Reading Week

Our class is jumping on board with Reading Week.  With a school district focus on "college and career ready", Reading Week took on the same theme.  Our class created a life-sized microbiologist drawing and researched what it takes to enter this career.  Our scientist is hanging the lunch room along with other career fields from other classes.  Today was "dress up as your future career" and many sure took the opportunity to do so.  We have lawyers, soccer players, scientists, actresses and more.

In social studies we have moved from Ancient Egypt into early Chinese culture.  With the fourth quarter starting this week we began our in-depth unit of geometry, which will take us most of the last quarter of school to complete. In reading we are analyzing poetry and even writing our own.  Science will be filled with "magic" as we explore chemical reactions over the next few weeks.  These experiments are surely to be remembered for years to come!

Next week we tour UNR to begin thinking about not only what it takes to be college and career ready, but also to get a visual of what college life entails and looks like. After we eat our sack lunch on campus we will explore how the geometry of a 45-45-90 degree triangle can help us form very close estimates of objects that are too tall to measure easily.  We will use clinometers to help measure tree and building heights.