January 6th - January 10th
T2 EXAMS
Just a reminder that our T2 exams will be on February 13th and 14th. These will be half days. Please see the chart below for exam information.
Just a reminder that our T2 exams will be on February 13th and 14th. These will be half days. Please see the chart below for exam information.
SVA OPEN HOUSE
St. Vincent’s Academy will be holding an open house this Sunday, January 12th. Click HERE for more information.
ASSESSMENTS CALENDAR
St. Vincent’s Academy will be holding an open house this Sunday, January 12th. Click HERE for more information.
ASSESSMENTS CALENDAR
THIS LINK leads to a Google Sheet that will have the next 2 weeks of assessments. The link below will lead to the 6th grade assessments, but by using the tabs in the lower left corner (shown below), you can navigate to 7th grade and 8th grade assessments as well.
History/black, Science/green, ELA/blue, Spanish/red, and Math/pink.
Dates are subject to change; teachers will keep the calendar updated.
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE - SPRING PERFORMANCE
Each middle school student is required to complete ten hours of community service over the course of the school year. Please remember to list hours worked on a daily basis, do not log total sum of hours worked over an extended period of time. See below for a few upcoming service opportunities. Click HERE for a log form.
***8th Graders*** If you would like to be recognized with The President’s Volunteer Service Award at our Honor’s Assembly, all completed community service hours need to be submitted to Mrs. Mannarino no later than March 30, 2020. Awards need to be ordered on March 31, 2020 to guarantee arrival of medals for our assembly. Any community service hours submitted after March 30 will be entered into FACTS, but will not be included for a PVSA.
The Old Savannah City Mission needs volunteers for various positions. The mission provides food, shelter, and clothing to the homeless. For more information, contact Connell Stiles at 912-232-1979 or stiles@oscm.org.
America’s Second Harvest needs volunteers to help prepare monthly bags of food for senior citizens in our community. Volunteers should arrive by 7:45 and must wear closed-toe shoes. Contact Bryce Seuntjens at bryce@helpendhunger.org for more information.
The 6th Grade Kindness Club made quite an impression an impression in December sending Holiday Cards to the troops and working on a Kindness Challenge. Watch for more positivity from this group to fill the halls of Hancock!
The Virtue of the Month is Empathy and we will be challenging students to understand issues from the perspective of someone else.
-Allison Maher, School Counselor
As always, middle school students that stay for extended should report to the appropriate classrooms to be signed-in immediately after school. We have mandatory homework time from 3:30 to 4:00 and 4:00 to 5:30 students may choose to go to Hancock Hall for board games, outside to play, or stay in a quiet classroom to complete homework. Student athletes staying at school until their practice/game are also required to report to extended for sign-in and work on homework. To be released for a practice/game, a parent or coach must sign the student/s out. Click HERE to view this month’s Extended Newsletter!
If you have extra school-appropriate magazines lying around at home, please donate to us by dropping off with Mrs. Mannarino in the Middle School office! This month we will be working on an empathy activity and will need pictures of people showing emotions. Thank you in advance for your help!
Algebra 1 - Mr. Cargile
Next week in Algebra 1 we will begin our study of Chapter 6, Solving and Graphing Linear Inequalities. We will solve inequalities using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We will also solve multi-step inequalities.
Geometry - Mr. Lanfear
This week in Geometry, we will begin Chapter 8 by learning about the Polygon Interior and Exterior Angle Theorems (8.1), properties of parallelograms (8.2), proving something is a parallelogram (8.3), and properties of rhombuses, rectangles, and squares (8.4).
Advanced Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
This week in Advanced Algebra, we will continue Chapter 8 by discovering how to find the area of trapezoids (8.6), finding the circumference and area of circles (8.7), and using central angles to find the area of sectors of a circle (8.7).
Physical Science - Ms. Hoffman
Welcome to 2020, a new year for exploring science! Thank you to all those parents who were able to visit during our science fair open house and view all the students triptychs this Monday afternoon. Our school science fair judging will be on Wednesday, 1/15 and then those who have exceptional projects will be advancing to the regional science fair at Savannah State University on Wednesday, 2/5. See below for pictures of some of the projects, including students presenting to their class.
This week we are continuing to learn about forces (balanced/unbalanced,net force, etc.), friction (static, kinetic, sliding, rolling and fluid), gravity and the effects of air resistance. See below for photos of our friction lab where students used a wooden block to determine the coefficients of friction comparing static and kinetic friction on different surfaces or with different weights. Our quiz on these topics will be on Thursday, 1/9/20. A unit test on this information and all of our motion topics including speed, acceleration, and velocity will be on Friday, 1/17/20. Don’t forget that the January Science Choice Board assignment is due Friday, 1/31/20. (We did not have one for December due to the winter holidays.)
Coming up in physical science over the next few weeks will be a study of car crashes and safety, including the effects of momentum, inertia and speed. A student-produced project on Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion will also be on our agenda to wrap up our trimester, along with multiple interactive labs such as stomp rocket launchers and balloon races.
English Language Arts - Mrs. Boyer
We will be starting our Shakespearean Unit which will guide us into the second week of February. Students will be reading Romeo and Juliet.
Vocabulary: Students will be engaging with Unit 15 & 16 vocabulary, along with learning and understanding Shakespearean vocabulary from the play.
Projects: Students will be engaging with multiple hands-on activities throughout the Unit.
Extra (OPTIONAL) Project: I have posted an OPTIONAL assignment on the 8th Grade GC Classwork section. This will be an extra project grade for the Second Trimester and will be due on February 3rd.
Exams: Animal Farm and Romeo & Juliet will both be on the T2 Exam. Students will have at least two more quizzes and one more test before the end of this trimester.
History & Gov’t II - Mrs. Robinson
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful break and a Happy New Year! I am looking forward to having the students back in the classroom so we can keep moving through our study of American History. This week, in American History & Government II, we will be diving into our fifth Unit, World War I. We will begin the unit by examining how American became a world power and moved away from a policy of isolationism. We will finish this week talking about the events and policies that led to World War I. The Unit Five test is scheduled for Jan 22nd.
8th grade Spanish - Ms. Hill
Vocabulary: Recipes and ingredients as well as affirmative and negative words
Grammar: Formal and informal commands, using pronouns with commands, using double object pronouns in a sentence.
Lists will be posted on Google Classroom.
Vocab and grammar quizzes: 9 Jan & 14 Jan (respectively)
Test (TBD) 18 or 22 Jan
Algebra 1 - Mr. Cargile
Next week in Algebra 1 we will begin our study of Chapter 6, Solving and Graphing Linear Inequalities. We will solve inequalities using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We will also solve multi-step inequalities.
Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
This week in Pre-Algebra, we will review the first 3 sections of Chapter 6 (6.1-6.3). We will then learn about similar and congruent polygons and their properties (6.4). There will be a quiz on Friday covering sections 6.1-6.4.
History & Gov’t I - Mrs. Robinson
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful break and a Happy New Year! I am looking forward to having the students back in the classroom so we can keep moving through our study of American History. This week, in American History & Government I, we will be diving into our study of how America created and chose its government after gaining independence from Britain. This week students will examine all of the possibilities America had and create their own proposition for a new government. The Unit 6 Test will be the week of Jan 16th.
7th grade Spanish - Ms. Hill
Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holiday break.
Vocabulary: (Continued)Shopping and travel (clothing, sizes, prices, locations)
Grammar: Using question words, correctly formatting questions, review formal (Ustedes) commands to ask for items. Introduce tener expressions, stem-changing verbs, and direct object pronouns.
Lists will be posted in Google Classroom
Vocab and grammar quizzes: 9 Jan & 14 Jan (respectively)
Test (TBD) 18 or 22 Jan
ELA - Mrs. Boyer
Literature: Students have been engaging in a Book Club theme revolving around Voices of the World. We will start this after a three week grammar and vocabulary unit.
Vocabulary: Students are engaging with Unit 5; the quiz is TBA. Students have their vocabulary workbooks; this workbook will be collected in May and used during their 8th grade year as well.
Grammar: Students will soon begin a unit on Phrases! Please send your child in for morning help if needed. Also, I always post extra resources in GC such as practice sheets, IXL links, Youtube videos, etc. Grammar is a difficult concept to grasp which means your child needs to identify their learning style and use that to succeed in regards to these concepts. I have found that my 7th grade students need focused units instead of having days assigned to grammar, vocab, literature, etc. Therefore, we will spending two-three weeks on teaching vocab unit 5 and phrases before we begin another novel. However, I will ask that the students begin reading their Choice novel near the end of the focused grammar and vocab weeks.
Extra (OPTIONAL) Project: I have posted an OPTIONAL assignment on the 7th Grade GC Classwork section. This will be an extra project grade for the Second Trimester and will be due on February 3rd.
Life Science - Mrs. DuRant
Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed their winter break and is ready to dive back into the exciting world of science. Next week in Life Science, students will begin a new unit on the Muscular System. We will be exploring the interactions between the skeletal system, muscular system and nervous system. On Friday, students will have a quiz on a diagram of the muscular system. We will also conduct a lab this week which focuses on the interrelationship of the skeletal and muscular systems.
Accelerated Math 7 - Mr. Cargile
Next week in Accelerated Math 7 we will complete our study of Chapter 6, Integers. We will compare and order integers, add integers, and subtract integers.
Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
This week in Pre-Algebra, we will review the first 3 sections of Chapter 6 (6.1-6.3). We will then learn about similar and congruent polygons and their properties (6.4). There will be a quiz on Friday covering sections 6.1-6.4.
ELA - Mrs. Sasser
Welcome back and Happy New Year! I am so excited to see the kids and get back in the swing of a new semester. We’ll be diving right in and begin working on our next novel study, The Outsiders. Students will examine personal, social, and socio-economic bias and prejudice. While reading, students will relate the major themes of the novel to their own life and community. Students will be expected to read at home and stay on schedule with the assigned reading. It is essential that they check Google Classroom DAILY for the assigned reading and due dates. Students will also be expected to annotate their novels and answer guided reading questions that will help spurn on class discussions and activities.
This week, students will read chapters 1 and 2, getting to know the characters and setting. Students will have a quiz over chapters 1 and 2 on Monday 1/13.
For vocabulary, we will pick back up with our Greek and Latin roots. Students will have a quiz on Wednesday 1/15.
Our grammar unit on pronoun types and sentence parts will be practiced through our daily DGP. Students should be reviewing their grammar concepts from class by using IXL.
Earth Science - Mrs. Hoffman
Welcome to 2020 and a great year to learn about Earth Science! After learning about basic geology with the layers of the earth and plate tectonics, and having our unit test last week, this week we are going to discuss the three major groups of rocks (sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous), as well as the rock cycle. Students will participate in a mineral identification lab and begin creating a rock cycle trifold compiling the information we will learn in class. We will also briefly discuss and observe some fossils. (See photos next week on these activities.)
Next week we will also begin the exciting topic of earthquakes including the different types, causes, safety and damage they can inpose. Students will make a simulated earthquake-proof wall and seismometer. Later in the month we will focus on volcanoes and the students will have a quiz on both earthquakes and volcanoes on Friday, 1/31/20. Our January Science in Comics assignment is also due this day. (We did not have one for December due to the winter holidays.)
Earth Science - Mrs. DuRant
Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed their winter break and is ready to dive back into the exciting world of science. This week in Earth Science, students will begin with a study of the layers of the earth. They will have a quiz on Friday. We will then shift our focus to study continental drift theory where they will complete an in class project related to pangea. Our unit test will be on January 17th.
Ancient Civ - Mr. O’Hayer
Happy New Year and welcome back. This week we get back to our study of ancient civilizations. We take our next trip to Ancient Greece. Here, will study the geographic, political. And social structures of the ancient Greeks. We will study the impacts and influences the Greeks had on the region and discover many things the Greeks accomplished that impact our society today. During this chapter students will learn how to present a lesson to the class.
Spanish - Mr. Alexander
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a nice break and I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year and decade!
We will begin this week by introducing the textbook and IXL. Up to this point we have been building a foundation and these resources will help to reinforce the grammar and vocabulary we have used previously.
This week we will be focusing on greetings, introductions, classroom directions, numbers, time, and body parts
**Please remind your child(ren) that the weekly participation grade now counts off 5pts per infraction - distracting behaviour, non-participation, etc. Each student was given a copy of the syllabus as well as the list of new rules and procedures and told to keep them in their binders.**
Art - Mrs. Cookson
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.” - Vincent Van Gogh
8th: Will complete outstanding Pointillism and get an introduction to Stop Motion Animation
7th: Will begin graphic design with an exercise in Poster Design
6th: Will start the long process of wet felting
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