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
The students finished reading C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew from his The Chronicles of Narnia series. We are reviewing this text as well as the past book we read in the first quarter in preparation for our mid-year final.
Mrs. Candelier
The students had a great time working on their entries for the Association of Christian School International (ACSI) Creative Writing Festival. Students put their best effort into creating short stories, essays, and poems. Asia Francois of 7L wrote a beautiful story entitled “You Too Can Forgive”. Geraldine Haberlin of 7P wrote a cute poem about the beauty of Spring, while Wesley Bryant’s haiku about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was simple, but wow! It was hard picking just a few to enter into the next level of competition and I congratulate those who were selected! Please check out Room 302’s bulletin board to see more great entries. Aside from this nice “creative” break, the students are busy preparing for their mid-year finals. Prepositions, anyone…?
Mrs. Candelier
We are continuing to read the Chronicle of Narnia books. Our 7th graders are now to the part in The Magician’s Nephew where Aslan is creating Narnia. C.S. Lewis does a great job in his writings to give the students a mental picture of what is happening.Mrs. Bienemann
As January is wrapping up the second quarter the seventh grade scientists are ready to be finished with DNA! They have studied the basics, picked apart the fine detail and even modeled their own person after creating a profile of genes and traits for their made-up character. Yes, these seventh graders are quite the experts on DNA! Coming up is classification, a great hands-on topic to change the atmosphere in room 303.
Miss Lawrence
Happy New Year!
We look forward to a new year of hope – hope in the Lord and assurance that God has a perfect plan for each student.
January is an exciting time with new goals set for a new year and yet a difficult month with mid terms on the way, homework to stay on top of and the Academic Fair coming. In Resource Room we will be checking our goals and finding strategies with which we can realistically meet those goals. Now is the time for students, parents and teachers to truly work together as a team to help students set good goals and begin to achieve them. In I Corinthians 12: 24-27 the Bible says, “But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”
Mrs. Kemp
Students in 7th grade have been learning about the road to America’s independence. Students spent time learning about important legislation, such as the Stamp, Sugar, and Townshend Acts, that further caused division between the colonist and Britain. Further, students performed skits to reenact the Boston Massacre.
Mr. Sanchez
Students are continuing with patterns, tables and expressions and how they fit onto a scatter plot. As they conclude this topic, seventh grade will quickly go into learning about integers and how they work on a number line.
Mrs. Racoma
Art Class
Students will take the Negative & Positive Space lesson one step further by creating Stages of Development of a Single Design. Starting out with four identical shapes cut out of black construction paper students will demonstrate each stage of the designs transformation in visual steps.
Ms. Arnau
7th grade has been discussing how to become Christ like. At this age it is very critical to help build their character, but more importantly Godly character. Our next lesson is going to be on Honesty. Some questions that we will discuss will be, who is the father of lies? How does our honesty affect our relationship with others? What are the consequences of dishonesty? My prayer for these students is that their actions and entire being will just be a reflection of Jesus. Our theme has been ” They will know we are Christians by our love.” I am so blessed to have your children in my Bible class, and I am very excited for this New Year!
Merry Christmas & A Blessed New Year!
Ms. Ramos