 10th from 12-7pm. During conferences, students will lead a discussion with their family member(s) and their advisor. The online appointment system will require you to enter your student's Advisory "entry code." The online appointment system is available in English and Spanish and requires an email account. For support signing up for a conference, please contact your student's Advisor.

Fieldtrips

We will be taking a couple of Fieldtrips the end of October. Stay tuned for more details.

Please remember to bring you math notebook, pencils and device to class DAILY!!!!

Homework for Math Class

2 Weekly PEAR HWs Due Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:am

1 iReady Lesson due every Sunday

ex: Week 6 - six lessons are due

week 7 - seven lessons are due

etc...

This Week in Math 6

This week in Math 7

Please click above to see the weekly schedule.

This can also be found on student's Canvas page.

Daily Expectations:

• Math notebook
• Pencils
• Device

Math class is accepting Donations for:

• Tissue boxes
• Clorox Wipes
• Hand Sanitizers
• Pencils
• Index Cards

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  Hi scientists!

  After completing the Nature of Science/Scientific Method summative last Monday, students spent the rest of the past week investigating tectonic plates. Lessons included a plate motion simulator and an activity where students mapped volcanoes!

  Next week we will start the week off with a plate tectonics lab, followed by a reading on Tuesday. Wednesday will be all about roots! We will take our roots quiz 1.6 on Wednesday 10/9 because there is no school Thursday or Friday, and will also spend some time studying for the roots summative which will be on Tuesday, 10/15. The summative will include all root words to date. Please help students remember to study over the long weekend! There will be a Blooket links posted to Canvas for students to study.

  Root Words 1.6

  e/ec/ex = without/from/out of (think: escape, eclipse) exit inter = between (think: interstellar, interstate)

  -ist = one who studies (think:scientist, geologist, zoologist)

  peri = around (think: perimeter, periscope)

  multi = many (think: multitude, multigrain, multiply)

  Keeper Words: uni, bi, tri, cent, graph, helio, kilo, grav, luna, scope, tele, sol, equi/equa, geo, vacu

  io, kilo, grav, luna, scope, tele, sol

Last Week students submitted their homework formative Monday 9/30. We brainstormed issues and their solutions within our community of DC. For the remainder of the week, students had work time on their end of unit 1 summative called community action letter. By Wednesday 10/8 students will mail their letters out to a DC government official, so please find "bring envelope and postage stamps" in their agenda book due Monday 10/7.

This Week students will complete their final drafts to send out their letters to the government official Wednesday. We will take the entire Wednesday lesson to effectively mail out their letters.

It’s been a great week in ELA introducing Sensory Language!

Here is the week’s schedule:

Change weekly agenda to

Monday – Peer Reviewing First Draft

Tuesday – Final Draft Day (summative due at end of period)

Wednesday – Library visit (tentative)

(Formative will be due following Monday)

Students should be coming to class with:

Pencil

Novel that they are interested in

Homework folder

Agenda

Please note: I HIGHLY recommend families purchase personal copies of novels for the year so they can read from home if they are absent or if they have to finish a chapter at home. The novel we are beginning with, that they will need to bring to and from school, is Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. This novel will begin on 9/9.

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Library Corner

The latest library newsletter has arrived! Check it out at the link below:

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