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Mr. Hilvers

Grades 6, 7 & 8 Math and Science

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Dateline Room 207:  CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK BRINGS SMILES AND CHEERS

Students in 207 managed to get some serious work done despite the week long celebration of Catholic Schools Week.  The sixth and seventh grade math classes worked especially hard.  In sixth, the class reviewed for and took their tests on Fraction Operations in which they had to keep straight the differing procedures for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and mixed numbers.  More on this later.  The seventh graders got hung up on point-slope graphing, and slope-intercept form.  A late week quiz revealed continued weakness for many, while others earned 100% while finishing quickly.  Another day on this is in order.

Back to sixth grade: this may be the most difficult test of the year, and half of the class failed.  But the failures offered hope in that the basic skills seem to have been learned.  Some made careless mistakes, and many showed that they understood almost everything, but just couldn't hold it all together on the test.  Many still struggle to reduce their answers to simplest form.  Mr. Hilvers will be reviewing the test and holding a peer-tutoring session Monday, and will invite those who wish to retake the test at home for the average of the two grades.

In other news...Mr. Hilvers' father continues to improve at a modest rate, able to leave his chair at will and to take short car trips.  The doctors are still struggling to get his blood chemistry balanced.  Overall, he is in better shape than he was before his fall on January 25.  Thank you all for your prayers.

Last, Mr. Hilvers really appreciated the applause he received from his students when summoned to the front of the church Friday to receive his 10 year service award.  And he thoroughly enjoyed the nice Baby Ruth Bar given him by a certain sixth grade student, who was cleverly disguised as the principal Thursday.  His kind words that day were also appreciated.

Now, back to work we go.  We have so much interesting stuff to learn.  See you next week.