Spirit Week Next Week!

Its time for some fun at the middle school next week!
Monday, October 3rd is our 1st day of Spirit Week. Kids can dress like a slob that day. Tuesday is wacky hair day. Wed is wear, bring or be a stuffed animal day. Thursday is Unity Games Day for 8th grade. (more details coming later about this awesome day). Friday is Spartan spirit day (blue and white please). The week should be a blast.

In Social Studies, students will have their 1st test on Tuesday.
In L.Arts, students are beginning our class Novel, The Giver.

Social Studies Plans For Week of Sept. 26th

Monday: No school 4 kids. Teacher Professional Development Day.

Tuesday: Current Events Day. Students share and discuss current events homework articles.

Wednesday: Finish going over Chpt. 5 reading notes and assign Chpt. 5 Colonial Tax Chart (Due Friday at beginning of hour)

Thursday: Work on Colonial Tax Chart. (Due Friday)

Friday: Check Colonial Tax Chart and Watch video on "the quarrel deepens" (colonists become so angered with Britain and its laws that they move towards independence)

Pre-Revolutionary War (Chpt. 5) Test next week

Language Arts Plans For Week of Sept. 26th

Monday: Professional Development Day For Teachers: No School 4 Kids

Tuesday: Genre Quiz Review

Wednesday: Genre Quiz/Anticipatory Set For The Giver

Thursday: Assign Class Book, The Giver. Assignment: Read Chpt. 1 and Answer Comprehension Questions.

Friday: The Giver. Assignment: Read Chpt. 2 and Complete Sticky Note Activity (Label passage that you can visualize, one that reminds you of another experience, and one that you have a question about).

Social Studies Update

I was home sick yesterday (Wed.) as a result, the current events homework was assigned today and will be due next Tuesday. Reminder: No school for students Monday.

L.A. Schedule for the Week of Sept. 19th

Monday: DOL and Word Study 2 PreTest.
Homework: Word Study definitions due Tues.

Tuesday: DOL, Build Social Contract, Check Word Study HWK.
Homework: Study for Word Study Test

Wednesday: DOL, Word Study Final Test, Genre instruction

Thursday: DOL, Genre Continue Genre Instruction

Friday: DOL, D.E.A.R (Drop everything and read)

Social Studies Plans for the Week of Sept.19th

Monday and Tuesday students will be learning about the French and Indian War and watching a video produced by the History Channel. Tuesday we will build our Social Contracts in class.
Wednesday students will conclude their lessons on the French and Indian War.

Homework over these 3 days is for students to continue reading Chpt5. and complete their study notes from sections 5.4-5.7. This homework is due at the beginning of the hour Thursday.

Thursday we will go over the study notes and students can add valuable information to this study guide.

Homework assignment for Thursday night is to have students print or cut out an interesting community, city, state or national news article. This article should be from this past week. Selected students will share their articles in class on Friday. (so they should know what it is about and be able to discuss the article in class) Students may complete this homework assignment anytime during the week. It is due Friday.

Friday we will be talking about current events in class.

Getting Going

Parents and students, thank you for all your support and hard work as we are getting things going here at SMS. A lot of time and energy have been spent by all and I hope we are all recognizing the benefits. Please allow me to compliment the efforts of my students. Their participation, respect and attention has been great. I am very pleased with the start of this year! Some students are still struggling with daily preparations (materials for class and homework completion) but we will continue to work on those things. I appreciate your help with that. Some grades have been inputed in social studies classes already and I am still in the process of adding some grades into for my LA classes. The remainder of these LA grades will appear on powerschool sometime early next week. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Have a Great Weekend!
"Smile...it looks good on you!"

SS Schedule for Week of Sept. 12th

Monday: Remembering 9/11

Tuesday: Formal intro. to Chpt.5 (Toward Independence) Introduce critical vocab. Homework: Chpt 5. vocab. due Thrs.

Wed: French and Indian War

Thrs: Check Chpt. 5 vocab. and Toward Independence continues

Fri: Constitution Day!

LA Schedule for Week of Sept. 12th

Monday: DOL and Word Study PreTest. Homework: Word Study definitions due Tues.

Tuesday: DOL, Check Word Study HWK. Introduce instructed genres (Science Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction) with children's books. Homework: Study for Word Study Test

Wednesday: DOL, Word Study Final Test, Genre instruction

Thursday: DOL, Genre foldable resource

Friday: DOL, Finish foldable and review genres, D.E.A.R (Drop everything and read)

Great 1st Day!

What an awesome first day! The students are great. I will be posting more specific classroom information later in the week. I just wanted to take a moment and tell you all that we had a great day. I hope the students will echo that remark.

-Mr. Toole
"If your boat hasn't sailed in....start swimming towards it"