HIES
Middle School News
HIES
Middle School News
Friday, September 10th,
2010
~ Our students covered the
following information, skills and topics during the (shortened) weeks of August
30th and September 7th…
·
6th grade
students worked with comparing and ordering decimals, multiplying and dividing
decimals, and problem solving
·
7th grade
students worked with adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing positive and
negative numbers, and problem solving
·
Algebra students
worked with open sentence equations, the identity, equality, distributive,
commutative and associative properties, and logical reasoning
·
Geometry students
worked with the distance formula, the angle addition postulate, midpoint, and
bisectors
·
All
middle school students:
-reviewed the note-taking strategy Cornell Notes and the pre-reading strategy
THIEVES
-worked with a Thesaurus
-contributed a personal event to a summer
timeline
-interviewed a grandparent (or parent) and
-contributed several events to a Venn
Diagram comparing the life of today’s teenager with the life of a teenager
in their grandparents’ time
-had a retired ECHS teacher read the short story
A Sound of Thunder aloud
-began state PE testing
-did groupwork with the understanding of cause and effect
-have an AR book and should be able to read 1 hour daily!!!
-Every student was given their access code for online grades today!!!
·
Our DE football team
and Cheerleaders had their first game and played into overtime.
(GO DE!)
·
Our DE girls’ soccer
team won 1 game and lost 1 game this week
Upcoming Events
·
Tuesday- movie
version of A Sound of Thunder
·
All students need to return the Guidance permission slip for
Mr. A by Tuesday!!!
·
Friday- 8th
grade NCSU Chemistry professor seminar 10:00-11:30
·
Fun
Summer Celebration end-of-unit
activities!!!
·
Our next unit will
focus on the balances of nature
·
DE Football Sept. 15th
at ECHS vs. Beaufort Middle at 5pm
·
DE Girls’ Soccer
Sept. 14th at Beaufort and Sept. 16th at Arapahoe both at
4pm
·
School Pictures will
be in late October