The Monarch

In Mrs. Groves’s class...

Mrs. Groves will be in Honduras next week on a mission trip with Hearts in Education Teacher Outreach (HETO). All the middles school students have written letters to the students she will be teaching in Honduras. They also included a picture of themselves.Hopefully the Honduran students will continue to correspond with us after her trip.

While she is away, Mrs. Branham will be covering her classes. The students will be working on an economic unit involving reading paychecks and credit card bills, finding interest and finance charges, writing checks and balancing a checkbook.

In Mr. Carlstedt’s class...

• All students are continuing with Bloom’s Taxonomy and their notes.
• The sixth grade is in ancient Rome and Greece with assessment next week.
• The seventh grade is discovering the rich history of the Far East.
• The eighth grade will be delving further into the causes of the Civil War.

A Service Opportunity for 8th graders!

(Below is a note from an employee at Parkview Cooperative Preschool)

Do any of your students need to earn service hours? Would they be interested in volunteering at a fundraiser for Parkview Cooperative Preschool?

We are a parent-run preschool at 4550 Central Avenue and each spring we host the "Bunny Hop" as our annual fundraiser. Bunny Hop consists of a silent auction for parents and games for young children. In the past, 8th graders from St. Thomas volunteered at the event, but this year we are looking beyond St. Thomas. Most of our 8th grade volunteers are Parkview alums. There may be some at your school too?

It is a really fun event and a great volunteer opportunity for anyone interested in working with children. Volunteers run the games under my supervision and we provide lunch to students who work the entire event (Saturday March 8, 10 am -2 pm).

Please let me know if you have any questions or if your students would be interested.

Thank you,

Marianne Scott Lusk
926-9025

In Mrs. Bryant’s class...

Ask sixth grade students what tasty “bacteria” treat they enjoyed this week, as they learned that not all bacteria are bad, in fact only about 1% of all bacteria are classified as pathogenic, or disease causing. The students’ test over bacteria, protists and fungi, in chapter 12 of their textbook, will be Friday.
Seventh and eighth grade students continue to explore how the concentration or dose of a chemical is what often determines its toxicity. They are currently germinating radish seeds using different concentrations of unknown liquids.
Please feel free to call me (home 841-3952) or e-mail me with questions about progress report scores.
Thank you for sending to school, and please continue to send to school, empty peanut butter jars or any other plastic jars with screw top lids.

In Mr. Heneghan’s class...

See my eclassroom for all the cool writing our students are doing. We are currently working on writing across the curriculum. For example, we have working on using all the great planning techniques we’ve learned in my classes and utilizing them in science and social studies writing too.
8th graders will be going on a fieldtrip-shadowing adventure at our high school, Bishop Chatard, next Tuesday. Lunch and transportation will be provided.
Good luck to the 6th and 7th graders who will be attending the Peace Learning Center at Eagle Creek Park tomorrow.