Welcome from GMHS!

I wanted to sign on with a brief hello and welcome. As the new Assistant Principal, I will be continuing Mr. Bruno's blogs, so stay tuned.

I look forward to getting to know all of you this fall.

Warm Wishes,
Mrs. Turner
Assistant Principal

Updates and Homework for 6/23:

All Students:
Anyone interested in a DVD copy of the 8th Grade Memories for the Class of 2013, please contact Nancy Nowak at nancysnowak@comcast.net. A $10 donation will go to the Class of 2013 fund.

Have a wonderful summer - It was an honor to work with all of you and best of luck in the future!
-Mr. Bruno

Updates and Homework for 6/18 AND 6/19:

All Students:
BRING IN YOUR RENTED TEXTBOOKS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!!!

Grade 8:
NO HOMEWORK!

Grade 7:
Mrs. Hickey- All Classes:
All students took the last quiz on mitosis, heredity and genetics today. I will return it Monday. Students also got back the last lab report of the year- “Taking a Class Survey”. This lab report counted 2 times toward their lab average. The students are expected to have it signed and returned Monday, as usual. That’s all!

DIFRUSCIO: I am collecting textbooks tomorrow for E&F blocks and Monday for A&B blocks. Also please return the CED roms you signed out if you have one at home.
Thank you!

Mrs. Husak
No homework
Please bring in your math books to be collected. Thank you.

Mrs. Weldon
Grade 7 Language Arts

No Homework!

Summer Reading: My Brother, My Sister, and I, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Grade 6:
Science Homework
Due: Monday—Name That Star! Students have already chosen a star from our giant hall poster that has a picture of the summer constellations. Students will be creating a rough draft that will be transferred to a more authentic certificate. On this certificate students will need to follow questions 1-9. Each question is worth 10 points. The final 10 points will be for overall neatness.

Updates and Homework for 6/18:

All Students:
Make sure to return your book rentals if you rented textbooks!!!!


Grade 8:
Graduation is just around the corner: Monday @ 3:30!

Mongeau:
No homework for the rest of the year!

Mrs. Girard: 8th grade-nada!

Grade 7:
Mrs. Weldon
All Classes: Poetry Books are due tomorrow—Class time will be given to complete the books

Mrs. Girard: 7th grade- brochures are due tomorrow!

Grade 6:
Ms. Harrington: Science Homework
Due: Monday—Name That Star! Students have already chosen a star from our giant hall poster that has a picture of the summer constellations. Students will be creating a rough draft that will be transferred to a more authentic certificate. On this certificate students will need to follow questions 1-9. Each question is worth 10 points. The final 10 points will be for overall neatness.

White: None

Updates and Homework for 6/17:

All Students:
A reminder for all students and families that rented textbooks this year: Your books must be returned no later than this Friday, June 19th! Please turn in your rented books to Mr. Bruno or Ms. Francis. Thank you.

From the Health Office:
Parents,
Please pick up your children’s medicines before the last day of school. Have a happy, healthy summer!!
Mary Beth Doherty/ School Nurse

REMINDER: LAST DAY TO ORDER A MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARBOOK WILL BE FRIDAY!

Grade 8:
Math Gr 8 Mrs. Reed: REMINDER: tomorrow and Friday are you Math Final days. Bring your textbook to turn in. Bring a pencil! No pencil – points off your final.

Mrs. Girard: 8th grade-vocab quiz 11.2 tomorrow CANCELLED!!! NO HOMEWORK!

Grade 7:
Mrs. Husak: A – page 379 # 1-3, 8-9, 11-13 – Quiz tomorrow on surface area and volume of prisms and cylinders; B – page 600 # 2-16 even and # 17 – quiz tomorrow on sections 11.1-11.3; E – see B however quiz will be on Friday due to short block tomorrow; F- quiz tomorrow on probability sections 9.1, 9.3, 9.4. I will begin to collect books on Friday so please bring in your books.

Mrs. Girard: 7th grade-brochures due tomorrow!

Grade 6:
Math Enrichment Gr 6 Mrs. Reed: Bring in anything you might need to finish your stock portfolio cover.

Mrs. Lamoly: Enjoy the afternoon- no homework!

Mrs. Carminito: A Block: study for test and binder check Friday; D & E Block: study for test and binder check Friday; quiz redo’s; F & G Block: 10-4 worksheet; study for quiz Friday.

Mrs. Fulton’s 6th grade: Any student who has not completed “My Nutritional Guide to Good Health,” should complete the package at home and turn in as soon as possible. We have devoted much class time to this project, and it will have a significant impact on grades for 4th quarter.

Tuesday, June 16th

Sports:
ALL JV BASEBALL PLAYERS: There will be an end of the year meeting this Wednesday, June 17th, at 2:30 in the Health Room. Please bring your clean uniform with you, if you haven’t returned it in already. See Coach Daron if you can’t make it to the meeting.

Anyone interested in running cross country next fall should attend a brief meeting with Mr. Masys in the Health room after school on Tuesday, June 16.



MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARBOOKS ARE BACK ON SALE.
we have a limited number of extras for those students who did not pre order and will take orders on a first come first serve basis. The last orders will be taken Friday.
Yearbooks are distributed in the middle school on Monday June 22.
Students need to bring in a check (in an envelope with the child’s name and homeroom teacher on it) for $24 to Georgetown Middle School. These should be brought their homeroom teachers.





Grade 8:

Important Note for Graduation Dismissal:
We are not encouraging dismissals for the completion ceremony however if you feel it is imperative that your child get dismissed the following procedure is required:
No phone call dismissals will be accepted. Notes must be in to the main office by Friday, June 19. No dismissals before 11:00 am. No exceptions!

Fieldtrip to Cedardale tomorrow, bring a bag lunch or you can purchase lunch at the camp! Bring towel, bathingsuit, sunscreen, hat and money to play mini golf!

BMI Parent Notice:
For children in grades 7 and 10, the state mandated Body Mass Index (BMI) data report will be enclosed and mailed home with student report cards. BMI is an indicator of health and development and simply a screening tool to measure growth over time. It is not a diagnosis. If you have any questions, please contact Cathy Riccio, School Nurse Leader at 978-352-5790, ext. 532.

**Note to all parents and students that there are still some outstanding balances on School Lunch Accounts? All accounts must be paid in full as soon as possible. ***

White
Read 20 minutes and record in log.
F Block-signed log and worksheet
All blocks-book reviews due not later than Friday, June19.

Mrs. Rydbeck
Mrs. Rydbeck
All classes: No homework.
Reminder: If you have not returned your math book to me, please find it and give it to me.

Bailey:
No homework for the rest of the year!
Mongeau:
Bring in your textbook to return.

Lynne Sheridan
No homework for the rest of the year!

Mrs Reed:
pg. 592 # 1, 12 – 17 all. Tomorrow, meet in Mrs. Rybeck’s room. To do: pg.582 #5-15, 18 – 20 all. Reminder: Final on Thursday and Friday. Bring your textbooks to turn in.

Grade 7:
SCHAUERMAN
SCIENCE - Test on Cells & Heredity on Thursday.
MATH - No homework

Mrs. Husak
All classes are to make sure they completed Monday night’s homework for tomorrow.



Mrs. Hickey-
All Classes:
For those students who passed in all of the 9 biome/animal project questions on time and chose to complete the project: A reminder that this extra credit project is due tomorrow (as the outline indicated).
A and B blocks: the 3 Analyze and Conclude questions from the “Take a Class Survey” Lab are due tomorrow. You got an extra day because of the Olympics today. The lab will count 2 times toward your lab average.
All students: As announced last week, the final quiz of the year will be this Thursday (June 18th). It will cover mitosis, heredity, genetics.etc… All of the information we have been talking about in class. You should study the notes we took in class, as well as the 2 mitosis sheets and Punnett squares worksheet. Don’t forget the pages in the book that correspond to the information.



Grade 6
Mrs. Fulton’s 6th grade: Any student who has not completed “My Nutritional Guide to Good Health,” should complete the package at home and turn in as soon as possible. We have devoted much class time to this project, and it will have a significant impact on grades for 4th quarter.

Updates and Homework for 6/10:

All Students:
From Mr. Masys: If anyone is interested in running cross country next year, there is a meeting after school on Tuesday, June 16 in the health room.

A reminder to all 7th grade students: the peer mentor meeting will be held tomorrow in Ms. DiFruscio's room at 2:20!!! Ms. Francis and Mr. Bruno will be running the meeting.

PLEASE BE ADVISED – CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE ROYAL RUMBLE!!!!
To those who have purchased tickets for this Saturday’s Football Game, because of the weather we anticipate that Georgetown football field will be unplayable this Saturday. Therefore, we have moved the game to Triton Regional High School, located off exit 55, Rt. 95 N in Newbury.
Tickets will be available at the gate on game day.
Kick off has been pushed to 1:30pm to allow the extra few minutes of travel time.
Thank you for supporting this event which we hope will have a tremendous impact on the athletic programs in the Georgetown Schools. The Boston Raven & Manchester Devils are looking forward to a great game.

MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARBOOKS ARE BACK ON SALE!
We have a limited number of extras for those students who did not pre order and will take orders on a first come first serve basis, giving grade 8 students priority! This week only we will take orders from grade 8 students. Beginning Monday we will take orders from all middle school students on a first come first serve basis. Yearbooks are distributed in the middle school on Monday June 22. Students need to bring in a check (in an envelope with the child’s name and homeroom teacher on it) for $24 to Georgetown Middle School. These should be brought their homeroom teachers.

Grade 8:
Important dates for Grade 8:
Finals:
Math final: June 10th and 11th
English final: June 10th and 11th
History: June 16 and 17th
Science: June 16th and 17th
Field Trips:
New York June 12th (arrival at school 5:30a.m)
Cedardale June 17th (during school cost is $15 please send in a check made out to GMHS)Graduation:
June 22 (3:30 to 5:30)

Ms. Bailey: Lesson 29 exercises are due for correction tomorrow.

Mrs. Rydbeck: All classes: No Homework. Remember to bring $15 (Check, no cash) for Cedardale and $24 (check, no cash) for year book for those who have not paid.

Mrs. Girard: Study for vocab quiz 11-1 TOMORROW.

Mrs. Reed: pg. 590 #1 – 3, 7 – 10, 15 – 22 all

Grade 7:
Mrs. Hickey- All classes:
We are studying mitosis. Students are to copy the green diagrams that appear on pages 64-65 of their textbook. They should label the diagrams (for example,
“prophase”) and what they can in the diagram (spindle fibers, chromosomes, etc) but they do NOT have to copy all of the captions next to the diagrams. I gave students a piece of unlined white paper to work on.
Also- in regards to the biome/animal project. I told the students who have not been passing the project homework ( 2 or 3 questions a night) in on time not to complete the project (model of a biome or animal). The project is open to those students who have done the homework completely and on time, for extra credit, as a quiz grade. Students have and will receive credit for all of the questions they turned in. If they did not do the homework it is a zero, as usual. The last of the 9 questions were due today. I do not think 2 questions a night, 9 total in a week, is too much for 7th grade. Unfortunately, some students have not followed through with their assignments.
Finally, the last quiz of the year in Science will be next Thursday, June 18th. It will cover the topics we are studying now.Students will have study sheets as well as their text. This is NOT a cumulative final exam, and will count as much as any other quiz they have taken.

Mrs. Husak:
A – finish # 3, 4, 5 on the worksheet on Surface Area of Cylinders
B – no homework
E – we will have part II of chapter 7 test tomorrow so keep on studying
F - page 394-395 # 1-16 all
All classes will not have a cumulative as previously planned. We would not have enough time to review as we are busy finishing up current topics.

Mrs. Morrison:
A – Study for voc. final. Ch. 7 reading questions #2 and 8
B – Weekly voc. assignments
E and F – Drama groups must have all costumes and props in by Thursday.

Ms. DiFruscio: Grade 7 Students have been working on Olympics projects in class. Things are looking good. Reminder- all work except typing should be done IN CLASS to ensure fair competition. This has been the rule since day one…

Mrs. Girard: work on travel brochure. Due June 18th.

SCHAUERMAN: SCIENCE- Complete mitosis worksheet if you did not finish it in class. MATH -Please do not use calculators when solving these problems: Page 534 #1-4, page 535 #1 - 5, page 536 #3 - 7, page 538 #1 -6, #13 -17, Page 541 # 1 -7.

Mrs. Weldon: Study for Vocabulary Final (quiz) on Friday. Complete projects.

Grade 6:
Mrs. White: Read 20 minutes and record in log.
F & G blocks working on god/goddess project
D block-signed log and project.

Mrs. Lamoly: Vocab Lesson 15 pp. 96-97 Reading Comprehension and True/False
Lesson 15 is on Quizlet.com…search vocab15…no space no capitals.

Mrs. Fulton’s 6th grade: Any student who has not completed “My Nutritional Guide to Good Health,” should complete the package at home and turn in as soon as possible. We have devoted much class time to this project, and it will have a significant impact on grades for 4th quarter.

Mrs. Reed: Finish the Sale Shopping worksheet if you have not turned it in already