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Saints Out Serving Feed My Starving Children Field Trip - SOS - February 17 - 2:30-
4:30 - Families were sent a link to sign up online. Students can
also sign up online at www.fmsc.org using the code "844341" or
you can turn in your registration form to Miss Schmidt. Students
will be excused at 2:00PM for this event. Parents who are
interested in volunteering/driving, please contact Lexi
Organizational skills group Our organizational skills group for middle schoolers will begin meeting for third
quarter on Mondays during eighth period. To sign up for this group, please fill out a
consent form at the front office or return the form that was emailed to you by your
child's teacher. For more information about this group, please contact Lexi Schmidt
Middle School Winter Retreat Update - Packets will go home of Monday regarding updates on the Winter Retreat including
payment info, chaperone list, and trip details.
St. Peter Skate Night:
Save the date . . March 13th from 5:00-7:00 PM for an all school skate
night at Orbit Skating! PTL is sponsoring this fun roller skating party for
all our students and their families.
February Menu
This section is for 8th grade families and will
have information about transition to high
school!
Please note the transition sessions being offered for your child:
Apparently an 8th grade parent February PSAT 8 exam mailing went out last Friday
from feeder schools. Below is a copy and here is what they shared with me:
PSAT 8 exam:
February 20 and February 27, 8am-12pm: Testing will be at all 6 high schools on
February 20. On the Makeup date on February 27, testing will only take place at 5 of our
high schools. Rolling Meadows HS students should attend Elk Grove HS for the makeup
test date.
Parents who have not yet completed the District 214 online enrollment process for their
child must go to the high school to complete a paper enrollment form prior to testing.
Important information about IEP/504 Program student testing:
Students who normally take the DLM assessment will not need to test. On the Saturday
test date, we will only be able to test students with Extended Time, Small Group, Test
Read, or Directions Read accommodations. We do not have old versions of the PSAT to
send to the sender schools, so we will not be able to test students at their junior
high/middle school as we have in the past. These were students who required
accommodations such as 1on1 testing or who wouldn’t be comfortable testing in the
Saturday testing environment. The high school Special Education staff should be working
with the parents, but we wanted to make sure you have the same message.
Here is some information about the PSAT tests that may be helpful to read: http://blog.prepscholar.com/psat-8-9-should-you-take-it Below is a site where you might find some practice tests for students.
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat
Best
Dressed:
Philip George
Abigail Varvara
Praise
Blazers:
Megan Morris
Mark Graham
Up next week...
* Captain
Team 3
Allison Drake *
Carson Milligan
Josh Brown
Luke Ramirez
Ryan Brown
By Monday 2/22, students
should have read about Habit
5: Seek first to understand, then
to be understood. This is a
short section, so please
encourage your child to read
it. We will be discussing
genuine listening and how this
practice helps to grow your
RBA.
Grade Checks:
https://www.plusportals.com/StPeterLutheran
Please be checking student progress on the
Portal. Access to the site is above!
Progress Reports will be sent home on
Friday, 2/19 so be on the lookout for that
information.
Mrs. Keller [email protected]
8th grade tech class: We are finishing and presenting our
PowerPoints.
7th grade tech class: Initial research on their countries should be
completed, and work will be beginning on the 7th grade PowerPoint
project.
6th grade tech class: We are well underway on our Word Processing
project, “A Unique Alphabet Book”
Mrs. Gilles
Art Students, We are starting our acrylic painting unit for the
next few weeks! Come prepared to class to enjoy the painting
process, and take care of our art brushes and supplies! The last
day for the art value homework assignment to get full credit is
Monday. Leave your sketchbook outside the art room if the
room is locked!! Great work on your Notan Japanese art pieces.
All of them will be up next week!
Mrs. Wieting and Mr. Gorecki
Middle School Choir
The Palatine Children’s Chorus Festival is in two
weeks! We are starting to get very excited about this
event. It will be wonderful to sing with choirs from all
over the area. Until then, we are practicing away at
our pieces!
Middle School Music Ed
We continued our GarageBand unit this week. The
students are working on both the A and the B
sections of their rondo. They have wonderful ideas,
and I cannot wait to see how their songs turn out!
www.onlinespanishclassroom.weebly.com
¡Hola!
Spanish 1: We are learning how to describe ourselves and other
people using the verb 'ser'.Today we worked on brainstorming and
beginning to film our music videos. Here is the link to the
original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwWzMvPyVXA
Spanish 2: Your homework is to take a picture of a dinner,
breakfast, or lunch table and write a list of the items in Spanish
from our new vocabulary. Also, remember to bring in either a
picture of your family or a picture of a celebrity/cartoon family to
use in class next week.
Spanish 3: We did meet this week and continued to work on our
conversational Spanish.
Incase you need any resources, here is a link to our classroom
website!www.onlinespanishclassroom.weebly.org
Mia Llerandi ¡Gracias!
Athletics
St. Peter Weekly Athletic Schedule
Upcoming St. Peter Athletic Schedule
Tuesday, February 16th
Home Basketball vs. St. Paul, Mount Prospect
5th Girls – 4:00 / 6th Boys – 5:00 / 5
th Boys – 6:00
Friday – Saturday, February 19th
– 20th
– 5th
Basketball
Teams @ Wildcat Round-Up
Good luck to our Varsity teams competing at the Grace
Classic in Wisconsin this weekend!
LSA State Basketball Tournament Volunteering – The
2016 LSA Basketball tournament will be held March 4-6 this
year. We have yet to find out if our Varsity teams have
qualified, but either way our school will be used as a host site
for tournament games all weekend. Like the Saints Shootout,
we will need a strong volunteer effort from our basketball
families and 8th grade families working in Concessions looking
to raise money for their D.C. trip. We are asking all basketball
families to again sign up for one shift. Lisa Smith will head up
the Concessions organization. Stay tuned for sign-ups in the
near future. We need more volunteers. Even if your child
is not a part of the basketball program, we would love your
help and you get free admission to the tournament all
weekend for your efforts. Please e-mail Mr. Bickel
([email protected]) if you would like to help!
Mr Bickel and Miss Kloess
For your reference, all of our Health assignments for the 3rd
quarter will be listed at the bottom of the PE/Health Homework
Google Doc. We are on to Badminton in PE class. We know
this activity will challenge students both physically (lots of hand-
eye coordination) and mentally (lots of strategy).
Miss Mielke
[email protected] English – Grade Six
Text – We are beyond the book! We are learning all there is to
know about verb tenses, including three of them that are not even
covered in the text. Since we use them in our speaking and
writing, however, we are including them in our discussion and in
our work.
Vocabulary – Unit A12 will capture our attention for the next two
weeks.
Composition – Wanted14: Pictures of the handsome and the
beautiful to complete our memoirs.
The goal is in sight. The final drafts of our research papers are
due Wednesday, February 24. Within the next few days we will
look at our second drafts, address last minute details, and prepare
to breathe a gigantic sigh of relief when we finally submit our
completed projects. English – Grade Seven
Text – We are making fast work of pronouns. Very soon we will
be looking at those fantastic modifiers, adjectives and adverbs.
Vocabulary – Unit B12 will have our complete attention for next
week and the week following.
Composition – Considering both a trip through our holiday
memories and an objects in search of stories narrative, we are
bringing two works to closure. English – Grade Eight Text – Once we complete those indefinite pronouns and test our mega-pronoun knowledge, we will turn our attention to adjectives and adverbs.
Vocabulary – We will be emphasizing the vocabulary words from CRU10-12 next week and the following week. Composition – Now that the first drafts of our research papers have been returned, we are focusing our attention on the next step in the process, producing our second drafts. Between the research paper and composing various items for our personal brochures, we have blazing pencils at our fingertips.
Mrs. Picchiotti [email protected]
6th Grade Literature: Poetry
In our last week of this poetry unit, students will work on compiling their poems into
a poetry book, and they will write one final poem on Thursday and Friday (a sensory
image poem). The final booklet will be due Monday, February 22. Some of these
poems will be entered into upcoming poetry contests. Everything will need to be
typed, and so everyone will need to work on this at home or in the IRC. If there are
printing problems at home, work can be put on flash drives or emailed to me at
7th Grade Literature: The Magician’s Nephew
We are using a Literature Circle format to go through this novel. Students have
been given discussions groups and specific tasks to complete and bring to their
discussions each week. Everyone has a schedule with all of the assignments and
due dates for Magician’s Nephew. You can find a copy of this schedule on my
Google homework document (scroll down to the bottom of the page on the Google
doc). Students also have a list of descriptions for each job. Jobs need to be done
according to the requirements listed. Assessments for this unit include reading
quizzes for each chapter, written work (completion of jobs), and also productivity
and quality of group time. Everyone is graded on their own individual work. Since
we are on a diligent reading schedule, we will not do AOW for the next few weeks,
and there is no AR book due.
8th Grade Literature: Romeo and Juliet
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we read through the famous balcony scene in
Romeo and Juliet, with some very talented Middle School readers! We will finish Act
2 this week. After each Act there will be a quiz and a writing assignment. Check
the Google homework document for specific due dates.
Miss Schmidt: [email protected]
6th Grade Religion We had an awesome week of diving into the story of Esther. Students were
able to watch a movie about Esther's life and recount details that might be
missing or changed. We continue our kings, queens, and judges unit next
week. Memory for next week - #129 and #130. Newsweek project due on
Tuesday, February 16 (6P) and Wednesday, February 17 (6H).
Mr. Piel [email protected] 7
th Grade Religion
We continue to study the Exodus of the Israelites and the account of their wandering in the wilderness and movement into the Promised Land. We are looking at the various stories of Israel’s disobedience and then call back to repentance throughout this journey. Memory work for next week will be Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. Urlaub: [email protected] 8th Grade Religion In Religion we are finishing the Apostle’s Creed. Students are working on their review sheets, which are due on 2/17 for the test on 2/23.
Mr. Heick [email protected]
Here is the scoop for the
upcoming week:
6th grade – period 1 -We
will be starting chapter 11
next week. In chapter 11 we
will be studying probability.
Students will be learning
about simple and compound
events, tree diagrams,
counting principle, and
expected number of
outcomes.
6th grade – period
2 We will continue working
in chapter 10 next week. We
will be starting a unit on
geometry. The class will be
studying angles, circle graphs,
angle relationships, and area
of complex figures.
7th grade - We will
continue working in chapter 8
next week. In chapter 8 we
will be studying probability
and statistics. We will be
studying outcomes,
permutations, combinations
and compound events.
8th grade - We will be
looking at the PSAT next
week. The students will be
taking and studying practice
tests and we will be going
over them during the week.
I hope everyone has a great
week,
Steven Heick
Mrs. Smith [email protected]
7th Grade
All hands and arms inside
the ride at all
times! Students have their
roller coaster project and
can begin work on
these. Graph paper is a
must, as are
calculators. Next week, Mr.
Bickel will be teaching for
me. Students will have
some time to work on their
projects in class, but they
should begin design and
calculations. Chapter 6 is
the next focus, working to
solve inequalities.
8th Grade
We will be doing some
PSAT math prep during
class as we lead up to the
testing window for
D214! Hoping to help ease
this anxiety for them and
for you! Those students
who are not impacted by
this will still reap the
benefits of learning some
test taking skills and
problem solving
practice. PSAT is a step to
SAT which will come, for
one and all!
ACCESS MRS. SMITH'S
HOMEWORK
PAGE HERE!
BIG Projects
were a
BIG success!
Check this out!
Mrs. Urlaub [email protected]
In 6th grade we are learning about the golden age of China as well as the
Mongols. Then we move on to Medieval Japan where we will be doing
some Japanese calligraphy.
In 7th grade we will be starting our unit on Russia. We will be learning
about Communism as well as how Russia has changed throughout
history.
In 8th grade we are nearing the end of our Civil War unit. We are learning
about the turning point of the war, as well as doing some battle “What
would you do?” simulations for Gettysburg.
Mr. Piel [email protected]
Science in the News…
Did you know… that when it was first discovered in Uganda in 1947,
the Zika virus was known mostly as a short-lived and mild illness? In
2015, that all changed when an outbreak in Brazil apparently has been the
cause of a serious birth defect, microcephaly, and a potentially crippling
disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome. Zika is primarily a mosquito-borne
illness. This outbreak could have a major impact on nations’ participation
in the upcoming summer Olympic games.
6th Grade
We have finished learning about the causes for Earth’s seasons and the phases of
the moon. We will be concluding our unit on the Earth and its moon next week with a
study of the solar and lunar eclipses. We will probably be testing over this unit the
early part of the following week.
7th Grade
We have been working with Punnett squares as we have learned how
probability plays a part in genetics and heredity. We have also learned
about the second type of cell division—meiosis--and how it is involved in
heredity. We will be finishing this unit with a more in-depth study of the
DNA molecule.
8th Grade
We have been doing a lot of work on writing chemical formulas and have
learned about the different types of bonds involved in forming chemical
compounds. We will be finishing this unit the early part of next week after
we study the last of the chemical bonds. We have also begun our second
round of D-Day projects. These are demonstrations of basic scientific
principles which students perform in class on Fridays.
A reminder: You can monitor the energy output of our solar panels
through an online connection at the following website:
enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/pv/public_systems/2McX428596/grid/days
Middle School Madness
Homework Link (click link above)
