January 25th - January 29th
LOOP IT UP’S ART SUPPLY LIST:
Pre-K: crayon sets (4, 10, 16 or 24)
K: magic marker sets
1st: colored pencil sets
2nd: pencils and pencil sharpeners
3rd: watercolor pads
4th: pony beads and pipe cleaners
5th: watercolor paint sets (small)
6th: paint brushes and glue sticks
7th: yarn and crochet hooks
8th: sketch pads
***Click image for instructions on how to participate***
T2 EXAMS
T2 exams are scheduled for Thursday, February 25th and Friday, February 26th. Please note this is a slight change from our 2020-2021 one-page calendar.
FEBRUARY LUNCH SIGN-UP IS OPEN!
The deadline is FRIDAY, JANUARY 22ND! To sign up, you need to go onto your FACTS account, preferably on a computer, and click LUNCH from the menu bar. Click on the monthly option on the right top bar, click on your STUDENT’S name, click on CREATE WEB ORDER, click on your STUDENT’S name again and the offerings should appear. Click on your choices and make sure you do for EVERY week of the month for the days you are participating. Scroll down and hit SUBMIT AND PAY. Follow the same steps for your other child. The order will not come through unless that SUBMIT AND PAY part is done.
8TH GRADE CLASS TRIP
Throughout the fall we have been working with our tour company to organize the annual 8th grade trip to Washington DC. Due to the pandemic our efforts have been unsuccessful. The major venues are still not open and are not taking any reservations for the immediate future. Therefore, we have no other choice than to cancel the trip. However, we have arranged for the 8th grade to travel to the Nantahala Outdoor Center in Bryson City, North Carolina. NOC (Nantahala Outdoor Center) in the Nantahala Gorge is a 500-acre outdoor, adventure paradise! Our trip will depart on Tuesday, April 6th, early in the morning. We will return on Friday, April 9th in the afternoon. The cost of the trip is $675. This will be due in two payments via Venmo or check. A $200 deposit by February 12th and the final payment of $475 by March 31st. Additional details will follow.
8TH GRADE BABY PICTURE FOR THE YEARBOOK
8th Grade Parents: we need just one baby picture of your child for a fun page in the yearbook. If possible, it should show your child younger than 2 years of age. Please make sure it is a high-quality image and email it along with your child's name to yearbook@hancockdayschool.org. The deadline for submitting a picture is Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
ASSESSMENTS CALENDAR
We have created a great way for students and parents to check for upcoming assessments. 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.
Different subjects will appear in different colors:
History is black, Science is green, ELA is blue, Spanish is red, and Math is pink.
Please bear in mind that Middle School Assessments may be added, removed, or changed at any time. This Sheet will always be up to date, however - once a teacher assigns or adjusts an assessment, this Sheet will reflect that change.
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 the 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.
COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY!
We have had great success at securing volunteers to escort HRB PK - 2nd grade students during morning carpool! Because of this, we will limit one day a week per student for now. Reminder: duty hours are 7:45 - 8:10. ½ hour of community service credit each day. Please keep track of the weather and dress appropriately. Students should keep a log of their hours on the community service form. If you are interested, email Mr. Crawford and Mrs. Mannarino.
WALKERS FOR NEXT WEEK
Monday, January 25th: Ella O. & Harper W.
Tuesday, January 26th: Ford D. & Madison B.
Wednesday, January 27th: Mills S. & Elle R.
Thursday, January 28sth: Carter H. & Coles B.
Friday, January 29th: Maggie A. & Boots B.
This year in the LC Corner, I will be offering tips and strategies to support your work at school and at home. Please reach out to me anytime you need assistance or have any questions. tguggenheim@hancockdayschool.org
TIP #18: MAKE STUDY CARDS.
Quizlet is great! But it doesn’t work for all. There are a number of benefits to making your own flashcards using index cards.
Rewriting the information is beneficial for your brain and helps you remember the material better.
They also help you remember the information without context clues.
Using flashcards is a quick and easy way to practice in a time-efficient manner.
Make two piles - one pile is made up of the cards you don’t know, and the other is made up of the cards you do know. As the cards switch piles at times, you will know the material you need to spend a bit more time on.
But remember, flashcards are great for memorizing; they are not a great strategy for understanding the material. That is helped when you discuss the concepts with another person.
Middle school is a time during which children face increased academic and social challenges. As a parent of a middle school student, I know it can be tough figuring out how to support your child during these years. Here’s a great article with some ideas on how parents can help!
15 Challenges Middle School Kids Face and How to Help
Allison Maher
amaher@hancockdayschool.org
ALGEBRA - MRS. SMOAK
This week we covered solving inequalities (6.1-3) and will move on to solving compound inequalities (6.4) and absolute value equations (6.5) and inequalities (6.6). The final for this trimester will be a project about what you would do with a million dollars. Look for the assignment in the first week of February.
GEOMETRY - MR. LANFEAR
Next week in Geometry, we will continue Chapter 8 by proving properties of rhombuses, rectangles, and squares (8.4). We will also learn about trapezoids and kites (8.5) and identifying special quadrilaterals (8.6). There will be a quiz on Tuesday covering 8.1-8.4.
ELA - MRS. BOYER
We have started Night by Elie Wiesel. This is a very intense, solemn, heart-breaking novel about Wiesel’s time during the Holocaust. This novel holds a special place in my heart, and I hope your children love it as much as I do. We will be discussing some uncomfortable topics, but I am committed to creating a safe space where we can unpack and respect each other as we read and interact with the materials.
This novel is only 115 pages long; however, we will be splitting it into five sections. There will be multiple activities, class discussions, projects and writing assignments that will accompany this novel. In the early weeks of February, students will begin a large project, almost like the Science Fair project. For this, we will be partnering with the Jewish Education Alliance of Savannah as all students will be entered into the 2021 Holocaust Remembrance Art & Writing Contest. **This will be a MAJOR project and will be the foundation for their T3 grades.**
We will begin Unit 7 in the Sadlier Vocabulary Workbooks with a quiz on February 5th.
*It is critically important that all 8th graders stick with the timelines I give them for reading and projects. Also, if students are spending more than 25-35 minutes on ELA homework, please send them to me in the morning. Students in the 8th grade really need to pay attention to their time management skills before moving forward to 9th grade.*
Attention!! The T2 Reading Log is OPTIONAL; however, there is an option for up to three extra credit assignments on GC. DUE ON FEB 12th.
HIGH SCHOOL SPANISH - MRS. SALE
Hola….this week we will start off with a review of SER & ESTAR...short and sweet. Midweek we will play BINGO as a review game. Thursday the students will review for their chapter test which will be given on Friday.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE - MS. HOFFMAN
Last week our eighth grade students finished up the basics of motion, speed and acceleration with an outside lab working in groups to calculate their actual running/walking speeds. (See photos below.) This week in Physical Science the eighth graders have focused on the concepts of force, gravity and friction. This includes learning about balanced/ unbalanced forces, contact/ non-contact forces, the Law of Universal Gravitation, different types of friction (sliding, rolling, fluid) and various ways to increase/ decrease friction. They also participated in a friction lab to learn about and compare static and kinetic friction. (See photos next week.) Our quiz on force, gravity and friction will be next Tuesday, 1/26/21.
Next week we will take our knowledge of both motion and force and apply it to car crashes. Students will learn about car design and safety, including how car manufacturers design vehicles for optimum safety in both head-on and side collisions. Students will then work in groups using the engineering process to design, create and test an “Egg-cellent” race car hitting (and hopefully surviving) a barrier.
Our Force and Motion Unit Test is scheduled for Thursday, 2/4/21. The January Science in Comic is due on Friday 1/29/21.
US HISTORY - MRS. ROBINSON
This week in American History & Government II, students will move onto the Gilded Age and The Progressive Era in American’s history. Students will also take a look at how reporters/journalists have and exposed corruption in American society.
ADVANCED SPANISH - MRS. SALE
Hola…We will begin the week with handing back papers, worksheets, quizzes and going over them answering questions. Tuesday, e>i stem changing will be introduced.There are 5 verbs in this category. Wednesday, ‘’go’’ verbs will be introduced. Some translation work will be completed and a quiz will be given on Friday over the 4 types of stem changing verbs.
ADVANCED SPANISH - MR. ALEXANDER
Hola…We will begin the week with handing back papers, worksheets, quizzes and going over them answering questions. Tuesday, e>i stem changing will be introduced.There are 5 verbs in this category. Wednesday, ‘’go’’ verbs will be introduced. Some translation work will be completed and a quiz will be given on Friday over the 4 types of stem changing verbs.
ALGEBRA 1 - MRS. SMOAK
This week we covered solving inequalities (6.1-3) and will move on to solving compound inequalities (6.4) and absolute value equations (6.5) and inequalities (6.6). The final for this trimester will be a project about what you would do with a million dollars. Look for the assignment in the first week of February.
PRE-ALGEBRA - MR. LANFEAR
Next week in Pre-Algebra, we will complete the first part of Chapter 6 by learning about scale drawings (6.6). We will have a day of review on Tuesday and the Chapter 6 test on Wednesday. We will then begin the second part of Chapter 6 by learning about probability and odds (6.7).
ELA - MRS. BOYER
Students have begun their journey into World War II, the reign of Hitler, and the story of a young girl, Anne Frank.
Students will begin reading the theatrical version of The Diary of Anne Frank; they have been given their texts and Act I is due on February 3rd. Students will be challenged to think critically, and there will be a heavy emphasis on writing and project based learning.
There will be a World War II quiz on 1/27.
This unit will bring us to Spring Break. :)
Vocabulary: We will begin Unit 7, and there will be a quiz on 1/26.
Attention!! The T2 Reading Log is OPTIONAL; however, there is an option for up to three extra credit assignments on GC.
Students are working on groups to discuss five photos from the Faces of Innocence Project.
ELA - MRS. SASSER
It is so good to have students back at school! This week, students will be working on a project called “Tell Them We Remember.” They will read different articles about various important parts of World War II and the Holocaust. Then, students will work with a partner to present their material on a Google Site, Google Slides, in a video, or on a podcast. This project will be due Thursday 1/28.
Students will be working on Unit 8 in their Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary books.They will have a vocabulary test on Friday 2/5.
A reminder about any and all projects in ELA: projects in my class are designed to help students think critically and not just memorize information. Rather, I want them learning how to apply what they’ve learned. They are given detailed rubrics with checklists and a breakdown of my expectations. They should consult their rubric regularly while working on their project. The bulk of ELA projects are completed in class; they are given ample time and multiple class periods where they are strictly working on their project. Therefore, if students use their time wisely, they should have only minimal parts to complete at home.
LIFE SCIENCE - MRS. DURANT
Next week in Life Science, we will continue our study of the nervous system. Students will research diseases of the nervous system and present their findings in class. They will also complete an in-class mini project on the structure and function of a neuron. Students will complete an online station lab to review the unit. They will have a unit test on the nervous system on Thursday. On Friday, we will begin an in-class exam activity project which will emphasize the interrelationship between the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. Students will design a prosthetic hand while learning about the use of prosthetics with both humans and animals.
US HISTORY - MRS. ROBINSON
In American History & Government we are moving onto Unit 5: Reform & Revolution. Students will discuss the difference between the two and how one impacts the other. Next week we will examine the American Revolutionary War, as well as, other revolts in history.
US HISTORY - MR. O’HAYER
Next week in American History we finish our study of the events that led to the Revolution. Our test on Ch. 5 is Tuesday 1/26. To finish out the week we and how our nation responds will begin our Unit on the Revolutionary War. Our first look into the Revolution comes from the Nation declaring Independence. From here we travel to “A Critical Time” that shows the difficulties our country faced as we fought for independence.
ACCELERATED MATH - MR. CARGILE
Next week in Accelerated Math 7 we will complete our study of Chapter 5, Fraction Operations. In the beginning of the week we will review concepts for the chapter test, and we will have our Chapter 5 Test on Thursday.
PRE-ALGEBRA - MR. LANFEAR
Next week in Pre-Algebra, we will complete the first part of Chapter 6 by learning about scale drawings (6.6). We will have a day of review on Tuesday and the Chapter 6 test on Wednesday. We will then begin the second part of Chapter 6 by learning about probability and odds (6.7).
EARTH SCIENCE - MS. HOFFMAN
The sixth-graders have finished up their unit study on Plate Tectonics and have begun a short study of rocks and minerals. They learned about the different characteristics and properties of minerals such as hardness, streak, luster, cleavage/ fracture and magnetism. The students then determined how to observe and test these properties during a mineral identification lab. (See photos next week.) Next week we will continue our study of rocks learning about the three main types of rocks, how they are formed and the basic components of the rock cycle. Students will then take their knowledge of rocks and minerals and create a tri-fold brochure during an in-class project activity. We will also have a short quiz on rocks/ minerals next Friday 2/29/21 and students will participate in a lab analyzing sand samples from around the world. Our January Science in Comics is due on Friday, 1/29/21.
EARTH SCIENCE - MRS. DURANT
Next week in Earth Science, we will begin to explore earthquakes. Students will learn the relationship between plate tectonics and earthquakes. They will explore earthquake preparation, hazards, and safety while working on creating a structure that would be earthquake resistant. They will also explore seismographs and how they provide us information on earthquakes. Students will also use earthquake tracking websites to track current activity around the world. Students will have a test on Tuesday on Layers of the Earth, Continental Drift Theory, and Plate Tectonics.
ELA - MRS. SASSER
Students will have their third literature circle group meeting on Tuesday. When they come to class, they will need to have their role sheet completed and all guided questions for the assigned reading. They will be meeting every Tuesday, so it is imperative they follow the reading schedule.
Students will finish up their setting map project on Monday. All projects are due by the end of class on Monday.
This week students will analyze point of view. They will look at the minor characters in their novel and write a scene from a different point of view. They will have class time to work on this, but should also get their writing checked at home.
Students will NOT have vocabulary this week.
Reading Reminder: As with any novel study, students will have guided questions to complete for each section. These should be answered in complete, thorough sentences, as it will serve as their study guide for their quizzes and final test. It is essential that students keep up with the assigned reading if they want to be successful on our in class assignments.
All reading assignments are posted on my classroom board and on Google Classroom daily. Students should check Google Classroom every single day.
A reminder about any and all projects in ELA: projects in my class are designed to help students think critically and not just memorize information. Rather, I want them learning how to apply what they’ve learned. They are given detailed rubrics with checklists and a breakdown of my expectations. They should consult their rubric regularly while working on their project. The bulk of ELA projects are completed in class; they are given ample time and multiple class periods where they are strictly working on their project. Therefore, if students use their time wisely, they should have only minimal parts to complete at home.
INTRO SPANISH - MR. ALEXANDER
This week we will continue exploring the uses of ‘ser/estar’. We will talk about feelings and emotions as well as learn some new prepositions dealing with location. We will do some reading and speaking activities using our ‘Qué Tal’ magazines. We will learn the possessive adjectives and review possession using ‘de’. IXL unit 2 should be completed by February 14.
* Make sure to continue working on Duolingo and IXL everyday!
WORLD HISTORY - MR. O’HAYER
Next week in World History we will move on to our next great “thinker” of the Enlightenment, John Locke. We will investigate how Locke’s ideas influenced the times. We will dive deep into his impact on politics, religion, and society. We will have a chapter quiz on January 27th. We will also continue working on our biography projects in class. Important Reminder: Plagiarism is defined as “the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.” When researching and writing students must use their own words.
ART - MRS. COOKSON
“They always talk who never think.” - Matthew Prior
Sketchbook Prompt: Take a common object and draw it as if it was a skeleton. What would the skeleton of a banana look like?
8th: Will continue understanding Pointillism through the creation of a color wheel
7th: Will get to glazing their Fantasy Design projects
6th: Will continue with “Faces of Innocence”
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