Lifestyles
Students created diagrams of the following civilizations and their lifestyles: Lydians, Israelite s, Phoenicians, and Hittites. The diagrams were incredible and the students were very resourceful and creative!
Guitars
In 6th – 8th Grade Music, we have been learning the parts of the guitar, tuning the guitar, and learning how to hold the guitar. We have also practiced charting chords and fingering different chords. The class is learning chords for their 1st song. We are excited about starting to play songs.
The Big Apple of His Eye
Welcome back! We are excited to have many new international students this year. We talked about all the different cities we came from and learned expressions to describe a place. We also worked on putting together a bulletin board with words to describe NYC. The title of our board is The Big Apple of His Eye, and we have words such as busy, friendly, fantastic, and multicultural! We’re doing a lot of speaking practice, and I look forward to seeing improvement throughout the year!
Miss Park
Let’s Get Organized
Resource Room is in full swing as we continue to teach the students writing and study management skills helpful toward success. The students are learning how to use Edline printouts of their classes to evaluate how they are performing in each class. They also use it to track late homework that either needs to be turned in or finished. International week provided a wonderful platform from which to use graphic organizers. Both middle school and high school had so much to offer that we could make three-circle Venn diagrams. These diagrams were at first intimidating, but, working together, the students learned how easy it was to use them to compare and contrast different countries that were studied. In the end, we learned that we are united in Christ. Our hallway bulletin board will soon read not only, Be confident… in Christ but also Be unified… in Christ.
A Crow as a pet?
This month we have been reading When Crowbar Came. This is an awesome story by Jean Craighead George which talks about a crow they had as a pet. Through this pet crow they learned how intelligent these animals are. We even learned that crows could be trained to speak just like parrots. This was the last story from our 1st reading unit, so this week we have started our unit 1 benchmark testing.
Mrs. Ruiz
Let’s build a building
6th Grade is full of budding architects! They have learned to draw buildings in one- and two-point perspectives.
Old Yeller
Students are nearing the end of the novel, Old Yeller. This beloved dog is in trouble; will he be okay? How will Travis react? We will see soon.
Mrs. Foster
Middle School Essays
Students wrote an essay describing why their first year of middle school is going well or why it has been a challenge so far. They really appreciated the chance to express how they’ve been feeling and to possibly find solutions for the things that have been challenging.
Old Yeller
We’ve begun reading the classic novel, Old Yeller. Just as Travis, the main character, eventually took a liking to this devoted dog, our students are falling in love with Old Yeller too. This beloved dog is taking us through a journey of humor and adventure.
Mrs. Foster
Prepositions
How do you remember all those prepositions? Well, sixth grade students learned that many can be shown visually. Therefore, students drew a favorite object or animal and strategically wrote prepositions on and around the drawing to show the relationship between the preposition and its object.
Mrs. Foster