Newsletter October 12th, 2018

We are more than halfway through the quarter as it ends November 2nd.  This means students are juggling many assignments and due dates. A great place to see deadlines as we know them is our blog http://oms7-osharks.blogspot.com/

Our CARE trip will be on November 9th.  Students have to take care of all of their re-takes or check in with teachers if they have summative scores that are “2” or less.  More information will come soon.

Battle of the Books lunch club will begin next Tuesday, 10/16.  All students are welcome to join! 7th graders will meet during their lunch in the library with Mrs. Hunter and 8th graders will meet in Mrs. Westrich's room.  If you aren't sure what Battle of the Books is and want to know more, stop by the library or Mrs. Westrich's room to get more information. Basically, read books, meet and talk about them, and compete (if you want to)! 2018-19 Book List

Thank you so much to everyone who helped us with Urban Challenge.  We are so grateful for the support. The students made us really proud as they traveled through downtown Madison and we hope that your learner also had a good day.  This is a major undertaking and we could not have done it without everyone’s support and help, so thank you so much!

English - Ripp and Bures

Deadlines:

Read two hours or more outside of class every week

Questions to ask:

• How did you do on your speech (note they will be viewable on Classroom starting Monday)
• What is on your to-be-read list?
• How many books have you abandoned?

Spanish - Landsverk:

For 7th grade Spanish: This week Wednesday/Thursday is the Grammar

Guides A and B quiz. Next week we will be moving on with the Grammar.

Expect to start the final summative project on Thursday or Friday.

Science - Spaeth

Deadlines:  Living or nonliving packet due Monday, October 15th

Choir:  

Our Quarter 1 sight singing assessment is due Oct. 12 by 11:59 PM.  Students can access the link to the assessment in Google Classroom. Please check with them that they have completed this task!  :)

Make sure our first Summative Concert Assessment is on your calendar for Dec. 6 at 7:00 PM at the Oregon High School Auditorium.

Art:

Ask your student about the printmaking process.  What makes good print quality? What is the advantage of printmaking compared to other other media?

English - Westrich

Deadlines:Word Within the Word List 13: Word Work due Friday, 10/12; assessment Monday, 10/15

Questions to ask:

• Are you planning to participate in Battle of the Books?

Spanish (Jensen)

Upcoming Assessments:

-Vocabulary Quiz (Friday 10/12 black day classes, Monday 12/15 orange day classes)

--->Study using vocab list in unit 1 packet

--->Study using websites (www.quizlet.com -- search OMS Jensen 7.1 or  www.studystack.com/users/kate_jnsn -- click on OMS Jensen 7.1)

-Unit 1 Project (Thursday 10/18 black day classes, Friday 10/19 orange day classes)

--->Students will have a short (memorized) conversation in Spanish with a classmate.  They'll ask and answer questions about names, feelings, origins, and nationalities. All of the questions and answers are on the back page of the unit 1 packet.

Geography (Stoller/Kreklow)

Deadlines: Current event presentation due the day the student signed up

Question to ask:

- What have you learned from doing the map packet?

- Have you done your current event presentation?

- What have you learned from your classmates current event presentations?

Poch (Math 8):

Summative on Wednesday (10/11) on TWMM Final Unit Summative

- Check IC for missing assignments

- Ask what they learned in this unit

Orchestra

The fall concert is next week, Thursday, Oct. 18th at Oregon High School, 7:00 p.m.

Students should report by 6:30 and be dressed in concert black.

Rehearsals will be held at OMS during the school day and students will be responsible for taking music and instruments home with them and bringing them to the high school that evening and back to OMS the following day (except for string bass students).

STEAM - Fischer

Deadlines: Notebooks turned in for first check Thursday or Friday

Questions to ask:

- How are notebooks assessed?

- What is the engineering design process?

Math --> Gratzl

Deadlines:

Shapes and Designs Test Corrections Due 10/19

Questions to ask:

-What is the opposite of -5?

-What is an inequality?  How would you graph x<5?

Band- Jaeger

Deadlines: Bb Major Scale assessments began on October 8th and run until October 19th.

Questions to ask:

Where does your student feel they are performing on their assessment?

What is their plan for improving their performance before Friday, October 19th?