Blue Crew Week In Preview Sept. 21st-25th, 2009
WOW! Lots of exciting things happening this week.
*Peace One Day
*Autumn Equinox
*Laptop Meetings for Parents
* Picture Day
As many of you know, World Peace Day is this Monday, September 21st! Students are welcome to demonstrate their support in Peace Day by wearing symbols that represent peace. Additionally, on Monday all students will be participating in a variety of workshops in their ELA classes, to celebrate Peace Day. We will also be launching our school-wide “Pennies for Peace” campaign (please visit www.penniesforpeace.org or the Middle’s School’s website for further information), to bring awareness in promoting peace & education, one penny at a time.
Beginning on Tuesday, students will be taking the NWEAs for Reading in their Foreign Language block.
Please also note that picture day is this Wednesday, September 23rd!
Ellen Santora
ELA Blue Crew
To recognize September 21st as the UN appointed International Peace Day: all students will be participating in a series of workshops designed to share the message of the importance of peace. Beginning Tuesday, students will be setting up their Writing Portfolios, setting goals, and writing, writing, writing. They are free-writing their “anchor” piece for Seventh Grade. We will be discussing Modes of Writing with a focus on Persuasion modeled by the question: Is world peace possible? The discussion and resulting writing will be very interesting to all. Students are continuing to read independently: They never have “no homework”…reading/free-writing is a daily habit to form now!
Mathematics
After School Help
Monday – Ms. Jacobs (portable #7)
Tuesday – Mrs. Bennett
Wednesday -Ms. Jacobs
Thursday – Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. Hodgkins
**As we stated at open house, students may get additional help from either Mr. Towle, Mrs. Hodgkins, or Mrs. Bennett, as we plan our lessons jointly. Students may also stay after school in order to have a quiet work place to do homework before sports.
This week, students learned more about making coordinate graphs. Please take a moment to ask them about the titles for them. Also, please make sure that when they have math homework, they bring their ENTIRE binder home. The binder should include the math book, all current work, the vocabulary notebook, and all graded work. This next week, the students will analyze graphs and tables to unlock the stories they tell.
Jeremy Stein: Social Studies
After school Tuesday
Students started their presentations of their island civilizations. The first round seemed fairly solid and we still have a few more to finish up on Monday. We will also be doing some Peace One Day activities on Monday to support the schools effort to involve as many students as possible in this great endeavor.
The remainder of the week will be spend looking into an activity involving trading with other societies and will end with a debate surrounding the necessity of societies interacting with outside groups. It should prove to be enlightening and fun. Have a good weekend.
Le Français
Mme Turner after school Tues. & Thurs.
Students will do the NWEA test during one language class this week.
We will continue with the interrogative “où” so students will be able to say where they live. In conversation we will recycle new vocabulary so that they will be able to say their address but also describe location using prepositions and cardinal directions….We will apply their prior knowledge with the question word “qui”…example…Qui parle français? (Who speaks French?”
SCIENCE: Ms. Boudreau
After Tuesday & Wednesday
REDUCE-REUSE-RECYCLE: WE need
P-nut butter jars (plastic or glass)
Old eye glass lenses
cardboard tubes from wrapping paper, paper towels or toilet paper
SPACE VOCABUARY & 3D model
Students will take their first vocab quiz on Thursday if the Moodle and their passwords are working correctly. They have a space vocab diagram we created in class last week to study and we will do a couple more activities early in the week that involves those terms.
Some student received a Rubric for a 3D model (others will get it soon). It isn’t due until October 5th and I encouraged them to use recycled materials. Please do not feel obligated to get Styrofoam ball for the project. I am grading accuracy not beauty.
MOON OBSERVATIONS
The moon logs are due on Monday (Tuesday for E class). If students followed clues given in class, they should have been able to get 10 observations without difficulty even it you have lots of trees. The moon was visible from school in the AM for at least 7 mornings. It was very high in the sky often with mostly clear skies. However; if they did not get the 10 they need they can continue to gather observations until the end of Sept., but each observation will only count 5 points instead of 10. The students who turn in all 10, will be eligible for more extra credit with each extra perfect observation counting 5 points.
*DON’T FORGET TO CHECK MY MOODLE SITE FOR LINKS TO CONTENT SPECIFIC SITES THAT WILL HELP YOUR CHILD DEEPEN HIS/HER UNDERSTANDING!
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