Another awesome week @ LCMA! Thanks again to PTSA for hosting our celebration social for all kids! What a reward for our super students. Thanks to our teachers and students for making it special.
And in the classrooms............ The sixth grade U.S. History classes are learning about the first five presidents. (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe) We have also learned about the War of 1812, the creation of the National Anthem, the Louisiana Purchase and many other historical events that took place during this time period. There has been great debates and discussions during these lessons. These sixth graders are impressive young citizens. They are passionate about their country. Using them as our guide, our country’s future looks bright. Did someone say OLYMPICS! Yes, our 7th grade math students are getting ready for their projects in their Statistics/Probability Unit on the Olympics. These will be passed out next week. Hopefully, your child is watching some of the events. If they have missed their favorite because of bed time, they can live stream them. We have been talking about the Olympics daily. Hopefully, they will all bring home the Gold on their projects. Ms. Lavelle's 8th-grade students have been reading aloud from the novel-in-verse, Out of the Dust, while also listening to and examining the lyrics of Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads. They have been looking at connections between the two pieces concerning diction, imagery, sentiment, and historical events in search of the overlap that exists between historical fiction and Guthrie's first-hand experiential account. Ultimately, they will evaluate each artist's chosen form and determine what impact that form has on the meaning. Algebra students are learning how to work with quadratic relationships which allows us to solve problems involving objects traveling in a parabolic trajectory. Geometry students are studying the properties of quadrilaterals and learning how to support conclusions with mathematical evidence. 6th grade elective math students are leading the district lessons passed. LCMA Band students earned 68 individual Superior ratings at Solo and Ensemble this past weekend. There were also 4 Excellent ratings. Nice work!! 8th grade American History classes have been working on our studies of Black History Month. Mr. Rutledge’s classes have explored the Montgomery Bus boycott through a DBQ analysis. Mrs. Tregler’s classes have created an electronic museum timeline to share the achievements of notable African Americans, link to be published soon! 7th grade Civics classes are learning about the successes and challenges of the Civil Rights Movement. The 7th Grade Global Tech students have been divided up into teams and given $5,000 dollars as a budget to invest in 1 food truck of their choice. They are working on criterion A and B creating and designing a food truck. The next step will be Criterion C and D given them an opportunity to create and present a pitch for a food truck to investors (student peers) that will meet the needs of the students at LCMA during lunch Creative Writing/Drama/Film Studies News: Congratulations to Eleora F. whose poem placed 3rd at the annual Sister Cities International Young Artist & Author Showcase sponsored by Harrison! Original poetry written in ELA & CW classes will soon be judged in house and then sent for county judging. We have some amazing poets on the LCMA campus! All grade levels have completed performing various scripts “on stage” and have written some interesting and creative reflections. Students were asked to either delve into a character’s narrative backstory, or advance the scene through script-writing. Our film class just finished watching Disney’s version of Jules Verne’s classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and compared the screenplay to the original novel. They also created original movie posters based on their favorite scene(s) from the book and/or movie. 7th grade Language and Literature students are continuing to work on writing their own structured and free verse poetry. Also, they have focused this week on narrative poetry by diving in to “The Highwayman” and comparing and contrasting the point of view of characters in the piece 6th grade Language and Literature students just completed a challenging MYP summative for poetry where they analyzed poetry for meaning, created a poem following the structure of a famous poet, and pretended to be a Poet Laureate recommending a poem for national publication by writing a memo to a selection committee. They are wrapping up the poetry unit by competing in teams in an intense poetry review and will have a Poetry Picnic to end the unit by sharing poetry with each other. Environmental Symposium sold Valentine’s to raise money for a water bottle filling fountain. They delivered carnations and raised almost $500! The students also made gift bags for our bus drivers to show them that we “Love the Bus!” Our students participating in SeaPerch Underwater Robotics made their final “submerged” check-out tests yesterday on their robot units. Now we wait until the beginning of May for the Gandy pool water to warm up. J Comments are closed.
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