Please join us for our Nutmeg Luncheon in the 9-12 classroom. The luncheon will take place at 12:30 on Thursday, February 9th and will go until about 1:30, followed by our Literature Circle presentations which will go from 2:00 to 3:00. We will have all different types of food inspired by the Nutmeg nominees. The students in the 9-12 class will be going up on the stage to say a little about the books. We are all very excited. Hope you can make it!
– Maizey
We are having February break from the 18th to the 26th. Some of us are going on vacation to places such as Boston (Ali and Jason) or Vermont (Julia). Others are just hanging out at home like it’s a regular weekend. I’m pretty sure this will be the best school break there is! I am extremely excited already.
– Anna
On February 9th there will be another lit circle presentation, right after the Nutmeg Luncheon. The books are:
Light in the Forest
Once upon a Marigold
Maniac Magee
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Bridge to Terebithia.
The presentations will be very interesting and will include skits, video, artwork, games, information, and more. We hope to see you there.
– Eamon
The 9-12 class recently received a very generous gift from Mark LeGault. Mark is the father of Anna LeGault who is in the 6-9 room. He installed new keyboard trays for our computers, as two were taped up and falling apart and another had actually already fallen off. He also organized all the cables and made our computer area much neater. Mark also generously donated a large amount of time and work in the shed. It was actually a safety hazard with gymnastics mats balancing on walls. Mark has organized it so that it is not only safe and neat, but easy to find everything in. Here are some quotes from grateful students:
“The shed looks awesome!” — Anna
“Thanks! We really appreciate all your work!! — Ali
“It’s nice with more room.” — Nick
“I love it!” — Jocelyn
The 9-12 class is very grateful for all the nice work Mark did for us.
– Ali
As you might know, we have new things for teaching how to type. They are very nice and everyone loves to type on them. Their effect to teach is in fact working. They also measure home row points which are when the screen says press all the home row keys, which are A, S, D, F, J, K, L and;. Here is what some peopel think of them:
Sheanna: They are fun but I don’t think they are effective.
Jason: Sometimes they can be annoying but they are useful.
Ryaan: I think they are really teaching me how to type correctly.
Ali: They are definitely better than our old thing.
Sometimes people do it way too much and end up doing it for too long. I think they are good, if people stop using them for such a long time. We will be able to type really fast. They are really fun!
– Ryaan
We have been getting new work lately and I am going to tell you about it. In science we have photosynthesis work to study how plants get sunlight. We all have been doing different kinds of math. We’ve been doing the usual spelling, and we’ve been doing studies on the 13 colonies. That’s the work we’ve been working on in the 9-12.
– Brennan
Every month we have a thing called music share where we share things that are musical that we like. This music share we shared many things like iPod Touches, a Kindle Fire, a CD, piano songs, and singing. We all worked hard preparing our shares. We always make an effort, and everyone always appreciates it.
– Michael Paul
At school we are working on typing, as you know from our previous blog. We are progressing in the typing. We work hard on typing practce for 15-20 minutes every day. The Writers are very helpful in maintaining good posture for typing and typing fast but efficient. We work on hand positions on the keys. We are moving into higher lessons which are harder. We are going to be awesome typers in no time!
– Michael Paul
The next stop on our journey in science this year is learning about photosynthesis. We learned about the molecule basis of sugar and H2O in a lesson. We could make a chart of photosynthesis at work, write a report, or demonstrate how the different molecules fit together. But, most importantly, everybody is having fun with it.
–Jason
The last time it snowed outside was back in October, and it didn’t snow again until now! It finally snowed! Today, exactly! November, no snow. December, no snow. It’s so exciting! At recess today we didn’t get to sled on the hill because there wasn’t enough snow, so it would ruin the hill. But we did get to pull each other around on the ground and build snow men/snow women. Anna thought that the snow was awesome. Ali didn’t mind it. Julia thought it was OK and that it wasn’t really enough to have fun. I think that it was amazing that it finallysnowed, but that it could’ve been better,.
– Shea