Team Woolloomooloo Newsletter

Curious about our world travelers in Costa Rica next week? Be sure to follow our travel blog for daily updates, fun pictures, and a taste of adventure: http://dealcostarica2025.blogspot.com/

As promotion gets closer, now is the time for our 8th grade students to start planning for their transition to high school. How exciting! Staff from Jackson Reed High School visited our students this week and held a virtual meeting with families to share information about the course selection process. Students should have brought home a form to select their courses.

All students are asked to discuss the attached course selection form with their families and bring the completed, signed form to their advisory teacher by March 28th. Please reach out to the Jackson Reed team or our wonderful 8th grade counselor, Ms. Travers, with any questions about this process.

Note: even if your student is considering other high school options, we ask all students to go through this process to learn about the options available to them in high school. Submitting this form helps the Jackson Reed team plan for next year, but does not lock your student in to attending Jackson Reed.

Traveling abroad for school is an exciting opportunity, and the Deal team is honored to have so many 8th graders taking this adventure. While we consider these trips an important part of our students’ education and the absences will be excused, it is important that students keep up with the learning they will miss while they are out of the country.

To support students and families, every student traveling on an international trip will be given a personalized make-up work list based on their individual schedule. These lists will be distributed by homeroom teachers on Monday and families are encouraged to ask their students about their list. Students will have one week after the return of their trip to complete their assignments without penalty.

All content-related questions should be directed to the teacher. Unless otherwise noted, all assignments will be visible in Canvas. If your student loses their list, team teachers will have access to a digital version they can share with families.

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 - Team Izu & Team Kendrick

• June 17 - Team Woolloomooloo & Team Havana

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

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.

Hi Woolloomooloo Families!

I hope everyone had a great extended weekend and that Student Led Conferences went well for those that signed up. Please continue to talk to your scholars about their grade and what is working for them to be successful as Term 3 is coming to a close soon! These conversations are important to have with your scholar and it reiterates our strong standards that we hold them up to here on Woolloomooloo.

Please also check your scholars ASPEN on tardies...our 8th graders are enjoying the warm weather and are taking their time to get to class. Please let them know the importance on getting to class on time and how this correlates to the real world. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Math 8: This week in math 8 students took their unit 5 RCT on Monday and (schedule switch) we learned about square roots, perfect squares and estimate square roots that are not perfect squares. Next week in math 8, we will celebrate Pi-Day on Monday since there is no school on Friday (3.14). Students are welcome to bring in circular treats to share with their classmates (preferably without nuts). We will then begin our unit on exponent properties with some investigations that allow students to discover the properties.

Upcoming Assessments:

• 3/18 Investigation on Product Rule
• 3/19 Investigation on Quotient Rule

Homework: Paper homework due Friday. I-Ready lesson due Sunday (6 for this advisory)

Unit 5 family resources:

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

Algebra 1: This week in algebra 1 we began factoring GCFs of polynomials, difference of perfect squares and quadratic trinomials. Next week in algebra 1, we will learn how to solve quadratic equations by factoring and then review for the mid unit assessment that will be on Thursday.

Upcoming Assessments: Mid unit assessment unit 7 – tentative date 3/19

Homework: No paper HW this week. Deltamath assignment due Sunday at 10PM.

Unit 6 family resources:

• Unit 7: Quadratic Equations
• Unidad 7: Ecuaciones cuadráticas

IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENTS FROM THIS WEEK

• American Progress Newspaper Summative – Digital assignment done in groups where students choose a perspective and assign roles to complete a front page of a newspaper about westward expansion and its effect on the chosen perspective; one submission for the group due in Canvas Wednesday, 3/12 by 11:59 PM

Hello all!

This week:

We completed newton’s first law of motion, free-body diagrams, balance and unbalance forces. Also, we started Newton’s 2nd law of motion and created a relationship between force, mass and acceleration.

Next week:

We will continue to work on Newton’s second law of motion by creating a relationship between force, mass and acceleration.

Furthermore, we will begin Newton’s third law of motion. Students will be able to analyze how Newton’s 3rd law of motion explains the physics behind many common activities and useful objects. Homework will be due on Wednesday.

Hello everyone!

This week, we read chapters 1-2 and started chapter 3 in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Assignments from the Week:

• Reading Plus (3) due Sunday (3/9) 11:59 pm
• TKAM Chapter 1 Recap due Wednesday (3/12) 11:59 pm

Past Assignments:

• End of Unit 2 Project due Friday (2/28) 11:59 pm.

Next week, I will be going on the Costa Rica trip. While I'm away, students will be continuing to read To Kill a Mockingbird (chapters 3-8) and answering questions.

***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:

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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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Mbanwie - Brunhilda.Mbanwie@k12.dc.gov

Turchetta - nicholas.turchetta@k12.dc.gov

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