November 15, 2013
Team Notes:
It was wonderful to meet many of you last night and we hope to see more of you on Tuesday for conferences. Please feel to bring your student to conferences as it helps to have his/her perspective when discussing progress. If any of you missed conferences or if you need to speak further with any or all of us at any time during the year, we are available to set up team conferences during our planning time. Just contact any of your child's teachers to set up a time.
Apologies for the multiple emails last week as I was trying to send the Grading Overview attachment. We were having server issues. It seems to be okay now so I will send that Grading Overview this week.
English (Totzke): This week, our students have been busy researching their historical time periods and studying for the Unit 4 vocabulary quiz, which we took Friday, November 15. Check IC to see if your student should retake the quiz! Next week, we will take the information that we found about our topics and shape it into an article. Happy Reading!
English (Rigell): https://sites.google.com/a/oregonsd.net/oms-enriched-english/home/homework
Tech Tools: Last week in Technology Tools class students played a game to review some skills and learn some new ones. They "leveled up", earned care cash, and had a bonus game day on Friday. Next week we will working on a format for a magazine article. This will include text, images, and citations. Students will definitely get more practice with easybib.com and MLA citations!!
Geography (Stoller): Students took a map quiz today; it required them to have completed a physical and a political map of the Middle East. Although we have talked about and practiced for this quiz for a week, some students did not have their maps complete and retakes will be necessary. Feel free to check IC for those grades later this weekend. Upcoming…..Show me the money! Students are learning about basic economic principals such as supply and demand and taxes. We will eventually use that background knowledge to study various economic systems (capitalism, socialism, communism) as a basis for studying different countries and regions. Right now, we are focusing specifically on Supply and Demand (we had a quiz today) and on how OPEC uses that principal to control our gas supply. We are also discussing how and why OPEC impacts our day to day life here in Oregon. Our quiz on OPEC and taxes will be next Friday.
Geography (Howe): Students have been hard at work this week researching different world religions. During second quarter, we spend most of our time in the Middle East and Asia, the cradle of civilization and birth place of major religions. These religions, especially, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have played a large part in the shaping of those regions over the last several millennia. Students will instruct the class as experts on their particular religion to better explain how beliefs and practices can affect society.
Math (Stauss): During math class this week we spent time learning about how a scale factor can be used to find missing side lengths of similar figures. We also talked about the special relationship between the adjacent sides of similar figures and how the ratio of those sides is always the same. On Wednesday and Thursday of this week we focused on completing a study guide in preparation for our test on Monday. On Friday, students played a jeopardy game on content taught over the past unit for review. After the game, students were able to take a second review for further practice over the weekend. Next week we will begin our new unit entitled Comparing and Scaling where students will learn about proportional relationships and how they can be used to solve real-world problems.
Math (Krueger): See separate IC email and blog post
Science (vanStenderen): In our investigation of cells this week, we studied their appearance by making "7th grade drawings" of them, identified structures in scientific drawings, studied what each part does, and revisited analogies. Students then used flashcards to prepare for the first cell quiz on Friday. Our next project involves student groups creating a cell model and researching a specific cell structure. Each team will research 4 - 5 parts to research depending on the number of students in the group. On Tuesday, something is going to happen which will challenge the cell's existence. The group will need to use the research they have done to see what the consequence will be for the cell. Students are encouraged to bring their own devices to class Monday and Tuesday.
Science (Howe): Entering our third week of our cell unit, students have already determined the characteristics of living things, and have identified cell parts and their functions. The next progression is for students to provide evidence in an argument that living things are made of cells. They'll accomplish this task this week by researching how the failure of certain cell parts could affect the rest of the cell, and then will be assessed by being given a random cell part and a scenario.
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Andrew Dolejs (Special Education) - acdolejs@oregonsd.net
Kelly (Eickert) Manzeck (Special Education) – kjmanzeck@oregonsd.net
Alex Howe (Geo and Science) - abhowe@oregonsd.net
Bryan Krueger (Math) - bmkrueger@oregonsd.net
Katie Stauss (Math) – kmstauss@oregonsd.net
Amanda Rigell (English) - akrigell@oregonsd.net
Jeri Shumaker (Tech Tools) - jsh@oregonsd.net
Laura Stoller (Geography) – lms3@oregonsd.net
Caitlyn Duffy (FACE) - cmduffy@oregonsd.net
Tiffany Totzke (English) - tntotzke@oregonsd.net
Debe vanStenderen (Science) – ddv@oregonsd.net
Team Blog: http://oms7-osharks.blogspot.com/
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