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Life Science

7th Grade By November 21, 2019 No Comments

Seventh graders have been studying cells. We’ve learned that cells have different structures that help them meet their needs. We’ve learned that plant and animal cells are different in their structures and in their shape. We spent a few days in the lab making slides of algae (that the students brought from home), onion skin, […]

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Mind Blowing…

7th Grade By November 13, 2019 No Comments

That moment when a student realizes that Pythagoras was correct and a squared plus b squared really does equal c squared. Seventh graders have spent the last few days learning a bit about Pythagoras and playing with his famous equation. We found the length of the hypotenuse by calculating the area of triangles and squares […]

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Middle School Math and Science

6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade By October 21, 2019 No Comments

6th graders have been busy practicing reading and writing large and small numbers. We’ve been looking for patterns in our place-value charts, reading and writing numbers in standard notation, expanded notation, and number-and-word notation. However, we don’t always use paper and pencil… 7th graders have been learning about light and livings things in science and […]

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Middle School Departments

Leadership Committee By August 29, 2019 No Comments

As the school year begins…so do middle school departments. The 6th, 7th and 8th graders meet once a month as part of school leadership. The VP’s led their first department meetings last week. In the Spirituality Department, Friday morning prayers were written, Grandparents Mass planned, and Saint of the month (Saint Rose of Lima) researched […]

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Leadership Team

Leadership Committee By May 20, 2019 No Comments

Every month our 8th grade Leadership Team chooses a Saint of the Month. In our monthly department meetings, we research the chosen saint, compose a prayer and write a biography to be presented at our monthly assemblies. We also choose 2 or 3 virtues that the saint portrayed. At our assembly we speak about the […]

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Middle School Science

6th Grade By May 2, 2019 No Comments

6th Grade has just finished our chapter on Earthquakes and we put our knowledge to a challenge in the lab today. We had to use what we learned about buildings, center of gravity, and strength of structures and we designed a building out of marshmallows and toothpicks…on a bed of jello. Then we subjected the […]

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Middle School Math

6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade By April 10, 2019 No Comments

Middle school students have certainly been “doing” math. 8th graders are working in small groups covering topics from linear regression (both by “eyeballing” the line of best fit and using our graphing calculators) to working with ratios and proportional relationships to evaluating and writing expressions. 7th graders are reviewing for a test covering topics from […]

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The week ahead

4th Grade By October 5, 2015 No Comments

We have been working very hard in fourth grade, and this is reflected in your child’s progress report, which will be coming home tomorrow.  Please review it, sign it and send it back to school by Friday if possible. What we are working on this week: Religion: We continue learning how to follow Jesus’ example […]

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