January 21, 2023 Tburg MS Weekly Update

Middle School

Weekly Update

Week of January 21st

CONTENTS

Calendar

1/23: 8th grade field trip to BOCES

2/6: 5th Grade Band Twinkle Celebration, 7pm in the gym

2/9: Middle School Ice Skating (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED at tburgpto.com) 3-5 pm at Cass Park Rink. Bus transportation from MS to Cass Park at dismissal, students must be picked up by 5 pm. $10 per student.

3/1: Staff Slam

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Office Updates

Lost And Found speech bubble. Speech bubble. Vector illustration.

Encourage your students to check the Lost and Found rack in the cafeteria. It is overflowing!

After 1/31 we will be taking any remaining items to the donation box at the Shur Save.

School Nutrition

What’s for lunch? Check My School Menus

Harvest of the month is a farm to school initiative that promotes a different locally grown food in the school cafeteria. For the month of January,Trumansburg is promoting New-York-grown potatoes. Potatoes are a good source of potassium, fiber,niacin, and vitamin B6. Also, tubers are high in Vitamin C.

On January 12th the cafeteria staff celebrated Harvest of the Month by providing a potato bar in all 3 cafeterias. Students had the opportunity to eat a baked potato with their choice of toppings. which included chili (veggie or chicken), broccoli, nacho cheese, black beans, and pulled pork.

Thank you to the food service department for providing a fun nutritious event for all 3 schools.

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 continued to expand their knowledge of New Year’s Celebrations. We looked at multiple accounts written from different perspectives and began working on our compare and contrast flipbook.

Math : Students learned how best to subtract fractions with unlike denominators as well as subtracting fractions from numbers between 1 and 2. Their exit tickets will be graded and handed back on Monday if you'd like to see how they did. Looking the week of the 22nd, we will look at fractions as division, make some entries in our math notebook, and refresh our IXL diagnostic. Students will have one iReady math lesson due by the end of the week on Friday.

Social Studies : This week we concluded our research of the Aztec. Our final project will be groups creating questions and answers for our “Jeopardy of the Aztec” game. We will also have a special visitor from the Johnson Museum of Art on Monday as we examine some Pre-Columbian art.

Science : This week we practiced modeling things unseen, an important skill for anyone working in chemistry. Ask your kiddo about the black boxes lab and the amazing drought-stopper.

Band : Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule We are preparing for our Twinkle Celebration on February 6th at 7 pm in the MS gymnasium. Please mark your calendars and also encourage practice several times per week. Your student should be able to play Hot Cross Buns, Mary had a little Lamb, Jingle Bells and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. They also have an assignment in Making Music Matter - around Lesson 3.

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!!

Social Studies: Students made Egyptian trading cards this week. They look awesome and it was such a fun way for them to conduct research.

Math: Students worked on dividing with decimals in the divisor and the dividend this week. Students will begin our unit on ratios next week. On Friday they got tests back from last week-please look at the rubric and test, but make sure it goes back in their math folder.

Science: Students have been studying what is on Earth’s surface and what is below the surface of the Earth. Students look at an app that showed all of the earthquakes since 1980-they were able to investigate the earthquakes magnitude and depth.

ELA: We continue with New Kid by Jerry Croft. We spent the week writing summaries. Students got their first book in a series and set up a reading schedule. Students will be completing assignments or a project for this book-they chose. Please check in with them on which book they picked and what goals they set for reading.

Band: Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule Students did very well on our Concert B flat scale assessment this week! Great work! Students should spend some of their practice time working on our 2 new band pieces - Imperium and Spectrum. It is important for them to learn their parts so we can work on putting those parts together in rehearsals. Thanks!

Chorus: MP2 Lesson Schedule / MP2 Lesson Groups

THRIVE: After-school tutoring is in progress. Fill out this form to sign-up.

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: Students started the heredity unit! We looked at their inherited traits such as dimples, tongue rolling, and curly hair. We also continued to practice reading and writing in science using the CER framework (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning). On Friday students took a CER quiz.

Math 7 & Pre-Algebra: We are in the middle of our percents unit. This week we talked about sales tax, tip and markup. Next week we’ll learn about percent change, discount and commission. Both Math 7 and pre-Algebra will have opportunities to demonstrate mastery in these skills late next week. Please encourage your student to check the grade 7 planner or Google Classroom to stay on top of assignments. Absent? Check the stream in Google classroom to look for our class recording.

Social Studies: This week we continued our unit on the United States Constitution. After investigating the weaknesses of the Articles of COnfederation last week, we discussed the differences between the Federalist and Anti-federalists and had a mock Constitutional Convention on Wednesday. We wrapped up the week with a detailed look at the U.S. Bill of Rights, and next week we will be dissecting the Constitution’s Articles

Chorus: MP2 Lesson Schedule / MP2 Lesson Group s

Music: Final ‘Soundtrack of My Life’ projects are due this week! Students should have finished putting their information onto Canva by the end of the week. We will be starting a mini-unit on ukulele next.

7/8 Band: Mrs. Robertson is asking for your help getting your band students to practice their instruments! There is a lot of music to practice right now, and we are hitting a lull in progress as the material is becoming more challenging. The practice habits are not rising to the challenge! Some things that may help:

Get some weekend practice in! Students should bring their instruments at the end of the week and try to play at some point during the weekend.
Utilize after school time to practice in a practice room here at school.
Finish your school work during class or at home! Practice during studyhall (if you have one)!
Come practice in a practice room during tutorial!

7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 1/22

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.

The 8th Grade class and teachers will all be headed to BOCES for the morning to learn about the Career and Technical Education program this Tuesday, January 23rd. Please note-the bus to BOCES will leave promptly at 8:30AM and there will not be additional transportation provided for late students. Please ensure your 8th grader is at school on time so they don't miss the fun! Email Claire Valletta at cvalletta@tburg.k12.ny.us with any questions or concerns. Thank you!

Science 8: We wrapped up our Unit on Chemical Reactions. We looked at a written response rubric for a practice quiz in Inner Orbit. Students worked on developing their claims and using data to back up their claims.

Regents Earth Science: We are currently learning how to locate earthquake epicenters using seismograph data.

Kotler’s ELA 8: On Monday, we began brainstorming potential conflicts for our short stories (due: 02/09). Wednesday, students studied the word roots center-, centr(i)- (meaning: “center”). Thursday, students read “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl to analyze the use of dialogue in moving the plotline forward. Friday, students focused on their marking period 2 independent reading book (book project due: 02/02).

Social Studies: We started our World War One unit this week. Students were engaged in our causes of WWI simulation and the decoding of the Zimmerman Telegram.

Health 8: Last week students discussed key vocabulary – stigma, risk factor and barrier – important to understanding sexual activity and one’s health. As they continue to learn about how to prevent STIs, HIV and pregnancy, students will review scenarios to evaluate responsible decision-making, review refusal skills to be applied when feeling sexual pressure, understand the steps to correct condom use as well as understand various birth control methods. Health 8 concludes on 2/2 – this group has been wonderful to teach!

Chorus: MP2 Lesson Schedule / MP2 Lesson Groups

Get some weekend practice in! Students should bring their instruments at the end of the week and try to play at some point during the weekend.
Utilize after school time to practice in a practice room here at school.
Finish your school work during class or at home! Practice during studyhall (if you have one)!
Come practice in a practice room during tutorial!

7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 1/22

Google Classroom for Parents

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

Clubs & Activities

Student Council

Yearbook

Our next meeting is Tuesday, January 23rd.

You must sign up for the late bus with Mr. Begeal or Ms. Salib by 1:00 PM on Tuesday.

Drama Club

Please check the Drama Club website for the rehearsal schedule.

We will post Stage Crew assignments soon. Stage Crew will not be needed before February. Listen to announcements and check the Drama Club website for updates. It’s not too late to join Stage Crew - please see Mrs. Posegate to sign-up.

Washington, D.C. Trip

We are still looking for 8th grade volunteers to help provide child care during the ES/MS PTO meetings. Donations will be made towards our trip fund by PTO. Please see Mr. Begeal if you could donate some time to help out.

Yearbook Club will meet in the Media room (Next to the Tech room) on Thursday, Thursday, February 1st, from 3-4:00pm.

*Students who 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 email advisors Lisa Magee or Tammy Parker by 12:00pm on the day of the meeting -OR- sign up on the goldenrod paper copy outside of room 211 or in the Counseling office (also by NOON the day of the meeting).

Meeting Dates:

February 1st, 15th & 29th

March 7th, 26th & 28th

Order your Middle School Yearbook Now!

Click YEARBOOKORDERCENTER and use school code 18914

Middle School Yearbook wants your pictures!!

Do you have some great pictures of Trumansburg Middle School Athletes in action?

If you would like to share these with the yearbook club please follow the instructions below

To upload an image from your computer:

1. Go to the Herff Jones Eshare page at http://www.hjeshare.com

2. Enter ‘doig’ into the school code box

3. Fill out the information box using student’s information, and agree to the terms and conditions

4. Click ‘browse images’ and select your pictures

5. Preview your image, and then tag the image with the student's name, and grade in their respective boxes. Then add the subject/event in the description box.

Or you can get the HJeshare App and upload right from your phone using the same instructions.

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