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By Arthur Troy and Farhan Ahmed Here is a list of interesting books that you can read over quarantine. While you may not be able to go to the library or bookstore and get something there, you can still get audiobooks, e-books, PDFs, and in some cases order new books online. We will organize these books by genre and reading level in order for you to find the right book for you. Reading Level Guide: -5 = Below 5th Grade. 5 = fifth grade. 6 = sixth grade. 7 = seventh grade. 8+ = eighth grade and above. T = traumatic scenes. Do not read this book if you are fainthearted! Books Below 5th Grade The Magic Tree House Series - Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House is a series by Mary Pope Osborne that hit the bookshelves in the 1990s. Almost 30 years later, it is among the most popular children's chapter books today. The series is about two siblings, Jack and Annie, who found a treehouse that actually sends them to specific places in history, even in times before humans ever existed! Ano...

By Susana Hernandez Last week in the 7th grade we worked on our math projects for SLC’s.The project consisted of us drawing or creating a piece of art like a “subway tile” which can be seen on the walls on some of the train stations. But that’s not all, in our drawing we also had to include three of the four dilation, translation, reflection, and rotation which are all transformations used in geometry.  Once we had finished that we were able to answer two questions asking which transformations we used and why we chose to draw that certain image or how it interprets how we are feeling during these uncertain times.This was such a great project and I myself also enjoyed it, it was wonderful to be able to mix two different things and make them into one. I loved the idea of it being so free and creative like all the other things we are lucky enough to do in school and how we can connect it to such a hard time in history. But I wasn’t the only one to think the same thing here are a few q...

Even under quarantine, HPCMS Girls Volleyball is unstoppable!

By Malcolm Mungo 1. Read articles on the HPCMS Chronicle! 2. Create a snack. 3. Check-in with friends on Zoom. 4. Play video games (especially Minecraft). 5. Talk to your family. 6. Cook something. 7. Play with your pet. 8. Go for a walk. (Remember social distancing!) 9. Read a book. 10. Do something nice for someone. 11. Learn a new skill. 12. Exercise. 13. Clean/organize your room. 14. Binge watch a TV show. 15. Watch Youtube. 16. Sleep. 17. Play on a game console. 18. Ride a bike! 19. Ride a scooter! 20. Ride a skateboard! 21. Learn a new language. 22. Start saving up for something. 23. Play an instrument. 24. Learn a new song. 25. Create your own song on Soundation. 26. Watch a Livestream on Twitch.tv. 27. Chat on Discord. 28. Try a new video game. 29. Build a tent fort. 30. Have a Nerf war! 31. Do schoolwork. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 32. Listen to music. 33. Do Spanish or Math IXL. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 34. Play a card game. 35. Lear...

By Susana Hernandez This week for our 7th grade community spotlight we are talking about the great artist Rube Goldberg who we learned about in Art and created many art projects related to his work. Check out some of our work at the bottom of this article! Rube Goldberg was born on July 4th, 1883 in San Francisco, California and lived until the age of 67. His full name was Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg and he was known for being an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor and if that is not crazy enough he has his own award for the National Cartoonists Society. But perhaps he was most famous for his machines. When building the machine it had to have at least three energy sources and a purpose. For me this was pretty hard at first since we had to use household items we had around your home. I couldn’t really think of anything but one day I was looking at my fridge and got the idea of a machine that opened the fridge door. It was pretty easy after I kn...