After School Math Tutoring

When a student is leaving school early for any reason, a parent/guardian must give permission every time.  So, when a student is being signed out by anyone other than the parent/guardian or someone on the emergency contacts list, the parent/guardian needs to send in a note ahead of time or call the Guidance Office at 734-439-5209 to let them know that someone else is picking their student up and that they have permission to do so.  This will confirm that the parent/guardian is aware of the situation and will allow for pick-ups from grandparents, siblings or others to help parents out in unique or sudden situations.

For elective updates and homework, please check the following links:

Band: https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/549 

Choir:https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/550 

PE: https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/552

Art: https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/5005

Journalism: https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/5040

Drama: https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/5039 

STEAM: https://www.milanareaschools.org/Page/553 

ELA

Updated 3/11/19

Students are continuing to work on Source Reliability and research for 20Time/Genius Hour. Students will be assessed in authority, URL validity, credibility, and accuracy on Monday, 3/18. Due to the many snow days and how far behind we are as a result (9 snow days equals many more than 9 days due to having to reestablish routines and expectations), we are getting less time for this unit than I would usually give. Students will have had several days to practice with the full group and independently, but students will be permitted to also use an evaluation of their research from next week for a reassessment, if necessary. 

Next week, students will visit the library to conduct research to support their 20Time/Genius Hour projects. Then, it's spring break! Once we return from break, the focus will be on short text excerpts, independent reading, and story elements.

20Time: Please support your students at home with their projects as it is a significant undertaking and learning experience. 

**Students need to bring their Chromebook, charger, ear buds, and a silent reading book each day. 

 ELA syllabus (link)  

• Rubrics (links)
• 20Time letter (link) 
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• jasperk@milanareaschools.org
• (734) 439-5217

Math 

Peer math tutoring is on Thursdays, from 2:30 - 3:30.  Please sign your child up with the link in announcements above if you are interested.

Math 7: Students are finding scale factor and using proportions to fond missing lengths and areas of given shapes under a scale factor.

Math 8: In math 8, students are solving multi-step linear equations.  We are using  combining like terms and distributing in order to simplify and then solve.

Science

 2/25

Over the last few days we watched the documentary, Titanoboa: Monster Snake.  This documentary is my favorite way in introduce our next areas of study: fossils and evolution. The video follows a group of scientists as they take a newly discovered fossil through the scientific process and make inferences about a 60 million year-old snake and the environment in which it thrived. 

This week we will also be getting our new workbooks, The Diversity of Living Things. Students will be expected to have this workbook at class everyday. 

Grades in Powerschool are currently up to date including missing assignments.

Checklist for Current Unit

Unit Rubric: The History of Life on Earth

Social Studies

This week in Social Studies we will be working on our examing some of our skills and interests in Career Cruising. Students also may have time to work on learning a little bit about financial literacy, if they finish their work on Career Cruising.

Spanish

Week of March 4:  

Monday

• Introduce new phrase: Es como echar agua al mar (Like throwing water into the sea): Spanish equivalent to "Like talking to a wall" or "In one ear and outc the other".
• Present Bob Esponja

Tuesday:

• Practice new phrase: Es como echar agua al mar.
• Present Bob Esponja

Wednesday-Friday

• Practice new phrase: Es como echar agua al mar.
• Present Bob Esponja
• Practice Al Revés
• Work with emotion words and phrases
• Present on last week's phrase on the board.

Parents and Students:  After school Spanish assistance is available from 2:30-3:30 on Thursdays and Fridays.  Please arrive at the classroom by 2:40.

Homework: Write phrase 3X Spanish & 3X English.  No homework Fridays.

 NOTE:  Performance of Al Revés on March 12.

Health 

This week in 7th Grade Health (April 1st):

This week we will be learning about the temptations, risks and consequences of sexting and other misbehavior when online.  On Tuesday, we have a special guest from the Washtenaw Council for Children coming for a presentation on cybersafety.  For the remainder of the week, students will work on some assessing, and creating advocacy projects regarding staying safe when online.

*Check out the 7th Grade Health Page  for links to class documents, past assignments and related course websites.