September Student of the Month:
Monica Nunez
October Student of the Month:
Christopher SanJuan
Room 305 Principal's Award:
Audrey Jahns
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Welcome to the Second Trimester!!!
The junior high has been very busy during the First Trimester of the 2009/2010 school year.
Junior High Accomplishments:
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Have written a self-to-text paper based upon a reading of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree".
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Created a drawing for our annual Knights of Columbus Council "Keeping Christ in Christmas" competition.
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Written a poem sent in for the chance of publication in the 2010 edition "Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans".
8th Grade Language Arts Accomplishments:
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Learned how to take proper notes (including examples)without copying directly from the textbook.
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Used the 5 steps of the Writing Process in various types of writing activities.
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Created many types of prewriting strategies to organize ideas (bubble graphs, word maps, outlining, compare/contrast diagrams).
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Reviewed the 3 cases of Nouns and can identify the steps in order to find the many jobs of nouns from a given sentence.
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Applied their knowledge of nouns to pronouns in order to catagorize and identify pronouns into their 3 cases and use them correctly when writing.
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Have read many short stories from our subscriptions to Scope and READ magazines - helping them to identify the different types and styles of writing - while being able to answer specific questions based upon these stories.
7th Grade Language Arts Accomplishments:
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Learned how to take proper notes (with labled examples) without just copying straight from the textbook.
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Differenciated between the ideas of topic sentences, beginning sentences, middle sentences, and ending sentences to create a cohesively written paragraph.
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Worked in cooperative groups to use the 5 steps of the writing process to create a short story based upon a picture from National Geographic Magazine.
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Mastered the catagorizing of nouns into 3 cases by the jobs which they perform within a sentence.
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Have read many short stories from our subscriptions to Scope and READ magazines - helping them to identify the different types and styles of writing - while being able to answer specific questions based upon these stories.
Room 305 Reading Accomplishments:
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Independently Read 6 Accelerated Reading books during the First Trimester.
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Identified various types of writing styles (Fact/Opinion, Main Ideas & Supporting Details, Point of View, and Summarizing) using worksheets, short stories, notetaking, and review quizzes.
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Read many short stories from our Scope and READ magazine subscription in order to complete Character Analysis, Motive, Inference, Tone, Sequencing, Compare/Contrast, Vocabulary, Setting, Text Interpretation, and Written Responses using full sentences from Writing Prompts.
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Created a movie poster from an independently read short story from our Halloween book "Scarey Stories".
Room 305 Religion Accomplishments:
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Successfully completed the first 5 Chapters in our Faith First: Faith and Sacraments book.
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Completed many art/written activities during each chapter.
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Gave small group presentations based upon Bible readings of St. Paul's Journies.
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Listened to a daily Saint of the Day story and written down 3 important facts about that Saint into their notebooks.
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Joined Sr. Virginia once a week for an in-depth Bible study of Acts of the Apostles.
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Planned and participated in two 7th grade Thursday masses.
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Practiced and read a Saint story over the PA System for morning prayers during the second half of October.
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Completed 10/10+ service hours towards their Confirmation requirements.
Room 305 Wordskills Accomplishments:
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Completed the first 6 Chapters in the Wordskills workbook.
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Continuously practice proper handwriting techniques using their 3x each for Target Words from each chapter.
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Applied spelling words to vocabulary meanings to complete various definition activities.
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Learned about synonyms, antonyms, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
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Congrats to Room 305!!!
We won Second Place in the
Student Council Pumpkin
Decorating Contest!!!
"We Got Donuts!!!"
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