Luevenia Holloway

7th Grade and Connections Assistant Principal

 

Greetings Parents,

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Welcome back! It is my hope that the winter break has rejuvenated the students as the teachers and staff look forward with enthusiasm to the second semester. The teachers have reviewed their behavior and instructional expectations. The instructional lessons will apply everyday experiences to classroom learning. When students are connected to their learning, they come to school Respectful of the process, taking Responsibility and Ready to engage in the learning process.

 

Our goal is to continue to provide all students with the opportunity to excel so they can develop into active members of our school and the Snellville community.

 

7th grade math - Unit 4 Percent’s

 

Our math classes are currently focused on getting our students to use proportional relationships to solve multi-step ratio and percent problems. We will use menus and shopping lists to create receipts that provide real world examples for sales tax and gratuities. We will also focus on percentages as they relate to simple interest, commissions, discount and fees.

 

Activities include:

 

• making receipts for a restaurant to include tip and making receipts for shopping trips to include sales tax.

• learning how to calculate the sale price after a markdown and how stores markup prices to retail price.

• understanding how commission works and how salary is influenced by those that work on commission.

 

Students in 7th grade life science will apply their fall learning on the genetic basis of inheritance to the way that the environment shapes those genes and the resulting traits in natural selection.  Using hands on and digital models, students will investigate how a trait can evolve in a population as a result of changes in the environment. In an application of math in their science learning, students will use statistical methods to make predictions about how populations may change in the future. Students will finish out the nine weeks on the classification of life, creating dichotomous keys and learning how scientists organize the more than 8 million known species of living things on earth.

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Making A Connection

 

Many of our students will have an opportunity to experience different classes this semester. Changes can often create a sense of uncertainty. Yet, it can also result in growth and meaningful experiences. Your child through their connection experiences have the chance to engage in a variety of electives and work with different teachers and students. This enrichment outside of the core schedule is necessary to their overall growth and development

               

 

                New Business and Computer Science students!

 

At the beginning of the semester, it is always exciting getting to know and build relationships with new students.  On a typical day in our SMS Business class, the teacher Mrs. LaChee' Johnson begins the class by saying "Good Morning Class", then the students will say together as one "Good Morning Ms. Johnson" In addition, the teacher addresses the class with "I Can Be......" and then naturally together as a class the students say a class chant " Ready, Respectful and Responsible" Furthermore, students are trained to log on to their computer, go to e-Class  to check out grades and open up today's lesson on their BCS course website page.  The first week of the semester is used to discuss lab and class procedures, taking pretests, and learning the class expectations. Not to mention, learning about Google Apps, proper keyboarding techniques, and creating their first Google slide show with animations. The main purpose of this class is to give students the skills needed to make them more marketable and employable in the 21st Century Work World. #WeWillBeSuccessful

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Regards,

Ms. Luevenia Holloway

7th Grade and Connections Assistant Principal

Luevenia_Holloway@gwinnett.k12.ga.us

770-344-3879