Class Update: What We Learned This Week! Week of 8/31

What we learned this week-Brought to you by Mr. Bierly's CAT time

According to R.R., the 7th grade class learned the following this week:

"In Social Studies we learned who the State Auditor was. In Science we learned that the atmosphere has  many layers like the troposphere and stratosphere. In Math, I learned about the commutative and associative properties. In careers I learned what the word "principle" means. In ELA we explored the questions "What is an American?"

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Please enjoy our short video of important things we have learned so far.

Class Updates-

Science- We have been learning facts about Earth's atmosphere. Did you know that without Earth's atmosphere we would be much more likely to be hit by falling space objects?  Lucky for us the atmosphere burns most of them up.  Also without the atmosphere the water cycle would not be possible, and we would have no oxygen.

Social Studies- We have been learning about Missouri's government.  Each class also got to choose stocks to "buy".  We are going to see which class chose the most profitable stock, and who will make the most money by December.

Math- We are learning the Order of Operations.  We will be writing a rap to help us remember them.  We can't wait to share our raps with everyone!

English Language Arts- We have taken the Star test.  We have also made covers for our Data Notebooks.  To create the covers we could choose to use one of the following websites, either wordle.net, or glogster.com.  Both are neat and useful websites.

All 7th graders also learned how to check their school e-mail, and how to find their homework assignments and worksheets on the web, using the school website.

Upcoming Events-

Friday August 31st-School Pictures

Friday August 31st- First softball game, 5:00

Friday August 31st- The Bowling Green Student Council will be hosting the first middle school dance from 8-10 pm.  This dance has a patriotic them, and student council winners will  be announced during the dance.  Please attend, and plan to wear your red, white and blue.  The cost is $2.00 with student ID, or $2.00 without.   

Pictured above are some of our 7th grade softball players.  This week we had to sadly say good-bye to Coach Minter, as she will be moving to a new job, but we are excited to have our new coach, Coach Murphy.

Missouri Govt: Unclaimed Money and the Missouri Treasurer

Missouri Govt: Unclaimed property held by the Treasurers office......"FREE MONEY"

The State of Missouri is holding nearly $700 million in unclaimed assets in more than 4.3 million owner accounts. The average return is $300 and 1 in 10 Missourians has unclaimed property. This is "Missouri's Largest Lost & Found" and Clint Zweifel (our current state Treasurer) encourages you to search for your property so it can returned to you as soon as possible. 

BTW: Money in these accounts can never be spent by the state of Missouri, it just sits in the accounts until some steps up and claims the money.  However, some unclaimed assets like jewelry can be auctioned off by the state. 

Link to search the database: http://www.treasurer.mo.gov/content/find-your-property

The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

This is the tablet that the 7th grade class will be using this year:

 Some may argue that the "Angry Birds" app. may help students learn physics, but.....We are going to keep things a little more educational around here. Also, the tablets will remain here at school and will not be taken home.



Here are the specifications for the Lenovo, our model is the 183822u: Lenovo Thinkpad Specs-pdf