VMS PURPLE NEWSLETTER
Volume 21
Issue #14
Dec. 12-16, 2016
Builders Club will be selling Bells for Life from December 6th through December 18th
during 5th period lunch for $1. They will also sell them at the Boys’ home opener
basketball game on December 6th. Please buy a bell to support the Albany Medical
Center PICU!
Dec.
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Book Fair
6th Grade Concert, 7PM
7th & 8th Grade Concert, 7PM
Progress Reports posted to Parent Portal
7th Grade Trip to Town N Country Lanes (Bowl-A-Thon for local
humane society)
Dec. 26-Jan. 2: Holiday Recess
Grade 6
English 6 students will write literary essay drafts in class with a focus on including
evidence to support our arguments in strong body paragraphs. We will have a quiz on
Friday (NEW #7 and SOW: Including Quotes in Sentences).
Math 6 students will work on unit rates and have a quiz Friday.
Social Studies 6 students will inquire "was agriculture good for humans"? Students
should be prepared for an FF quiz on the seven elements of civilization Wednesday.
Science 6 students will study the respective effects of the Earth's rotation and
revolution around the Sun. As we finish learning about the Earth's cyclical motions,
we will have a quiz.
FACS 6 students will be finishing their sugar projects and will begin their food
preparation unit. They will have a quiz on reading food labels probably on
Wednesday.
Art 6 students will begin the concept of watercolor painting and Gyotaku fish printing.
Grade 7
English 7 students will continue reading The Giver and finding evidence that it's a
dystopia, writing down text details that support students' specific claims (in their
reading log). Some nights students will have reading HW and will fill in their reading
log, while other nights they'll have to write a journal response in their notebook. The
2nd page of their blue Giver packet has a calendar of assignments. Wednesday we will
have our in class spelling bee and visit the book fair.
Math 7 students will be working on applying our knowledge of proportions and will be
working with similar figures. We will try to see how similar shapes are in proportion
with one another. We will then start our scale drawing/similar figures project based on
enlarging a holiday/winter themed picture.
Social Studies 7 students will be following the steps of the colonists and preparing for
the American Revolution as they analyze the Declaration of Independence and how, for
it to have any real meaning, the Americans would have to win their liberties on the
battlefield. There is a vocab quiz for chapter 6 on Monday, 12/19. Weekly online
Castle Questions have also started. Please encourage your student to complete their
online questions in a timely manner as the questions help to review and reinforce
material from class. Get updates on what is going on in class… sign up for Guardian
Summaries. Email me ([email protected]) today and I will send you an invite!
You can also use the class website at
https://sites.google.com/a/voorheesville.org/ss7young/ as a resource.
Science 7 students will have an Excretory Test on Thursday.
Spanish 7 students will be introduced to vocabulary about school and verbs to express
things that they do at school.
Art 7 students will be starting the concept of 2pt. perspective.
Grade 8
English 8 students will be taking The Call of the Wild unit test this week. This is a
multiple day test where students will be given two days to complete an essay and one
day, in class, to complete the content and vocabulary questions. If students are
absent during any one of the days, it will be their responsibility to make up the test
after school.
Math 8 students will continue their study of proportional relationships and begin
studying linear functions.
Algebra 1 students will review linear functions as an introduction to the study of other
types of functions.
Social Studies 8 students will learn about the Spanish American War this week.
Students will have a vocab quiz on Thursday, December 15. On December 16,
students will have the opportunity to meet an actor who plays the role of Teddy
Roosevelt. Students learn about Teddy's influence on American history and are
awarded teddy bears for asking and answering questions!
Science 8 students will learn about polarity which helps to explain why oil and water
don't mix for example. We'll also start balancing chemical equations.
Spanish 8 students will be introduced to vocabulary about sports.
FACS 8 B-day students will continue with their consumer complaint unit. A-day
students will begin their housing project.
Art 8 students will start their Audubon Bird Project this week.