Steinkamp's Scoop

Hi All! This will be the last post of 2018! Hard to believe it's that time of the year. It has been a busy last few weeks! The 6th grade is just starting their poetry unit. I had them water color a poster and write a poem about the landscape they painted. They aren't doing too shabby with their poetry! They also did an activity where they read Matthew chapters 1 and 2 and put a puzzle together. These chapters told the birth of Jesus. The 8th grade made 3D settings for the Lord of the Flies . I think they did pretty good! Triplets :)  Congratulations to all who participated in the Geography Bee! Our Rosie got 3rd! Woohoo Rosie! Christmas Masa was a success!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Parents, Geography Bee is next Wednesday, the 19th, after Mass, so around 10:15. You are more than welcome to come and watch. We have two 8th graders, Rosie and Cade. Next Friday I will be throwing a Christmas party for the 8th grade. It will be a party that would be found in Moldova, the country I used to live in. We try to Skype my host mom as well just to chat. I will be asking the students to bring a food item. This is volunteer base only. If you are unable to get a food item, don't worry about it! Please join us in singing Christmas carols next Friday, the 21st, at 12:15. It is the best part of the year!! Next Friday will be a sack lunch day for everyone and is an early dismissal. Merry Christmas!

Today was our annual Code Day where students took some time to do coding, work with technology such as robots, iPads, drones, etc... and use their engineering skills. Here are a few pictures from my room, coding.  And I also included a picture of the 8th grade at the Christmas concert just because they are too cute. :)

Dates to remember: Dec. 5th: Christmas Concert at the high school Dec. 7th: Middle school Code Day and Spirit Day Dec. 21st: 2 hour early dismissal and Spirit Day Dec. 24-Jan. 2 Christmas Break No School!! The 8th grade finished their novel on Monday. They are in the middle of their test for it and will begin their 3D projects on Thursday. Again, I encourage students to use things from home rather than buy them. Their next unit will be poetry so they will take a couple of weeks off from novel reading. They also had visitors on Monday. The 1st grade stopped by to read their 8 page book summaries. The 7th grade just started 12 Angry Men  to wrap up their novel unit. Once they are done reading the play, they will have a persuasive presentation using Google Slides or some sort of presentation format.  The 6th grade is just about to wrap up their unit of theme before heading into poetry. We are also really hitting on their writing lately. Run-on sentences seem to