Look at all teachers working hard. See you Thursday.
The seventh grade team would like to thank everyone who was a part of our first exhibition of the year. The 7th grade rooms were brimming with soda (as a result of the biological processes students studied in science class) and civilizations they created in global studies. 
7th Grade Exhibition Overview
Exhibition #1 Communities and Individuals: Monday, November 19th, 2007
Civilization Creation:
Along with our global theme, Communities and Individuals, students will study how communities develop and evolve. Students will build their own civilization based upon six characteristics:
- Food supply
- Geographic Boundaries and political organization (government)
- Developed settlements, cities
- Social classes, division of labor
- Culture: religion, art, architecture
- System of record keeping-writing
Using the characteristics we study in class, students will use historical examples in their own civilizations. While each civilization will be unique, its characteristics will be based in historic evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
In science students have been building cells. On Friday each student gave a presentation on how each structure in the cell helps the cell function. 
I hope everybody had a restful summer. It was good to see familiar faces return and welcome new students into the classroom. We’ve had an exciting first few weeks at MCCPS. Students have modeled cells using clay as well as developed ideas for their writing projects. We hope that site will give you a window into the seventh grade.
Here is the 7th Grade supply list (pdf). Please make sure your seventh grader has these items listed below.
(1) large (1-inch or thicker) plastic or cloth (no paper) accordion file folder with 8 or more pockets
or
(1) large 3-inch three ring binder with eight or more dividers
(1) 400-sheet pack of lined paper
(2) 1-inch 3-ring binder (for math journal and French portfolio)
(1) book sock (for French textbook) Read the rest of this entry »
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. Hopefully you are enjoying the break; maybe you found a great
book to read. I know I’ve got a pile of books on my summer reading list. I am working in school splitting my time between doing the tech stuff and planning for next year. Look on this site for updates. I’ll post the reading and supply list shortly. I hope you you enjoy the rest of the summer.