Our Skeletal System

In Science on Thursday, we studied our skeletal system.  We finished class with a scavenger hunt for "skeletal bones" and pieced them all together!

Have a safe and happy Halloween weekend!

Solving for X

Last week, students learned how to solve for x in equations.  They had so much fun and did such a great job!!

Eating Like the Survivors

As we begin reading our second novel in the three-part series, Island Book Two: Survival, the students had the opportunity to try to open and eat a coconut.  It was a great experience and gave the students an idea of what it would be like for the kids in our novel to open and eat coconuts on the island!

Greene Valley Forest Preserve

Today we took a community trip to Greene Valley forest preserve.  We completed a scavenger hunt that correlated with our plant unit in Science.  Although it was a little buggy, it was perfect weather!

Welcome Back! 2014-2015

I hope that everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable summer!  It was definitely a busy summer in the Nino household!

There are many exciting changes ahead for this school year!  All 7th graders will be receiving ChromeBooks to use at both home and school and it will be a wonderful opportunity to incorporate more technology into all lessons and assignments.  We will also be using Google Classroom on a weekly basis to update students and post assignments online.  This will allow for students to access assignments, rubrics, etc. from anywhere and download assignments again if they are needed  More details will follow this week, as well as, at curriculum night.

I will continue to post weekly blogs to update everyone on what is occurring in each class.

I am happy to be working with all students and parents again this year and can't wait to see what this year holds.

March 10th-14th

Here is a look at our week ahead!

*Math:  Students will continue to work on their individual concept areas: money, place value, or division.
*Reading:  We are beginning our Persuasive Unit this week!  Monday, we will spend time defining what it means to persuade someone and take a look at both commercial and magazine advertisements for a variety of products/places.  We will view a short video titled, "Media Wise" on Tuesday and the finish the week analyzing a few stories, such as the True Story of the Three Little Pigs, to determine the types of persuasion being used to appeal to its readers/viewers.
*RtI Reading:  Tying in with our Persuasive Unit, the practice skill for RtI Reading will be Fact and Opinion.  We will begin the week taking a closer look at some advertisements and identifying facts and opinions within them.  We will finish the week having a debate on our "Favorite French Fries".  Students will need to research two facts about their favorite fries and then form one to two personal opinion.  We will share/debate this in class.
*Language Arts: Nouns, verbs, and adjectives will be reviewed this week.  We will spend one day reviewing each of these parts of speech and then play a review game at the end of the week.
*Social Studies (7/8 grade only):  This week, we will continue to discuss the environment and lifestyles of those colonists living in the 13 colonies.  We will talk about how the Revolutionary War affected the lives of the colonists and the first steps taken to write the Declaration of Independence and, eventually, the Constitution.

Have a wonderful week!!

February 18th-21st

Here is a look at our activities for next week!

*Reading: We are continuing with our Literature Circles this week.  Things have been going very well and the students are all very engaged and wonderful contributors to the group discussions!
*RtI Reading:  We are working on Fact and Opinion this week.  Students will be reading the story "Take A Hike" and identifying facts and opinions within the story.  We also will be playing a facts and opinions game before finishing up the week working on Lexia.
*Math: Students are continuing to work on their individual workbooks and activities.
*Language Arts: We are starting adjectives this week.  We will begin by defining adjectives and locating them in sentences.
*Social Studies (7th/8th grade only): Students will finish the presidential reports that they began last week and share them will the class.  We also will be viewing a video about the presidents and discussing how events during their presidencies have affected our lives today.

*Reminders*
-No school on Monday, February 17th
-Community Trip to Walmart on February 20th 9:15-10:30

Have a great weekend!