Middle School
Weekly Update
Week of March 24th
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Friday, 3/29 will
be an A day!
Calendar
Modified Softball & Baseball begin: March 25
Friday, 3/29: Early Dismissal at 2:30
Spring Break: April 1-8
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Office Updates
From Mrs. Lomax
Congratulations to the entire cast and crew of Willy Wonka, Jr! Your talent and hard work was evident throughout this weekend’s performances. Well done! And an enormous thank you to Ms. Overbaugh, Ms. Valletta, Ms. Grotto, and Ms. Posegate for their tireless efforts in helping this production come to life.
We are on Spring Break from Saturday, 3/30, through Monday, 4/8. We return to school on Tuesday, 4/9.
As many of you already know, a total eclipse of the sun will take place Monday, 4/8, with totality occurring just north of Trumansburg. Information about the eclipse can be found HERE. Later this week, eclipse glasses and pinhole viewers will be sent home with students. We hope you can find the time to enjoy this rare opportunity.
Our Lost & Found is overflowing! Please remind your student to check the racks in the cafeteria. Anything left after 3/28 will be donated!
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 in ELA, students continued to learn about Jackie Robinson, his early influences, segregation in baseball and how he made it in the Majors! Students should be bringing home their PTK text regularly to keep up with homework assignments.
Math: This past week students wrapped up their project on multiplying fractions and mixed numbers. We also took a closer look at how to improve our mathematical writing. We discussed that every quality answer should 1: answer the question 2: include units and 3: justify our answer through math. Looking to next week we will dig into division of whole numbers by fractions and division of fractions by whole numbers.
Science: Science has been a very busy place, with 4 Earth systems, March Mammal Madness, life cycles, food chains and webs. Ask your kids about all this stuff, and see how much new science vocabulary they can use. Daily conversations about school work is one of the small things that can make a huge difference in learning. If your kiddo struggles to tell you what’s going on, it may be time to seek some extra help after school on Tuesday & Thursday.
Band: Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule Fifth grade band rehearsals are going very well. We now have 3 pieces we are working on. Please encourage students to practice 3 or 4 times each week. They have an assignment in the lesson book and should work on our 3 concert pieces at home as well.
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: Welcome back Ms. Stearns! Students are so excited to have Ms. Stearns back. Students had a debate last week about a school rule and they applied an ancient Chinese philosophy to this school rule. Students also began a small research project on an aspect of Ancient China. Ask them what their plan is! There will be a quiz on vocabulary on Tuesday. We will be moving into comparative religions after break.
Math: Students worked last week on percentages. What does percent mean- “out of 100”. Students practiced writing percentages as fractions and decimals as well.
Science: We began our unit Earth’s resources and human impact on these resources. Students have generated models to show why they think droughts and floods are occurring in some places. We made a whole class model to show what we are thinking now. Students also developed questions based on these models.
ELA: Students continue to work on their own Hero’s Journey. They should be on their supreme ordeal by Wednesday. Students should also be reading their free read book. We continue to work on our unit of “life advice” and will read a welcome back to school address by Barack Obama.
Health: Next week we will continue our unit on communication and healthy relationships. Students will prepare a skit to demonstrate assertive refusal skills when feeling pressure to do something they don’t want to do. Lessons will focus on how to establish boundaries, resolve conflicts, make, keep and end friendships, as well as measures to prevent bullying.
Band: Mrs. Posegate’s Lesson Schedule Students participating in the NYSSMA solo festival on 5/3 & 4 should be practicing 3 - 4 times per week on their solo and memorizing 3 scales. At this point they should be able to play through the entire solo. All students should be working on their band music as well. We will be participating in the NYSSMA Major Ensemble (band/chorus/orchestra) festival in Owego, NY in mid-May. This is a field trip during the school day. More info to come.
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 started a project on how the orangutans are facing extinction due to the human consumption of palm oil. On Friday we made a scientific model to visualize our knowledge about this issue.
ELA 7: We will finish reading Touching Spirit Bear this week. Has Cole truly changed? Will he be able to help Peter heal? Can the bully help his victim learn to trust and heal? We will look at the important themes in the book and examine the connection between Cole and fire throughout the book. Please encourage your 7th grader to finish reading the book and answer the questions on their bookmarks.
Rattenborg’s Small Class ELA 7: This week students finished writing essays on The Giver and watched the movie adaptation.
Music: We will be presenting our Civil Rights Movement Song Studies this week! Students need to make sure they have the Canva poster completed so that they are ready to present.
7/8 Band: We will be starting our annual scale challenge this week. If students can successfully play the C, F & G major scales from memory at their lesson, they will advance to round 2! 7/8 musicians should be hard at work practicing their band music and their NYSSMA solos (if they are going to NYSSMA). A goal/checkpoint for NYSSMA solos is being able to play through the entire solo (albeit slowly) focusing on just notes and rhythms by the week of 4/8!
7/8 Band Lesson Schedule/Groups- week of 3/25
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: We have wrapped up our unit on Gravity and Kinetic Energy. This week we worked on one of the new state required investigations called Mixed Up. This takes student knowledge on the physical characteristics of different substances and requires the students to find ways to separate a mixture of 3 substances into their individual components.
Regents Earth Science: We are working on drawing weather station models to represent current weather conditions on a weather map. We will start looking at how to predict weather based on current high and low pressure areas and weather fronts.
Kotler’s ELA 8: This week, students are researching and synthesizing pioneers in women’s history into an A-Z, grade-wide slideshow. Thursday, we will have a building competition, emulating the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Liberty, or their own standing monument. Friday, some classes have earned a free, fun day; others will have an opportunity to catch up on back-work. Students continue to read Donna Jo Napoli’s historical fiction The King of Mulberry Street (competing packet ch. ques. 8-15).
Rattenborg’s Small Class ELA: This week students finished writing essays on The Giver and watched the movie adaptation.
Social Studies: Our focus this week on WWII is the American homefront, including the Japanese American internment camps. Students will also be completing a Holocaust Learning Map, along with connecting a profile card to the timeline we have created in the hallway.
Chorus: Lesson Schedule / Lesson Groups
7/8 Band: We will be starting our annual scale challenge this week. If students can successfully play the C, F & G major scales from memory at their lesson, they will advance to round 2! 7/8 musicians should be hard at work practicing their band music and their NYSSMA solos (if they are going to NYSSMA). A goal/checkpoint for NYSSMA solos is being able to play through the entire solo (albeit slowly) focusing on just notes and rhythms by the week of 4/8!
Clubs & Activities
Student Council
Next student council meeting will be coming up soon in room 306.
PTO
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Yearbook
Yearbook Club will meet in the Media room (next to the Tech room) on Thursday, March 28th, 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
8th Grade Washington DC trip - Our trip is scheduled for June 12 -14th.
Parents stay tuned for the date of the mandatory parent meeting concerning the 8th grade trip that will happen in the beginning of May. There will be a student meeting concerning the trip the week before we depart.
Support the trip! Get your Tburg swag at the MS clothing store. A portion of the proceeds help fund our DC trip.
Community
May 15
Community
Building Contacts
Main Office: Brenda Everhart, 607-387-2825
Attendance: Lauren Conners, 607-387-7551, x1425
Nurse's Office: 607-387-2827
Student Services Team: 607-387-7551 ext. 1449
Bryce DeSantis, School Psychologist
Lisa Magee, Administrative Assistant
Brian Cobb, LCSW, Social Worker
Claire Valletta, Guidance Counselor
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