April 7, 2024 Tburg MS Weekly Update

Middle School

Weekly Update

Week of April 7th

CONTENTS

7th Grade

Friday,4/12 will

be a B day!

Calendar

School resumes: Tuesday, 4/9

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Office Updates

From Mrs. Lomax

I hope that all of our families are enjoying Spring Break and are looking forward to the eclipse tomorrow. Information about the eclipse can be found HERE.

We can’t wait to see our students back in the building on Tuesday.

Eclipse videos

5th & 6th graders in Ms. Brisson’s WINN class created some videos with good advice for viewing the eclipse. We hope you enjoy them!

5th Grade

5th Grade Daily Planner (Please bookmark for your use). Please check your students’ take home folders and planners with them daily. Calling ALL PENCILS!!! Please remind students to bring spare pencils from home with them to school (either daily) or to store in their lockers! We are giving them the same messages here at school. THANK YOU!!!

ELA: This week students began to learn about Jackie Robinson’s baseball days. We practiced tackling short response questions, more inference, vocabulary development and good questioning techniques! Keep checking in with students about how they are doing keeping up with daily homework assignments related to the reading in our class text (Promises to Keep).

Math: This week students learned how to divide whole numbers and unit fractions. Their exit tickets will be handed back to them on the Tuesday we return from break. We will then practice solving word problems involving division and multiplication of fractions.

Science: Science class has been jumping topics a bit. In addition to our work in biology, we’ll be reviewing some 3rd and 4th grade ideas in preparation for the brand new NYS 5th grade science assessment. It’s pretty cool for your kiddos to see how much science they’ve learned in the past few years.

Health: Hello Grade 5 Families! Q4 begins on Apr 22nd → Students will need a folder and loose leaf paper for Health class.

Band : Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule Students with lessons on Monday will not have a lesson this week. Please encourage them to continue practicing.

6th Grade

6th grade planner (please bookmark this link)

***Students are in need of pencils-please make sure your student has pencils for school. Check their backpacks!! Please encourage your student to fill out their planners or check the digital planner.

Social Studies: In social studies last week students put together presentations about Ancient Chinese inventions. They presented their final projects before break. After break we will jump into studying religion. We will compare and contrast the five major religions around the world.

Math: Students ended their study of ratios, rates and percents.

Science: In science this week students spent time analyzing and interpreting graphs. Groups were assigned a specific case study from a community in the US to identify any long term patterns in temperature, precipitation, drought and snow pack information. Groups then presented their case study to the rest of the class making a claim about what was happening in that community and supporting that with evidence. These presentations will help to further our understanding of how natural resources are distributed and being used in various places and what role if any humans are having. We also had a trout day, where we investigated the various signs of pollution in and around streams that could affect the health of our trout. They are getting noticeably larger.

ELA: Students in ELA planned a paired passage essay comparing and contrasting Steve Jobs and Barack Obama’s speeches to students. Obama Speech and Steve Job's commencemen t . If students have not finished their free read book they should do so over break. We will begin Flush by Carl Hiaasen after break. Students will be reading some of this in class and some on their own.

Health: This week students continued their learning on effective communication and healthy relationships. Lessons after break will focus on how to be safe online and while communicating with others. Further, students will learn how to avoid exploitation, how to keep a body healthy during puberty and the basics of the human reproductive systems.

Band: Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule Students have been completing performance assessments for specific measures in our band music. This should be completed by the end of this week. (4/12)

Chorus: MP3 Lesson Schedule / MP3 Lesson Groups

7th Grade

7th Grade Digital Planner (Please bookmark this link.)

Please remind students to bring pencils, their Chromebook charger, and a water bottle to school.

Science: The class finished the orangutan project by completing a model that showed their understanding of the phenomenon “How could buying candy affect orangutan populations.” The librarian came in on Friday to help us practice modeling populations of pandas, bobcats, kit foxes, giraffes, and the American tree sparrow.

Social Studies: Hi Everyone! This week we studied the Monroe Doctrine and the Oregon Trail. After break we will start out mini-unit President Jackson and the Indian Removal Act

Math 7 & Pre-Algebra: We had a busy week reviewing Ratios and Proportions in both Math 7 and Pre-Algebra and learning more about functions and linear functions in Algebra. We culminated our week with our Capture the Flag review game in all classes. Watch this short video for a little glimpse into our classroom. Our IXL National Challenge starts April 1st and runs through April 30th. Encourage your child to work through grade 5-8 material in IXL to help us compete for $250 in prize money while we focus on learning math skills for grade 5 - 8 material.

Rattenborg’s Small Class ELA 7: We made a research based exhibit on axolotls for the library.

Music: We finished up our Civil Rights Movement Song studies this week. Students did a great job presenting! After break, it is essential that students bring charged chromebooks to class as we will begin our work in a music composition program called BandLab.

7/8 Band: Students have been completing performance assessment s on sections of the band music and will be finishing these up during lessons by 4/12.

7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 4/8

8th Grade

Parents: Reminder--Students should be emailing their teachers when absent -- that way they can know what was covered in class. Also please follow the below steps to check assignments in your child’s Google Classrooms.

Science: This past week we worked on our last required state investigation focused on weather. Students looked at weather maps and made weather predictions. The NYS State Science Test will be a computer based test this year. The test will take place on Tuesday, April 16th. .

Regents Earth Science: We have continued our studies on weather. Students have learned about air masses and fronts and are beginning to use that knowledge to make weather predictions. After spring break, students will have weekly HW assignments that are review for the Regents. Your student must do these assignments every week. Please assume they have HW - it would be helpful if you asked them about it and remind them to get it done.

Rattenborg’s Small Class ELA: We made a research based exhibit on axolotls for the library.

Social Studies: We wrapped up on WWII this week with a quiz on Thursday. On Friday, we launched the Civic Readiness Capstone Project. More on that in the next newsletter.

Chorus: Lesson Schedule / Lesson Groups

7/8 Band: Students have been completing performance assessments on sections of the band music and will be finishing these up during lessons by 4/12.

7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 4/8

Google Classroom for Parents

Looking for your student’s assignments? Follow these steps:

Clubs & Activities

Student Council

Next student council meeting will be Tuesday, 4/9 in room 306. You must sign up for the late bus with Mr. Begeal or Ms. Salib by 1:00 PM on Tuesday.

Yearbook

Yearbook Club will meet in the Media room from 3-4:00pm.

*Students needing to ride the bus will be dismissed at 3:35pm to get on the late bus. Students getting picked up/walking home will be dismissed at 4pm.

Any student participating in Yearbook Club who needs to ride the late bus must let advisors Lisa Magee or Tammy Parker know by 12:00pm on the day of the meeting.

Order your Middle School Yearbook Now!

Click YEARBOOKORDERCENTER and use school code 18914.

Washington, D.C. Trip

On Wednesday May 1st there will be a mandatory meeting for 8th grade parents with a child wishing to attend the Washington DC trip June 12-14th. The meeting will be held in the MS gym on from 7-8pm. We will be going over the trip itinerary, trip expectations, trip device policy, roommate procedure, medical form / medication requirements, and other trip logistics. We look forward to seeing all interested, eligible students and their parents.

Please contact Mr. Begeal (wbegeal@tburg.k12.ny.us) if you have any questions.

You can help to support our trip by ordering Tburg Gear through our online store.

PTO