7th Grade: Team Acadia and Baxter

In English classes, we’ve been learning about the Greek gods through our class novel, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. The students completed a writing challenge where they wrote a scene where they described what one of the gods/goddesses would look like in modern times. The students voted for their top three in every class. Then, we had a finalist round where they voted for the top three overall. Our winners were as follows.

Nike (Goddess of Victory) Winners:

• First Place: Nora LeBlanc

• Second Place: Mia Chan

• Third Place: Kay Pierson

We also had many honorable mentions who made it to the final round.

Honorable mentions: Chlesy, Ronan, Anja, Maisie, Chance, Kashius, Fatima, Arya, Kam, Grace, Bella, Vivian, Ceira, London, Maddox, Alythia, Natalie G, Micah, Wyatt, Ella, Minty, Ava T.

In addition to this competition, we have started reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and continue to work on a Grammar Flip and Vocabulary lesson every week.

In math class we have finished Unit 4.5: Solving and Graphing Inequalities. We are now moving on to Unit 5: Circles. This will be a quick unit where we will cover lots of vocabulary and learn how to find and use circumference and area of circles.

Our 200 Atlantic Salmon Eggs have arrived! Over the past couple of weeks students have been preparing to care for and learn out the endangered Atlantic Salmon. We are very thankful to be partnering with Fish Friends to help stock the Androscoggin River and keep such an important species alive. Students have been very excited about this project and are making great observations.

We also finished up our Genetics Unit with our "Dog Show Summative Project". Students voted on a few different categories! Congrats to the following students!

Best in show: Natalie

Most Realistic: Alythia

Most Unusual: Vivian

Best Name: Nick

Friendliest: Quinn

Scariest: Robert

Most Creative: Bella P

Most Attractive: Rion

The 7th grade social studies classes have completed their amendment projects. They worked very hard on them and did a great job! Our next unit is focused on industrialization and westward expansion.

In Engineering class we tapped maple trees last week. While we work on this project we'll be learning about historical, ecological, and economic matters related to maple sap harvesting. And we also collect data on the amount of sap we harvest and compare it to our data from last year. It's always fun to get the kids outside using power tools!

BMS will be holding Spring Conferences on April 8th from 1:15-6:30. While we welcome all families who would like to meet, we typically use these conferences to address concerns and to set up a plan to help finish the year strong.

The team will be reaching out in the next couple weeks to schedule with families that we would like to see. If you have concerns and would like to meet but don’t hear from us, please reach out to your child’s Tiger Time teacher and we will schedule a meeting.