Math

Welcome to 7th Grade Math, where students are learning, thinking, comprehending, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating!

 We began our school year  by creating a math project called "The Math In Me". Students shared numerical facts about themselves, in mathematical equations, and created beautiful projects that are displayed in the 4th floor hallway.

 It was inspiring  for me to see how all the students were  engaged as they made up mathematical expressions to equal the facts they were expressing. Students used multiple operations, exponents, fractions and PEMDAS. They enjoyed the projects and were proud to see their projects hanging in the hallway.

We began with Chapter 2 in our Math books. The students  learned about negative and positive integers. They watched a slide show that showed us many real life uses of integers. Students learned to add integers. We used number lines, and counters as well as the rules for adding integers.  

We made foldables where students have clear concise notes that include the pertinent information on the various mathematical operations with integers.

Wishing you and your families a Shana Tova Umesuka

ELA and Social Studies

What a week!

As we come to the end of our second full week, school is in full swing.

Congratulations to all our wonderful 7th graders for their achievements in our Student Government Association and our Mazel Times editorial staff. we have already been hard at work dividing up our roles and starting on our responsibilities.

Our ELA class has been busy with starting our spelling and vocabulary units, journal entries and starting our first literature story.
We are working on the skills of using context to understand grammar rules, and vocabulary.

I can't wait to see these skills out to work by the Mazel Times newspaper staff!

Thanks to the beautiful weather we have been able to spend some of our break time walking down to the bay, coming back refreshed and ready to keep on learning. 

In social studies we have looked at how rights and responsibilities work together as a citizen. After that we started our geography unit, looking at how to read a map and   the physical characteristics of the United States.

Looking forward to another fantastic week ahead

Mrs. Raskin