The 8th graders are selling the first HDS Spirit Shirt of the school year to raise money for their upcoming DC trip! The cost of the shirt is $17, and the money and form must be returned no later than February 3rd. Your child will be bringing home an order form today!
Link to order form for PK - 7th grade: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/6181888a-1e0b-4491-a866-9f6f6bef5500
Link to order form for 8th grade:
Community Service Opportunity
Second Harvest will be filling brown bags for the elderly on Saturday, February 18th. Please arrive by 7:45.
Special Request
Nicholas Childers, a current 7th grade student, is in need of a match for a stem cell transplant in order to survive his relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. If you or anyone you know between the ages of 18 and 60 meet the health guidelines and are willing to be a possible stem cell donor, please join the national bone marrow registry at www.bethematch.org. This website will explain the process of donating stem cells which is similar to donating blood. You may BE THE MATCH that provides the cure!
Basketball Pictures
On Tuesday, Jan. 31st, InFocus will be on campus taking basketball pictures. Each player will need to bring their uniform along with their money and order form. Pictures will begin at 10:00 AM in the gym. If you have any questions, please contact Coach O’Hayer or Mrs. Chandler. Below is a link to the order form.
NOTES FROM 8th GRADE
8th Grade Algebra 1 Mrs. Reardon
Next week in Algebra we will continue in chapter 7 by solving more linear systems, but this time we will be solving them using substitution, adding, subtracting, and multiplying. On Thursday, we will review for the quiz that will take place on Friday (2/3) over lessons 1 through 4. Students should also expect a notebook check (counts as a HW/CW grade) on Thursday (2/2).
8th Grade Geometry Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will continue our discussion of quadrilaterals by learning some properties of parallelograms (8.2), proofs about parallelograms (8.3), and learning some properties of rhombuses, rectangles, and squares (8.4). There will be a quiz covering section 8.1-8.4 on Friday.
8th Grade Advanced Algebra Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will complete Chapter 8 by practicing finding the area of trapezoids (8.6) and learning how to find the circumference and area of circles (8.7). We will also learn how to use central angles to find the area of a sector of a circle (8.7). There will be a day of review and the Chapter 8 test at the end of the week.
8th Grade Language Arts Mrs. O’Connor
This week we concluded our study of Night and worked on beginning to draft our summative trimester assessment. Next week students will continue to work on this assignment, and we hope to have the paper wrapped up by next Friday, February 3rd. Please note that this is a tentative deadline that could possibly be extended depending on the needs of the class. In addition to working on this paper, we will also spend time next week exploring elements of poetry.
Remember to keep up with your independent reading log!
8th Grade History Mrs. English
This week in American History and Gov’t II we continue working on our Summative Assessment Writing Assignment and begin our final geography unit for T2. We will introduce political countries of Asia in preparation for our last trimester when America becomes a more global conscious nation. Looking ahead, our last test of the trimester will be on geography on February 10th.
8th Grade Physical Science Mrs. Huennekens- January 23, 2017
Next week we begin compounds and mixtures! This is usually a really fun section with several labs. The chapter test is scheduled for February 7th.
Our current event presentations will run every Friday from now until February 10th. The students have each signed up for a Friday and the schedule is posted in the lab. They each have a handout with detailed instructions that they should follow as they prepare the presentation. I have also asked them to practice at home, so please ask your child to share with you.
I encourage students to check Google Classroom on a daily basis. I frequently add helpful websites and other information that they might find interesting along with any notes or assignments due for class. All students are welcome to come see me for extra help.I have asked the students to jot down any questions or concepts that they feel require further explanation so they are prepared to meet with me.
8th Grade Spanish Ms. Hughes
Next week in Spanish class, the 8th grade will continue to work with the preterite and the imperfect tense through a series of speaking, listening, reading and writing activities. The grammar quiz will be Friday, February 3rd. Student should also begin organizing their binders and preparing for the exams.
NOTES FROM 7th GRADE
7th Grade Algebra 1 Mrs. Reardon
Next week in Algebra we will continue in chapter 7 by solving more linear systems, but this time we will be solving them using substitution, adding, subtracting, and multiplying. On Thursday, we will review for the quiz that will take place on Friday (2/3) over lessons 1 through 4. Students should also expect a notebook check (counts as a HW/CW grade) on Thursday (2/2).
7th Grade Pre-Algebra Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will learn about probability (6.7) and the counting principle (6.8). There will be a day of review on Thursday and a quiz over sections 6.7-6.8 on Friday.
7th Grade Language Arts Mrs. Hannah
Seventh grade is diving deep into the multiple layers of the novel Animal Farm! This week we are reading and analyzing chapters 4-7, with a quiz over the reading on Tuesday 31 January. Students seem to be enjoying the novel and are making excellent connections between the events in the novel and the correlation to government and human rights.
We are also beginning to write persuasive speeches advocating for a change to a school rule. Students are studying the structure of the speeches given within the novel, identifying rhetoric and propaganda within, and using these tools to write a speech of their own. Seventh grade always has fun with this project, and I’m looking forward to hearing their points of view!
7th Grade History Mrs. English
This week in American History and Gov’t I we will finish discussing the major battles of the Revolutionary War and see how the Americans ultimately won the war. Tuesday we will review for our test on February 1st. We will wrap up the trimester with a unit on North and South American Geography.
7th Grade Spanish Ms. Hughes
Next week in Spanish class, the 7th grade will begin Chapter 8B. In this chapter students will discuss volunteer work and ways to protect the environment. They will also learn some new irregular verbs in the preterite tense and how to use indirect object pronouns in Spanish. The vocabulary quiz will be Friday, February 3rd.
7th Grade Life Science Mrs. Heyward
We finished our discussion of mitosis and are moving to mini-unit that will cover meiosis. We will take a test on this information on February 7th. We will also distribute information for the End of the Trimester project on January 30th. The project will be due on February 10, before T2 exams. Have a great weekend!
NOTES FROM 6th GRADE
6th Grade Accelerated Math 7 Mrs. Reardon
Next week we will continue in chapter 7 by simplifying expression and solving equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. On Thursday, we will review for the quiz that will take place on Friday (2/3) over sections 1 through 4. Students should also expect a notebook check (counts as a HW/CW grade) on Thursday (2/2).
6th Pre-Algebra Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will learn about probability (6.7) and the counting principle (6.8). There will be a day of review on Thursday and a quiz over sections 6.7-6.8 on Friday.
6th Grade Language Arts Mrs. Guggenheim
Week of January 30, 2017
This week in ELA we will be finishing our unit on The Giver. The unit test is scheduled for Friday, February 3. The quiz over List 2 vocab is 1/31. Please remind your student to get their Reading Log signed. This counts as a project grade. There are a number of students who are well on their way to meet the goal of 360 minutes for the trimester. However, there are almost a third who have turned in zero minutes. The last day to turn in minutes is 2/10. Edited copies of short stories with original graded story are due 2/7.
This week in ELA we will be finishing our unit on The Giver. The unit test is scheduled for Friday, February 3. The quiz over List 2 vocab is 1/31. Please remind your student to get their Reading Log signed. This counts as a project grade. There are a number of students who are well on their way to meet the goal of 360 minutes for the trimester. However, there are almost a third who have turned in zero minutes. The last day to turn in minutes is 2/10. Edited copies of short stories with original graded story are due 2/7.
6th Grade Ancient Civilizations Mrs. Hannah
Sixth grade will finish their summative assessment on Monday: a timelime of events from the four major river valleys we have studied so far. Tuesday through Thursday we will watch Mulan and complete guided questions to help students compare cultural ideas from the movie to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. On Friday, students will use the guided questions they completed during the movie to write a comparative essay.
6th Grade Earth Science Mrs. Huennekens- January 23
This week, students will test on Chapter 12: Volcanoes on January 31st. On Wednesday, students will begin their in class project for the T2 assessment grade.
Our current event presentations will run every Friday from now until February 10th. The students have each signed up for a Friday and the schedule is posted in the lab. Our second trimester exams are scheduled for February 16 & 17. We will have an in class activity for our exam. I encourage students to check Google Classroom on a daily basis. I frequently add helpful websites and other information that they might find interesting along with any notes or assignments due for class. All students are welcome to come see me for extra help.I have asked the students to jot down any questions or concepts that they feel require further explanation so they are prepared to meet with me.
6th Grade Spanish Ms. Sotomayor
This week we have been reviewing likes and dislikes as expressed in the Spanish language, the possessive pronouns, and “Estar” in its different conjugated forms with the prepositions. We wrapped up the week with a unit test. Next week, the students have a quiz on Friday, February 3rd.
Ensemble Mrs. Cookson
We had fun in Ensemble this week playing games. We added Sound Round and Mafia to our repertoire. We also did some character analysis for our “Crowdfunding” scene. More fun to come next week.
Art Mrs. Cookson
This week saw progression on ongoing challenges.
6th - We split the class into two groups; one continued work on story illustrations, the other started to learn the process of wet felting.
7th - We jumped onto the Chromebooks this week to work with Gravit to complete our concert posters. It is amazing how quickly most students picked up the software. So nice to see the sketches come to fruition.
8th - Our clay tiles are coming along. Students chose to go either sgraffito or mishima (ask your child), and went to work with carving or glazing. These are going to be so cool when they are finished.
