Weekly News

This week in Math we will be continuing our work with integers. We will review plotting positive and negative numbers on a coordinate grid on Monday. On Tuesday, we will have a quiz on graphing on a coordinate grid, along with adding and subtracting integers. For the rest of the week, we will focus on multiplying and dividing integers.

In Science we will continue our study of energy. We will wrap up last week's activity of the energy needed to drive a nail into a foam block before looking at energy within roller coasters. With this background in mind, students should then have a good understanding of kinetic vs. potential energy, and they will study the Law of the Conservation of Energy. Using the Law of Conservation of Energy, students will be able to connect it directly to situations where energy is used and describe where the energy transfers took place.

In Advisory students will get a list of ideas for math and science, that they can complete for Trimester Academics for their exhibition. At this point, most students should have a pretty good idea of what they are presenting for the health/animal topic, since we had our last check-in on Friday. Making notes on notecards, making sure nothing is plagiarized and having visual aids ready are some last steps to wrapping up everything before the actual exhibition. If you haven't signed up for a time yet, make sure you do quickly! Times are running out!

Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday, May 21 due to Teacher Professional Development.