Miss Etheridge's
7th Grade Class
Date: October 30, 2002
Mission: Going To Mars
Miss Etheridge was able to bring 34 students with her to the Challenger Space Station. Each student had a job, such as Life Support, Navigation Team, and Isolation Team. All the students were divided into two groups: Mission Control and Space Ship. The field trip brought a whole new way to look at studying Mars.Our next field trip will be to the Maricopa County Superior Court. We will be leaving on Wednesday, January 29, 2002. It will be from 8:30 to 11:30 and we will be back in time for lunch.
Miss Etheridge was born and raised in Michigan. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2001, with a bachelor degree in Education. Ms. Etheridge also has a minors in Math and Earth Science. Her favorite subject in school was math and her favorite color is GREEN : Miss Etheridge loves dogs and is looking for a new puppy at the pound. She found one she really liked, but couldn't get it until 1:00 of the next day. More than likely it would have been gone by the time she got there, but it wasn't. Therefore, she named him LUCKY :-)
In Math Class, we have worked with number sentences and patterns. Recently we learned more ways to find the GCF (greatest common factor) and prime factorization.Currently, we are working on properties such as the Communitive Property, Associative Property, ect. We're also working on Algebra, as well as dividing fractions.
Every week we get a math packet, usually four pages (eight pages in all, front and back). Every day Ms. Etheridge goes over certain pages in the math packet and helps us through it. We also do the Daily Six, which are a mixture of math and science questions. They are usually related to what we have learned, or are going to learn that day.
We now have something called a "Math Journal". We'll be keeping all of our notes in it, plus all of our Study Guide worksheets. It will count for a reasonable amount of our grade.
Science Class
We have been studying Life Science. We have learned about Cell Division and Reproduction. Soon we will be learning about the human body system and birds and mammals. Ms. Etheridge lets us do group projects in science, and grades us on the quality of our presentations. Before we started studying Life Science, we were working in the area of Mars and the moon. That was around the time we went to the Challenger Space Station.Starting on November 20, 2002, we began learning the area of genetics. We have learned about Punnet Squares, Mendell, and alleles.
In January, we began learning about the human body. We briefly went over the skeletal system, along with the uscular system.
Recent News The seventh and eight grade classes will be having a Winter Party. It will be on December 19, 2002 and will be from 3-5 P.M. Once you are in, you are not to come out UNTIL the END of the party. Snacks will also be available, including pizza. What the students wear to the party will be what they wear to school, so the dress code must be obeyed. There will be a variety of activities going on, including dancing.
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