Septembers Students of the Month!

Jason Gilliss - Libby Frey - Skylar Hennessee - Kobby Adu

Health
Written by: Shaela Rhodes, Kaia Dale, Madison Vatter, and Kay Foley

Weve been working hard---exercise after exercise. Now we have started sprinting out
the door. We see the group in front of us, and we are determined not to lose. We speed up.
We rush back inside, passing the group in front of us. Our squad and I finish together, winning
P.E. Land. The most important thing we learned first quarter in P.E. is working together as a
squad line and accomplishing our goals. As we finish out our two weeks of P.E., we move into
health.
Mr. Lemons has assigned us a three paragraph essay on Mount Everest. The stress
has kicked in. We use the skills that we learned on stress management to control our stress
and not panic about the assignment. He also taught us about the health triangle which consists
of physical, mental, and social health. This is important so we know how to balance our health
throughout our lifetime.
We would like to thank Mr. Lemons for a great first quarter in P.E. and health.





Science
Written by: Victoria Heydman, Michael Walker, and Benicio Archuleta

In science, first quarter, we learned about cells, the three different eras of the Earth, and
how life evolves. During the different eras of the Earth project, each table group chose one of
the three eras and made a creative presentation. The three eras are Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and
Cenozoic.
Then we started the Future is Wild project where we chose an animal from our previous
era project and came up with five or more adaptations the animal would need in order to survive
the next era.
The project that we are currently working on is on cells. We watched a video on cells,
studied the different types of cells, and looked at plant, animal, and bacterial cells under a
microscope. We are excited to keep learning about our world!


iLab
Written by: Ali Sportsman, Libby Mackin, Audra Craig, and Leah Ortiz

The first quarter of iLab has been a busy learning experience that has been a blast for
your children (us)! We have been working in our iLog reflecting on our work and deconstructing
the 4Cs. The 4Cs--creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication--are
deconstructed to encourage high level thinking. Each core has created a classroom constitution
to make their learning experience better. Also, iLab and social studies have combined to have
kids create a flag and motto for their social studies class. Furthermore, the students in iLab are
studying inquiry and the design process. In the future, Mr. Loucks wants us to do a capstone
project to find each of our passion, put it in motion, and apply it to real world situations. iLab
has been a stimulating class for each of us and Mr. Loucks looks forward to spending more
time with us as we work on things we enjoy doing.




English/Language Arts
Written by: Maddie Mosley, Alison Child, Kristiana
Honeker, and Sarah Hensler










Can you name the elements of fiction? Backwards? Alphabetically? In Japanese?
Well, maybe not in Japanese. However, in ELA, we have been carefully studying and mastering
all six elements of fiction and what they do to improve and even create stories. We watched
Pixar shorts, like Partly Cloudy, and For the Birds, and read stories like Anna Banana and
Me by Lenore Blegvad, and The Seventh Grade by Gary Soto to identify point of view, setting,
characterization, conflict, plot, and theme. Then, we had the opportunity to teach one of the
elements to the entire class! We are excited to move from identifying the elements of fiction in a
story to using the elements of fiction as the building blocks of our very own stories!

Math
Written by: Lucas Rottman, Julia Kirsch, Anna Von Hoene, Shaina Droke,
Jason Gilliss, Carter Cingrani, Logan Cantrell, and Jack OSullivan

Math--some people cringe at the word, but others jump for joy. Mrs.
Tuccio makes math so much fun; its hard not to jump for joy! She cares so
much about learning, and she always answers our questions. In first quarter,
we discovered our new online textbook, realized
real-world applications of skills, and participated in
fun math units. One example was the Trip Me Up
project which tested our knowledge of solving
proportions, using online resources for research,
and converting certain units. Regarding the
project, Mrs. Tuccio said, I feel like the students
are enjoying all the projects and lessons that Ive
gone over, which makes me happy. Ms. Tuccio also plays fun and
funky tunes--a bonus! We love our math class!



Social Studies
Written by: Ellie Smith, Hally Aman, Mackenzie Gamble, and Lauren Cowie



I came into seventh grade just thinking my social studies teacher, Mr. D, was all about
sports. I soon realized he knows so much about the subject and really has us students dig
deep!
So far this year we have learned so much in this class. For example, we have learned
about different types of government. We also unpacked history into a whole lot of ideas that go
into the one subject. One project that we have done was called the travel comparison. During
the travel comparison project we learned about how to find the cost of driving, flying, and taking
a bus from city to city. A regular activity that we do in his class is watch the news. We watch
CNN student news everyday because he thinks that we need to know what is going on in the
world.
Now, we know social studies doesnt just happen in a classroom, but also in our daily
lives. Most of the students in 71 are excited to go to social studies.













Road Rally



Everybody start your engines! On Thursday, October 9th, the students of team 71
participated in our annual Road Rally! Students showed off their atlas skills by working in
collaborative partnerships to identify longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates. Students raced to
be the first to find all 25 locations. All students earned prizes after completing each lap--equal
to two correct locations! Some students found themselves in trouble with the law when they
were caught speeding (or moving onto the next location, before the previous one was found),
and ended up in the Pit Stop completing everyones favorite--math worksheets! Davis
Helmerich and Allie OBrien were this years winners! Their prize? Eternal glory--and a giant
candy bar, of course!