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October Students of the Month
October Students of the Month
Grade 6 - Sam Forero
Grade 7 - Elizabeth Adams
Grade 8 - Sreekirthana Kolla
Grade 8 ELA
Grade 8 ELA
Mrs. Stewart's ELA students created their "8th Grade Unmasked" projects, which gave them each an opportunity to take a peek inside their minds in a really creative way! They each formed collages in the shape of their silhouettes for their construct design, and they let the creativity flow. We now have an impressive art display in the 8th grade hallway to show off their impressive work!
Grade 7 & 8 Band
Grade 7 & 8 Band
For the first time since March of 2020, Ms. Chaloux had a full ensemble in her band room for 7th and 8th grade band block! They sounded great!
Grade 6 Math
Grade 6 Math
Check out these photos of Mr. Simeone's class discovering the meaning of equivalent ratios via color mixtures with paint!
Blue Shirt Day
Blue Shirt Day
On Friday the 15th, EGMS students wore BLUE to stand together against bullying!
General Music -- Grade Six
General Music -- Grade Six
Click on the pics to see and hear our students perform duets on the guitar!
Benet Stafford and Abigail Abrham (top pic)
Talon Sacristan and Ivan Gao (bottom pic)
Science Presentation of a Chicken!
Science Presentation of a Chicken!
Gianna Caron (Grade 7) visited some of our science classes with one of her animals from home -- her Hen named "Bandit"! Gianna presented some information on Bandit's anatomy, care needs, and some funny and interesting behaviors.
8th Grade FBLA
8th Grade FBLA
In Dr. Waller's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) course, students were tasked with creating a product and presenting/testing it in a "Shark Tank" format. Click on the link below to see some of the students at work!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I5a2Xelp9FgMOF0rAqIU234Mmi43OrP1/view?usp=sharing
September Students of the Month
September Students of the Month
6th Grade Science
6th Grade Science
Students in Mr. Dorr's room completed a chromatography experiment today. They learned about green chlorophyll which is the most common type of pigment in leaves.This chlorophyll breaks down in the fall which is why we can see the other colors revealed in the leaves.
General Music - Grade 6
General Music - Grade 6
Our sixth graders in General Music are learning notes and chords on the first few frets of the guitar! You may check out their performance of the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" by clicking on the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tgRy4qhHWchVbIC2kKHzfqLYViUl9jsb/view?usp=sharing
6th Grade Math
6th Grade Math
Mr. Simeone's 6th grade math students are hard at work designing tents for a surface area project.
Grade 6 General Music
Grade 6 General Music
Grade Six students were playing Rhythm Bingo in Ms. Chaloux's General Music class to learn how to see and hear rhythm!
Grade 7 Science
Grade 7 Science
In Mr. Langan's class, students demonstrated some Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) skills with the engineering challenge in class. They also demonstrated some of Mr. Langan's famous thinking posture while doing some great work!
EGMS Sunrise
EGMS Sunrise
With credit to Mrs. Petersen (7th Grade S.S.) for taking the photo, this is a very regular and amazing view in the morning before school starts!
Grade 7 Robotics
Grade 7 Robotics
Click on the link below to see one of our seventh graders explain some of our work in Mr. Friedberg's 7th Grade Robotics class:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Rv8OK0N6HK552PXXcfHLSwDn-hjeRQ0/view
Grade 6 Social Studies
Grade 6 Social Studies
In Mr. Tomala's Social Studies class, students collaborated to create projects World Climate Zone Charts. Check it out below!
Grade 8 Science
Grade 8 Science
From Dr. Faulkner, Grade 8 Science Teacher:
"[This week], the 8th graders released the last of our monarchs into the Bird and Butterfly Garden. We raised 10 of them in the 8th grade science class, starting with eggs, going into fat caterpillars, awaiting them during their chrysalis/ metamorphosis, and today they "eclosed" (great vocab word meaning hatched from a crysalis) and it was time to send them off. Bon Voyage to Mexico, boys! (all males today). They all were tagged and maybe someday we might gather data on them."
Grade 7 Theater
Grade 7 Theater
Over the last week and a half, students in Intro to Theater made fictional stories into 5 freeze frames with narration to tell the story. The students learned how to use the stage lights and curtain and used costumes and props to make their freeze frames come to life!
Period 6 Lab Students in the Library
Period 6 Lab Students in the Library
Period 6 lab students were building Google cardboard VR headsets and learning about stereoscopic images. Using a phone and the Google cardboard app students are able to explore VR in a hands on and fun way. If your student does not have period 6 lab or missed this activity they are welcome to take a kit home while supplies last.
7th Grade Social Studies
7th Grade Social Studies
This week in 7th grade students have been working in social studies to review the essential themes of geography and apply them to create posters of the Five Themes of Sub-Saharan Africa using their notes from an informational text. Students then shared and presented their work.
Open House 2021
Open House 2021
Our annual EGMS Open House was well attended on September 9th! We experimented with a new format that featured a gallery walk with stations in the MS Gym.
7th Grade Robotics
7th Grade Robotics
Check out our EGMS Students closing their first circuit using microcontrollers, breadboards and LEDs with Mr. Friedberg.
1st Q Morning Announcement Team
1st Q Morning Announcement Team
Ashton Egan and Sreekirthana Kolla welcome our EGMS students and staff every morning with the Pledge of Allegiance and the daily announcements. They're off to a great start!
8th Grade Rock Garden
8th Grade Rock Garden
Our 8th grade students each painted a rock to represent their place at East Granby Middle School. Then they created a rock garden to show how each of us is a part of the bigger community and how we can all come together to make our community a better place.
7th Grade Lab
7th Grade Lab
We have a 3-D printer in our EGMS Library now. Check out one of our students instructing others on sending files to print on it during lab.
First Day of School
First Day of School
Welcome back EGMS!!! The first day of school had a beautiful start with a late Summer sunrise over the soccer fields! A great sign of things to come for 2021-2022!
8th Grade Science
8th Grade Science
In Dr. Faulkner's class, students completed an inquiry-based activity involving the actions of fortune teller fish!
7th Grade Robotics
7th Grade Robotics
Two of our 7th graders are exploring an SR-05 ultrasonic distance sensor, an SG90 positional micro-servo and an Arduino single board computer. These will be the components in the class' first DIY robotics project.
Restoring Atlantic Salmon to the Farmington River Watershed
Great news was received this August! The DEEP photographed Atlantic salmon smolts swimming downstream in the Tariffville Rainbow Dam fish ladder on their way to the Atlantic Ocean. Students have been raising salmon from eggs for the past six years in Dr. Faulkner's 8th grade science class, and, even with COVID limitations, releasing them into Salmon Brook every spring. The baby salmon spend 1-2 years in Salmon Brook, growing larger and stronger and hopefully morphing into smolts when they are ready for their downstream migration. By that time they are 8-14" long, silver, and good predators. Seeing the smolts migrating is evidence that our restoration program is working in our watershed! While EGMS is not the only school stocking Salmon Brook, it means that some of our baby salmon are likely making it out to the ocean. We hope they'll come back in 3 years as full grown salmon.
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