Current Events

Hello all, sorry I've been away so long. As many of you know I was fighting the death flu for a few weeks just before I got infected with pink eye. It's been an eventful February to say the least. We're in the middle of Critique Week here on the Hartooney team, which means many students have had the first opportunity to show off all of the hard work they've been doing on their Adaptations Projects. We've got less than two weeks left, but it looks like the classes as a whole are doing really well sticking to their schedules. Of course, we'll be looking for parent audience members to attend our presentations in the coming weeks as students prepare for Exhibition Night. In math class we've been focusing on fractions, and with so many students out sick (6 in one class today!) I'm hesitant to advance too quickly and leave those students most in need of support behind. So next week we'll be sticking to multiplication and division of mixed numbers before going into some algebraic operations the following week (when we'll hopefully have full classes back again). A few students are breezing right through this unit, and for them I've set up an individualized math curriculum utilizing HeyMath. If you or your child is interested in this option, just let me know. I still require all the students to participate in our daily warm-ups and take all assessments including quizzes and tests, but the students on individual plans get an extra day to do their work and are exempt from the homework assignments assigned in class. Hope everyone is watching lots of Olympics this weekend. -Mr. H

Daniela and Marina speak their minds

Well, so far the end of last semester and the beginning of this semester have been very exciting! We just finished out POL’s which were very nerve-racking. We think its hard to get up in front of 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th graders and present for ten minutes on what we have learned this past semester. We are so glad that it’s over =D. Then in Mr. Hartman’s class we made a geometry book or model that explained angles, area and perimeter or a circle, triangles, volume…and other geometrical things. We also had to choose a theme to our geometry book or model. Along the way, Mr. Hartman gave us lessons on the subjects so we could explain them in our own way. Then in Ms. Looney’s class we have been learning how to type better using Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor. We have also been learning about ancient civilizations to prepare ourselves for our next BIG project; Our next big project is the Adaptations project! YAY ~ Daniela Garcia and Marina Dalton