September 9 - September 13th
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.
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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.
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Football Last night's game featured your Eagles vs SCPS
The JV football team won its first game of the young season 22-13
Varsity did not fair as well losing 14-0 _ just having one of those nights when nothing goes right. The great news is that we play them in a rematch game (that counts in the standings) at home later in the season!
REMINDER- next week's home game is Wednesday, Sept.11th
Volleyball
5th Grade Yellow moves to 2-0
While the White team is still improving and shows great promise
6th Grade Green is 2-0 after beating Calvary and SCDS and the
The Gold team is 1-1 beating Memorial on Wednesday night
Both 7th and 8th are looking for their first wins!
Tennis will open its season with an away match at SCDS, 4
Cross Country may run at SCDS open fun run to start the season next Tuesday-more to come!
Parents, please use Signup Genius to help us with the gate and concessions
Last week we couldn't open the concession stand because there were no workers
We need each parent to just do a couple of hour slots!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CAFAB2BABF5C34-50869975-volleyball
6TH 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.
ELA - Ms. Hall
Students have done a fabulous job learning and moving through the six steps of five-paragraph writing to complete their Animal Farm summer reading essay! Next week, we will start discussing and exploring together the background information necessary to begin our unit on To Kill a Mockingbird. This will start with a graded anticipation guide before moving into some in-class reading and analysis tasks.
High School Spanish - Mr. De Cardenas
I am very excited to see all the engagement of the students and their commitment to learn new grammar contents and to improve their talkative skills in Spanish. Next week we will continue with the Unit 2: Present Progressive Tense Modified by the modal verbs with the practice of different kind of interactional activities which include reading and listening comprehension exercises such as a Speaking class to ultimately give the students the opportunity to demonstrate they are able to communicate their own thoughts in Spanish using the new content they learned. It is gonna be challenging but super fun.
ELA - Ms. Ferkol
We’ve had another wonderful week in ELA! Students got to engage in some great work with refreshing and developing their writing skills. As we move into the next week, students will be working on their summative assessment essay for this unit. This essay will be focused on the summer reading novel, Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, and allow students to demonstrate their ability to identify a theme portrayed in the novel and support that claim through the use of evidence and personal, analytical commentary. It is anticipated that this writing assignment will be turned in on Friday, September 13th; however, depending on the writing process this deadline is flexible!
American History - Mr. O’Hayer
Next week in American History we will dive deep into Ch. 3: English Colonies Take Shape. This is a very important chapter that details the creation of the Colonies. It sets the stage for how this country developed and what hurdles has to be crossed in creating this country. We will also begin our next project: Building a Colony From Scratch.
Advanced Spanish - Mr. Jones
Come Monday, 9 September students will begin working in tandem with our new textbook. 7th grade will use the book supplementarily so as to enable adjustment into higher level content. Expect lots of interaction and classwork grades to come! Students will look to Google Classroom for HW assignments that will often come from our book and so it’s important that they maintain our two packets in the proper locations in their Spanish binders: Notes & Classwork.
X + 1 = Fluency
Advanced Spanish - Mr. De Cardenas
I am very excited to see all the engagement of the students and their commitment to learn new grammar contents and to improve their talkative skills in Spanish. Next week as we continue to cover the Curriculum we will start learning how to talk about the age in Spanish making special emphasis in the use of the action verb tener to refer to someone's age and the difference for this between English and Spanish. We will also be having interactional classes to empower the students on using their conversational skills to communicate and express their own thoughts in Spanish.
Accelerated Math - Mr. Scordato
Students will continue to focus on thinking of math as a language as we work on translating sentences and real-world scenarios into equations that they will then solve algebraically. We will continue our mystery number problem scavenger hunt based on problems that they created and which their classmates will solve. Students will also have their first test on Thursday 9/13. You may have heard the 6th grade students sing a song about ratios from my math music video, and we will study the subject of ratios in more detail later in the year, but they certainly are curious already.
X + 1 = Fluency
Students have established two projects at each grade level that have prepared them for next week's lessons. Sixth grade will expand their knowledge of flat geometric and organic shapes to learn value and form.
Seventh grade will carry their knowledge of compact mark making from campus art to large landscapes. Eighth graders will apply their skills of value to create interesting perspectives on the very simplest everyday objects. Would love 48 tennis balls if you have some that have lost their bounce!
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