April 12 Update

Choir Concert

The 7th and 8th grade students will present a short choir concert this Thursday (April 14). They should arrive at 6:45 in the choir room. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the RCS Worship Center. Students should wear "nice" clothes.

Language Arts-Parts of Speech

We are beginning a unit in language arts dealing with parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. The students will be learning how to identify the different parts of speech and what their functions are. They will then have to put their identifying skills to work labeling parts of speech in sentences. I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past few months brainstorming ideas on how to make the students most successful learning this topic that can sometimes be difficult for middle school students. Each student was given the beginning of a "Parts of Speech Notebook" yesterday in class. I am color coding each part of speech (ie: information with nouns will be on red papers) and they will slowly be adding lots of colored papers to their notebooks. It will be very important that students do not loose their notebooks, and that they bring them to class everyday! The students will have quizzes throughout the unit and a test at the end. We'll also be doing some fun different activities to asses what they are understanding. These skills will be important for 8th grade language arts as well.

Already today several students did not have their homework completed and/or forgot their notebooks. As a teacher, I want to do everything I can to set up the unit so your children can be successful. However, they are still going to have to complete their homework, study, practice, and bring the correct materials to class in order to succeed.

Junior Achievement

The students will begin their first week of Junior Achievement this Wednesday. It will run for 6 weeks. Thanks again to Dave Stockdale who has volunteered to lead this time. JA will take place for the 7th grade students on Wednesday mornings during first hour.

Good Friday Service

Please feel free to join us for our Good Friday remembrance service from 2:40-3:05 on Friday, April 22. We will meet in the Worship Center. We will still have our normal Family Time on Monday of next week.

Miscellaneous

*Report cards for 3rd quarter were posted just before Spring Break. Hopefully you have had a chance to log onto Net Classroom and look at your child's report card with him or her. Please email me if you need your Net Classroom log-in information, if you are unsure of where to find the report card, or if you need a paper copy sent home with your child.

*Thanks for sending in treats for our Perfect "P" Poetry Party. We had a great time hearing poetry and enjoying all the "p" snacks.

*Mr. Dave wants you to know that he's updated his blog http://mrdavescorner.blogspot.com