10.21.19 Weekly Update

Happy Monday Everyone!

It was great seeing so many families on Friday for Parent-Teacher Conferences.  Thank you to all that came out to visit with us.  Below are a few reminders of what we discussed for Science and Social Studies. 

In class access reminder:

I wanted to remind everyone that ALL students have access to everything we do in both classes.  I have shared a science and social studies folder with each student where they can find the lessons presented in class each day.  If they forget what we did, or missed class, please encourage them to visit this resource to help them.  Depending on the day, there may be pictures, video links or other resources they can use to help them prepare for quizzes and tests.  

Homework reminders:

Homework is in full swing for all science and social studies classes.  Here is what you should see your student completing:

6th Grade (science and social studies):

Daily reflection written each day for each class. (Found in Google Classroom)

-Minimum of five sentences about what they learned/did in class.  Due each Monday by 8:55 am; however, students can turn it in as soon as they are finished.  The more specific students are, the more it will review the concepts from the day.

Each month they will have one science and one current events/history article due.  First due dates are October 30th for science and November 5th for social studies, due to turnitin.com.

7th Grade (science and social studies):

Daily reflection written each day for each class. (Found in Google Classroom)

-Minimum of five sentences about what they learned/did in class.  Due each Monday by 8:55 am; however, students can turn it in as soon as they are finished.  The more specific students are, the more it will review the concepts from the day.

Each week students will have either a science or current events/history article due on Tuesday by 9:00 pm to turnitin.com.

Students should start spending some time working on National History Day (NHD) a little each week.  Please encourage them to keep up with their due dates.  They received a hard copy of the due dates and they are also listed in the NHD tab found in their Google Classroom.

8th Grade (science and social studies):

Daily reflection written each day for each class. (Found in Google Classroom)

-Minimum of five sentences about what they learned/did in class.  Due each Monday by 8:55 am; however, students can turn it in as soon as they are finished.  The more specific students are, the more it will review the concepts from the day.

Each week students will have a science and current events/history article due.  The science article are due on Tuesday and the social studies article is due on Thursday by 9:00 pm to turnitin.com

Students should start spending some time working on National History Day (NHD) a little each week.  Please encourage them to keep up with their due dates.  They received a hard copy of the due dates and they are also listed in the NHD tab found in their Google Classroom.

Important Dates coming up:

Quizzes/Tests this week:

6th Grade:

10/22 Social Studies quiz on the Geography of Mesopotamia

7th Grade:

10/22 Social Studies quiz on final group presentations.  Students will be discussing information presented to them in a graph.

10/24 Science Test - study guide was posted on Sunday in the Google Classroom.  It can also be found in their shared folder.

8th Grade:

10/22 Social Studies quiz on the "Creating Our Government"

10/24 Science Quiz on counting atoms, balancing chemical equations and explaining the Law of Conservation of Matter 

10/25 Mass 9:00 am, Holy Rosary 2:45 pm

10/25 Halloween Bingo (evening)

10/31 Early Dismissal 12:25 pm

11/1 No School for Students

11/11 Open House 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

11/26 Early Dismissal 12:25 pm

11/27 - 11/29 Thanksgiving Break