November 4th - November 8th
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.
High School Applications
Some families have already started the application process for high schools. HERE is a quick and easy reference sheet with some information if you are feeling overwhelmed! Please keep in mind that:
you should only be sending recommendations to current teachers
we will not be sending transcripts until after T1 grades have been posted (after November 8)
we do not have birth certificates or social security card copies in our files in our office so you will need to provide these to the high schools
Email Mrs. Mannarino if you have any questions about this process.
Math Club!
Each Monday, we will meet from 3:45 - 4:45. You do not have to attend every week to be a mathlete, but please try to make it to the first meeting. Any middle school student may join. It does not matter what grade or math class you are in.
If you are planning on joining the team, please use the following Google Classroom code to join: 5sgxkxd
You can also talk to Mr. Scordato or email him at gscordato@hancockdayschool.org to let him know that you're joining or if you have any questions.
Snack will be provided!
Chess Club!
Chess club will be meeting on Tuesdays. It will start at 3:45 pm and last until 4:30 pm. This is a come and go club, so students are always free to drop by and join. In this club we will learn how to play and do in school tournaments against each other.
If you are interested in joining, you can email Mr. Saviskas at nsaviskas@hancockdayschool.org.
You should also join the HDS Google Classroom so you can get announcements and events.
The classroom code is: eebqyg5
Open Library
We have begun open library for middle school students:
6th grade can go from 7:45am to 8:00am on Tuesdays
7th grade can go from 7:45am to 8:00am on Wednesdays
8th grade can go from 7:45am to 8:00am on Thursdays
Students will need to inform their homeroom teacher that they are going and return to class by 8:00am.
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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.
Fall sports officially are over and the winter season has begun!
Congrats to the tennis team, which won the City Championships in both boys' and girls' divisions. There are 5 matches held in the finals to determine the winner of the top team and it's the best out of those 5 matches, so you need to win at least 3-2. Well, both the boys and the girl's squads won 4 matches to 1 completely dominating their 2nd-place opponent !
JV Football had a great year and finished second to a much physically bigger SJS team. “The guys never gave up and played hard to the end,” Coach Brooks Ziegler told them and he was so right!
The week prior your Eagles beat/ SCPS 24-0 to advance!
6th Grade volleyball also captured second place
UNIFORM RETURN- Fall teams, please turn uniforms in to the coach not someone at school!
Basketball Tryouts continue Monday night
Nov 1st -Open Gym Friday(no school) Boys 9-11 Girls 1-3
Nov 4- Last day of tryouts
Nov 5 -Open gym on Tuesday for Boys and girls 3:45 -5pm
Tryout/team notifications after 6 pm by email or text
Nov 6th -1st day of practice
Evaluators were not associated with students trying out or coaches, but they all have solid basketball backgrounds!
The game schedule tentative starts DEC 2ND-DEC 20TH *** WE JUST HAVE DATES NOT A SCHEDULE
WE NEED A FEW MORE 7&8 GRADE GIRL BASKETBALL PLAYERS
Swim team
If you are interested in swimming please see Coach B as soon as possible 5-8th grade
I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL PARENTS TO READ ARTICLES ON THE PROS AND CONS OF SPECIALIZING IN ONE SPORT!
Tip #6 What's a Reasonable Homework Break?
Both your body and brain need frequent refreshers. Set another timer for five minutes, then do jumping jacks, run in place, or stretch. Start another 30-minute block of homework. This sounds too simple to work, but these breaks keep you sharp to get your work done faster. After two weeks, you will find that these five-minute blocks will significantly reduce procrastination.
Our virtues of the month are respect and responsibility! A skill that is key to both of these is effective problem solving skills. One of my favorite ways to encourage this is to “talk out loud” and let your student hear the inner dialogue that you have when you run into an issue. They will start to incorporate this “self talk” to help solve obstacles they encounter which will lead to better choices that support respect and responsibility.
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.
We have a few volunteer opportunities available for your children:
The first is Tybee Beach Clean. It is suggested that you follow them on FaceBook for any updates and you can sign up below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CAFAB2BABF5C34-52491183-tybee
There are 2 dates coming up for 2nd Harvest. Please make note of their new location on Chatham Parkway. The first date is 11/1 it is Parent Teacher Conference Day (and the day after Halloween). The second date is 11/11 which is a school holiday but Teacher workday.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CAFAB2BABF5C34-52046938-2ndharvest
The last link is a new cause, it is at Isle of Hope Methodist Church and it is a sewing project. There are two dates planned for 2024.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094CAFAB2BABF5C34-52491669-sewing
ELA - Ms. Hall
On Monday, we will be finishing reading To Kill a Mockingbird! They will have time to review and study. Wednesday (11/6), students will have a quiz over Part 2 of the novel. The rest of the week will be filled with choice activities to review and assess their understanding of the novel!
High School Spanish - Mr. De Cardenas
The mastery shown by the students using the Past Progressive Tense in Spanish in real time and spontaneously is absolutely amazing. The students totally exceeded my expectations. I am so proud of them.
Next week we will finalize with Unit 3. We will have our last General Review and also a speaking class to give the students the opportunity to demonstrate once again their abilities and conversational progress. Then we will have the last assessment of this unit (Test on unit 3).
ELA - Ms. Ferkol
Next week, we will really be digging into the novel through in-class reading. As we near the end of the novel, it’s important that students begin to formulate their claims about pertinent themes and symbols that represent the important ideas being demonstrated. We will do this through read-aloud style class periods and partner reads for specified text evidence. Students should anticipate their second quiz covering content through page 224 on Tuesday, November 5th!
**This novel is available through Audible for students to listen to while they annotate/read! When students have the opportunity to read independently in class, they may choose to listen along with their reading (via Chromebook, not cell phone). Should your child want to utilize this option they must have CORDED headphones, not bluetooth, per the school policy! Please make sure the connector fits into the headphone jack of the Chromebook :)
American History - Mr. O’Hayer
Next week in American History we will continue our study of the American Revolution. We will identify the causes and events leading up to the War and summarize the major events, battles, and key participants of the Revolution.
Advanced Spanish - Mr. Jones
We will have our next test on 8 November. Students will need to know the meaning and present tense conjugations of the verbs: leer, aprender, hacer, ver, ir, hablar, escuchar, escribir, buscar, visitar, & practicar. We will continue to review the following information that will also be on the test: masculine/feminine nouns with definite articles (i.g. el libro/la botella), and most importantly the verb querer (to want) plus the prepositions para & porque. Students should look to the handouts provided for study materials (p.24 #2a-b, 3a / p.26 #5a, 6a-c)
X + 1 = Fluency
Advanced Spanish - Mr. De Cardenas
Our quiz will be on 22 Oct, pushed forward one day to allow for review, and will cover - Prepositions: para + infinitivo & porque + verbo conjugado - What these verbs mean: trabajar, leer, estudiar, hablar, querer, comer, aprender, hacer, ir, salir, escuchar, comprar, & comprender - Matching the conjugated forms of these verbs with the corresponding subject pronouns. For the rest of the week, we will review definite articles before diving into more preposition and quantifier work. On Friday, we will begin a series entirely in Spanish designed to learn the language with accompanying comprehension questions. This will become a weekly occurrence.
Accelerated Math - Mr. Scordato
We have just started our unit on ratios and will be focusing on problem-solving strategies using ratio tables. Since some of the examples we will be looking at involve adjusting recipes, I hope we have some eager mathematician-chefs willing to help prepare your holiday meals.
Students will have their third quiz covering this content and vocabulary from Chapters 7-9 on Tuesday, November 5th. A study guide will be posted on Google Classroom!
**As we read, I am posting the Youtube read-alouds for this novel. When students have the opportunity to read independently in class, they may choose to listen along with their reading–should your child want to utilize this option they must have CORDED headphones, not bluetooth, per the school policy! Please make sure the connector fits into the headphone jack of the Chromebook :)
Students will take a bit more time in 8th grade to complete their acrylic canvas still life paintings. They have done an exceptional job with underpainting to establish tone, layering to incorporate value and texture application. The Seventh grade will merge two projects together with the Surreal Character and Surreal Room through symbolism in a mixed media project. The Sixth Grade will incorporate color, pattern and sound in the upcoming unit in pain with a series of watercolor, fiber arts and canvas painting inspired by Gene Davis art.
🎾Thank you for the tennis balls! A serene studio and tranquil tutorial is evermore smooth with the tennis balls eliminating screeching stools. Now, a need for 24 will complete the set. Thank you!🎾💚
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