General Information:
Spirit Week for Middle School! It is an opportunity for students to dress up if they would like, based on themes that our student voice team have chosen!!
Monday – ‘Merica Monday (red, white and blue- no politics, no hats!)
Tuesday – Team Day Tuesday
Wednesday – Who am I? Wednesday (character/athlete/artist day)
Thursday – Monochromatic Day (one color)
Friday – Comfy Day
PBIS- AMOR launch: On Monday we will launch our new behavior initiative as a whole school. This will involve an assembly, time with our family groups learning our expectations. (Information about this was sent home in the envelopes with report cards)
Changes Unit: We will be launching our changes unit this week Tuesday! We will update the blog daily with a post about our topic and discussion for the day.
Community Learning afternoon: We will head out into the community with our Small Groups to learn about how organizations are being the hands and feet of Jesus in the Holland/Zeeland area.
Our Community Connection partner is Good Samaritan Ministries. As we are learning about the many ways they serve and build relationships in our community, we are excited for the opportunity to help by collecting supplies to put in Family Game Night Baskets for the families that GSM is serving. If you are able to, please help us by donating any of the following items: games & puzzles (gently used or new), playdough (new), Legos, microwave popcorn, and other snacks. Donations can be brought to the table near the middle school entrance between now and Thursday, February 6. Thank you! -Mrs. Klompmaker’s Small Group
Classwork and Assignments:
Bible Memory: Galatians 5: 24-26 due on Friday
Bible: We will talk about the Holy Spirit and Resurrection Joy. We will also learn about what happened in the Garden of Gethsemane and Jesus’ arrest.
Social Studies/Estudios Sociales: We will begin our unit on Ancient China. We will look at the geography and first settlements. Vamos a empezar la unidad sobre la Antigua China. Vamos a ver la geografía y los primeros asentamientos. Mr. Zhou, our MS Mandarin teacher, will share a presentation with us as he is from China and can share first hand what life is like in China!!
Science – This week we will be discovering what happens when we push or pull something and examine the forces that are acting on different objects. Then, for lesson 3, we will be exploring why things get crushed.
Math – We finished up quizzes on Friday. Quiz corrections will be due on Wednesday. After adding and subtracting fractions we will be getting into multiplying and dividing.
Writing (English): This week in LA2 we will be working on conducting interviews with people in our community circle who have immigrated from another country. Our goal is to learn about their experience, first hand, and make connections to the book we are reading (which is about a girl who immigrated to the United States). Our final goal with the interview information is to create a scrapbook of experiences based on the real experiences of the people we interviewed. Homework (for Mrs. Donkersloot’s class only): p. 214-233 and book job.
Spanish Immersion: We will be discussing chapters 6-9 of Cajas de Cartón. We will also review the difference between preterit and the imperfect. We will review the present subjunctive Spanish Immersion Homework: Finish reading chapters 10 & 11 of Cajas de Cartón if you were not able to finish it at school. Due this Friday, February 7.
LA 2 (Spanish): In class we will be reading Esperanza Renace from chapter 9-12 and completing a study guide and discussing it. LA 2 (Spanish) Homework: Whatever the students didn’t have time to finish in class, they will need to complete it for homework.
LA 1: We will develop a claim, free-write about the prompt to generate ideas and then develop a sufficiently narrow claim. We will also learn that for the claim to be persuasive, an argument writer must support it with the most effective evidence that comes from a variety of credible sources. Credible sources are websites, reports, and articles developed by experts and journalists.
Study skills (6L only): We will continue to talk about note taking and we will also talk about strategies for reading comprehension.
