Week 24

February 26th - March 2nd

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

Algebra, 1st and 8th hours:

We just started Ch. 7 on Exponential Growth and Decay. Students will be using the in-class graphing calculators to study patterns of exponential equations.

8th-grade math, 3rd and 7th hours:

We are continuing with our unit on the Laws of Exponents, Ch. 10 from their texts. The laws should be continually reviewed as the laws get confused when students don't write out the work in expanded form.

Science

Ms. Waller

twaller@foxbay.org

We are ready to begin our next unit Inheriting Traits. In this unit students will learn about the structure of DNA and how it encodes for proteins in the cell. They will also investigate how cells replicate to make copies of themselves (mitosis) and how gametes are formed (meiosis). Finally students will model how mutations occur in cells. This week will begin with a reading and then students will do an investigation modeling transcription and translation.

English

Mr. Heimerl

zheimerl@foxbay.org

We will finish the second trimester this week with no major deadlines. Students will simply continue the research process and finalize their note cards for their research essay. Students should have a total of 25 unique note cards recorded to their NoodleTools account by Wednesday, February 28th. We will then begin to discuss how to make sense of and organize all their various note and ideas. This process will spill into the third trimester when we will begin the writing process and all of its various steps.

Reading

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

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

This week in reading we will finish up the book Discovering Wes Moore. There will be a Double Journal Entry test mid to late week. This will count as an assessment grade and will go on Trimester 2. There is no root word this week.

Social Studies

Mr. Blahnik

bblahnik@foxbay.org

This week in United States History, we have started our next unit which is called "The Union Challenged." We have started Chapter 20 which is titled "A Divided Nation." The essential question of this chapter is: Which events of the mid-1800s kept the nation together and which events pulled it apart? The students are also working on their Washington D.C. project that contains the itinerary of the Washington D.C. trip. The project is due on Monday before the trip.