Blue Crew Week In Preview for the week of September 14th-18th.
It was a pleasure meeting you at Open House and we’re already looking forward to a great school year! Please look for a permission slip regarding our annual 7th grade field trip that we’ll be going on next Friday, September 18th! Permission slips need to be signed and returned to your child’s homeroom teacher by Tuesday, September 15th (the cost is $5, checks made payable to Falmouth Middle School). Also, please note a typo on the permission slip – we’ll be returning by 2 PM on Friday, not 2 Am! 
Donations of Bottled Water for the field trip are appretiated.
Le Français Mme Turner after school Tues. & Thurs.
Students have completed a mapping activity of the Francophone world. We will use this as we work with the interrogative “où” (where) to describe where the countries are located in relation to other countries. We will also review prepositions while describing where classroom items are located.
Mathematics
After school help available (2:30-3:30):
Monday: Ms. Jacobs (Math Support Ed Tech – Portable #7)
Tuesday: Mr. Towle-RM 7, Mrs. Bennett-RM 4
Wednesday: Mrs. Jacobs (Math Support Ed Tech – Portable #7)
Thursday: Mrs. Hodgkins-RM 7, Mrs. Bennett-RM 4
It was nice to meet you at open house.
All classes will have their first quiz in the graded work section of their binder early next week. We will ask students to correct their errors and keep this assessment in section 3 of their binder.
Next week, we will begin our first CMP unit, Variables and Patterns: Introducing Algebra. Graph paper was on the 7th grade supply list to be used in this unit in particular. Please be sure students have a good supply in their binder.
Sra. Campbell -Spanish
Available after school on Tuesday and Thursday
This week will be another short week, as we have our fabulous field trip on Friday, Before that we will continue with the preliminary lessons, reviewing and expanding on vocabulary and phrases the students may have had in 5th and 6th grades. The weather review will be done by Tuesday. There will be a quiz on the Spanish speaking countries and their capitals after that, then we will start a lesson on “me gusta” and activities that we like to do. For example: ”A mí me gusta hablar en español”. I like to speak in Spanish.
Jeremy Stein
Social Studies
http://moodle.fps.k12.me.us/course/view.php?id=87
Late Day Tuesday
It was great to meet so many of you at Open House and I am looking forward to this year. This week students will be working on their “Create a Civilization” project. This combines the 5 Guiding Questions from Geography, History, Culture, Government and Economics. In groups of 3-4 students generate physical features for a mythical land which the student population of FMS arrives. They need to establish a government, and their reasons for a government, determine their economic needs (resources >>> finished products), define their culture (based on the “ABC’s of World Culture) and fabricate historical events that had a profound impact on their society. All of this will be completed and presented by Wednesday or Thursday. On Friday we go on a historical cruise around Casco Bay.
Ellen Santora
ELA Blue Crew
Next week, we will be fully engaged in two very meaningful pursuits. Early in the week, we will be watching the documentary “The Day After Peace” regarding the work of Jeremy Gilley, founder and activist for world-wide peace. His inspiring journey resonates with the message: change through action. Please visit the website www.peaceoneday.org to learn more about the movement marked by the day September 21st, and Gilley’s quest to see his vision emerge a reality. Students will have a number of written response options related to what they learn as a result of seeing the documentary and reading about Jeremy Gilley and other “Heroes of Action”, www.myhero.com. The other pursuit is the official beginning of our workshop model! Students are already engaged in crafting an “anchor piece” of writing. This first piece (The Inkblot) will be used to support the identification of writing strengths and goal setting. I hear the creative wheels creaking already. Additionally, kids are engaged in reading their first independent reading selection. They should be actively reading and “gathering images”, or identifying any “chunk” of descriptive text…one or two words strung together to create a sensory image….This will be ongoing throughout the reading of this first novel.
Science: Ms. Boudreau
After school: Tuesday & Wednesday
Thank you for attending open house. I enjoyed seeing such full classrooms of people, and meeting many of you. I hope you saw how enthusiastic and passionate I am about teaching science. Your students are off to a great start.
Continue with the moon observations. The more observations the kids have, the easier it will be for them to recognize patterns in the creation of the phases.
We may have an Space Vocabulary Quiz on Thursday, if not, it will be Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Some classes started the Space Vocabulary Activity I demonstrated at Open House and others will do so on Monday. Now that you know how to access this from home, you could have them explore my space sites to gain a better understanding of the words on the activity sheet.
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