HSP Weekly Update
Mr. Dziedzicki- Assistant Principal, HSP Director, 8th Grade Homeroom, Mathematics
This week HSP was back in full gear! Students are being challenged with new ideas and activities. Students are beginning to choose ministries in which they will serve during school masses. We are also preparing for our HSP Car Wash tomorrow to benefit those affected by hurricane damage. Students will take fall MAP tests Tuesday and Thursday morning for math and reading. Students were also issued their Option C access last week.
Here are some thoughts from the rest of our HSP Faculty…
Mrs. Hamzik- 8th Grade Homeroom, Science
This week in science eighth grade will launching rockets. The launch is scheduled for Friday morning. There will be a Future City meeting until 3:30 on Friday. Seventh grade will be starting their animal research project. Sixth-grade will be observing plant cells. They also will be starting to make cell models.
Ms. Noga- 7th Grade Homeroom, Social Studies
We’re really getting into a groove in social studies class!
In sixth grade, we began talking about the earliest hominids and humans who populated the planet and migrated around the world. We watched a particularly fascinating video about “Otzi the Ice Man,” and the students enjoyed some discussions and group activities. Next week, we’ll continue to discuss how the Neolithic Revolution changed the lives of early people. The students will have a quiz over chapter 2 (pgs. 28-43) next Friday.
The seventh-graders have been having a ton of fun with our Greek mythology unit. They researched a Greek god or goddess, created a product that would be endorsed by their deity, and then planned and filmed a commercial in front of the green screen in the lab to advertise their product. In class they also thought of their own deity and made posters with pictures and traits. Next week we’ll wrap up the unit on Ancient Greece; there will be a test on Friday, Sept. 22.
We wrapped up our geography unit in eighth grade with a fun game of “Basketapple” and then a “tiz” (smaller than a test but bigger than a quiz) over important concepts. Then, we began to review how the earliest people arrived in North America. Next week, we’ll continue talking about early Native Americans and some of their unique cultural practices.
Mr. LaGuardia- 7th Grade Homeroom, English/Language Arts
Hello Again,
6th, 7th, and 8th grade had another exciting week this past week. They finished their first major writing assignment of the year, and so celebrated that first victory with a celebration on Friday.
Next week, we will start an integrated unit with Math (Mr. Mullen) for 6th graders, continue reading The Outsiders with 7th, and chop our way through Hatchet with 8th graders. Don’t mind us, we are just loving English class!
Mr. Mullen- 6th Grade Homeroom, Mathematics
In grade 6, mathematicians are embarking on a journey to wonderland. They will begin a two week long, cross-curricular unit in math and ELA. There will be fun activities planned, dramatic readings, and many more exciting math and ELA, standards-linked activities. Math will include studies of negative numbers and ratios and proportions.
In grade 7, math students are finishing up their study of ratios and proportions including similar figures and scale drawings. Next week will involve more practice with translating word problems into proportions to solve. There will be a test or quiz on Friday.
In grade 8 we will begin to look deeper into proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem and their connections to irrational numbers.
