
In Social Studies we started our 2nd Step Curriculum. It is written towards middle school students and we refer to it as Stepping Up! We are working on skills to help us when we have a disagreement. The skills are to help us be respectful when we disagree. It is our hopes that students return to these skills in all areas of their lives to help them with all relationships.
We are in our study towards our geography standard and learning the 5 Themes of Geography: Location, Region, Place, Movement, Human and Environment. We will spend several weeks researching and studying all aspects of these themes and will do a summative project to show our knowledge. Students have started this project and will have them due in the second week of November. Students were given notes of expectations and a rubric to guide them in this.
Students have already started their Financial Literacy studies with Everfi. We have been learning about companies versus brands, what a stock is, diversification, risk, mutual funds and bond for the Stock Market Game. Most teams got to purchase their first three stocks. If we have any parents that work in the Stock Market world that would like to visit us while we are beginning this adventure to support please let me know. Class time is from 10:55-11:30 and then 12:10 to 1:10 every other day (Applegate's HR days are T and Th, Skolout's HR is M and W, we split the time on Friday).
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