Identity and The Outsiders

   In the past few weeks we have been reading the Outsiders for our Identity unit. The book ties in with the theme of the unit, "How do  we shape and form identity?". The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton  is about two groups of people, the socs and the greasers, fighting. Their identities affect how they act, who they hangout with and how they feel. In 7th and 8th grade we are learning a lot about ourselves, and  reading/discussing The Outsiders.

Math With Dr. Sharma

On September 21, 2016 Professor Dr. Sharma came to Main Street Middle School to visit the seventh grades math classes as a guest teacher. He taught us how to count down by 2 and 2/7.  We also got to play a little bit with some blocks. We learned about similar dimensions as well. We hope that he will be visiting several times this year.

PLP Reboot

      We have been rebooting our PLP's to set them up for our next school year.  We have spent 3 or 4 days updating and changing our PLP's.  Mr.Maguire and Mr.Rosenberg have helped and guided us through this process.  We have done everything from deleting tabs, to setting up our own blogs and putting links in our PLP's.  We also have had fun decorating our PLP's and we still aren't done.  Here is a picture of some kids rebooting the PLP's.

Welcome SIRIUS students and families to the Team SIRIUS Happenings blog!

Throughout the course of the 2016-17 school year, students voluntarily will be writing short entries about team activities and areas of study for the blog along with posting pictures. Stay tuned for more 'happenings' to come.

SIRIUS spirit

At our last all team meeting students were asked to create a tabloeau " a tabloeau is a term used in theater that means a group of indevidules that are motionless in a visual picture." that represnted SIRIUS spirit. We split in to three different groups. Each group would have a couple of mintutes to get into a creative pose. Here is what we came up with. 

Dog Star student of the month

Anja Samson is the SIRIUS student of the month. A student each trimester receives the dog for having each of these qualities. Spirit, Imagination, Responsibility, Introspection, Ubuntu, and Service. Anja was recognized in front of all of team SIRIUS. Star dog will be in care of Anja until our next ATM.

Congratulations Anja!

Endangered

Endangered is a book by Eliot Schrefer. This is one the books we are reading in Humanities. This book is set in the Democratic Republic of The Congo. A teenage girl, named Sophie, buy's an infant banobo on the way to her mom's work. Throughout the book, she builds a bond with her banobo, Otto. But later on the sanctuary gets attacked and Sophie and Otto must leave and survive in the forest. 

Multiplying polynomials in Algebra

In 8th grade algebra we are learning how to multiply polynomials and trinomials. The process is broken up into three different processes: Disributive property, the Matrix method, and the F.O.I.L. method. Distributive property is when you distribute two values and multiply them by the second polynomial((4x+3)(2x-3)= 4x(2x-3)+3(2x-3)). The Matrix method is when you put each polynomial on the outside of a 2 by 2 square and multiply them together. Finally the F.O.I.L. method is when you multiply the first numbers, the outer numbers, the inner numbers and the last numbers. That is what we are lerning in 8th grade Algebra.

African Day

On Tuesday March 29th team Sirius had an African celebratory day! This fun day was filled with African dance, skype calling with one of the students uncle who had gone to Africa many times, watching a video about disabled citizens of Africa and, playing a game involving food! At the end of the day we performed what we learned in the African dance class in front of the whole team. It was a good break from everyday school life and I believe every one had a good time, I know I did!

Spirt Week

Next week is MSMS's annual spirt week. Each day is dedicated to some way to dress, to show unity and spirt throughout the school. Monday is monochrome or stripes vs. plaid. Tuesday is TA uniform day. Wednesday is superhero or PJ day. Thursday is professional day, or dress a profession day. Friday is wacky hat day. Everyone is encouraged to dress up, but it is not mandatory. Team Sirius is going to be going big to show are gaterness!!!