HSP Weekly Update
Mr. Dziedzicki- Assistant Principal, HSP Director, 8th Grade Homeroom, Mathematics
Thank you to one and all for making the HSP Car Wash to benefit hurricane victims such an overwhelming success! Over 90 HSP students volunteered their time to help those in need. Our combined effort with the rest of the school raised over $3000 in one day. Truly an amazing job! Here are some thoughts from the rest of our HSP Faculty…
Mrs. Hamzik- 8th Grade Homeroom, Science
Sixth grade is currently making models of plant and animal cells. Next week they will study cell functions.
Seventh grade is researching animals and will begin examining food chains.
Eighth grade had a successful rocket launch and will continue their study of space.
Ms. Noga- 7th Grade Homeroom, Social Studies
It’s hard to believe it’s nearly halfway through the quarter! In sixth grade, we finished discussing early humans and the Neolithic Revolution, and the students took a quiz over the information. Next week we’ll begin talking about the civilization of Mesopotamia! The seventh-graders are finishing up their commercials on their Greek products. Because of a hiccup with the lab computer, the students had to re-film. I’m so impressed with the flexibility and adaptability they demonstrated! They also took their first big test of the year, and it covered ancient Greece and Greek mythology. From there, we’ll move on to the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta. Finally, the eighth-graders researched an object or tradition from Native American culture and created a Google Slideshow. They will present this upcoming week. After that, we’ll begin discussing early explorers and Christopher Columbus. Your children continue to work hard, and I’m so happy to be in HSP with them!
Mr. LaGuardia- 7th Grade Homeroom, English/Language Arts
High School Prep ELA has really been turning up the heat this week! I don’t know what has been hotter–the recent weather, or the pens and pencils of St. Ambrose’s 6th, 7th, and 8th grade English students. They have been writing up a storm this past week. Ask the students, and they will tell you!
It is still early in the year, but I can tell many are digging deep to improve their reading skills as well. Each student has their own independent reading book, carefully chosen by the student, so that they may read during times not only in ELA class, but also in their other classes. Further, we are reading novels as a class in 7th and 8th grade, and also revisiting an assortment of Aesop’s Fables for 6th–drawing connections between students’ lives and personal interests with the morals found therein.
I look forward to working with your students in the next coming week.
Mr. Mullen- 6th Grade Homeroom, Mathematics
In 6th grade, students will be studying conversions between fractions, decimals, and percentages. They will also be asked to memorize a few of the most common and useful conversions. As always, this will be tied into real-life scenarios.
In 7th grade, students will be continuing to use proportions in many different ways. Students will be learning about how use proportions to find percents of numbers. There will be a quiz over proportions this week.
In 8th grade math, students are wrapping up their study of the Pythagorean Theorem. This week students will begin to learn about how to set up and solve inequalities.
