Gold Crew Week In Preview for April 9 through 12
There are several things to mention this week:
As you know April vacation starts next Friday and we have a short week.
Perhaps this request would be more timely after the vacation as a glance out the window shows a heavily snow covered landscape BUT we would like to remind students and parents to review the dress code together.
This week students chose 4 friends to room with on the trip to Quebec. It was explained that we guarantee only one person from their list. If your student is going on the trip and missed the opportunity to write down roommate choices they should see their homeroom teacher before vacation. Roommates will be announced after the break.
A reminder to all who look at the grades on line: It is still very early in the semester so individual grades have a stronger impact than they will as the semester progresses and more grades are added. A look at the current grades gives an opportunity to monitor ones progress through the semester. The grades change with each new assignment.
Math – Mrs. Bennett
After School: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Email: sbennett@fps.k12.me.us
Web site: http://teacherweb.com/ME/FalmouthMiddleSchool/MrsBennett/h0.stm
Please make sure that your child has a calculator. I have none to lend as they have all disappeared. The same is true of pencils.
In Blocks B, C, D, and E we will review and re tune fraction skills. There will be a brief quiz on adding fractions on Tuesday in these classes. We will continue with Investigation 2 in Stretching and Shrinking and explore what constitutes a similar figure using coordinate grids.
In Block A, we will finish Investigation 3 (Surface area and volume of prisms and cylinders). I would like to administer a quiz on this material Thursday.
Spanish – Sra. Campbell
After school on Tuesday and Thursday
Email: mcampbel@fps.k12.me.us
Web page: http://www.falmouthschools.org/Marsha/index.html
Next week is a short week, but I’m hoping to wrap up this unit. We have covered the material in Chapter 6 and will review it, recombine and revisit it next week on Monday and Tuesday to prepare for the unit test before leaving for vacation. Again I feel for most of the students taking the assessment when the material is fresh in our minds is preferable to taking in after a week away. I realize that some of you will be leaving early and will miss the test days, these students will have to take it when they return. I will be putting a study guide up on my web page this weekend. The test has been announced on my new homework blog. Check that out from either my webpage or from my Portaportal. As mentioned before, there are activities on the Portaportal that could be used to practice some of the concepts from this unit.
Le Français – Mme Turner
After school Tues. & Wed.
Email: gturner@fps.k12.me.us
There will be a quiz on the Futur Proche on Monday that students should review for this weekend. They made “cootie Catchers” in class. They could do this activity with you.
We will review possessive adjectives using the vocabulary from Ch. 5. Reinforcing activities will be done in class but students should review the daily lesson at home. The exam includes:
Ch. 5 exam-vocabulaire p. 147-Aller p.133-futur proche p.137-138-use of “y” p.133
-contractions with à and de p.135-136-possessive adjectives notre, votre and leur p.138
Science – Mrs. Stuart
After School Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday
Email: estuart@fps.k12.me.us
We will be reviewing and practicing for the level two “Cheeseburger” test. Students should have their diagram and chart ready for me to check early in the week. Ask them to see the test. If you can, reading over the rubric with them would help them clarify the details.
Social Studies – Ray Fox
Email: rfox@fps.k12.me.us
We had a quiz this past Wednesday or Friday depending on the class rotation.
Next week we will continue to examine our Constitution. Topics include, Checks and Balances, Three Branches of Government, Federalism, Bill of Rights and Amending the government. We will also follow the process of how a bill becomes a law by creating ideas to improve the school, researching to support those ideas, designing bills and presenting the proposed bills to an administrator.
No assessments next week.
ELA – Becky Hayes
After School: Tues/Thurs
Email: rhayes@fps.k12.me.us
