Middle School Important Dates
- February 16th – Bring a Friend Day (More details to follow)
- February 20th – Trimester 2 Ends
- February 25th – 6th and 7th grade field trip to The Cathedral of Learning @ Pitt
- March 2 – 6 – No School, Spring Break
- Monday, March 9 – Classes Resume
- March 11 @ 5:30 MS “Youth Show of Hands” Exhibition – River City/Heritage Center
English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none.
- Students continued their reading and discussion of Howl’s Moving Castle. We are nearing the end of the book now, the future book will be decided soon, as well as the final project.
- With it being a shorter week, we focused heavily on the reading and discussion aspects of class because our reading schedule is a bit behind with the closings and shorter weeks.
Math w/ Mrs. Bishop –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Test on Thursday
- We are continuing to work on all things decimals for Chapter 4. This week we learned about negative exponents and how that makes numbers small. They were applying previously learned rules for multiplying and dividing exponents to negative exponents as well.
- Next week we’ll begin our work with scientific notation.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- None Scheduled
- The students continued working with solving and graphing inequalities. They are solving one and two-step inequalities, while applying the rule about flipping the inequality. We ended the week with a review on these skills using a Kahoot.
- We continued our work with Conrad Borchers from CMU. Conrad is monitoring how they learn math, using software that he and his doctorate students are developing. The are very appreciative of the help they’re receiving from our students.
Deep Dive w/ Mr. K, Mrs. McFadden, Mrs. Ochap, Mr. Jividen –
- We are excited to share an update from our Youth Show of Hands experience! After an impressive round of student pitches, four finalist teams have been selected and will move on to the final stage. A link to all of the pitches presented is included so our community can see the creativity, innovation, and hard work that went into each idea.
Teams that did not advance to the finals are still playing an important role in the event. These students have been reorganized into new groups and are taking full ownership of the evening—leading key elements such as food and entertainment, social media promotion, and logo design and branding for the event.
We invite everyone to join us for the Youth Show of Hands Exhibition on Wednesday, March 11, at 5:30 PM at River City, where the finalist teams will showcase their ideas and the entire student effort will be on display.
We hope to see you there as we celebrate student voice, leadership, and creativity!
“Youth Show of Hands” Pitch to Judges
Science w/ Mrs. McKay –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes –
- On Thursday, we attempted to make “elephant toothpaste” to show how a catalyst speeds up a chemical reaction. We reviewed physical and chemical changes and students were assessed on their knowledge.
Art w/ Mr. K –
- We are wrapping up our Styrofoam sculpture projects, and I am incredibly impressed with the creativity, craftsmanship, and designs students have shown in their work.
SEL w/ Mrs. McFadden –
- This week, students participated in an SEL lesson focused on kindness, where they explored how small actions can make a big impact. Through discussion and reflection, students learned how showing empathy, respect, and appreciation can strengthen relationships and create a more positive school community. For our Kindness lesson, the students put together baskets and made appreciation cards for three groups of people they come in contact with daily here at school.
6th – WP Cleaning Crew
7th – Cafe 1925 Workers
8th – Main Office Crew at WP
Elective –
- Robotics – The students continue to build their freeze tag robot. We ran some mini-competitions on Friday. We’ll continue adding on building skills to these freeze tag bots and will add a new challenge before we leave for spring break.
