The Blue crew consists of the following teachers:
Ms. Boudreau - Science cboudreau@fps.k12.me.us
Mr. Stein - Social Studies jstein@fps.k12.me.us
Mr. Profenno - Spanis jprofennol@fps.k12.me.us
Mr. Towle - Math stowle@fps.k12.me.us
Ms. Scalia - English Language Arts ascalia@fps.k12.me.us
Ms. Turner - French gturner@fps.k12.me.us
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Week in Preview
June 15th-19th
Jeremy Stein
Social Studies
jstein@fps.k12.me.us
We are ending our year with the Create a Civilization project. Students worked in groups of their own choosing to show their understanding of all the civilizations that we have studied this year. They provided examples of the 5 Guiding Questions by pulling from the best of the societies we looked at all year long. These are due the second class of the week.
As we come to a close of the year it is a good time to reflect on what we have done. Have a conversation with your student and ask them to reflect on how they understand the world differently from when they entered 7th grade. It has been a pleasure to teach this group this year. Rest, relax and read a newspaper this summer!
-Jeremy Stein
Le Français Mme Turner after school Monday
gturner@fps.k12.me.us
There will be a final “phrase of the day” quiz on Monday. Then, we will watch the film “Jean de Florette”, considered “one of the year’s best films” in 1986. It is a “timeless tale of greed, survival and fate” starring the great French actors Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu.
Ms. Santora
ELA Blue Crew
esantora@fps.k12.me.us
Over the weekend, all students need to be working diligently on their final ELA project: translating their multi cultural independent novel into a children’s book/storyboard, in Comic Life. All students received a graphic organizer to help generate their thinking - some may be creating a literal story, and some may be creating an allegory of their novel. Each student received a hard copy of the rubric. Students need to be sure to pare down their novel into the essential plot parts, major/core conflict, how the main character takes action against the conflict, resolve/conclude, and embed relevant, cultural aspects. They’ll have two days next week to continue working on it. Blocks A & B will need to have a final, finished product to share with peers on Wednesday; Blocks, C, D, & E will need to be ready to share on Thursday. I have also recently started to include a “Preparation Grade” over the remaining days of the school year - it’s listed in PowerSchool as the Workshop grade.
Spanish
John Profenno
jprofenno@fps.k12.me.us>
available: Monday & Tuesday
Finishing up Spanish movie making and general review of year’s material.
Mathematics
After School
Monday – Mrs. Bennett, Ms. Jacobs
Wednesday – Ms. Jacobs
Students have been learning basic probability concepts through playing a variety of probability games. There will be 2 quizzes next week.
One will be a game analysis quiz where students will show their knowledge of theoretical and experimental probability by completing a game that follows the format learned in class this week.
The second quiz will be a probability knowledge quiz that is based on the problems students have been completing for homework and that they have corrected in class by taking good notes.
The final math class of the week will be an opportunity to earn a participation grade based on good, respectful play of the final two probability challenge games!
science: Ms. Boudreau
After school Tuesday & Wednesday
There will not be a quiz over classification. Instead, I am grading the 2 HW assignments from last week, the classification project we just finished, and will collect one more class assignment.
I can’t believe we have already reached the end of the year. That means I had lots of fun with this group of students. I’m really proud of how far they have come and how they have progressed as scientists. I hope they will continue to discover the mysteries held in the world around them, and I hope they will stop in to share their achievements as they move from grade to grade.
Have A Great Summer.
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