Week of May 11-15, 2015

Only 15 more school days until you turn into 8th graders! It is so exciting, but first we must finish this school year strong.

This week we will continue with our scale drawings using our candy wrappers as the models. You should already be finishing off your drawings and starting to color them in. I am excited to see your finished products, and the math behind it all as well. Remember, this project is worth 5 individual grades, so please do not fall behind as it will be difficult to catch up. If you have any questions or concerns about it please see me in between classes, during lunch, or any time I am not helping another student during class.

REMINDERS:
Monday-Wednesday: Continue with project
Thursday: Continue with project/ Talent Show
Friday: Fiesta Texas field trip

For those of you attending the trip, please make sure you are brought to campus by 3:30 AM. You will be given breakfast at school before we leave, but you are not allowed to take snacks on the bus. The bus drivers work hard to keep their buses clean and they want to keep it that way, so please adhere to their rules. You may bring a pillow/blanket for the ride over. We expect you to be on your best behavior while at the park as well as on the bus ride to and from San Antonio. You will receive Whataburger after exiting the park and before starting the long drive back home. If you have any remaining questions please see me or any other faculty/staff member.

This past week I attended a GT training along with 3 other teachers from our school, and these are a couple of pictures from our eventful/educational time there.

We were asked to come up with illustrations incorporating the words into the actual drawing. The words chosen were the following: Protagonist, statue, tornado, and equation. The protagonist is batman, the tornado was drawn in the shape of a funnel, the equation was "balanced", and the word statue was incorporated into the Statue of Liberty.

The butterfly was a representation of the many different types of GT students you might encounter in a school setting. They are all beautiful and capable of morphing themselves into whatever they set their mind to, with the guidance of great teachers. On this particular day we were discussing GT students with disabilities. You might not be able to discern the words on the drawing, but they are all relating to twice- exceptional students.