NOTES FROM MR. CRAWFORD
Fall Sports Banquet
The annual fall sports banquet is coming up! It will take place on December 7th at 6:30pm in the HDS gymnasium. We will honor our football, flag football and volleyball players, cross country team, and cheerleaders.
The annual fall sports banquet is coming up! It will take place on December 7th at 6:30pm in the HDS gymnasium. We will honor our football, flag football and volleyball players, cross country team, and cheerleaders.
Memorial University Medical Center Toy Drive
Each year Hancock Day School is honored to have the privilege of decorating the tree for the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit at Memorial University Medical Center, and providing gifts for the children there. We will be accepting gifts here at the school until December 4th. Toy Wish List Recommendations/Pediatric Rehabilitation Patients:
· Infant play sets/ shape sorters/ blocks/ring stackers/ spinners
· Musical light up toys, activity centers, fisher-price figures/sets
· Baby teethers and rattles
· Books for infants and toddlers
· Wooden puzzles (from infant to early elementary ages)
· Play-doh / Play-doh sets / fun craft sets
· Mega/Lego Blocks for toddlers
· Lego Sets for school aged kids
· Action figures
· Trains/trucks/cars/hot wheels
· Sport balls, basketballs, playground balls, footballs other outside fun activities
· Games- board games or card games
· $10 gift cards for our older kids- Target, Apple-I-tunes, etc.
*Please NO stuffed animals, Barbie Dolls/baby dolls, coloring books-crayons, or clothing items
*Please do NOT wrap the gifts
· Infant play sets/ shape sorters/ blocks/ring stackers/ spinners
· Musical light up toys, activity centers, fisher-price figures/sets
· Baby teethers and rattles
· Books for infants and toddlers
· Wooden puzzles (from infant to early elementary ages)
· Play-doh / Play-doh sets / fun craft sets
· Mega/Lego Blocks for toddlers
· Lego Sets for school aged kids
· Action figures
· Trains/trucks/cars/hot wheels
· Sport balls, basketballs, playground balls, footballs other outside fun activities
· Games- board games or card games
· $10 gift cards for our older kids- Target, Apple-I-tunes, etc.
*Please NO stuffed animals, Barbie Dolls/baby dolls, coloring books-crayons, or clothing items
*Please do NOT wrap the gifts
Community Service
Hancock Day School has encouraged student involvement in serving the community since it was founded. The Community Service Program at HDS was established to prepare our students for a lifetime of service to others. We hope to provide them with the opportunity to experience firsthand the pleasure of helping others while developing their communication, leadership, and decision making skills. Middle School Students are expected to complete a minimum of 10 hours of community service each school year. Please document service hours on the HDS Community Service Log and submit to Madison Ross in the MS office.
Hancock Day School has encouraged student involvement in serving the community since it was founded. The Community Service Program at HDS was established to prepare our students for a lifetime of service to others. We hope to provide them with the opportunity to experience firsthand the pleasure of helping others while developing their communication, leadership, and decision making skills. Middle School Students are expected to complete a minimum of 10 hours of community service each school year. Please document service hours on the HDS Community Service Log and submit to Madison Ross in the MS office.
Volleyball Camps
Bob Bertucci Volleyball Camps are being held at St. Vincent’s Academy from July 26-28, 2018. For more information about the camps and registration CLICK HERE
8TH GRADE ASSIGNMENTS
8th grade Algebra 1 - Mrs. Reardon
Check for updates in Google Classroom.
8th grade Advanced Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will continue Chapter 11 by discovering the distance formula and midpoint formula (11.5). Students will go on a trip around the United States, Mexico, and Central America, calculating distances all the way.
8th grade Geometry - Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will continue Chapter 5 by learning about medians and altitudes in triangles (5.4) as well as triangle inequalities and the Hinge Theorem (5.5). There will be a quiz covering sections 5.1-5.3 on Tuesday.
8th grade Physical Science - Mr. Cooper
Next Monday we will take a quiz on Chapter 7. The information the students need to know is on my Google Classroom. We will have a 3 part culminating chemistry lab on Tuesday and Thursday. This will wrap up our Chemistry portion of the class. We will finish up solubility and do another activity with acids and bases before the holiday break. Element projects and assigned homework for Chapter 8 is due on Monday.
8th grade English Language Arts - Mrs. O’Connor
Next week we will finish the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird and work on composing our essays. Students will continue to explore using strong verbs in their writing and work together to peer edit and revise their drafts. Final drafts will be due on Tuesday, December 12th. We will also work on exploring a new unit of vocabulary with Greek and Latin roots. A quiz over these words will be on Wednesday, December 13th.
8th grade History & Gov’t II - Mrs. English
This week we will continue studying events during World War I. Readings and homework will come from Chapter 21.2-4. We will have a quiz on Wednesday over European Geography and Ch. 21.1. Students will also pick their research topics for World War I. Looking forward to a great week!
8th grade Spanish - Ms. Hughes
Next week in Spanish, the 8th grade will continue to work with the vocabulary and grammar from Chapter 3A. The grammar quiz is on Tuesday, December 5th. This will cover irregular preterite conjugation and direct object pronouns. Students will also present their community projects on Friday, December 7th.
7TH GRADE ASSIGNMENTS
7th grade Algebra 1 - Mrs. Reardon
Check for updates in Google Classroom.
7th grade Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will complete Chapter 4 by learning how to multiply numbers in scientific notation (4.7). There will be a day of review on Thursday (6th grade) or Wednesday (7th grade) and then the test covering sections 4.5-4.7 on Friday.
7th grade History & Gov’t I - Mrs. English
This week students will continue their study of the American Revolution. Topics covered include impacts the first shots of the American Revolution and the first battles of the war. Homework and readings will come from Chapter 5.2-3. We will have a quiz on U.S. political geography and the first part of Ch. 5.1. Looking forward to a great week!
7th grade Spanish - Ms. Hughes
Next week in Spanish, the 7th grade will continue to work with the vocabulary and grammar from Chapter 7A. The grammar quiz is on Tuesday, December 5th. This will cover stem-changing verbs and demonstrative adjectives. Students will also present their “desfile de moda” project on Friday, December 7th.
7th Grade ELA - Mrs. Boyer
Parents!! Students will continue reading, analyzing, critiquing and annotating poems from Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, William Blake and Edgar Allen Poe. Students will also continue studying Gerund, Participle and Infinitive Phrases. We will be adding transitive and intransitive verbs as of next week. The Unit 5 Ex. 1-6 are due on Monday (12/4) and there is a Unit 5 Vocab quiz on 12/6. They will have a poetry test on 12/13. Lastly, this week your students will be working on a poetry project (in class/at home, Due on 12/14). Every week, about two to three times, students are having mini-quizzes which count for a CW/HW grade. These mini quizzes, five to six questions, are over material that we have been going over that week and may incorporate the Unit of vocabulary that they are studying. Students always need to be reviewing their notes and ensuring their understanding of the material. I am always available from 7:30 - 8:00 am in the mornings and after school on Thursdays for extra-help.
7th grade Life Science - Ms. Hoffman
Students have been learning about the cell cycle processes of mitosis and meiosis. They will continue next week with DNA as we finish up chapter 4 in our textbook. We will have a quiz on this chapter on Wednesday, 12/ 6. Thursday, 12/7 is the day of our all day laboratory field trip to Skidaway Aquarium to participate in a fish dissection and plankton study. Field trip permission slip forms will go home with students this Friday, 12/1 and are due back signed by Tuesday, 12/5 for an accurate count of students attending. We will then continue learning about pedigrees, selective breeding and diversity as we head toward our winter holidays and will have a test on Thursday, 12/14 over this material, as well as, heredity the cell cycle and DNA.
6TH GRADE ASSIGNMENTS
6th grade Accelerated Math 7 - Mrs. Reardon
Check for updates in Google Classroom.
6th grade Pre-Algebra - Mr. Lanfear
Next week we will complete Chapter 4 by learning how to multiply numbers in scientific notation (4.7). There will be a day of review on Thursday (6th grade) or Wednesday (7th grade) and then the test covering sections 4.5-4.7 on Friday.
6th grade ELA - Mrs. Guggenheim
Literature: We are beginning the introduction to our nonfiction unit. The students will be receiving a resource packet with terms. The quiz over those terms will be 12/14.
Grammar: Continue to work on: Simple, Compound, Complex, Run-on sentences, Compound/Complex, and Comma Splices
Writing: Writing a variety of sentences
Vocabulary: List 6 distributed on 11/30. Quiz 12/7.
Reading Log: Reading for the reading log begins for Trimester Two this weekend. As stated in the syllabus, all middle school students are required to read 360 minutes during the course of the trimester - reading that is outside of their regular assignments. They have a form on which to keep track of their minutes, and on Mondays in class I post their minutes in a spreadsheet. They need to obtain a parent signature to verify the minutes read. This counts as a project grade. The grading scale is written in the syllabus. Reading log minutes for 6th grade are due Wednesday, February 21.
6th grade Earth Science - Ms. Hoffman
Students started off our week with a hands-on energy lab creating and observing some of a variety energy conversions. (See some pictures below.) We also continued our discussion on renewable and nonrenewable energy resources. On Thursday 11/30, the rubric for our energy source project was handed out and discussed and we began our research during class. Students will also research during science class using books, posters and the internet on two additional days. Creating the project (report OR poster OR 3-D display) will, however, take place at home and will be due on Wednesday, 12/13. Students will then present their project on Thursday 12/14. Our unit test on energy will also be Wednesday, December 13th.
6th Grade Ancient Civ - Mrs. Boyer
Parents!! This week students will be working on a small in-class/at home project. Your students will be creating an Ancient Egyptian brochure on a topic (of their choice) which will be assigned in class. Parents!! The Ancient Egyptian Quiz will be on December 4th and the test will be on December 8th. Students have multiple study materials such as their fill-in-the-blank note packet, labeled maps, the PowerPoint presentation on Google Classroom, their textbooks, in class activities, etc. I will be having an extra-help session on 12/4 at 7:45 am if there are students who have specific questions regarding the Egyptian Unit. I will also be holding a test review on 12/8 at 7:45 am. Please bring specific questions.
6th Grade Spanish - Ms. Dubick
Hello parents! The students will be finishing their fabulous family trees this week, they are due Thursday. They will need to bring in printouts of photos of family members or people who are like family to them. I can make color copies of originals if they need. They will be up in the hallway if you have a chance to come and see them all!
They will have a take home quiz to do over the weekend, due on Monday Dec 11, to help prepare them for the test on Wednesday December 13th on the days of the week, the months of the year, family member vocab and using tener conjugations.
This test will fall on the same day as their science unit test, but we will have ample review Monday and Tuesday in class. There are quizlets up to help them study. It would be extremely helpful for them to break up their studying over several nights.
Every Wednesday and Friday morning before school I’ll be doing extra help sessions to reinforce what we are covering, any students who feel they could use the additional support are welcome to come.
I also hold study sessions the morning before any assessment.
MS Art - Mrs. Cookson
This week students will face the challenge of creating a theme based piece that incorporates all of the stations introduced so far. They will need to pull on those elements of art and principles of design to render a mixed media final work. All the while they will need to make sure that their theme comes across clearly.
