Gold Crew Week In Preview for May 21 through 25
Special event reminder:
Last dance is on May 25th this Friday! The 7th grade will be hosting the final dance of the year. We need donations of bottled water and healthy snacks that align with our healthy snack guidelines. We are also looking for parent chaperones. Please e-mail if you can contribute in these areas! mcampbellr@fps.k12.me.us
Ping Pong club will meet on Wednesday from 2:30-3:30 in the cafeteria!
Math – Mrs. Bennett
After School: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Email: sbennett@fps.k12.me.us
Web site: http://teacherweb.com/ME/FalmouthMiddleSchool/MrsBennett/h0.stm
Blocks B, C, D, and E will be receiving their unit tests from the Stretching and Shrinking unit and will start the new book about data distributions. They will have a quiz to assess their ability to divide fractions at the end of the week.
Block A will finish Investigation 1 and start Investigation 2 in Data Distributions. They will expand their concept of mean beond the algorithm to include thinking of it as an equal share (rob from the rich, give to the poor) and as a balance point.
Spanish – Sra. Campbell
After school on Tuesday and Thursday
Email: mcampbel@fps.k12.me.us
Web page: http://www.falmouthschools.org/Marsha/index.html
This week in Spanish we are wrapping up the unit on sports and weather. We will be reviewing and recombining what we have learned and have the test on Thursday or Friday. See my blog to get the dates for specific classes.
Le Français – Mme Turner
After school Tues. & Wed.
Email: gturner@fps.k12.me.us
We will be focusing on the final project for the next couple of weeks. Students will have a project descriptor, rubric and we will break down the assignment. Students will be writing a 6 page book with each page a topic that we have studied which incorporates vocabulary and grammar covered this year. I have found that this serves as an excellent review and measure of the tremendous progress your children have made this year! Class time will be devoted to writing. If this time is used well, there should be little homework except for the assembling of the final product. Please ask your child to see the product descriptor.
Science – Mrs. Stuart
After School Tuesday
Email: estuart@fps.k12.me.us
Moon observations are due on Wed. for classes A and B and Thurs for C, D and E. We will be learning why moon phases occur and how the tilt of the Earth causes seasons. Next week the seed lab will be due for A,B and C on Wed. and D and E. Please check power school with your child and see if they need to write an additional lab for a “replacement grade”.
Social Studies – Ray Fox
Email: rfox@fps.k12.me.us
ELA – Becky Hayes
After school Wednesday - make up Comma, Colon, & Semicolon Quizzes!
Email: rhayes@fps.k12.me.us
This week students will be working on writing their own allegory and creating a key of symbols to go along with it. We’ll begin by using a graphic novel to scaffold their understanding of writing an allegory (the graphic novel already has a message/moral, as well as characters, objects etc.) Students will create a story in words, to correspond with the pictures and allegorize the contents. Students will have the option to either to use the graphic novel as their final allegory or to come up with their own original allegory, towards the end of this week/over the long weekend.
If you’d like to see the graphic novel that they’ll be using, ask your child to show you their “Owly Graphic Novel” Notebook; it’s all contained there!
Thanks and have a great week!
