HSP Weekly Update
Mr. Dziedzicki- Assistant Principal, HSP Director, 8th Grade Homeroom, Mathematics
I cannot believe that a quarter of the school year has already passed! As fall turns into winter, keep looking for exciting activities and updates from your HSP faculty. Algebra I classes have begun their study of properties of exponents and will be using these properties to calculate the volume of the earth in donuts! Stay tuned. 6th grade advanced math will begin solving multi-step equations, a foundational algebra topic.
It is also Red Ribbon Week! A week to show that Saint Ambrose School is drug free! Here is a list of activities…
- Monday 10/23
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- Crazy Shoe Day – Stomp Out Drugs! (Wear uniforms. No backless sandals or flip-flops.)
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- Tuesday 10/24
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- Red Out – SAS Against Drugs!
- Wear all things red with Spirit (Wear dress down attire. No tattoos, face paint or hair dye.
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- Wednesday 10/25
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- Visors, Baseball Caps, Hats, Sunglasses – Block Out Drugs! (Wear uniforms.)
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- Thursday 10/26
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- Dress Up Like A Boss/Your Dream Career – Show Drugs Who’s Boss! (Wear school-appropriate dress up attire.)
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- Friday 10/27
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- Crazy Hair and Socks – Drugs are Crazy! (Wear uniforms.)
Here are some thoughts from the rest of the HSP faculty…
Ms. Noga- 7th Grade Homeroom, Social Studies
Welcome to the second quarter! We wrapped up quarter one with a few fun projects. The sixth-graders researched various Sumerian inventions and created Google Slideshows about them. We will continue our Mesopotamian unit, discussing the Babylonians and Hammurabi’s Code. The seventh-graders designed impressively creative Powtoon presentations recruiting people to live in either Athens or Sparta. Next, we’ll continue with Athens’ Golden Age, talking about government, architecture, philosophy and more. Finally, the eighth-graders presented their “live” timelines about different countries’ Age of Exploration. We will continue to talk about the colonization of North America as this next quarter begins.
Mr. LaGuardia- 7th Grade Homeroom, English/Language Arts
The week of 10/16 consisted of many activities in order to wrap up 1st quarter grading. Students in ELA all took a hefty grammar quiz on 10/20, and are being offered the chance to do corrections due on 10/25. Ask the students–this week was one test and/or quiz after another!
HIGHLIGHTS:
8th graders cracked into the weird world of Edgar Allen Poe with “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
7th Graders read the heartfelt poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, and then wrote their own poems with the same idea — Mother to Me.
Finally, 6th grade wrapped up their filmed Aesop’s Fables presentations as well as researched news articles for summarizing.
That’s all she wrote for quarter one! Here we come, quarter 2!
Ms. Kadlec- 6th Grade Homeroom, Religion
6th Grade has an awesome spiritual experience at Camp Damascus. The leaders, called missionaries, were young adult Catholics who were filled with joy, patience, understanding, and knowledge not only of science but more importantly, our faith.
The 7th graders are working on their individual Saint projects. On Monday, October 30th they will take on the persona of their saint and visit classrooms to introduce themselves and educate the younger students about one of our Catholic role models.
As part of the 8th grade curriculum on early Church history, they created presentations in small groups about one of the saints from the beginning of our Church (Post Apostolic Era).
Our HSP students will be more prepared for our upcoming Holy Day: The Feast of All Saints. Join us for Mass on Wednesday, November 1 at 8:15.
Mr. Mullen- 6th Grade Homeroom, Mathematics
Six graders this week will be wrapping up learning about order of operations and then moving on to learning about negative numbers. There will be a short quiz over order of operations on Friday.
Seventh graders will wrap up their video project to be part of the children’s book that they’re creating from the zoo field trip. They will also wrap up review of negative number operations including fractions and decimals. There will be a quiz over this later in the week.
8th graders will continue to learn about functions and relations and move into learning about linear functions and their graphs and equations. In lieu of a quiz students will be creating slideshow presentations describing what they’ve learned so far.
