May 13th - May 17th

8TH GRADE WORLD WAR II AND VETERAN’S NIGHT:

The 8th grade students are currently creating a collaborative memorial to the 75 million people that died during World War II. In an effort to share our work with our community, we will host an evening honoring veterans and the armed forces. The event will take place in Hancock Hall on Monday, May 13th at 6:00pm. At the event, we will have a guest speaker Col. Patricia Blassie, sister of the Vietnam Unknown soldier, Michael Blassie, buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns. We will also have a silent auction to sell the pieces of artwork that your students created. All the proceeds will go to veteran organizations chosen by the students. Please come support your students and feel free to bring guests!

BENEDICTINE ROBOTICS CAMP
BC is holding a robotics camp this summer for all rising 5th-10th grade boys and girls.  Click HERE for more information.

ST. VINCENT’S ACADEMY STUDY SKILLS COURSE
SVA will be offering a study skills summer course June 3 - 6, 2019.  Click HERE for more information.

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.

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.

This month we are exploring independence as our virtue of the month. Lunch Bunches will continue with the 6th and 7th grades with the groups listed on the door to Hancock Hall. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Ms. Pedrick at apedrick@hancockdayschool.org

Algebra 1 - Mrs. Reardon

Next week, students will launch a water rocket in the air and use the vertical motion model to find the initial vertical velocity and the maximum height of the water rocket. Each student will get to launch the water rocket. They will have to answer numerous questions relating to the vertical motion model and its application on Tuesday. On Wednesday through Friday, students will watch the movie Hidden Figures. Math plays a starring role in this movie along with the vertical motion model. Students will answers some key questions about the movie as they watch. The grade from the water rocket launch questionnaire and the questions from the video will be averaged together for their 3rd trimester summative assessment grade in Algebra. Since the video is rated PG, look for an email home asking for permission for your child to watch the movie.

Advanced Algebra - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will complete our Algebra I review by having a day of review on Monday and then the last test on Tuesday covering factoring and solving quadratic equations.  We will spend the rest of the week working on our trimester summative assessment.

Geometry - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will complete Chapter 12 by having a day of review on Monday and the last test on Tuesday covering Chapter 12.  We will spend the rest of the week working on our trimester summative assessment.

Physical Science - Ms. Hoffman

The 8th graders participated in two science labs this week.  First, they created electromagnets to discover the relationship between electricity and magnets.  This type of magnet is able to be turned on and off and is found in many common everyday items, such as traffic lights, speakers, the alternator of a car, and some doorbells. The students also created parallel and series circuits to better learn about their set up and the differences between them. (See the photos below.)  Their Electricity Report Project Paper, which counts as a test grade and a homework grade, is due on or before the end of school Monday, 5/13. (These reports need to be PRINTED OUT when turned in.) Information went home on Monday, 4/29 and the rubric is also posted on Google Classroom. We also spent class time on Monday, 5/6 working on their reports.  Next week, we will finish up our information on magnets and have a magnet lab to learn about how various materials affect how magnets work and also make temporary magnets. At the end of the week, we will begin our study guide for the 3rd Trimester exam. The 8th grade science exam will be Tuesday, 5/21 at 8:30am. This last exam will cover all of the topics this marking period:  waves, sound, EM spectrum, light, electricity and magnetism.

English Language Arts - Mrs. Boyer
Literature: Students will begin preparation for their exams.

Exam: Students will have an exam study guide given to them on 5/13. We will work in class over this study guide for the entire week before their exam.

Reading Log: Students will have a choice between turning in a Reading Log (like T1) or a Reading Card (like T2). Either one will be due on 5/14/19. This is a project grade. All rubrics have been posted on GC.

History & Gov’t II - Mrs. English

Come to Hancock Hall this Monday, May 13th at 6:00 pm for our World War II/Veterans Night. Students have an opportunity to earn bonus points by attending the event. Student artwork will be sold to raise funds for local veteran organizations. We also will hear a presentation from Colonel Patricia Blassie. We will also have a quiz over Chapter 26 and the Civil Rights Movement on Wednesday, May 15th. Looking forward to a great week! Next, students should start preparing for their exams by organizing their binders, notes, and tests/quizzes.

Spanish - Ms. Hughes

Next week in Spanish class students will begin organizing their binders for the third trimester exam review. The listening portion will be Wednesday, May 15th and the speaking portion will be Thursday, May 16th and Friday, May 17th.

Algebra 1 - Mrs. Reardon

Next week, students will engage in 2 last sections of Chapter 10 - learning how to graph quadratic equations. On Wednesday, we will begin reviewing for their 3rd trimester exam. Students will receive the outline for the exam on Monday, May 13.

Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will complete Chapter 10 by learning how to find the circumference and area of circles (10.4).  We will have a day of review on Tuesday and the last test on Wednesday covering 10.1-10.4. We will then begin our exam review.

History & Gov’t I - Mrs. English

This week we will work on our Summative Assessment Research Projects. Students will use our Ancestry.com grant to research their interviewee. Also, their interview is due Tuesday, May 14th. The interview should be recorded and put in their class drive folder. Looking forward to a great week!

Spanish - Ms. Hughes

Next week in Spanish class students will begin organizing their binders for the third trimester exam review. The listening portion will be Wednesday, May 15th and the speaking portion will be Thursday, May 16th and Friday, May 17th.

ELA - Mrs. Boyer
Literature: Students are engaged in the final theme for the year: Sportsmanship.

Writing: Students will engage in a research paper which will be covering the topic of sports medicine. This paper will correspond with their book club reading. Students will also be completing a final project on the novel which will act as a test grade.

Vocabulary: There will be a test over Units 8, 9 & 10 on May 9th.

Reading Log: Students will have a choice between turning in a Reading Log (like T1) or a Reading Card (like T2). Either one will be due on 5/14/19. This is a project grade. All rubrics have been posted on GC.

Life Science - Ms. Hoffman

The 7th grade students have been doing a wonderful job working in groups to research and develop google slides, review handouts, activities and study guides for some of our remaining body systems. The topics are the digestive system, nervous system, respiratory system and the five senses. Each group has been answering a list of guiding questions to use in creating their lesson. This group project will count as one test grade and one classwork grade.  All of these groups will present and “teach” these lessons to the other students in their class next week from Monday, 5/13 through Thursday, 5/16. As the lessons are presented, the other students will take notes from the slides, complete a review handout/ worksheet, participate in an activity/ game and be given a study guide to help learn the information.  (Each student will have already been learning the information from their own group topic as they completed their research and created their lesson.) We will spend time on Friday, May 20th and Monday, May 23rd reinforcing all of this information, including reviewing all of the study guides. Our seventh grade third trimester exam will be on Wednesday, May 22nd at 8:30am and will only cover topics from the second half of this trimester.   These topics will be the following body systems: skeletal, muscular, digestive, respiratory, nervous and the five senses.

Accelerated Math 7 - Mrs. Reardon

Next week, students will begin reviewing for their 3rd trimester exam. Students will receive the outline for the exam on Monday, May 13.

Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear

Next week, we will complete Chapter 10 by learning how to find the circumference and area of circles (10.4).  We will have a day of review on Tuesday and the last test on Wednesday covering 10.1-10.4. We will then begin our exam review.

ELA - Mrs. Guggenheim

LITERATURE: Continue reading The Diary of Anne Frank (play version). There will be a unit test on 5/17.

I have handed out the exam project for this trimester. There will be no exam in ELA. Students have pledged not to discuss the project with their peers or others. They may ask me questions and ask for clarification. We will be working on the final project in class, but they have an outline on which to take their notes and jot down their ideas, and they may be working on that as we read the play. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for sending your child to me if they need help.

GRAMMAR: We will work on editing and proofing sentences and titles.

3RD TRIMESTER BOOK PROJECT

DUE MAY 15

Students will be given a choice. They may choose to keep a Reading Log for 360 minutes as they did 1st trimester or create a card as they did 2nd trimester over one book. They must inform me by 2/22 of their choice, and that choice is final. They may not switch between the two midway through the trimester.

Earth Science - Mrs. Taylor

Sell a Planet!!! Students are planets in their commercials and turning in their brochures 5/9 and 5/13. (Extended). They will have a test on May 14th which will include the moon quiz, Bill Nye notes, Reading packet for astronomy (8 questions per read), and planet facts. The planet facts are taken from their previous project of scaling the planets.

We will review Monday for the test as well. Wednesday begins the movie..The Martian with a quiz at the end.

Ancient Civ -  Mr. O’Hayer

In AC students began preparing for their Final Exam Project: An ABC Book on Greece and Rome. This is an in-class small group project. We will work on this over the course of the next week and a half. Students will present their books during Final Exam week. We did move our last 2 Lessons from our last chapter to next week. We will add in time to complete these Lessons on Rome’s Legacy. We are looking at having this assessment next Thursday.

Spanish - Ms. Dubick

The 6th graders did great on their Food & Gustar Quiz!

Next week they will be working on a project that will count as a test grade using Gustar with food and activity vocabulary.  The project was handed out on Thursday May 9 and will be due first thing Wednesday May 15.

We will then review for their exam Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday.

Their exam will be on Tuesday May 21st.

I am very proud of how these students have done this year!

Art - Mrs. Cookson

“There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s  your way of living so there’s no end to it.” - Henry Moore

This is the last week of art classes for 8th and 6th. Hope everyone continues to create over the summer. All grades will finish up outstanding work and take home projects.