bluecrew week in preview

QUÉBEC-Completed applications with a copy of birth certificate or valid passport and non-refundable $100 deposit (payable to FMS) are due Monday, October 26th in the main office.  Completed scholarship requests are also due at this time to Rick Hogan.  A wait list will begin with applications received on or after the 27th.  An informational sheet and applications are available in the main office.  Please let me know if you have any questions. Wendy Fisher: wfisher@fps.k12.me.us

Jeremy Stein

Social Studies

jstein@fps.k12.me.us

After school: Tuesday

We will start off the week with a bang, by having a quiz covering the life of Muhammad, the rise of Islam and a little bit about the 5 Pillars of Islam. The quiz will take place the first class of the week. The remainder of the week will be spent looking at some of the issues that are on the ballot Nov. 3rd. We will read a couple of articles from the Portland Press Herald to determine what the issues are. We may also do the Middle East trading activity we did not get to last week.

Thanks and have a great week!

Sra. Campbell -Spanish 

marshacampbell@fps.k12.me.us 

Available after school on Tuesday and Thursday 

We are starting Lesson 2, which takes what we have been working on a big step forward with the use of SER to describe people and things. We will be focusing on the changes needed to match nouns and adjectives in number and gender. This is one of the challenges of learning a language that has grammatical gender, with words that are feminine or masculine and take different forms of adjectives and articles. It’s challenging, but the students are ready! There will be a vocabulary quiz sometime during the week and I will be collecting the cuadernos for a first check!

Le Français     Mme Turner      After Tues. & Thurs.

We will continue with vocabulary around a school day. We will compare the American and French school systems. Time will be reviewed and duration of time introduced. There will be 2 quizzes this week, a phrase of the day quiz and a quiz on school vocabulary.

Mathematics: 

After School Help 

Monday – Ms. Jacobs 

Tuesday- Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Towle 

Wednesday- Mrs. Bennett, Ms. Jacobs 

Thursday – Mrs. Hodgkins 

Variables and Patterns: 

Next week, students will continue to use patterns to help them learn more about writing equations.  They will compare the advantages and disadvantages of representing the relationship between two variables in a table, a graph, and an equation.  There will be a partner quiz in middle of the week.  Additionally, we will use the TI Graphing calculators (which were purchased with FEF and PTO grants) to explore the power of technology, once students have solidified their understanding of how to write an algebraic equation.

Science: Ms. Boudreau

cboudreau@fps.k12.me.us 

After school: Tuesday

At the end of the week, Thursday for B and Friday for all other classes, there will be a Space Unit Test. Students should study all their notes and hand-outs. Their will not be an additional study guide. The test will be a combination of fill in the blank, multiple choice and completing diagrams. The topics included are moon phases, seasons, space vocabulary, and light. 

Light Quiz make-up students will get the quiz back on Monday. To re-take it, they  must correct all that was wrong and write the correct answers in red, green or purple ink on the quiz.  After school on Tuesday or during the student’s guided practice session for science, he/she can hand in the corrected quiz and re-attempt the quiz. The new score will be recorded even if it is a lower score. I feel this process encourages students to re-study the material and better prepared themselves for the quiz.

Extra Credit Project: The requirements for the atom model are in the opening section of my Moodle site. Only the projects that meet those requirements will be considered for extra credit. I will extend the due date to Nov. 13^th,  since we have not begun our study of Matter and Energy.

I hope everyone got outside to enjoy Sunday’s unusually warm and sunny day