Grade 7 and 8 Newsletter

Week of September 17 - 21, 2007

* If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us:

Trisha Moulton:      grade 7 math, writing, 876-4301, ext. 38, or tmoulton@sad4.com
Robyn Rich:            grade 7 & 8 reading, 876-4301, ext. 37, or rrich@sad4.com
Rex Webb:              grade 7 & 8 social studies, 876-4301, ext. 45, or rwebb@sad4.com
Kay Shuster            grade 7/8 Title 1, grade 8 homeroom, 876-4301, ext. 42 kshuster@sad4.com
Ruth Rothberg:       grade 7/8 Title 1, grade 8 homeroom, 876-4301, ext. 42 rrothberg@sad4.com
Sue Watson:            grade 6 –8 special ed. 876:4301, ext.  33, or swatson@sad4.com
Ann Dall:                grade 8 math , writing 876-4301, ext. 42, or adall@sad4.com
Paul Draper:           grade 7 & 8 science, 876-4301, ext. 40, or pdraper@sad4.com

QSP magazine drive will end next Friday. Mrs. Rich’s homeroom currently holds the lead in orders placed. Good luck to all homerooms in the final week of the fundraising drive.

Open House: Thanks to all parents and students who attended the Open House. It’s always helpful to attach faces to names and start off the year with positive communication.

School pictures: Monday, October 1

What’s Going on Upstairs:
Mrs. Rich’s 7^th grade LA classes are creating electronic notebooks for reading, and are learning one new word per week. This assignment is due every Tuesday.

*Mrs. Rich’s 8^th grade LA classes are working on Latin root words, prefixes, and suffixes. The “Create-a-Word” dictionary project is due Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Mr. Webb’s social studies classes have Current Events Journal due Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Mrs. Moulton’s 7^th grade math classes are drawing, measuring, & classifying angles in geometry.

Ms. Dall’s 8^th grade math classes are also studying geometry with the classification and drawing of angles and triangles. Next week, polygons and the area of polygons will be introduced.

Mr. Draper’s 7 & 8^th grade classes have been studying the metric system and the periodic table of elements.

CLC Sessions now available:

Bridges with Mr. Moen, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Amer-Asian Anime’ Comics with Mrs. Dyer at PCHS, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

If students are interested in joining these sessions, please see Mrs. Rich for a permission slip.

Boys and Girls Soccer

Sept. 25 Host Somerset 3:30/5:00 B/G

Sept. 27 Host Greenville 3:30/5:00 B/G

Sept. 28 @ Hichborn 3:30/5:00 G/B

Field Hockey

Sept. 27 @ Sedomocha 3:30

Sept. 28 @ Dexter 3:30