Congrats to all of our CCA middle school students and their extra curricular activities this past quarter! We are honored to see our students participate and excel in athletics, the arts, and academics.

• Congrats to all those inducted in NJHS! Thank you to our current NJHS students for all of their service and dedication this year.
• Congrats to our students who advanced to state wrestling!
• Congrats to all of the drama students for a successful and smooth production of Aladdin.

We are proud of all of you!

Here's The Happenings:

Science:  The students took their test on genetics and will be starting a new unit next week, on Weather and Climate!  We will tie this unit into our trip location, as well as our local home of Colorado.  Lastly, we dissected sharks and sting rays with 6th graders on Friday.  This is typically a 6th grade dissection; however, two years ago the sharks were not available to be purchased, so I included both grade levels this time.  We even found one baby shark!

Homework Due 3/25: Weather & Climate in Colorado Assignment (google classroom- will post Monday morning)

Math: Chapter 5- Solving Systems of Linear Equations

When grading assignments, it was apparent that a SLOW down was needed. This last week was spent on student questions on assignments from 5.2-5.4. Many students did not show any work for multiple problems, but just copied answers from the back of the book. We discussed WHY there are answers there, and HOW we should use them. For this reason, we will test next week over the 5.1-5.4 lessons and then continue with our learning on this chapter after break. The test will start on Thursday, March 26th to allow for time to finish Friday if needed.

Homework: Make sure work shown on all problems on 5.4 Practice, due Tuesday

Social Studies: Students will be learning about the Vietnam War. We will learn about American POW’s and about the Hanoi Hilton (North Vietnam’s torture chambers). We will also learn about the protests going on during the war.

English: Our 8th graders are continuing their unit on A More Perfect Union. This week, they dug deeper into different primary sources from that pivotal point in American history.

Writing & Research: Our Writing and Research classes have begun a new poetry unit! Students have started exploring different types of poems and discussing how poets use language creatively.

Relay For Life Week!

Don't forget our Relay For Life Week! Students can make a $5 donations, or more, for dress up week! The school's goal is to raise $2,500 total! Thank you for supporting the American Cancer Association!

Tuesday- Anything but a backpack

Wednesday- Wacky Wednesday

Thursday- Character Day

Friday- Class Color Day (8th grade is red)