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Geography Bee: Congratulations to all participants of the Geography Bee. It's always so much fun to watch. Big shout out to the two 8th graders that made it to the final rounds and BIG BIG shout out to our 8th grade winner, Megan Pellman!! First PLACE!!! 

Look how prompt I was on photos!! Ha! McCoy! He was cheering on his team in The Grinch memory game.  This team was a little more reserved but they were the winners!! I read them similes and metaphors about the Grinch and based on the comparisons they had to draw a Grinch face.  Zoe was voted the Cheermeister of Whobalation!! Max was voted the Grinch... He is even acting Grinchy in the picture.  The 8th grade's Christmas week has been focusing on keeping Christ in Christmas. They wrote Acrostic poems with the word Christmas. Based off the letters they had to write about the true meaning of Christmas, Christ our Savior. They had some inspiration from Perry Como's C H R I S T M A S. I brought my record player and we listened to Como's whole record.  Aren't they dazzling in their class shirts? :)  Masa on Thursday as well as Secret Santa, ugly sweaters, and Christmas caroling at 12:30. This day they will need to bri

Hey parents,  Heads up that it is the middle school's Mass on January 3rd, the day we get back from break. This is also their reception so parents and guests are welcome to stay after to enjoy coffee and donuts.

Hi parents! A lot going on next week so here we go... Tuesday the 8th grade would like to wear their class shirts. Please remind them, if you could. It's on my board but you know how that goes... The 6th grade is having their Grinch Who-balation on Tuesday. This class will be filled with games, educational of course, and different activities surrounding the Grinch and Common Core. I will post pictures during break. It's pretty cute. :) Wednesday is the finals of the GeoBee. We have several middle schoolers so stop by and check it out. We are doing it right after Mass, so 10:15. Thursday... The whole school is asked to dress festive for Christmas. In our wing that means ugly sweaters. If your child has an ugly Christmas sweater, Thursday would be the day to wear it! If not, it's totally fine! The 8th grade is having a Moldovan Masa. Masa means table or party in Romanian. I like to do this to bring a little bit of my Peace Corps experience to them. We will have

Heads up...  Tomorrow the 8th we will be having Mass. Also students are to bring change for the noisy can collection. The money collected will be for our school adopt-a-family. Also, the school is collecting items for our local food pantry. Students are asked to bring kleenex, toilet paper, tooth paste, and canned food items by next Friday the 15th. We have winners for the Christmas door decorating contest! Be looking on Facebook in the next couple of days for the winners' picture. First place goes to Keely Coen. Second place goes to McCoy Haines and Abby Tallmon. Third places goes to Kolbey Bailey and Reese Glynn. Thank you to all the parents allowing their child to bring items to decorate and money to vote! 6th Grade: The 6th grade will be acting out two plays on Monday. I will try to tape them and post them onto my blog, but I am not making any promises they will actually load! After that they will move onto their poetry unit. 7th Grade just finished analyzing &q

Christmas is almost here! Can you believe it? My room is aglow with the Christmas spirit. :) Dates to remember: December 5th: Students are judging the Civics Club Christmas doors. Students are to bring $1 to vote on the doors. The money goes towards a family in need for Christmas. December 6th: Christmas Concert at the High School Geography Bee Finals are December 20th. December 22nd: NO SCHOOL and the start of CHRISTMAS BREAK! St. Malachy Trivia Night January 20th. Tables are limited so reserve your table now! Here is what is happening in language arts... The 8th grade just took their theme unit 4 test today. Monday they are going to give a formal debate. They picked the topic of: cell phones should be used in the classroom. The debate is a substitute for a written essay. Plus they get to practice their presenting skills. Next week they will start in on poetry, just like the other classes. The 7th grade start their poetry unit this week as well. Today they worked on lyri

8th grade parents,   T.J. and Nate's lunch is on Monday. The 8th grade would like to wear pink and yellow in their honor if you could remind them.  Also, the money for class shirts are due on Tuesday.  Happy Thanksgiving! 

The 6th grade read Scout's Honor  which was about three New York boys setting off on a camping trip with zero experience and not a lot of camping gear. I made stations to accompany the story. Here are a few pictures... This group needs to discuss and compromise on bringing only two resources with them into the wilderness to survive. After they decide, they had to write a reasoning to support their choice.  This group had a tub of materials and their job was to build a shelter they could use for when they are in the wilderness.  In our story Scout's Honor  the boys had to use a compass and use a map to find their camping spot. So, these kids are coordinating cities to go along with the story.  I made a game with comprehension questions and literary terms mixed with a few camping accidents. Some of the spaces they had to answer questions, some of the other squares they might have been attacked by a bear and had to go back to start.  This group had to pi

8th Grade Parents,   Heads up! Your child SHOULD be bringing home some information on their class shirt. Throughout the years I have noticed the 8th grade is not so good at bringing home information so... They picked a really neat blue tie-dye shirt. They will have the St. Malachy logo on the front with their name and graduating year on the back. Every year the 8th grade designs a class shirt and we wear them on special occasions such as field trips or the last day of school. They are only $18! If you would like your child to have one, please send money by November 21st. Checks can be made out to Lora Pellman. Thanks!  Dates to keep in mind:  November 17th is the end of the trimester.  Wednesday the 22nd through the 24th we do not have school in honor of Thanksgiving.  8th Grade: In honor of The Day of the Dead, the 8th grade made sugar skulls! Actually we used plaster and painted them, but they turned out really neat!  We also learned about Picasso and cubism.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, the middle school will be painting pumpkins in the morning. At 2:30 the annual Halloween parade will begin. Wednesday the kids will need to bring a sack lunch, but breakfast will be served. Wednesday is also the 8th grade Mass. Thursday is a three hour dismissal. Conferences will be from 1 until 9. There will be no school on Friday. November 9th is STEM night. It sounds like there are quite a few demonstrations. November 10th is a Spirit Day. I think that's all for now. Happy Halloween!!

Hi all,  Reminder that Saturday is the St. Malachy Vendor Fair. Middle School students have been volunteering to work, but we encourage ALL middle schoolers to bake an item for our bake sale at the vendor fair. Tuesday we will have the annual Halloween parade at 2:30. We are also having the middle school pumpkin painting contest in the morning. Please have your child bring a pumpkin for Tuesday. November 1st will be the 8th grade's Mass for All Saints Day. November 2nd there will be a 3 hour early dismissal due to conferences. Also note there will not be school on November 3rd. Side note... Each teacher picked a saint for their classroom. The 8th grade's saint is St. Jude. Tomorrow is Jude's feast day, so I have asked all of the 8th grade to wear something green in his honor. We will celebrate his feast day during study hall by making cards for children in the hospital. 6th grade: The 6th grade wrapped up their first ever essay for me last week. I just put them

Hi Parents!  Below will be the link for conference sign up on November the 2nd. I also sent out the link via email. www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F044DA8AC29A4FE3-miss4

Dates to remember:  October 13th and 16th: No School  October 19th: Muffins with Mom October 20th: Spirit Day October 21st: Spaghetti Supper. Middle school kids are expected  to work the carnival. October 24th: 8th grade field trip to SWCC. Permission slips will be sent home next week and students will need a sack lunch.  October 28th: St. Malachy Vendor Fair: Middle school kids are to bring a baked good for the Civics Club booth. Homecoming fun. Thank you to all of the students who rode our float. I may be biased, but I think we had the best float. :)   They are going to kill me for posting this.  They HAD to have their picture taken. :)  The 6th grade started their first ever essay for me this week. They have to write a personal narrative. Their rough draft is due on Tuesday, so I am excited to see what they come up with.  The 7th grade is also working on a personal narrative. In between writing sessions they learned about charac

Heads up... The PTO would like all the students to wear blue on Monday. Blue is the anti-bullying color.

Hi all! Tomorrow there will be a noisy can collection at Mass. Reminder that Friday we will get out two hours early due to Homecoming. This day is also a Spirit Day. So kids can bring $1 to wear sweat pants, and we encourage the students to wear their black and red to support the Panthers. Monday the 2nd we will have an inspirational speaker talk with the middle school about bullying provided by the PTO. NEXT Wednesday there will be a prayer service, no regular Mass. October 13th we DO NOT have school nor on the 16th due to Professional Development. 6th grade took their first unit test yesterday over the elements of the story. The first 5-6 weeks of school are a learning process. They did well on their first test though! We will be heading into unit 2 by focusing on the first and third person point of view. Last week the 7th grade took advantage of the nice weather and played wiffle ball comprehension. They finished reading "Casey at the Bat", so I decided they