Team Woolloomooloo Newsletter

Between February 24th to 28th, our 8th grade students will have a fun, free, healthy field trip to the DC Bouldering Project! This trip is free for families and supported by the DCPS Health and PE. On the day of the trip, students will spend half of the day bouldering and the other half of the day at Deal participating in an International Baccalaureate lesson with their teachers. Students will eat lunch at school.

Permission slips and release forms were sent home last week and must be turned in for students to participate. All permission slips are past due - If your child has not submitted their permission slip, they must do so ASAP to attend. Students and families should be aware of the following:

• All signed permission slips and waivers must be turned in to homeroom teachers ASAP.

• On the day of the trip, students should wear comfortable clothes and close-toed shoes. Crocs are not allowed.

Teams will have their field trip on the following dates:

• Monday - Mixed teams

• Tuesday - Team Izu

• Wednesday - Team Havana

• Thursday - Team Woolloomooloo

• Friday - Team Kendrick

Students will spend half the day bouldering and the other half of the day presenting their Community Project presentations. Please note, due to daily capacity limits, some students from each team will participate on Monday. Teachers will assign trip days and your student's permission slip will have their assigned date listed.

Congrats to all 8th graders on completing their Community Projects! Students will present their projects on the day of their Bouldering Field Trip (with the exception of the Monday group. Those students will present with their team). Final presentations count as a summative assessment grade in each core class (ELA, Science, I&S, Math). All resources are located in ClassNotebook (accessed through the Advisory canvas page), and in the ClassNotebook content library page. If there are questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to your students' Advisory teacher and/or Ms. Daniels (Caitlin.Daniels@k12.dc.gov).

If your student plans to attend Jackson-Reed High School, they should consider joining one of their amazing academies! Academies are small learning communities. They all offer:

• Faculty and staff who get to know you and become your advocates
• A chance to meet other students with interests like yours
• Exciting choices for electives and extracurricular activities
• Career development opportunities such as internships and shadow days
• Field trips and community service project
  

Jackson-Reed High School has a total of 10 academies that are grouped under 3 directors. To learn more about each academy, including an overview, its lead teachers and staff, the required coursework, and how to apply, click on the link below: https://jacksonreedhs.org/academics/academies/

The Marion Barry Summer Youth Employment Program (MBSYEP) registration for youth ages 14-24 is now open until Thursday, March 6. The MBSYEP runs from Monday, June 23 to Friday, August 1 for youth who have completed the registration, certification process, and orientation.

With the start of the third advisory, we are officially at the halfway point of 8th grade. Where has the time gone? Who are these tall almost-high-schoolers walking our halls? What happened to those nervous 6th graders we met just two years ago?

As we look forward to our 8th graders' next big step, please save the following dates for promotion-related celebrations. Additional details, including logistics and costs, will be shared in the coming weeks.

• 8th Grade Spirit Week - March 3 to March 7

• 8th Grade Kings Dominion Trip - June 9 (all day)

• 8th Grade Promotional Dance - June 13 (5:00 - 7:00 PM)

• 8th Grade Promotion Celebrations (by team) - June 16 and June 17

Promotion celebrations will take place by team on June 16 and June 17. 8th graders will not have a typical school day for either of these days and will only report for their team's promotion. We look forward to celebrating this amazing class of students and will share more details soon.

Want to learn more about what's going on in your student's language class? You can find the World Languages Newsletter here: https://secure.smore.com/u/patricia.balestra4

As 8th grade students shift from PE to Art, we want our second semester students to have all of the same amazing supplies refilled from the previous semester. Please help out our art teachers replace any used or lost supplies using the following wish lists:

Ms. Hargreaves Wish List:

Amazon Wish List

Mr. Cunningham Wish List:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/368Y16JA3GQ30?ref_=wl_share

Mr. Lowder Wish List:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/IRPKFUJ90BY?ref_=wl_share

**We are in need of some tissues. The cold season has hit us hard! We appreciate any you can give us!**

THANK YOU!! We can't thank you enough for donating supplies. We appreciate your thoughtfulness and dedication to helping and supporting our students!

With your donations, you are helping us reward our students with their Mooloo Mulah!

Click here to access our Amazon Wishlist.

Hello Woolloomooloo Families!

Our team has our Rock-Climbing Field Trip this Thursday, 2/27/25 at Eckington Boulder Park. This will be an exciting time for our team to do some hands-on activities as well as presenting our Community Project to our team. This will be a fun and exciting field trip for our team and am looking forward to seeing our scholars have some indoor fun activities to break up their school day.

Please be advised that were approaching the mid-way point of the 3rd term. This is the shortest term and students should focus on ASPEN and Canvas to ensure that all assignments are completed and turned in on time! Please reach out to your scholars teachers if you have any questions.

Upcoming Assessments:

• Functions Quiz (Graphing stories) - Monday 2/24
• Functions Summative – Friday 2/28

Homework: Paper HW due Friday. I-Ready lesson due Sunday (3 for this advisory)

Unit 4 family resources:

• Unit 5: Functions and Volume
• Unidad 5 materiales para la familia Funciones y volumen

Algebra 1: This week in algebra 1 we focused on graphing quadratic functions in standard form without technology and graphing quadratics in vertex form. Next week in algebra 1, we will continue graphing in vertex form, review for the RCT, and take the end of unit RCT (summative) on Wednesday.

Upcoming Assessments: UPDATED - Unit 6 RCT Summative – Wednesday 2/26

Homework: Paper HW due Friday. Deltamath assignment due Sunday at 10PM.

Unit 6 family resources:

• Intro to Quadratic Functions
• Unidad 6 en Espanol

IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENTS FROM THIS WEEK

• Westward Expansion Open-Note Check for Understading – PAPER FORMATIVE where students answered two questions about how we got a territory (California, Louisiana, Texas, etc.) and how westward expansion was experienced by American settlers and one other group (Native Americans, enslaved Africans, immigrants, etc.) - Worked on in-class Tuesday 2/18 and Wednesday 2/19
• Industrial Revolution Note-Sheet – PAPER STUDENT-GUIDED CLASSWORK

Hello all!

This week, we completed velocity, mass and kinetic energy graphs. Also, we reviewed past assessments and completed the district RCT on kinetic and potential energy.

Next week, we will design and build a roller coaster. Also, students will apply their knowledge by calculating the potential and kinetic energy at certain points on the ride. Finally, we will begin unit 5 (Force and Motion) Students will start by learning commonly use vocabularies like force, motion, velocity, time, speed, velocity, distance and displacement.

Homework will be posted on canvas.

On Monday and Thursday, we will have a team bouldering field trip. Please read and sign the permission slips. On Thursday students will present their completed community project in their advisory classroom.

Hello everyone!

This week, we worked on the Unit 2 Summative: Kitty and Mack, Evil, and Vade Mecum. This can be found in the module Unit 2: 145th Street. All materials are there for the students to complete the assignment. We took ANET 2 and started the end of Unit 2 project. This project is called "Give your Community their Flowers". It can be found on Canvas with all the instructions. I'm very excited to see what the students create!

Assignments from the Week:

• Reading Plus (4) due Sunday (2/23) 11:59 pm.
• Unit 2 Summative: Kitty and Mack, Evil, Vade Mecum due Sunday (2/23) 11:59 pm.

Past Assignments:

• Big Joe's Funeral and Human Family Formative was due Friday (1/24) 11:59 pm. This can be found on Canvas.
• Fighter and Those Winter Sunday Formative was due Friday (1/31) 11:59 pm. This can be found on Canvas.
• MonkeyMan Collage due Friday (2/7) 11:59 pm. This can be found on Canvas.

Next week, we will work on completing the end of unit project. We will begin Unit 3 with some introduction activities that look at themes and concepts present throughout it.

***Our novel for unit 3 is To Kill a Mockingbird. If students are able, we are asking them to buy their own copy for annotations and activities. We will begin reading the book in the beginning of March. Here is an Amazon link to purchase a copy. If you are able, we would appreciate any extra copies.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Have a great weekend!

Learn about the great things happening this month at Deal's library. Check out great books and media, read about events at Deal and around the city, and stay connected with Deal's Library:

https://secure.smore.com/n/pv9c4u-deal-ms-library-news

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to do so using the links below. Expect a response from teachers, during school hours, within 1 to 2 business days, of the time your communication was received.

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Beliveau - jacqueline.beliveau@k12.dc.gov

Selph - caleb.selph@k12.dc.gov

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