James Tucker
Middle School Principal
Happy thanksgiving! If you are taking your child before 2pm on Wednesday please advise us in the normal way.
7th Grade science test and lit essay and 8th grade Spanish report due this week.
The Nutcracker is coming!
Toy Drive continues, please leave toys in good condition with Miss Urrutia
6th Grade: no assessments this week
7th Grade: Tuesday, Science Unit 2 Exam. Wednesday, Hand in Lit Essay (The Alchemist)
8th Grade: Monday/Tuesday - Espanol, entrega de reporte de lectura
Firstly, I wish you all a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving break with your families. It’s been a really positive year full of challenges and progress. Please, enjoy this break and spend quality, face-to-face time as a family. Thank you all for the Thanksgiving help. We are happy to have collected several baskets full of produce for our hard working maintenance staff and will be looking to distribute these next week.
On Wednesday classes will end at 11.50 and between 12 and 14.05 we have our traditional Thanksgiving lunch. Please be aware that all tickets should be bought from the office before the day. No tickets will be available on the day. If you are taking your child out of school before dismissal at 14.00 please be sure that you give written permission to the office in the normal way.
There will be soccer training on Wednesday. As this is a short season, we wanted to make sure we take full advantage of the time available.
Every Monday students are working on random acts of kindness. Ms. K's advisory hosted a Bake-sale and raised 130 USD, planting 130 trees with Mr. Beast, a YouTuber known for his charity! They are contributing to help plant 20 million trees by Jan 1, 2020. Other advisory’s have been cooking brigadeiros, making fortune cookies, cleaning up the areas around their classroom, going to the cafeteria to help clean, making chocolates with thank-you notes for the cafeteria staff and leaving positive messages in people’s lockers! Let’s trend the positive and encourage random kindness around the school every day.
Efficient connections (by Gabriel Cutie and Joshua Anchia)
It has come to our concern that the school creates a lot of waste. In the newly formed Green Team, we have come up with ideas to eliminate waste from campus. One of our ideas was to start making eco-bricks out of non-recyclable plastic. Eco-bricks are plastic bottles that you fill up with plastic waste. We wanted to build many eco-bricks to be able to build a garden bed out of them. We thought this was a good idea because we are better with the natural environment of our campus with gardens and reducing plastic waste simultaneously. Our goal is to eventually eliminate plastic waste on the whole campus. In the green team meeting, we came up with the idea that we could compost the waste from the cafeteria and use the soil in our garden so that then we could reduce the school’s waste even more while contributing more to the gardens.
Thanks so much to our AMAZING parent reps who sorted out such a nice surprise for teacher’s day. Teachers were so happy to come in and feel appreciated. Being a teacher is one of the most challenging jobs there is so it helps everyone’s morale and motivation - and of course the learning of the kids - when we are feeling upbeat! Thank you!
6th grade STEAM students investigate zoomed in images of snowflakes as an introduction to their new MIT unit “A Different Lens”
This week in Physical Science students learned how to model compounds, molecules, mixtures, and extended structures
This week in Earth Science students did a “Time Walk” visiting different periods of Earth’s History.
6th grade ELA students celebrate their writing and leave each other positive feedback!
