- Student Volunteer Opportunity: Foxfire Film Festival
The inaugural Foxfire Film Festival will take place in Wheeling from September 11–14, 2025, and organizers are inviting high school students to sign up as volunteers. This is a unique chance for students to gain hands-on experience at a major cultural event, connect with filmmakers and industry professionals, and contribute to the community. - Volunteer roles may include guest check-in, ushering, assisting with panels and workshops, and general event support. All volunteers will be given Foxfire Volunteer t-shirts to wear during their shifts. Students can sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054BA9AC2DA3F5CF8-58200003-foxfire
- Middle School Parent Night – Thursday, 9/11, 5pm-6pm.
We’ve officially reached the point in the year where the schedule seems to be moving smoothly and school is in full swing. It’s been a joy getting to work with the kids again, and as always, there’s a general buzz with how much the kids can get into around the Wheeling Park Campus. Volleyball has taken the school by storm, and it’s really cool that they are getting to supplement that with our volleyball club. Please see details about Aimsweb and Parent Night next week.
English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Aimsweb will be on Tuesday, September 9th next week.
- We started our reading of The Giver by Lois Lowry.
- Students received their first week of vocabulary.
- They put their Guided Reading Bookmarks to use and also answered some discussion questions for homework.
Math w/ Mrs. Bishop –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Aimsweb will be on Thursday, September 11th next week.
- This week we continued our work with adding and subtracting integers.
- This is an important topic to spend as much time on to improve understanding as this will be used a ton in algebra.
- The students took a test on adding and subtracting integers. With tests, I grade the test and then give the test back for them to make corrections for half of the credit back.
- We started multiplying integers and will continue with that into next week. Next week, we will also begin learning the rules for dividing integers.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Quiz – Wednesday, September 10. Chapter 1, Sections 1-5
- Aimsweb will be on Thursday, September 11th next week.
- After some confusion about absolute value, the students reviewed it and did more practice to understand the concept.
- We worked on simplifying fractions and finding equivalent fractions.
- The students also worked with finding common denominators and which helped them compare and order rational numbers (decimals and fractions).
- Next Monday, we will review for the quiz on Wednesday.
Deep Dive w/ Mrs. McFadden & Mrs. Wallace –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none scheduled
- We zoomed with a former student of Mrs. Wallace who grew up in Costa Rica.
- We continued to learn more about the countries of Central America.
Science w/ Mrs. McKay –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – none
- Students conducted a penny lab, graphed, and analyzed data, and organized notebook.
Music w/Mrs. Chelsey –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes –
- This week we started exploring humming harmonies and learned a short body percussion routine that we will try in a round next week. We also decorated our music journal folders and went outside to begin the journal entry “how does the world and sounds around us create its own music?”. We will continue working on this entry next week as well.
Cooking w/ Mrs. McFadden – We made fried zucchini, zucchini brownies, Costa Rican potatoes, and Gallo Pinto, or beans and rice.
