March 12th Tburg MS Weekly Update

Middle School

Weekly Update

Week of March 12th

CONTENTS

Calendar

3/16: Spring Sports parent meeting at 5:30 in the HS Library

3/17: Conference Day--no school for students

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Office Updates

From Ms. Amodeo

Last Friday marked the end of the 25-week period. Progress Reports will be sent home on Thursday, 3/16. Please discuss these reports with your student(s) and reach out to teachers with any questions.

Reminder – Friday, 3/17, is a Superintendent's Conference Day. There is no school for students.

School Nutrition

Though school meals are no longer subsidized for every student, free and reduced-priced meals are available to those who qualify. The application can be found HERE.

To add funds to your child’s school lunch account, you can use our online system at MySchoolBucks or you can send a check directly to the TCSD Food Service Department. Students may always pay cash if they choose to as well.

What’s for lunch? Check My School Menus

5th Grade

5th Grade Daily Planner (Please bookmark for your use)

Please help your 5th grader remember to charge their Chromebook each night, BRING PENCILS from home (please - we have a lot of kids reporting each day without one to use) and to bring a water bottle for use at school.

Science: Time to turn the page from chemistry to biology. Please check in with your kiddo about our Mixtures and Solutions final mission, as well as our first looks into living systems. Also, March Mammal Madness is here! I am sorry that the link didn’t work in last week’s newsletter. Your student has a set of slides full of info in Google Classroom. Let them show you all about it!

ELA: This week students plowed through a large chunk of reading in our PTK text in order to discover more about Jackie Robinson’s military career, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the decision on why Jackie Robinson was chosen to break the color barrier in baseball along with his successes & struggles in the MLB. Ask your 5th grader what they may know about any of these discussion points.

Band 5: Band 5/6 Lesson Schedule Link

6th Grade

6th grade planner (please bookmark this link)

Please remind students to bring a reusable water bottle to fill up at school. Students need pencils! Please send your student in with a few pencils! Healthy snacks are a great idea to send in with your student, they are growing at a rapid rate.

Social Studies: What a fun week in social studies as we traveled to Ancient China. Students were able to show off their amazing projects-raps, slide shows, videos, clay creations and posters! Students also practiced writing their names in characters as well as sampling candy, rice and tea.

Math: Students are venturing into the algebraic world. We started writing equations and are talking about balancing the equation. Next week we will tackle long division with decimals and solving algebraic equations.

Science: Students began to study why temperature is higher closer to the ground and colder the higher you go up. We were able to get outside and take temperature readings on three different surfaces.

ELA: Such a fun week in ELA. We continue to read Flush and look at the author's purpose for writing this book. We also introduced a few articles about water and microplastics in the water. Students had amazing conversations about the environment and how trash is impacting the oceans.

Health: Do ask your child to ASSERT the communication style that is the most effective & helpful to their health (answer: Assertive). And, see if they can tell you how to be assertive with a friend who may be pressuring them. Next week we welcome our School Counselor, Ms. Valletta who will direct a RULER lesson and Ms. Clark, an outreach educator from Tompkins County Advocacy Center, to help deliver a lesson on boundaries and avoiding online exploitation.

Band: Band 5/6 Lesson Schedule Link

7th Grade

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

Shout out to our 7th graders! They were great on our trip this week to see the play about Harriet Tubman.

Science: Last week students had the opportunity to use medical lab testing plates to sample bacteria from around the school. We will start the week by looking at the results -–where are the most bacteria found at our school? We will then continue with our study of the human body systems.

Social Studies: Students this week are finishing up stations on Constitutional Principles and diving deeper into the First Amendment and what it looks like in our everyday lives. We are then covering our last learning objective of the unit on the first presidency and the first political parties. Friday we are going on a field trip to watch a play about Harriet Tubman and students will get a refresher in SS on Thursday about the legacy of Tubman.

ELA 7: This week we started reading Ghost Boys, and we started looking at characterization in the novel. Please encourage your 7th grader to read to meet their reading goals each week.

Ms. Cederstrom: Ms. Cederstrom’s students have been hard at work on the RUN! Project. This PBL involved planning and creating an instructional video to teach French/Spanish to our very own Trumansburg 2nd graders! Given that our target audience has no prior knowledge of the language, students were challenged to write a skit using a very limited set of vocabulary words related to the RUN! theme. They then needed to figure out a way to teach these words to their audience in an engaging and interactive way. After the initial planning stages were complete, many students collaborated with Ms. Brisson to shoot their video footage in front of a green screen (Thank you Ms. Brisson!). What a blast! Next, students uploaded their video footage into WeVideo and got to work on realizing their vision for the instructional video. Students have been working diligently to fine-tune their videos, which will soon be shared with the 2nd grade students!

Music: Students will be working on 2 short assignments which will help to review and prepare for the final project of our Composition unit.

7/8 Band: NYSSMA prep has begun! Students have chosen their music, and now it is time to dive in. Students have also created a practice goal for themselves in order to effectively prepare. Look for those practice goals to be e-mailed to families soon!

7/8 Lesson Schedule 3/13- 3/17

8th Grade

ELA 8: Students have begun preparing for a Socratic Seminar, discussing recent edits made to classic Roald Dahl works. We will also be discussing civil discourse and will soon prepare for an interview project, along with informational texts.

Social Studies: Students recently presented their Progressive Reformer posters. We spent a few days doing research, then went to the library where Ms. Brisson gave us pointers on how to make a CANVA poster illustrating a reformer, their issue and actions. We celebrated the incredible posters with an awards ceremony. Our next stop: WWI.

7/8 Lesson Schedule 3/13- 3/17

Clubs & Activities

Student Council

BOur next meeting will be coming up soon , after school in room 306. Hope to see all interested students - we have a lot of things to plan.

Any student who needs to ride the late bus needs to fill out a late bus form by 1:30 on the day they want to ride. Contact advisors Bill Begeal or Nadine Salib to get signed up for the bus. ws you to directly text Tammy Parker (Producer) or Danny Trippett (Director).

Musical

Beauty and the Beast rehearsals are underway. Cast, keep up to date with rehearsals and other important information via our Beauty and the Beast Jr. website.

If you are a cast member (or parent of a cast member) and have not yet signed up for our REMIND app, please email tparker@tburg.k12.ny.us to get the sign up information. Remind is a way that we send quick text message updates or changes. Remind also allows you to directly text Tammy Parker (Producer) or Danny Trippett (Director).

PTO

The May Day 5K & Fun Run is BACK! It is scheduled for Saturday, June 3rd. We are looking for volunteers to help make this event a success.

Please considering volunteering.

Yearbook

Our next meeting will be Thursday, 3/16 from 2:45-3:30 in the media lab.

If your child attends a meeting and needs to ride a bus home they MUST complete the weekly google form emailed out by Ms. Magee, no later than noon of the meeting day.

Questions? Email Tammy Parker tparker@tburg.k12.ny.us or Lisa Magee lmagee@tburg.k12.ny.us

To order a yearbook go to www.YearbookOrderCenter.com and use the order number 18914

If you would like to submit pictures to possibly be used in our yearbook please go to http://www.hjeshare.com and enter the word “doig” in the school code box to upload from your computer or get the HJeshare App and upload right from your phone!

Spring Sports

It’s time to sign up for Spring Sports. Click this link to get started. You can also find the link on the Athletics webpage.

Modified Track and Field starts March 20th.

Modified Softball and Baseball start April 1st.

Also, if your child is planning to participate in a spring sport, there is a Spring Sport Parent meeting on Thursday, March 16th at 5:30, in the HS Library. We look forward to seeing you then!