September 2nd - September 6th
White Gate Carpool
Middle School morning carpool runs 7:30 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. Faculty and staff leave carpool posts at 7:55 a.m. Homeroom begins at 8:00 a.m. Students arriving after 8:00 a.m. will need to sign in at the Middle School office and they will be marked TARDY. Middle School afternoon carpool begins at 3:15 p.m. Please do not arrive on campus before 3:15 p.m.
Camp Merri-Mac
On Wednesday, August 28, we sent an email to middle school families with information about our school trip to Camp Merri-Mac in September. Click HERE for the email we sent.
Parents and students have an easy way to look at upcoming assessments and projects. 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.
Football vs SJS August 29th
- JV ( 5th and 6th grades) lost to a much Bigger SJS squad but played hard and got better as the game showed great promise. SJS is a preseason favorite to win the Spal Champion!
- Varsity 7th and 8th wins! The varsity squad defeats SJS after giving up a score on the first play. Buckling down, HDS just overpowered SJS with some bulldozer runs by Gage Hart!
THANK YOU CHEER SQUADS! You all were amazing for practicing for only a week!
The next Game is at SCPS- JV starts at 5:30
***** Reminder that the first HDS home game has been moved to Wednesday, Sept 11th!
Volleyball starts on Tuesday, Sept 3rd! With all 6 teams in action, 4 home matches start at 5pm and 5th HDS 2 travels to BSS at @5 pm and 6th HDS 2 plays Memorial at St Peter's @ 6pm
**** Parents we need you to sign for Concessions or the gate to support HDS athletics - We are asking each parent to work 2 games
Cross Country will open on the 17th in a SPAL meet at BC starting at 4 pm
Tennis TBA
6
TH GRADE PARENT EDU: Making the Transition into 6th Grade -
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE
Dear 6th Grade Parents,
I hope to see all 6th grade parents in Hancock Hall at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, September 10th, for a look into 6th grade practices and procedures with helpful hints and information about making your child’s 6th grade year a success.
If you have any questions, please reach out to me: tguggenheim@hancockdayschool.org
Please respond via email if you are attending. Thanks.
See you there!
This is an exciting time of year when we fall back into existing routines or develop new ones. As your family navigates going back to school, remember that it’s just as important to build in downtime into your schedule. Allow you and your student to have the time to reflect and rejuvenate!
Helping Kids Back Into the School Routine
Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns you may have this year. amaher@hancockdayschool.org
Each middle school student is required to complete ten hours of community service over the course of the school year. Please remember to check this area of the blog for opportunities. Click HERE for a log form or see Mrs. Mannarino in the office.
Physical Science - Ms. G
Please click here to view our Weekly Overview as we enter Foundations of Chemistry & Classifying Matter.
ELA - Ms. Hall
After completing their grammar assessment, students have taken notes on the six steps of writing that we’ll utilize in-class all year long. Using these steps, students have started brainstorming and researching the newly re-written Animal Farm summer reading prompts. As we head into the next week, we’ll be completing the steps of outlining and creating a rough/final draft.
US History - Mr. Saviskas
We are nearly done with Animal Farm. We have talked about it all week and how it relates to the Russian Revolution. Our class has slowed down a little bit so we are pushing our government lecture to next week. Starting Monday we should be starting our discussion on the purpose of government and how it functions.
High School Spanish - Mr. De Cardenas
The mastery of the new grammar tense shown by the students is impressive and sets a terrific scenario for a successful school year in Spanish language. Next week we will start a new content which is the Present Progressive Tense conditioned by the modal verbs for which we will remember the use of these special verbs and how they can modify the Present Progressive Tense statement. This will allow the students to have a better understanding of the language and to increase even more their talkative skills.
Algebra I - Mr. Scordato
We will continue our study of Expressions, Equations, and Functions in Chapter 1. The students will learn more about Functions with an introduction from one of my favorite YouTube math videos Meat-A-Morphosis. We also wanted to make you aware that we will be starting an after-school math team.
Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
ELA - Ms. Ferkol
This coming week, we will continue to dive into our writing unit practicing writing thesis statements and breaking down essential parts of an essay. To finish out the week, we will finally begin writing our first full essay using the Evidence-Based Writing skills to develop specific and detailed accounts surrounding the themes displayed in our summer reading novels! This unit, students will take notes and complete work in an interactive notebook; this notebook will be submitted at the end of the writing unit for a quiz grade (change from last week!), so it is important that students are intentional about participating in class and ensuring their notes are an accurate reflection of both their understanding and our discussions in class!
ELA - Ms. Hall
Students have begun studying the process of Evidence-Based Writing, specifically working towards digging deeper when analyzing themes of novels that we’ll be studying together. Students will continue working in their interactive notebooks, which are meant to reflect their involvement in-class while supporting their autonomy as learners as we continue growing their writing skills.
American History - Mr. O’Hayer
Next week in American History we will complete our study of the Age of Exploration by completing our biographies of a famous explorer. We will then move on to the creation and development of the American Colonies. Our project that relates to this unit is a student favorite- creating their colony.
American History- Mr. Saviskas
We started our lesson on the Age of Exploration last week, covering the reasons why Europeans wanted to explore and what countries sent them out into the world. This coming week we are going to look in depth to the first explorers to land in the New World. We will also be gearing up for our first project, the Colony Creation Project! I hope to cover the details of that on Friday and begin working on it the following week.
Advanced Spanish - Mr. Jones
Now that we’ve completed a comprehensive review of fundamentals that were covered in 6th grade, next week we will begin using our communicative textbook to begin developing more advanced language skills. We will do this by engaging in activities such as spontaneous call and response games to enhance our knowledge of verbal and written communication. This unit will build on previously learned knowledge; however, it is essential for them to review concepts frequently at home to ensure understanding as we are building more into depth of language rather than basic recall skills.
Advanced Spanish - Mr. De Cardenas
The mastery of the new content shown by the students is impressive and sets a terrific background for a successful school year in Spanish language. Next week we will continue with the Unit 2 specifically seeing the following topics:
Introducing yourself and others. (Presentaciones)
Talking about age. (Hablando de la edad)
With the mastery of these two topics the students will considerably increase their conversational range adding to their knowledge more vocabs and communicative functions.
Accelerated Math - Mr. Scordato
We will continue our study of Number Sense, Patterns, and Algebraic Thinking in Chapter 1. The students will learn more about Area & Perimeter. We will also focus on problem-solving using logic and through writing algebraic equations. We are excited to share that we will be starting an after-school math team.
Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
Next week in Pre-Algebra, we will complete Chapter 1 by having a day of review on Tuesday and the Chapter 1 test on Wednesday. We will then begin Chapter 2 by learning about the commutative property, associative property, and the identity property of addition and multiplication (2.1). We are very excited to welcome Chris Hoover, a financial advisor with Edward Jones, to come speak to us about the stock market and investments on Thursday!
Earth Science - Mrs. Swanner
Happy Labor day weekend! I hope that everyone has a great long weekend! Next week, we will study air patterns: both global and local wind patterns.
Healthy start in the studio with students embracing change through color. Shifts in schedule, position, and place are relatable adjustments. Students will continue this concept next week as they take a deeper dive into value application. Sixth graders will apply the cross-hatching method, Seventh will apply the blending method and Eighth graders will apply variations in value and perspective. Thank you for the tennis balls for the new studio stools!!
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