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 in the grade book tonight. I am quite please with the progress they are making in their writing skills. We are taking a week time out from our textbook for Halloween. The class is reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the adapted version. They are doing various activities, still within Common Core and state standards of course, until Halloween. After, they will be getting ready for their second unit exam.
7th grade: The 7th grade also wrapped up their first essay of the year last week. They are a tad a head of the 6th grade and got in their second unit test last week. They wrote characterization poems over a Halloween character late last week. They were to describe their character without actually saying who or what it is. I must say, they are pretty darn good. I have included two pictures of George's and Bridget's. ALL of them were so creative. Their Halloween story was "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, my favorite author!
8th Grade: The 8th grade finished their unit 3 exam. They moved into Halloween week by reading "The Cask of Amontialldo". They all seemed to have liked it. We will continue to do various activities with the story tomorrow and Monday.
The class also started a new project for class meeting. I made a game of life where they picked a card stating their career and how many children they would have. Based off their income and the amount of children they have, they have to find a car and a house to buy by next week. We will start working on monthly budgets so they can grasp how expensive it is to be an adult and why education is so important. Some of the kids willingly married each other to have a greater income. :) :)
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 in the grade book tonight. I am quite please with the progress they are making in their writing skills. We are taking a week time out from our textbook for Halloween. The class is reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the adapted version. They are doing various activities, still within Common Core and state standards of course, until Halloween. After, they will be getting ready for their second unit exam.
7th grade: The 7th grade also wrapped up their first essay of the year last week. They are a tad a head of the 6th grade and got in their second unit test last week. They wrote characterization poems over a Halloween character late last week. They were to describe their character without actually saying who or what it is. I must say, they are pretty darn good. I have included two pictures of George's and Bridget's. ALL of them were so creative. Their Halloween story was "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, my favorite author!
8th Grade: The 8th grade finished their unit 3 exam. They moved into Halloween week by reading "The Cask of Amontialldo". They all seemed to have liked it. We will continue to do various activities with the story tomorrow and Monday.
The class also started a new project for class meeting. I made a game of life where they picked a card stating their career and how many children they would have. Based off their income and the amount of children they have, they have to find a car and a house to buy by next week. We will start working on monthly budgets so they can grasp how expensive it is to be an adult and why education is so important. Some of the kids willingly married each other to have a greater income. :) :)
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