Middle school was a very busy year. We have done many things like exploring the human body, experimenting with fire and chemicals, and building chromosomes from scratch. We have learned about the different biomes that make the world. Weather patterns were covered extensively. The rock cycle was covered in detail. Glowers growing and babies developing were covered also. This year was a great year with many of the students growing greatly in the knowledge of science.
Mr. Penland
Throughout the year, middle school has studied what the Bible teaches us about Christian living. 8th graders learned the divisions and purposes of the Old Testament and New Testament books for Christian living today.
Mr. Herrera
Throughout the year, middle school has studied what the Bible teaches us about Christian living. 7th graders learned who Christ was according to the Gospel of John. Through Jesus’ life, ministry, death, and resurrection, John teaches us the purpose of Christ’s ministry for us today.
Mr. Herrera
Throughout the year, middle school has studied what the Bible teaches us about Christian living. 6th graders learned the difference between wordly living and Biblical living as they progressed through their textbook and Bible verses memorization.
Mr. Herrera
Middle School’s adventure this year in art was learning about and creating self portraits. They worked really hard on this assignment. We branched out after that and learned about the artist Frida Kahlo. She was considered a Surrealist painter who was married at one point to another artist by the name of Diego Rivera. They learned about other surrealistic artists and created their own surrealistic portrait using what they learned.
Mrs. Colon
The drama elective teaches students basic acting skills most notably improvisation. This school year, was unique because only boys signed up for the elective. The highlight of the elective was our practice times and actual show for the Spring Concert. The students participating by acting on stage in a zany comedy about guests on a talk show who can only say one word. They had the audience rolling in their seats!
Ms. Neal
In the Resource Room students get extra academic support. IEP students get individualized and small group engagement to address educational challenges. This year in Resource Room we saw students in each grade improve in their subject classes. There were many success stories and students showed confidence in their academic abilities.
Ms. Neal
Middle School ELA consists of reading, writing, and discussion, as pertains to the four novels covered throughout the school year in each grade. Students participated in read-alouds, group discussions, writing essays, developing imaginary characters for short stories, and various grammar activities. In addition, this year, 7th and 8th grade students were challenged to create skits based on themes that appeared in their novels, while 6th grade students were challenged to create posters to advertise their themes.
Miss Durant
These are the first three years of introductory classes to the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. Students learned the foundations of Spanish, with the goal of achieving an entry-level of proficiency by the end of the year.
These Spanish classes focused on the following four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Specifically, this entailed reading and practicing/studying vocabulary and verb conjugations. Class time was used to engage skills such as situation dialogues; mini-skits; group work; conversations with classmates and teacher.
It was great to see creativity spark in the classroom when the students were given a task to complete within a group. Students succeeded completing the tasks and combining their originality with each other.
Mrs. Haughton
Our middle school was diligent with the implementing of common core curriculum. Our students were challenged and had the opportunity to solve problems within pairs and groups. Middle school created poems and mini posters for their favorite math topics learned throughout the year.
Mrs. Christian