Team Hyper Space: Isn't it Beautiful Outside?

    Since last week's title to the blog did not help us with our weather, I thought I would be positive about this endless (wonderful) snow. We are sure hoping that this week we will have school for all five days.
     We obviously did not get to walk to PHS last week since we were not in school and the weather was unkind. So, sometime the week of February 17-21 we will be walking over to work with the PHS acting class. We had a visit from Ms. Faulstitch and a few students last week and it was wonderful. She held all of our attention and she involved our learners into what she was talking about. She had volunteers work with her students and it was a lot of fun. I think it lit the fire under our kids and they are ready to get rolling on this play.
     We have been working on geometry in math class and will continue through this grading period. We have also started a new daily math review and those papers you will be seeing in the Monday folder for awhile. It was requested that we send those home so parents could see what we are working on and if their child is struggling. If you see that your child's daily math review has some blanks encourage them to work on these problems. We work on them in class and go over them but not everyone gets them all done and they are encouraged to review them at home. This is a great way to get everyone ready for ISTEP.
     It looks like we will be pushing back to start date for ISTEP due to this extreme winter and our days off. When things are finalized we will let you know those dates for sure. Students will be taking all of the ISTEP online this year except the Applied Skills math portion (so they can show their work). Students will be writing online so we have been working with digital journals to keep them typing and practicing.
     In science we have started a new unit of inquiry called Floating and Sinking. This is a fun unit and we will be doing these inquiry based activities two days a week for this quarter. In humanities we continue to work on our knowledge of the American Revolution. We also continue to work on our reading and writing skills daily.
     On Friday, February 14th Echo is getting a bit of a face lift. Here is a link to the information we received on this from New Tech. Some of this may not apply to you parents but we thought it would be nice to give you a heads up on what is happening.
     Have a great week and enjoy this beautiful snow!

A few shots of our American Revolution student lead lessons.