Hurley R-1 Newsletter: Grades 7-12
Announcements for the week of:
November 18-22
Important Dates:
November 25: School in Session
November 26: Tigers serve day
November 27-29: Thanksgiving Break
December 13: Senior Citizen Luncheon
December 16: School in Session
December 17: Christmas Program
December 20: End of 1st Semester
January 7: School resumes
Sports for Week of:
Monday, November 18: Girls basketball jamboree at Verona at 6:00
High School Announcements (Grades 9-12)
Principal Note for High Schoolers: Attendance is important! Students should be in class by 7:45. Just a week and two days before Thanksgiving break, let’s shoot for 100% attendance!
Club Announcements:
STUCO
Stuco Meeting on Friday, Nov 15 and Friday, Nov 22 during RTI
Stuco will be hosting the 5-8th grade Winter Social on Friday, December 6.
Jr. High Announcements (Grades 7th & 8th)
Principal Note for Jr. High: Attendance is important! Students should be in class by 7:45. Just a week and two days before Thanksgiving break, let’s shoot for 100% attendance!
Club Announcements:
STUCO will be hosting the 5-8th grade Winter Social on Friday, December 6th, from 6:00-8:00 pm in the multi-purpose gym.
Teacher announcements for Jr. High Core Subjects:
7th grade ELA (Knight): 8th ELA will continue to develop their Informative Essays.
7th grade Reading (Lumpkin): This week, students will learn to identify and analyze how the setting influences characters' traits, motivations, and actions.
7th grade Math (Conlee): Students have begun working on pre-algebra topics. This week they will be working on simplifying expressions with rational numbers and the distributive property.
7th grade Science (Hampton): Students are now putting together our learning on DNA/RNA into full forming amino acids/proteins through translation within our bodies and our own genetic code!!!
7th grade Social Studies (Donnell): Students are presenting their google slides for the country they were assigned from South America. We are learning about Africa in the next unit.
8th grade ELA (Knight): 8th ELA will continue to develop their Informative Essays.
8th grade Reading (Lumpkin): This week, students will learn to identify and analyze a universal theme and explore the use of foreshadowing in a short story.
8th grade Math (Conlee): Eighth graders will have a quiz over dilations and scale factor. They will then continue on with their with geometry topics by working with angle measurements and parallel lines cut by a transversal.
8th grade Science (Hampton): Students are moving now from chemical reactions into actual equations. We will learn how the conservation of mass works by learning how to balance chemical equations in our new unit this week.
8th grade Social Studies (Donnell): Students begin a new unit covering Africa. They are finishing the google slides on their South American country