March 16th Note

• March 16th Note
  Thank you to the students who helped serve during church’s soup supper on Wednesday.
  
  
  Calendar Notes
• Friday, March 20th is a noon dismissal due to collaboration. It also marks the end of the 3rd Quarter. Report Cards will be sent home the following week.
• If your child is interested in the Pine Car Derby, please have registration forms ready by March 27th.
• Career Day is Friday, April 24th.
  
  
  
  Classroom Notes
• The spelling list is Unit 25 for this week. The hymn for Friday is 105 st. 1-2, 4-5.
• A note concerning Career Day went home last week Monday. Please be working with your child to find someone that they could spend the day with on that Friday. Students will work with Mrs. Schneider on preparing a paper and report of their experiences. Forms should be returned by Monday, April 6th. Thank you for helping make this a valuable experience for your child.
• Students will begin to look at different options for Class Verse, Flower, and Colors on Friday of this week. Class Valedictorian and Class Speaker(s) will be chosen after the 3rd Quarter ends. We will also go over the options for Class Song.
• Last week a note went home concerning grades 1-8 trip to see Disney’s new movie, “Earth” on April 23rd. Please return the note, along with the fee for the movie by March 20th. Thank you.
• Thank you for returning the CLHS forms on time. A note detailing lodging will be sent home by the end of the week.
• Music class is learning about music in the Middle Ages. Next week we leave the Middle Ages and move on to looking at musical life in the Renaissance.
• This week in Pre Algebra, students will study “transformations” on the coordinate plane. On Thursday we will look at M.C. Escher’s different uses of these transformations. Students will then create their own tessellations.
• Students in Economics will begin participating in the “Stock Market Game” today. In this activity, students are given $100,000 in virtual cash and are able to invest it in stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. Students will compete with other 7th and 8th graders across the country in trying to accrue as much capital as they can over the next two months. The creators of this simulation activity have tried to make it as true to the real life experience as possible. I am hoping that this will be a fun and beneficial activity.
  
  
  God’s blessings on your week,
  Mr. Fillner