Classrooms

Grade 7

Mrs. Anna Wade

In Religion class, the Holy Cross 7th graders have been learning things like the Beatitudes, how to develop mature, trusting, and loyal relationships with peers, parents, and other adults, and self appreciation. They have also been talking about how the Church sees ideas like abortion and euthanasia, which both provide good topics for the debates and discussions on Fridays.

Language Arts (includes reading, writing, spelling, listening, speaking, and study skills) is a subject that keeps the 7th grade busy. Besides learning your average Language Arts things, like different genres, grammar, correct spelling, and note taking, the 7th graders get to do fun things, like creative writing, yearbook, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, and idioms.

Mrs. Wade has done a good job teaching the 7th graders mathematics! In Math, they’ve learned tons of stuff. A lot of examples are: changing decimals>fraction>percents; subtracting, adding, dividing, and multiplying positive and negative numbers; ratios; algebraic phrases and their answers; prime factorization; Roman numerals; and a host of other things that would probably take up at least a quarter of this page.

Social Studies has been both interesting and useful to the 7th graders. They have learned study skills, like outlines and one third-two third notes. They have also learned some of America’s history-about the Spanish conquistadors’ discovery of South America and Mexico, the thirteen colonies (including geological division of them and the inhabitants’ lifestyles), the Revolutionary War, and the Alamo. In Science, the 7th grade has learned about life science; circulation, muscles, nerves, bones, and cells; earth science; minerals, ocean, weathering, and erosion; physical science; gases and atoms, machines, and energy; and chemical science; chemical reactions and elements. They also get to put on group presentations to give to the class.

In Health class, the 7th graders have learned about mental and social health, drugs, peer pressure, and diseases, as well as some other things.

In Gym, Holy Cross’ 7th graders learn to play many different sports (i.e., basketball and volleyball), and they also play some games, such as Fort Nox.

The 7th graders learn many things in Art class. These include drawing scenes and people more precisely, neutralizing colors, how to use charcoal, how to use oil pastels, and how to make the same picture in four different ways (shadowed, painted, patterned, and collage.)

In Music, the 7th grade has learned how to read music, compose music, the different and different types of notes, and time signatures, as well as a few others.