To honor Mary and practice our Catholic faith the school participated in a Living Rosary today. The middles school students each held a bead of the rosary and led one of the prayers. We also heard all of the Mysteries of the Rosary. The choir sang Ava Maria and Hail Holy Queen to complete our […]
For the first trimester, all three middle school classes have formed book clubs to discuss their independent reading books. Each class meets 1 day a week in the library. 6th graders are reading 6 different fictional novels, Chase, Blown Away,Keeping Cool in Middle School,IQ, Soldier X, andOne Left Behind. The entire 7th grade is reading The […]
The 7th grade is currently studying the Islam religion in history class. After watching a video on a Mecca Pilgrimage the class is putting the factors of Islamic Spain into the 4 Worlds model. This helps us understand a far away and long ago place better.
Today for school wide centers the middle school participated in activities that focused on team work. As the students mingled into mixed grade groups they worked on building a tower out of newspapers, saving a worm, and building infrastructures from pasta shapes. The skills learned were leadership and helping the group achieve their goal.
The 7th grade is currently studying the Native American ancestors of Mesoamerica. These indigenous people include the Olmec, Mayan, Aztec, and Inca. After each lesson we use educational videos to visit the countries in this region. In groups the students are placing the factors of each civilization into the 4 Worlds mode. The final assessment […]
The middle school is working on the religion lessons in the Family Life series. The 6th grade is focusing on getting to know themselves and their gifts and talents so that they may use them for the betterment of others. The 7th grade is learning about how to keep their bodies healthy and strong so […]
The 7th grade is studying the Italian Renaissance in history class. We began our journey with a field trip to the Getty Center and now in class we are studying the famous artists from the time. We have learned many different art terms and techniques and researched the various artists. The students used clay in […]
The middle school completed another round of collaborative group projects this week. Mrs. Clemmensen’s group researched different explorers from the last 500 years and then created a Weebly website. The groups worked very hard designing their websites from the point of view of the explorer. The sites contain maps of their expeditions, pictures, timelines, and […]
The focus of the 2014 VIRTUS lesson is online safety for students and families. The middle school children are discussing various types of social media being used today by young teens. They then viewed a few video clips about being smart and safe online published by NSteens. Next they watched and took a quiz on […]
The Middle school centers kicked off our Catholic school activities on Friday with a variety of activities. Students wrote poems about their faith, painted posters for classrooms, and participated in a scavenger hunt to identify objects and actions that make our school Catholic. Some of the items they found were pictures of saints, bibles, the […]