Week 23

February 20th-23rd

Class T-Shirt Design Contest

Is your child an artist? Does he/she like to design and create? Have him/her enter our graduation logo contest!! We are looking for our future graduates to design the Class of 2018 t-shirt and memory book cover.

Follow this link for further details.

Math

Ms. Knippen

jknippen@foxbay.org

Hours 1 and 8 – Algebra:

We will be finishing Ch. 6 this week with a test on Thursday (due to the students having off on Monday, the test is postponed a day). Students will be working with the graphing calculator-inputting data, calculating the line of best fit, residuals, correlation coefficient and upper and lower boundary lines. The parent guide is available through a link on google classroom. We will then begin work in Ch. 7. This is a chapter on geometric sequences and percentages as it relates to interest rates.

Hours 3 and 7 – 8th-grade Math:

We will be working on the Laws of Exponents from Ch. 10. We will also look at scientific notation. This is a quick unit and will finish up before we leave for DC.

Science

Ms. Waller

twaller@foxbay.org

We'll be finishing up our first Biology unit of the year with a test on Thursday. There is a study guide posted on Google Classroom. Prior to the test we have a lab to finish up where the students are looking at how a sugar solution affects Daphnia heart rate. Our next unit is Inheriting Traits and will explore how DNA codes for proteins and how it gets passed down from parent to offspring. Students will compare sexual and asexual reproduction and model how changes to a DNA sequence can result in mutations.

English

Mr. Heimerl

zheimerl@foxbay.org

This week, students will be continuing their research process. After gathering resources and narrowing their focus to a working thesis, students will begin taking notes using NoodeTools to record and organize their notes. They should each have ~15 unique notes recorded by Friday, 2/23.

In grammar, students will continue their exploration of the infinitive phrase with a quiz scheduled for Friday, February 23rd.

Reading

Ms. Brinnington, Ms. Traska, Ms. Hiir, Ms. Allen

dbrinnington@foxbay.org, straska@foxbay.org,
ghiir@foxbay.org, jallen@foxbay.org

This week we will be continuing our reading of Discovering Wes Moore. At the culmination of this short unit, we will be taking a service learning field trip on March 5. Root word this week is Flu/Flux.

Social Studies

Mr. Blahnik

bblahnik@foxbay.org

This week in United States History, to prepare for the Holocaust speaker on Wednesday, students will create a timeline of events of the Holocaust and investigate its impact and implications on us today. We also finished our unit on Americans in the mid-1800s. We will have our unit test on Friday. The next unit of study is called "The Union Challenged". This unit will examine the causes of the Civil War, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction Era. The students have also been assigned their Washington D.C. project that is based on the itinerary of the Washington D.C. trip that is coming up in March. The Washington D.C. project is posted on Google Classroom.