Week of 3/10 - 3/14
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Dear HKMS Families,
Today marks the first day of the third trimester! We have 120 days under our belt with 60 to go. This is a great time of year to sit with your child and assess their progress and how it matches their expectations for the year. T3 will be the most challenging of the year and of their academic career so far. Expect teachers to ramp up the expectations and work load as the trimester unfolds. Making sure your child has the scholarly fundamentals in order to rise to this challenge is extremely helpful. Over 25 years of working with middle-schoolers, those fundamentals for academic success have remained the same: organization, proactive engagement, and goal setting, specifically:
Implement a consistent assignment tracking system: Choose a method (digital or physical) that works for you and use it daily to stay on top of deadlines.
Utilize teacher extra help sessions: Attend regularly with specific questions to reinforce learning and address challenges.
Monitor academic progress via PowerSchool, but in a balanced way: Check weekly to review assignments and grades, avoiding excessive daily checks.
Maintain a structured and organized learning environment: Regularly clean and organize physical materials (binders, notebooks, backpack, locker) and digital resources (Google Classroom/Drive).
Establish clear and specific academic goals: Set achievable goals for each class, outlining the actions needed to reach them.
Over the next week, teachers will be finalizing T2 grades. Please have your child reach out to their teacher(s) if they have some late assignments coming in. It is much easier to make adjustments before grades are finalized. Even if it does not improve the grade, submitting missing work shows effort, care, and interest in their own learning.
This last week of the trimester featured many culminating projects, joyful Mikey's Madness events, and all the great teaching and learning you've come to expect of us! I hope you can take a few minutes to check it all out in this week's newsletter!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend,
Steve Clapp, Ed.D.
Check out the Mikey's Madness Intro Video by clicking on the image below:
CRAZY HAIR DAY!
MIKEY'S MADNESS FOR NEXT WEEK
Monday, March 17th
SUPER Green Spirit Day for a Cause
$1
Kindness Grams Delivered during MMM
6th Grade Scooter Hockey
After School 3-4 in the gym
($5 entry fee)
Sign up and waiver required (15 players Max)
Tuesday, March 18th
7th grade preliminary Volleyball game before school 7:15
Mikey's 4 Way Volleyball Tournament Waiver Form
Slime Making
All Lunch Waves
(selling slime at the Pet Show and/or Fashion Show; option to purchase your own slime for $3)
Wednesday, March 19th
Painting Kindness Rocks For Smilow’s Garden
All Lunch Waves
After School 3-4
Participation Fee: $5
Fee to Spectate: $3
3 v 3 Basketball Tournament Semis - Finals
Thursday, March 20th
8th grade preliminary Volleyball game before school 7:15
Mikey's 4 Way Volleyball Tournament Waiver Form
Student Council After School Social
PERMISSION SLIPS DUE BY MARCH 19th
Friday, March 21st
EARLY RELEASE DAY
Volleyball Final Game
Bball Final Game vs Staff
Art Contest Due Date
Academic Decathlon
4pm Outer Loop
Bring your pet $10
Spectate the show $5
SIGN UP Form to donate baked goods
BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
A new event has been added to our Mikey's Madness Calendar!!!!
Consider being in the HKMS talent show!
Students can sign up using this
sign-up form!
Grade Six
These young scientists are creating interactive notes which detail the features of the layers of the Earth.
"Box and Bullet" is a note taking strategy that Mr. Bernardi's students are mastering in their study of the Roman Civilization.
Grade Seven
Ms. Feraca's mathematicians are finding the percent of change of various items and their prices from the 1970s to 2010.
Student-led lessons on how the chinese culture of the past affects the present.
This Topic: The chinese zodiac--It is the year of the snake
Our emerging French speakers are planning a shopping trip to the market! Ms. Solis broke down some of the differences between a French market and an American grocery store, then students wrote their shopping lists in French!
In language arts classes, the social issues book clubs are "stopping and jotting" their evidence of characterization (the emotional attributes) of their book's protagonist and other main characters.
Grade Eight
Gizmos is our on line science experiment platform. Our elder scientists experimented with magnetic induction by adding an electrical current to a compass needle and measured the impact on the magnetic field created!
Our Spanish students are learning about reflexive verbs which are those where the subject of the sentence performs an action upon themselves. Think of sentences like "I wash myself" or "She dresses herself." In Spanish, these verbs have an extra pronoun.
FPA
6th and 7th grade art students wrote letters to their future selves so they can read them next year in art the remember all of their growth.
PLTW students dropped their eggs this week and so many earned all 5 points for their design and results!
Monday Morning Meeting
Enjoy this week's official HKMS newscast, The Den! (Just click on the image below).
During MMM this week, students wrote letters to pediatric cancer patients at Smilow Hospital. These letters will be included in the delivered made for the Mikey's Way day we are hoping to fund!
Extra-Curricular Pic of the Week!
The math club doing some hands-on engineering by building a rollercoaster to study parabolic curves!
Easton SEPTA
Upcoming Events and Important Dates
Saturday, March 15 – Adaptive Family Jiu Jitsu at 2 pm!
Tuesday, March 18 – Parents Hip Hop Night Out Fundraiser at 7:30 pm
Monday, March 24 – Budget Public Hearing 7 pm at SSES
Tuesday, April 1st at 8 pm Full SEPTA Meeting (Zoom)
Monday, April 28 – Town Vote on Budget 7 pm at SSES
Tuesday, June 3rd at 8 pm Full SEPTA Meeting (Zoom)
SEPTA March 2025 Newsletter
(click the image below for the full newsletter)
Grade 8 Important Dates:
Joel Barlow High School is hosting a dance for the 8th graders of HKMS and JRMS on March 28th. Permission slip linked below!
Every 8th grade student will be presenting their Person Interest Projects to a panel of distinguished guests. Please consider attending your child's presentation. Closer to the dates, you will receive info about the specific date and time of your child's presentation. This simply serves as a "save the date".
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