Middle School Minute
February 17 - 21, 2025
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The Book Fair Is Coming!
It is almost time to let the GOOD TIMES ROLL at our upcoming book fair!!! The Crane Book Fair takes place February 21-26. Parents may shop Tuesday night during the Masked Reader & Living Wax Museum Night Event. You can also purchase your child a gift card to use at the bookfair using the link below.
📕 ELA 📕
Mz. Estelle
Honors English: We are now conducting a novel study in class. Our novel is Miles Morales: Spider Man by Jason Reynolds. Students continue to be responsible for work on iReady and ReadWorks. ReadWorks assignments are accessible via Google Classroom. iReady is accessible via Clever. Students should be completing 45 minutes of iReady per week in addition to two passed lessons (70 or better).
For both my English and Science classes, students are accessing work via Google classroom. Within the google classroom, students have access to work on Flocabulary, ReadWorks, iReady, and NewsELA. Science students are also using Generation Genius to expand their science knowledge and skills.
***Please know that classwork must be completed ON TIME. Per our class syllabus, no late work is accepted with the exception of excused absences. If your child is absent and misses work, all work should be completed within five days of return.
*** All sixth grade classrooms are STILL in need of hand sanitizer and tissues. We would be MOST grateful if you can send those items in. Thank you to all those who have sent in supplies!
Ms. Stricklin
Regular ELA - This week students will have assignments on Schoology, AcceleratedReader (AR), and i-Ready. We will go to the library on Friday!
i-Ready - Students are required to complete 50 minutes of i-Ready Reading and two passed lessons. The more lessons they do and pass with an 80 or better; the more tickets they get to spend at the i-Ready store.
Accelerated Reader (AR) - Students need to be reading and taking AR tests. The only way to grow in reading comprehension is to practice.They need to look at their individual goal through Clever on Renaissance Learning.
Schoology -
Reading: We are finishing our short story unit using Langston Hughes’s “Thank You, Ma’am” as an anchor text. Essay time is here! The essay is due on Wednesday.
Writing: We have started working on our personal narratives. We will continue to work and build on these assignments. Up next: Finish up prewriting activities and start the drafting process.
Honors ELA - This week students will have assignments on Schoology, AcceleratedReader (AR), and i-Ready. We will go to the library on Friday!
i-Ready - Students are required to complete 50 minutes of i-Ready Reading and two passed lessons. The more lessons they do and pass with an 80 or better; the more tickets they get to spend at the i-Ready store.
Accelerated Reader (AR) - Students need to be reading and taking AR tests. The only way to grow in reading comprehension is to practice.They need to look at their individual goal through Clever on Renaissance Learning.
Schoology -
Reading: We are finishing our short story unit using Langston Hughes’s “Thank You, Ma’am” as an anchor text. Essay time is here! The essay is due on Wednesday.
Writing: We have started working on our personal narratives. We will continue to work and build on these assignments. Up next: Finish up prewriting activities and start the drafting process.
Ms. Fletcher
➕➖ Math ➖➕
Mr. Moore
Ms. Whitney
Coming soon!
Ms. Cuff
🧪 Science 🧪
Mz. Estelle
Science: We are currently studying all things related to our Solar System. The week of February 18 we are focusing on investigating Lunar patterns. Hands-on activities include modeling the Moon’s cycles and analyzing why they occur, the reason for tides, the geometry of Lunar patterns.
Our science text is available online at carolina science online. The link is posted to the Google Classroom. Username: Estelle Student; password: password123.
This past week we explored a star mapping program: Stellarium. You can download the app to your phone or access via tablet or PC at https://stellarium-web.org/
For both my English and Science classes, students are accessing work via Google classroom. Within the google classroom, students have access to work on Flocabulary, ReadWorks, iReady, and NewsELA. Science students are also using Generation Genius to expand their science knowledge and skills.
***Please know that classwork must be completed ON TIME. Per our class syllabus, no late work is accepted with the exception of excused absences. If your child is absent and misses work, all work should be completed within five days of return.
*** All sixth grade classrooms are STILL in need of hand sanitizer and tissues. We would be MOST grateful if you can send those items in. Thank you to all those who have sent in supplies!
Mrs. Thrasher
6th Grade
We are going to be learning about how heat transfers through the earth's spheres. Then we are going to learn all about the weather! What causes weather, air currents, ocean currents, what influences weather, air fronts and climate. We will have a test the week of February 24th about heat transfer, earth's spheres and weather.
7th Grade
We are going to start our unit: Unity and Diversity. We will be learning about Natural vs Selective Breeding, Fossil Evidence, Comparative Anatomy, Adaptations, Cladograms and Embryology. We will have a quiz the week of February 24th about our Unity and Diversity unit.
Ms. Plummer
Coming soon!
📜 Social Studies 📜
Mrs. Hester
Mrs. Maynard
Coming soon!
Mr. Hughes
Coming soon!
🎭 Fine Arts 🎭
🤡 Clowns - Ms. Stricklin 🤡
Make sure you are checking the website, www.whyaaa.org and join the Remind. Please turn in your $20 rental fee if you are renting.
We are working on memorizing our first medley called “When I Grow Up/Naughty!” The students are doing well, but they need to practice and memorize their music. We have started choreography on the first part of the medley. Clowns competition theme is about growing up. We are still working on a title.
🤩 Stars - Ms. Stricklin 🤩
We are almost finished learning our first medley called “Jump ‘n’ Boogie.” Stars competition theme is Dance Through the Decades! I cannot wait to see this come together.
✍🏻 Creative Writing - Mrs. Hester ✍🏻
🎭 Theatre - Mr. Feemster 🎭
Coming soon!
🎻Strings - Mrs. Peck🎻
We're happily getting ready for our February 28th two performance assembly concerts (morning and afternoon). There will be an after school rehearsal on Tuesday, February 25th from 3:00-4:30 (pick up from front). Our principal has reposted the 'AAA WAY posters throughout the building. It's a good time in the year for any and all:) String students CAN APPLY this reminder to accept the responsibility of always bringing their music, coming prepared (music is practiced at home on the day we have had a class). The month of March will focus on our Full Orchestra Literature pieces for Spring Concert (that we also will perform at contest for those attending the St. Louis optional trip many signed up for last December) Kind thanks!
Sincerest Regards,
MPeck
🎤 Choir - Mr. Snodgrass 🎤
Upcoming Choir Events and Information for Feb. – Mar. 2025
Thursday February 20, 2025, 8:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. - Festival of Spirituals Honor Choir at Lee High School Theater
2500 Meridian St. Huntsville, AL 35811
Parents: Drop your child off at the Lee High School Theater at 8:45 a.m.
We will leave Lee High School by bus at 11:45 a.m. and eat lunch at Parkway Place Food Court.
Please send money with your child to eat lunch. The bus will take us to AAA following lunch.
The Festival of Spirituals concert will be at 6:00 p.m. in the Lee High School Theater.
Call time: 5:00 p.m.
Attire: Honor choir shirts, black pants or black skirts, black shoes
The following students will attend this festival:
Charm Bradley, Rhianna Darby, Leah Johnson, Caleb Jones, Maxwell Presha, Jackson
Rooker, Cedric Warren, Sophia Draine, Linda Ingram, Kayleigh Scissum, Alyssa Bullock,
Mollie Mckinney, Leah Davis, Chloe Pride, Jordan Baker, Harper Perkins, Nikesh Bhatt,
Brianna Calhoun, Devon Draine, and Lady Pollard.
Friday February 28, 2025 - Black History Program School Performances (AAA Theater)
Attire: Red AAA Music t-shirts and jeans
Time: TBD
Monday March 3, 2025, 5:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. - UAB Honor Choir Festival (Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center)
1200 10th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35294
Attire: UAB Honor Choir shirts and jeans
Parents: We will leave AAA by bus at 5:00 a.m. and return around 9:30 a.m.
Please send money with your child for breakfast and dinner. Lunch is provided.
The festival concert is at 4:30 p.m. and we are one of the featured guest performing choirs.
Parents, you are welcome to drive down to Birmingham and chaperone. Unfortunately, there is
no room for you to ride the bus with us. Since we are performing as a featured choir, the entire
choir (all 37) will be going. Along with Mr. Chris Davis and my student teacher, Ms. Minisee.
Please let me know if you plan to drive and chaperone on this trip. There will be a space
provided on the permission slip to let me know.
6th Grade Updates
- Make sure you have signed up for the 6th grade Remind CLICK HERE
- Have students read at home for 30 minutes every day.
- Students need to be more mindful of the expectations here at school. Students are starting to bend and break the rules and procedures.
*** All sixth grade classrooms are STILL in need of hand sanitizer and tissues. We would be MOST grateful if you can send those items in. Thank you to all those who have sent in supplies!
7th Grade Updates
iReady in ELA and math will be graded based on work completed Monday - Friday going forward. Time and lessons completed on Saturday and/or Sunday will not count toward their iReady classwork grades.
Please encourage your students to complete their classwork at school. The goal is for students to not have much homework and to use their classroom instructional time efficiently. This should also help decrease the number of missing assignments students have in PowerSchool.