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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.
POPCORN FUNDRAISER IS ON!
We are on a charger mission! Find those chargers Bobcats - your chromebook depends on it.
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.
The GBS PTO welcome students to still purchase online! Thank you for all who attended this fund raiser.
April 19th Earth Day: come dressed to do some garden and yard clean up around GBS. You will earn Community Service!
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: Pythagorean Theorem, test 4/17
Blocks D and F: Geometric Figures, test soon after April Break
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 continuing their investigation of Ancient Egypt. We have covered geography and politics so far and are making our way to art and culture.
Homework: Pharaohs Exit Ticket Due WED 4/3
Mrs. Halliday
Students are investigating a subject of their choosing about Ancient Greece. We are excited to showcase our work after vacation. Students should have completed projects and ready to show them Monday 4/29
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!
Current focus : We are enjoying 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"
Agent of Change projects will NOT be accepted after break. A Zero will remain a zero if not handed in by 4/29.
April Journals should be DONE!