Team Abuja Newsletter

WinterFest 2024 - (Friday, December 20) – Team Abuja will come together to celebrate WinterFest on Friday, December 20th during lunch. Students should bring in their normal lunch and will be able to purchase their cafeteria lunch if they need to do so. Students are asked to bring one of the following based on their 1st period class to share with their friends as we celebrate the Winter Season with Ice Cream and Cookies:

• Kirschenbaum/Daboh - Ice Cream (nut free)

• Wesselhoft – Icing (for cookies)

• Sagan – Toppings (for cookies and ice cream) (nut free)

• Gomez/Patsalos – Cookies (store-bought, nut free)

Team Notice – If you have an extra box of tissue in your home, please send it in with your students. Lots of sneezing is going on.

This week, we will analyze each of the Tuck’s viewpoints about immortality. We will do most of this book’s reading in class, so students can continue reading independent books at home. Students should be bringing their independent books to and from school daily. Also, if your student has a copy of Tuck Everlasting, please have them bring it to class. If you are interested in adding to our classroom collection, please visit our Amazon Wish List.

MATH6: This week we will have our RCT #3 and then begin our next Unit focusing on arithmetic in base ten(decimals). We will work with adding and subtracting decimals.

MATH7: We will have a formative this upcoming week and continue working with proportional relationships and percentages. We will be working with percent increase and decrease.

This week, students learned about Abraham and some basic beliefs and rituals of the three monotheistic religions. We wrapped up the week with a cold, yet informative, field trip to a church, mosque and synagogue.

Next week, students will learn about the Old City of Jerusalem. Students will use the knowledge they have gained about each religion and investigate a text to write an essay explaining each religion’s historical and current cultural significance within the Old City of Jerusalem.

Hello Scientists!

This week, students explored landslides and topographic maps, learning about how the Earth's surface changes and how we can represent these changes on maps.

Next week, we will conclude our Rock Transformation Unit. Students will have a summative assessment covering weathering, erosion, and deposition on Wed. Dec 11th . To help prepare, they should complete the study guide, which is due on Wed, December 11th (the day of the assessment). Students can also review using the Blooket links that have been posted on Canvas.

Additionally, on Fri. Dec 13th, students will take Roots Quiz 2.5, this week’s words are listed below.

Roots Words 2.5:

*post = after (think postpone, postpartum)

*gen = origin (think generation, generate, genetics)

Micro = small (think microscope, microorganism, microbe)

Script = to write (think descriptive, manuscript)

*poly = many (think polygon, polyglot)

Keepers: centi, milli, octa, petro/petri, super, ign, pyro, topo, seismo, sub, hyper, pre

Thank you to everyone who has donated to my amazon wishlist so far – and an especially big shoutout to those who donated printer paper! My amazon wishlist link is here https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/gkYQSIk?ref_=wl_share if you would like to contribute to our classroom. Thank you for your generosity!!

Link to World Languages Newsletter https://secure.smore.com/u/patricia.balestra4

As the year goes on, we want to ensure that students are able to access help when they need it! Team Abuja teachers are available by appointment, and there is a dedicated Tutoring Time in either Mx. Gomez's room or Ms. Sagan's room on Wednesdays from 3:30 - 4:20. Here We Grow!

Library Corner

Welcome to the month of November! Check out these great resources that the library is offering for the month. Links are available in this month's Library Newsletter below:

DEAL MS LIBRARY NEWS! | Smore Newsletters

Library overdue emails will be sent out next week for any student who has not returned books for over 30 days. Please be on the lookout to help us get those precious books back!

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

https://secure.smore.com/n/9vs8z

Stay up to date with the complete list of clubs and activities by going to the Deal website: https://www.alicedealmiddleschool.org

Adam Kirschenbaum, ELA adam.kirschenbaum@k12.dc.gov

Lauren-Ashley Gomez, Math lauren-ashley.gomez@k12.dc.gov

Naeemah Wesselhoft, Geography naeemah.wesselhoft@k12.dc.gov

Ellie Sagan, Science ellie.sagan@k12.dc.gov

Connie Patsalos, MLL Geography - constance.patsalos@k12.dc.gov

Ameera Daboh, MLL ELA - ameera.daboh@k12.dc.gov

Devin Watson, ISS Coordinator devin.watson@k12.dc.gov

Ellen Barr, Social Worker ellen.barr@k12.dc.gov

Tysha Morris, School Counselor tysha.morris@k12.dc.gov

If your child will not be in school, please email DealAttendance@k12.dc.gov .