Today's Monarch

Mrs. Collier-Mason helps out these 8th graders at last week's Finance Park.

From Mrs. Bryant...

As the school year ends, I want you to know how much I have enjoyed your children. Please remind them to do the extra credit in science for up to twenty points.

Sixth grade students will have a test tomorrow over invertebrates. Students should study their foldables, notes given in class, and textbook. They may also go online and take practice quizzes and tests at the textbook’s website.

Seventh grade students have been teaching their classmates about energy sources for electricity such as solar, nuclear, wind, coal, oil, gas, and hydroelectric power. Students should be able to tell you what energy source Hoosiers use for most of our electricity.

Eighth grade students will have a test tomorrow over The Nonliving Environment, Chapter 19, in their textbook. Again, students may go online and take practice quizzes and tests at the textbook’s website found on the Eighth Grade Quia homepage. Next week we will review the factor label method of calculation, a valuable tool for high school.



From Mrs. Groves...
Last Thursday the seventh and eighth grade students went to Junior Achievement’s Finance Park as the culminating activity for a three week unit in math, social studies and language arts. They represented St. Joan of Arc well by working diligently on their budget packets all day. They learned some very interesting things about how expensive it is to run a household, and how important it is to get a good education so they might be able to afford some of the nicer things in life. Ask to see their packets and budgets, and discuss with them some of the lessons they learned at Finance Park.

In Sports Connections, all the middle school students thanked our mentors for helping us throughout the year by presenting them with gifts last Monday. Mr. Kahl, Ms. Adams and Mr. McClelland were given an SJA hat, a binder filled with thank you notes, and a picture of all the middle school students gathered around our INTEL award sign. Each mentor hopes to return next fall for another year of Sports Connections.

From Mrs. Hasbrook...
The Spanish students had a really good first year! 5th, 6th, and 7th graders were able to make it through important introductory material, a preview chapter and then 3 additional chapters in our book. The 8th graders were able to make it through all of the above and chapter 4 in the text. Some of our highlights this year included singing De Colores, memorizing and perfoming dialogues, having a Spanish fiesta around Christmas, playing Spanish Bingo, playing Jeopardy to review for chapter tests, memorizing the Our Father in Spanish, and the 8th graders making the tres leches cake for the Cultural Arts Celebration. Overall, it was a great year!

From Mr. Carlstedt...
The students are playing Risk to enhance their Social Studies knowledge. It is a wonderful blend of strategery and global domination with a dash of Math for grins and giggles.

From Mr. Heneghan...

I have enjoyed teaching your children this year, and the years preceding. I am excited for the kids to move on to new adventures and learning in high school, as well as the direction Mrs. Jeatran will take these students towards for writing and reading. Good luck to you all, and continue to grow our St. Joan of Arc community.

All grades have a test over “The 11th Hour” and “An Inconvenient Truth” tomorrow.