May 25, 2012
Thanks for a great year! Have a wonderful summer! Check out the new
keyboarding activities later this summer! Enjoy! See you next year!
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April 30, 2012
Grade 8 -- Pictures for Memory Book
Pictures for Collage
At least 20 single words or 2-word phrases that reflect your time
at SMS -- these words may be any part of speech -- these words my
be hand-written. We will type them on Thursday.
Original/Unique Title for Collage
Grade 7 -- All corrections to Confirmation paragraphs.
Grade 6 -- NO HOMEWORK!!
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April 22, 2012
It certainly does not feel like spring!
Grade 6 students continue to stay after school to practice their Native
American projects with their group using the SMARTBoard.
Grade 6 will begin the computer part of their Fable project that they are
doing with their Grade 2 buddies.
Grade 7 students are working on the Confirmation projects. The students have
done a stupendous job on this project.
Grade 8 students need to bring in pictures for the Memory Book, and they need
to bring in pictures for their collages.
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April 19, 2012
Welcome Back! I hope your break was refreshing!
Grade 6 is finishing their Native American slides. Each group had scheduled
a time to stay after school to practice.
Grade 7 is working on a Confirmation project.
Grade 8 is working on several special projects.
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April 2, 2012
Have a Blessed Easter Season and a Wonderful, Relaxing, Fun Spring Break!
Students that are missing class on Thursday, April 5th, have been given their
assignments for that day.
Grade 8 - Bring in Pictures for Collage on April 16th.
Grade 7 - Rough drafts of Saint/Confirmation Project due April 16th.
Grade 6 - ALL Slides and Research for Native American Project completed/due
April 16th.
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March 26, 2012
Grade 6 -- All Native American slides are due by spring break.
Grade 7 -- Sheet on Confirmation is due for class on Monday. Students will
have all class period on Thursday to work on this. What is not finished is
homework.
Grade 8 -- Lenten brochures -- start gathering pictures for graduation project
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March 23, 2012
Grade 6 -- All Research for the Native American project is due before Spring
Break/April 5th. PowerPoint slides should be completed by April 5th.
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March 19, 2012
Grade 8 -- Lenten brochures due Thursday. Do not print them, please.
Grdae 7 -- Literary webs due Wednesday. Rough draft paragraphs for Graphing
Activity due Friday.
Grade 6 -- Seven slides for Native Ameriacn project must be completed by
Thursday.
Students may come before school or stay after school if they need to catch
up, or they would like individual assistance.
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March 18, 2012
Stock Club is on Monday!
Grade 8 Lenten brochures are due, not printed, this Thursday, March 22nd.
Grade 7 Literary webs are due this Wednesday, March 21st.
Grade 6 students should have completed at least 5 slides for their
Native American presentations.
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March 4, 2012
There IS Keyboarding Club this Monday. There is Keyboarding Club EVERY day
this week. There are only 8 days remaining, so please attend as often as
possible. Everyone is doing a fantastic job! Keep up the great effort!
Grade 8 Parents, please send in baby pictures and pictures of school
functions from the past 9 years. Thank you!
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February 24, 2012
There is no keyboarding club on this coming Monday, February, 27th. There is
keyboarding club on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thirsday, and Friday of next week.
There is stock club this Monday, February 27th.
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February 9, 2012
Grade 8 Lenten presentations begin Thursday, Feb. 16.
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February 2, 2012
Keyboarding Club begins Tuesday, February 7th. There is no Keyboarding Club
on Wednesday due to a faculty meeting. We will meet again on Thursday and
Friday.
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January 20, 2012
ALL recordings must be finished by 4:30 on Tuesday afternoon.
Students may stay after to work on projects on Monday, but they will not be
able to record after school on Monday.
Students may stay after on Tuesday to work on projects and record.
Students may not stay after school on Wednesday.
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January 10, 2012
Eighth Grade Culture Projects are to be completed by Friday, January 13.
Seventh Grade has 3 projects to be completed by Friday, January 13. The 3
projects are fixed Digital Stories, Concrete Poems, and CD Covers for their
Digital Story.
Grade Six students must have graphs and corrected clothing essays finished by
Friday, January 13. The completed, decorated projects are not yet due.
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January 8, 2012
Grade 8 Culture Projects are due this Friday.
Grade 7 Concrete Poems and Corrected Digital Stories are due this Friday.
Grade 6 Corrected Clothing Essays are due Monday at 4:00.
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January 3, 2012
Happy New Year! May 2012 be filled with much peace, tremendous happiness,
and many blessings!
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December 15, 2011
Only 10 days until Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today was a very exciting day!! The sixth graders added music to their
movies. After much work, they turned their filmstrips into movies!!
Grade 7 is working very hard on their stories and concrete poems.
Grade 8 continues to work on their PSAs, their culture projects, and their
special project.
Most projects are due before Christmas. Students who are not finsihed, need
to plan to stay after school today, Friday or Monday. Students may also come
in before school any of those days. Students may also come in before school
on Tuesday.
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December 4, 2011
Students continue to come to the lab in the morning to work on keyboarding
skills and to receive individual assistance. Keep up the great work and the
enthusiasm and effort!!
Grade 8 is working on a top secret project. Please be sure your PSAs and the
first part of your culture project are finished before Christmas.
Grade 7 is working on finishing their digital stories, and they are working
on their concrete poems.
Grade 6 is working on their autobiographical poems. All pictures should be
in and the words should be on all of their pictures. If any students is
feeling behind or needs extra help, please feel free to come before school or
stay after school. Now is a great time for individual help.
Have a good week!
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November 20, 2011
Have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving.
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November 3, 2011
There is a faculty meeting next Wednesday and a program at XU on Thursday
that the teachers are attending, so these are not good days to stay after
school if you need extra teacher help. Sorry.
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October 24, 2011
It is wonderful to see how many students are coming in the morning to
practice keyboarding. Keep up the enthusiasm and effort!
Grade 8 Stock Market permission forms should be brought in on Monday. Thank
you!
Grade 8 is doing a fabulous job creating their PSAs! It is so rewarding to
watch them work.
Grade 7 needs to have all pictures from home for their digital stories
brought in for Thursday's class.
6P color-coded their note cards for paragraphs, and they wrote their
paragraphs on Islamic Art. These will be finished and printed in draft on
Thursday. If you are in 6P and you missed Monday's class, please see Mrs.
Buehler before Thursday's class.
6M broke down the main topics for their Islamic Art paragraphs. They color-
coded their notes and note crads, put them in order and numbered them to be
ready to write their paragraphs on Thursday. If you are in 6M and you missed
Monday's class, please be sure to see Mrs. Buehler before Thursday's class.
Also, please be sure to copy a classmate's notes from class to help you
organize your paragraphs.
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October 20, 2011
Stock Market Game information for grade 8 was sent home via e-mail. Please
bring in permission slips. If you did not receive this, please let Mrs.
Buehler know. Thanks!
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October 17, 2011
Grade 8 students need to come prepared with props and costumes for video
taping in class on Thursday.
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September 26, 2011
Students may borrow video cameras to tape footage for their PSAs. This
coming weekend may be a good weekend to do that since it will be a 3-day
weekend. Please be sure to see Mrs. Buehler to check out the cameras.
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September 19, 2011
Students continue to work on their projects and practice keyboarding.
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September 11, 2011
Keyboarding Club begins this Monday! I will offer another session
beginning Feb. 6th and ending March 16th.
Have you turned in your parent survey? Have you turned in your AUP?
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September 5, 2011
I will see parents at Back-to-School Night this Wednesday! Parent
inventories for grades 6 and new students are due this Thursday. Any student
that has not turned in an AUP must do so by this Thursday.
Keyboarding Club begins Monday, Sept. 12. I will offer another session
beginning Feb. 6th and ending March 16th.
I will again offer The Stock Market Game for those students in grade 8 who
are interested. More details will follow.
August 29, 2011
Today was a great day!
Students received Interest Inventories and AUPs. AUPs and student
inventories are due this Thursday, September 1. Parent inventories for new
students and grade six students are due next Thursday, September 8.
