September students of the month are: Samuel, Kennedy, Brynn and Josh. Students of the month are nominated by their teachers based on friendliness towards other students & staff, respectfulness, extra efforts displayed in the classroom, being helpful towards others, and working hard in the classroom.
When will I ever have to solve a proportion in life? That’s a great question! Students in Mrs. Julie Petersen’s 8th grade math class selected a fun hat – Thinking Cap – to wear during class. While wearing that hat they wrote short stories about how that particular hat-wearing-person would use a proportion in life.
Joel stated, “Bonnie the bunny is looking for three carrots to eat for the next five days. If she looks for 15 days, how many carrots does she need?”
Bri may find a future in the royal family. “The princess had 100 pieces of jewelry and the prince had 50. They both went to the store and the princess came back with 500 pieces of jewelry. How many did her prince bring home?”
Other students were talking about bananas, fish, books, horses and even tigers jumping through flaming hoops! They didn’t even pause to ask why they were writing complete sentences in math!
The smiles continued as Trent asked, “If I told 12 jokes and my sister told 7 jokes, then next day I told 24 jokes, how many did my sister tell?”
Life application of math lessons add value to long term memories.
Hat donations are accepted. 🙂
Intro to Business students had the opportunity to practice their sales techniques in class on Friday, September 25. Students learned about sales tactics during the marketing unit and applied their knowledge by giving a sales demonstration of a product of their choosing to the rest of the class. Students enjoyed playing the role of the consumer as well and challenged each other with questions about the products.
Geometry proofs can be extra challenging for students. Even parents remember solving proofs when they were in school. Paragraph proofs and two column proofs can be simplified by making them visual with a flowchart proof.
Students in Mrs. Petersen’s geometry class assembled their knowledge of congruent angles (vertical, alternate interior, angle bisector) and congruent segments (midpoint, isosceles triangle, reflexive, parallelogram) to prove triangles are congruent. All the needed information was given for students to cut and paste in the right order. Then arrows can show the flow through the process.
Although still challenging, students worked hard and found success. At the end of class Mrs. Petersen said, “I can hear your brains getting exhausted.” It is rewarding to see the skills of the first month of school assembled in to one problem. One of the students in class replied, “I think I actually understand flowcharts! It was easier than I expected.”
With all of the cutting and pasting, students saved paper by recycling (better known as reusing) old softball game programs.
See pictures below for examples of their work.
Geometry students discover yoga poses aid in their understanding. While studying congruent triangles the class was saying “Side Angle Side”. These spatial relationships can be studied while experiencing a yoga pose such as triangle or side angle.
Taking this adventure outside, students were grounded and balanced as they tried something new. After big smiles and a few giggles, the triangle pose was attempted.
Rielee asked, “Can we do this more often?” The mental and physical benefits of yoga will become more frequent in geometry class.
Get your flu vaccine, once a year every year. Flu season is almost here, Public Health Solutions District Health Department will be offering flu vaccine clinics for students at your school. Prior to the start of clinics, students will be bringing home consent forms and fact sheets – this will explain the importance of getting the flu vaccine this year. Parents and/or guardians are encouraged to read all the information carefully, complete and sign the consent form. Send forms back to school with your student. Public Health Solutions District Health Department will be at your school on Wednesday, October 7th. This program is brought to the community by support from United Health Community Plan and Public Health Solutions. For more information, contact your school health office, or Public Health Solutions at 888-310-0565
If you are a high achieving senior student who requires financial assistance in order to attend college you should apply for The Hagan Scholarship. You could be awarded up to $10,000/yr for four years if awarded. Apply at www.hsfmo.org
Our students at Jefferson were among many in our nation that took part in a national sing-a-long event to remember those that were lost in the attacks on 9/11. At 12:00 (C.T.) students stopped what they were doing and sang The Star Spangled Banner all together.
Mrs. Bigley and Mrs. Erikson took time in music class to teach our students how to sing The Star Spangled Banner. They also taught the students the history behind why it was written and the meaning of much of the vocabulary in the lyrics.
Eighth graders in Mrs. Engle-Evan’s class learned about the 13 colonies using technology instead of just a paper pencil report. Students chose a colony and conducted Web research using the research tool in Google slides. They also used a Google App. called Movenote to record their voice and turn their presentation into a movie. You can view an example of their finished product here: Example 1 Example 2
