This month we have been using our conversational Spanish using all the phrases that we have learned until now to speak with each other during class. Our emphasis has been on different ways of introducing ourselves and learning what to say when we meet someone for the first time.
Mrs. Pascualini
Students have been working hard on their Academic Fair projects and we started the first quarter by reviewing what goes into a quality research report. The end of February brings an exciting new unit on writing an autobiographical narrative. Students will work through a writing packet, brainstorming ideas as they recall childhood or recent memories. Those memories can be funny, exciting, or sad. We’ve had a great time sharing those memories aloud in class as we work on the prewriting stage! We will be writing the rough draft the end of February and the final project will be due in March.
Mrs. Candelier & Mrs. Foster
The sixth graders have just finished the Unit about our constantly changing Earth, where they focused on volcanoes. We are now moving on to the continuity of life, where we will study reproduction and heredity. Students will get to discover what exactly makes us look the way we do, and how our traits are inherited.
Miss Lawrence
Middle School is getting creative. We are using our writing skills to compose songs. Through writing, composing and arranging our song, we are learning about song structure and how to understand music when we listen to it.
Mr. Agosto
Students will be working on fractions this month. They will be adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions and not to forget putting them into simplest form.
Middle School 6th graders will be working on Valentines Day cards and 7th graders will be working on “Love Is” paintings. Eighth grade is working on paper mache vases and picture frames that will be painted in the traditional Valentines colors. Students will be reminded that the greatest act of love took place on the cross.
Ms. Arnau
Middle school has been learning a lot in computer lab in the last few weeks. We just recently completed our curriculum of Microsoft Word 2007. We learned all the new features and options of the new Microsoft program. We have started to learn how to use Google as a search engine on the Internet. We learned how to narrow our searches through keywords and then identify correct information in Google. Google has a lot of great features and we are having lots of fun learning about them all.
Mr. Miller
As parents may have already found out, the sixth graders had a challenge at our first annual bowl-a-thon. Both classes had the challenge to beat the other class with the chance of seeing the opposing teacher’s face with a pie in it. After all the points were totaled, 6R won the first bowling game and 6S won the second game. In keeping with team spirit, Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Racoma both took a pie in the face at the end of chapel last Friday. The top scoring students had the privilege of throwing the pies. Naomi Lowe-Tina smeared a pie in Mr. Sanchez’s face, as well as hair, and Christopher Reyes smashed a pie in Mrs. Racoma’s face. 6th grade looks forward to many more challenges.
Mrs. Racoma
The Chronicle of Narnia, The Last Battle has been interesting for the students to read. We have to keep reminding ourselves that there is a fake Aslan. We are looking forward to when the true Aslan will come forward.
Mrs. Bienemann
This month in Spanish class we have been learning about “Los Colores”, that’s
Spanish for colors. The students have learned the names of the basic colors and have
helped in making signs to post all around the classroom. Each sign is made of a specific
color to help us remember the correct word for it in Spanish. We will continue to explore our colorful world en español during the rest of this month.
Mrs. Pascualini