October 27, 2016

Germantown Elementary

School

UPCOMING

EVENTS

OCTOBER 23-30

BECKER SHELL

“EAT LOCAL”

For every pizza purchased, $1.00 will be

donated to the PTA.

This is a great opportunity to support a

local business and the

PTA at the same time.

Junior High Jazz SHAPIN’ UP WITH SHUBERT

7th grade will begin Health on Wednesday. We will be discussing the

Respiratory and Excretory Systems. Fitness charts should have been

turned in; please turn it in if you haven't already. Please make sure your

child is bringing home their PE uniform to wash.

The gym will be used for play practice and rehearsal until December 9th.

Please know that I try to accommodate that schedule as much as possible,

but there will be days and times when we may be in the band room or

cafeteria for PE. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding.

THE BAND PLAYED ON

The last parade of the season is next Friday, November 11 at Albers. The

parade starts at 2:30. Let’s hope the weather is as nice as it is this

weekend. Permission slips are due. The students have them in their band

folder. All band students should be at school with their black socks and

black shoes at 1:15p.m.. We plan to wear the full uniform.

Pie pick up is next Saturday, November 12th. We will need help

separating pies and filling orders. 7th and 8th grade students are asked to

come help. We will also need a lot of parent help at 7:45. Picking up

orders will begin about 8:30a.m.

The dates for the Spring Contests have been set.

Solo Ensemble is February 25th

District Organizational is March 25th (Same as State Volleyball)

- We will be able to work this conflict out.

State Organizational is April 29th.

7th Language Arts: After a change in plans, we will be picking back up with DOL

Week 6 which includes the skills: comparative, helping verbs with present participle,

compound sentences, and titles. There will be a DOL quiz on Friday. We are continu-

ing to develop our comparative writing skills by analyzing how passages featuring

book to film comparisons. We will also begin our next writing assignment which will

be a comparative essay between the book and film version of Lightning Thief .

7th Literature: Next week, we will continue reading and discussing The Lightning

Thief . We will continue to analyze the text using the concept of the hero’s journey. In

addition, we will begin to work in small literature circles to focus on developing

textual analysis skills.

8th Language Arts: We will continue to work on expository writing skills by

incorporating source information and giving credit to the author. We will also

discuss components of a strong conclusion and students will begin to work on

including this aspect in their paper.

8th Literature: We have finished watching the film version of The Giver. Next

week, we are looking at a test that will be spread over both Monday and Tuesday.

During the test, students will be allowed to use their sheet comparing the film to the

book. They will also be allowed to use their book for textual evidence. A great way to

prepare for the test would be to look over the review guide handed out in class, the

active reading notes taken in the book while reading, and the work completed in

literature circles. Looking ahead, the next novel we will read will be Wonder by RJ

Palacio.

RAKERS’ RABBLE

WISE WORDS FROM MRS. Y

CAN YOU

ANSWER THIS

MOVIE TRIVIA

QUESTION?

What is the title of

the newest Marvel

movie which hits

theaters next Friday,

Nov. 4th?

Last week’s answer:

One of my favorite

TV shows that just

came back for its 7th

season is The

Walking Dead.

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8th Grade Science: We will continue our unit on technology where the

students will be creating proposals to improve our school or community.

They have a lot of great ideas so far.

7th Grade Science: We will tackle the organelles of plant and animal cells

and their functions within living things next week.

6th Grade Science: We will start working on the movement of the Earth,

Sun, and Moon as well as the Planets and Dwarf Planets in our Solar System.

5th Grade Science: We will gain a real understanding of Newton’s 3 Laws of

Motion next week.

7th Grade Green Screen: We have started off strong and are learning fast.

I have high expectations for this group and plan to add more and more to our

videos as we go.

EVERSGERD’S WORDS

6th ELA Block~We will start the period with DOL week 6. Some skills

we will cover are compound sentences, listing, helping verbs, title of a

person, subject pronoun, superlatives, quotes, and spelling rule is words

with prefixes and roots. We will continue working with words by using

chapter 7-14 vocabulary words from the novel. We will construct

vocabulary squares again. During literature, we will read chapters 7-9.

There will be a review on Friday over chapters 4-9, but not a quiz. Please

remember to bring your novels to class. There’s been at least one kiddo

everyday that forgets their novel. Check out my website for the novel

journal pages we have assigned.

5th LA~ Monday we will introduce prepositions and interact in a

Halloween activity with prepositions. There will be multiple quizzes with

chunks of the listed prepositions. Thursday will be the first chunk quiz.

Starting Tuesday, we will warm up with a writing depicting what we are

thankful for. Be ready for lots of writing this week! We need lots of

practice!

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MS. HEMPEN

5th Grade Math: Students will be spending the week reviewing all of the

standards discussed so far. Order of operations, numerical expressions, reading,

writing, comparing, and rounding decimals, and multiplying and dividing whole

numbers will be heavily emphasized.

All of these concepts are found on Study Island, and it would be extremely

beneficial practice!

5th Grade Literature: Students will begin the standard RL.5.3 focusing on

comparing and contrasting characters, settings, and plots within a story. This is

quite the challenge! With patience and perseverance, I am certain the kids will

succeed!

Study Island: Setting, Characters, Plot, Compare and Contrast

BULLDOG

SPORTS

NEWS

10/31/2016

6BB vs. Mascoutah in

Aviston Tourney

11/1/2016

5/6GB vs. ASA

11/2/2016

JV/V GB vs. Sandoval

Go Bulldogs!

MR. GLYNN’S SOCIAL STUDIES SCOOP

5th—We will be having a quiz on the causes of the American Revolution on

Tuesday or Wednesday. The quiz will be over vocabulary terms, our notes, and

main idea and detail (RI.5.2). We will then begin our next unit on the American

Revolution.

6th—The kids did an awesome job on their Egypt projects. The students will

have a quiz on Thursday. On Friday, will we start our unit on Ancient India. Our

focus standard for this unit is RI.6.1.

7th—We will start reviewing for the Constitution Assessment. Students will be

tested over all of the Constitution material we have covered. This week will

consist of 5 stations. Each station will be reviewing a part of the Constitution

8th—We will be wrapping up our unit on Reconstruction. I plan to have a test

on Thursday or Friday over the vocabulary and notes.

WEEKLY “BARK” FROM MS. CLARK

D E F G H I J F K L M I N

Next meeting is Nov. 16th at

lunch!

5th– Students will be spending the week reviewing all of the standards

discussed so far. Order of operations, numerical expressions, reading,

writing, comparing, and rounding decimals, and multiplying and

dividing whole numbers will be heavily emphasized.

6th– Students will be taking a quiz on constructing ratio tables and

graphing the data they create, as well as solving percent problems.

Study Island: Percents.

7th– Students will be taking an assessment on linear expressions. We

will begin solving multi-step equations.

Study Island: Linear expressions.

8th– The approximating irrational numbers art project is due Monday.

We will be working more with approximating irrational numbers and

ordering them.

Study Island: Real numbers.

Algebra– We will continue working on Chapter 5, which deals with

slope and slope equations. There is a possible quiz this week over the

portion of Chapter 5 we have completed.