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Please encourage your student to bring water and snacks daily. Staff might discourage sodas, energy drinks or any drinks that do not have a cover in order to protect their work and chromebooks.
We are on a charger mission! Find those chargers Bobcats - your chromebook depends on it.
GBS Spring Fair 3/30 here at GBS
Be sure to order your yearbook! You can send back in the paper form by April 19th or order online by April 22
To pay by credit card, visit www.barksdalephoto.com go to “What are you looking for?”, click “Order Your Yearbook” and enter 0031716YB as the Access Code.
GBS Book Fair! A message from GBS PTO:
The PTO is pleased to announce the RETURN of the Scholastic Book Fair - March 25th - 30th. The book fair will be open during the week leading up to the Friends of Music Craft Fair on Saturday, March 30th. Students will have the opportunity to preview the books, make wish lists to share with their families, create ewallets for easy purchasing and the community is invited during the craft fair to support our school. We are also hosting a Family night during the week that will include the GBS feeder elementary schools. We hope to see you there!!
In addition to the book fair, the PTO is operating the craft fair concession stand on March 30th. We are in great need for volunteers and donations. All proceeds allow us to continue to support the great students and teachers of Great Brook. Each year the PTO makes a donation equal to the cost of a student to participate in the Washington DC trip, we host teacher appreciation week, purchase sleds and playground sports equipment for the students, among other requests made during the year. Fundraising is our only source of income and we would love to continue our efforts. All support from our families is greatly appreciated! Please consider helping during the events or donating a much needed item.
Book Fair Schedule
March 25/26 - GBS Student/Teacher Preview
March 27 - Family Night - 6 - 7:30pm (GBS and feeder elementary school students and families are welcome)
March 28/29 - GBS Students will be able to make purchases during lunch/recess
March 30 - 9am - 2pm - in conjunction with the Friends of Music Craft Fair
Craft Fair Concession & Book Volunteer Opportunities:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094FAAAA2CA5FDC52-48447782-march/144249607#/
GBS Scholastic Book Fair Homepage & e-wallet setup:
Ewallet is super convenient, secure digital payment account for the Scholastic Book Fair. Setting up an ewallet for your child empowers them to choose their own books and effortlessly check out during the Best. Week. ever at their school. Any leftover funds can be saved for future fairs. Now, that's a win-win! Visit the link below.
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/greatbrookschool
Thank you,
GBS PTO
Speak Up: Crossing the threshold into our community of GBS we are committed to using language that makes everyone feel welcome and safe. We have a school wide focus to speak up when inappropriate words or phrases are being used or heard. We are always seeking ways to further improve the "GREAT" in Great Brook - after all we have great kids!
Community Service - all 7th graders should complete at least 15 hours of community service this year. Papers for documentation are located by the front office. Let's seek to make our community a happy, healthy and giving place to be.
Core Classes
Homework: Students have daily math homework which they should be encouraged to review and check for all work shown. Doing more than bare minimum only helps...
Block A: Starting Geometric Figures: classifying angles and triangles, quiz 3/19?
Blocks D and F: Writing, solving, and graphing inequalities.
Come during intervention (just ask your intervention teacher for permission) or recess if you need help or more time to do homework, classwork, quizzes, or tests. You can always make corrections to improve your learning (and your grade!)
STUDENTS WITH MORE THAN 5 ASSIGNMENTS OWED WILL BE ASSIGNED TO RECESS TO MAKE UP WORK AND GET EXTRA HELP!
We are continuing in our Electricity and Magnetism Unit.
Week 3/18- Students are finishing up their Trivia Circuit boards and introduced to the Electromagnetic Fishing Derby project.
Social Studies
Ms. Beliveau
Social Studies classes are beginning their investigation of Ancient Egypt.
Lesson Objectives:
Homework:
Mrs. Halliday
Social Studies classes are investigating Ancient Egypt. We are working through GRAPES and may even try our hand at papyrus soon!
Weekly Homework: 50 pages from a book on level (which they have been bringing to class). Pages are due every Wednesday. Remember 50 pages is a minimum
Tues and Thursdays bell-work is devoted to our monthly writing journal. Each student has time to write six complete sentences per slide. The journals are due at the end of the month. Students are expected to complete missed journal entries or complete the slides at home if they did not finish them in class. Six sentences are a minimum - I encourage all bobcats to try and fill the slide. Students MUST have punctuation!
Due: 3/26 : Agent of change poster. This is a home project - students need to read about a person and present the information in an orderly poster (digital or paper). The rubric is in our GoogleClassroom.
Due: 3/27 : Pax paper packet
Due: 3/29: REDO of Noble Experiment written test. Students should know and be able to write about 1) The times in which Jackie Robinson lived 2) Who is Charley Thomas and why is he important in our story 3) What was Branch Rickey looking for in the ideal player and why.
3/26 current focus : We have begun our novel Pax. Students will be reading and taking note of plot mountain, creating questions, annotating our noticings and wonderings. A digital version and audio have been loaded into our GoogleClassroom. Updated progress will be posted in Google Classroom under the tilte "Pax Progress"