Blue Crew Week In Preview
September 8-11, 2009
We’re off to a great start. The first three days ran relatively smoothly for most. Everyone seems to be navigating the new schedule with a positive attitude and determination.
We hope to see you at Open House on Wednesday, September 9th. Please start the night in your child’s homeroom at 6:00 pm with your completed “A Closer Look” form found in the manila envelope sent home on Wednesday. After meeting with the Homeroom Teacher, you will have the opportunity to meet your child’s other teachers as you rotate through their rooms. At 7:30, please proceed to the cafeteria to meet administration and unified arts teachers.
Blue Crew Teachers
Ellen Santora Rm. 3
Shawn Towle Rm. 7
Jeremy Stein Rm. 8
Carrie Boudreau Rm. 16
Marcia Campbell Portable T1
Ellen Santora
ELA Blue Crew
We have had a great start to the new year. Students are already proving to be engaged readers and writers. I’m very excited to begin our Writing Workshop. I have reviewed most of the expectations and policies with classes regarding independent reading selection and goals. In the coming week, we will be establishing reading goals and begin writing in the workshop model. For homework, the students are gathering meaningful text “bytes” to collage their Writer’s Notebooks. They are also selecting a new book for Independent Reading. Have a great three-day weekend.
Mathematics
Blue Crew: Mr. Towle, Mrs. Hodgkins
Gold Crew: Mrs. Bennett
After school help available (2:30-3:30):
Tuesday: Mr. Towle, Mrs. Bennett
Wednesday: Mrs. Jacobs (Math Support Ed Tech)
Thursday: Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Bennett
We have enjoyed meeting the students and look forward to getting to know them in the months to come.
In these first few days, students have set up their math binder with three sections and have been reviewing the order of operations. Students will finish this short, introductory unit with their first quiz on Thursday or Friday.
We are looking forward to meeting you at open house on Wednesday, September 9th at 6:00PM.
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Ray Fox/ Jeremy Stein
7th grade Social Studies
Next week we will be introducing the “five guiding principles/questions” that we analyze and study throughout the year. Each student will receive a copy of the questions to keep in their notebook. After the introduction, students will be placed in small groups with the task of creating their own civilization. Each civilization will contain aspects of all five guiding principles. This assignment will last 3 to 4 class periods.
Have a great long weekend.
Science: Carrie Boudreau
After school help Tuesday & Wednesday
http://moodle.fps.k12.me.us/course/view.php?id=30
Students WOWed me with their great ability to measure in cm, mm and convert between the two units. We launched our study of space on the first day of school with moon observations. The weather and sky are perfect this weekend for gazing at the moon with your child and helping them collect observations. Three complete observations are due Tuesday, but encouraged them to get as many as possible. Please review their directions with them to help them get the most out of this learning opportunity.
Upon returning to class, we will continue our space study with objects in the sky and Solar System model. This model will be a 2D model that demonstrates size relationships between the sun and planets. It will be a group project completed in class.
If you are inside and are searching the web, please follow the link (under my email) to my Moodle site. It still needs some fine tuning, but it contains lots of resources for our units of study. Often, students download activities or worksheets from this site and use the links as resources for completing the activities. I hope to speak more about this at open house.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND and ENJOY THE MOONLIGHT!
Spanish: Sra. Campbell
After the long weekend we will continue with the review/basic vocabulary and phrases practice. For some students this is well covered ground and a review, for others memory is faint and most of the words and expressions we are going over seems new, so for some students more attention to learning or relearning what they write in their notebooks ( cuadernos ) will be important. We will have our first vocabulary quiz this week and get ready for the first chapter in the text (only used in class at this point) on the use of “me gusta” to talk about activities we like to do. Please ask your son or daughter to show you their cuaderno. It’s a good way to see what they are learning and to remind them to study the vocabulary. Gracias.
Le Français Mme. Turner after school Wed./Thurs.
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> It has been a pleasure to meet the students this week! I am impressed by
> their engagement and willingness to participate and apply their prior
> learning of French. This year we will continue to build on that prior
> knowledge and work on developing oral proficiency with many partner to whole
> group activities.
> This week we will continue with review of alphabet, numbers, and
> greetings. We will look at the Francophone world.
> Please take a look at my MOODLE site which is accessible through the
> Falmouth Middle School site.
