Our 6/7/8 Grade Girls took 4th place at their tournament last weekend!
I hope all of you are having a
wonderful Advent Season as we prepare to celebrate Christmas. We’ve had several
practices this week for our Christmas program, “The Christmas Gift”. The
students are doing a nice job and I’m so excited for Sunday night. There are
quite of few students in our class with speaking parts, so it would be great if
you would make sure your student practices his or her lines and is ready to go
for the program (I’m sure many of you have already been doing that.)
Lunch Menu
Changes
The lunch
menus for Wednesday and Friday will be switched next week. This means students
who signed up for grilled cheese for Friday, will have that on Wednesday.
If they were planning on bringing lunch on Friday, they need to bring a
lunch on Wednesday. We will have pizza on Friday. Since we are having
our class Christmas dinner on Friday, (see note below) I will have Mrs.
Gorrow cancel the pizza lunches for the 7th/8th graders for that
day.
Christmas
Program Details
·
The students should be at school by 6:00 p.m.Sunday evening.
·
They should report to our classroom. (Band students
need to be at school earlier.)
·
The students should wear nice clothes. No jeans, please.
Bowling Party
and Christmas Caroling
The All School
Bowling Party and Christmas caroling isTuesday, December 17. Mrs. Gorrow sent out a
Google Docs for you to sign up for driving if you are able to do so. We
will have our Bowling party from 9:00 to 11:00 and then come back to school for
lunch. Around 12:45, the 5th through 8th graders will leave to go
Christmas caroling at The Parkway.
Classroom
Christmas Party - Friday, December 20 - 9:00 to 12:30
We will have the
7th and 8th grade classroom Christmas party next Friday. The students
have drawn names for Secret Santas. They should bring a small gift each day
next week. These should be inexpensive. Gifts such as:
candy, cookies, pens/pencils, note pads, or even just a note saying have
a good day. On Friday, we will exchange a bigger gift, and then reveal who
everyone’s Secret Santa’s were. I have stressed to the students to
only spend about $10 for this gift. They’ve also chosen to have a
white elephant gift exchange, but this is optional. The students who
bring a white elephant gift will play the gift stealing game.
Around 11:00, we
will have a ham dinner. The students have signed up to bring food, drinks,
or tableware. I told the students to check with their parents before they
sign up to bring a dish or snack. If your son or daughter has signed up
to bring a dish or snack, and something comes up and you are unable to make the
dish, no big deal. We will have plenty of food!
The students are
really excited about their party. It should be a great way to celebrate
Christmas together as a class.
Important
Dates Coming Up:
·
Sunday, December 15 - 6:30 - Timothy Christmas Program in the
school gym. Students should arrive at 6:00.
·
Tuesday, December 17 - All School Bowling Party at Lunar Bowl - 9:00 to 11:00.
Christmas Caroling at The Parkway at 1:00.
·
Friday, December 20 - 1:00 Dismissal - Christmas break begins!.
Here’s what’s
happening in our classroom:
·
7th / 8th Grade Religion - We are finishing up the unit -
“God’s People Under the Kings”. We will have the unit test on Thursday.
Memory for next week: Tuesday - No memory; Friday - Books of the Old Testament -
(1st half)
·
7th Grade Math - We took a test over fraction operations
today. Next week we will work on adding and subtracting positive and
negative fractions.
·
Algebra - We are finishing up our linear equation unit and will
have the chapter test next Wednesday.
·
7th/8th Grade Science - We finishing up our chapter over heredity
and genetics. Today we reviewed and Monday we will have the chapter
test .
News from Mrs.
Otte’s classroom:
This week,
we will finish reading The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. We have
been watching the movie while we read the book to visualize and understand what
we have been reading. We are working on indirect objects and predicate
nominatives today. Next week, there will be a Spelling Unit (17) but the final
test will be on Thursday, instead of Friday.
In Geography, we took a test today over Aztecs,
Inca, Maya, and Toltec tribes. Next Wednesday will be a test over Latin
America including a map test for the Caribbean Islands (just the major
ones).
In Art, we have been creating Christmas
ornaments. We also drew and painted beautiful Nativity angels.
We are working on our hour of code this week
playing CodeCombat. Students have access to it at home.
Reminder: Book Talks are due January 10 -
250 pages
Have a great
week-end!
Mrs. Barnett
5th/6th grade art!
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