SVMS NEWS
Week of May 8, 2017
​St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School - 923 18th Street - Bedford, IN 47421 - 812-279-2540 - www.svsbedford.org - i​ [email protected]
Mark Your Calendars:
May 9​ Spring Music Program 7p.m.
Students meet in the cafeteria at 6:30p.m.
8th grade Bake Sale at Program
May 10​ 8th grade to Lawrence County Museum
May 17​ 8th grade to BNL (Math testing)
May 23​ AR Carnival/Field Day
May 24​ All school “Read-in”
May 25​ Last student day & Honors program
8th grade graduation 5:15 prayer service followed
by reception in the Shamrock Center
Homework School​ - Homework school is available on
Monday through Thursday in the school library.
Reminder​: ​ ​Any student with missing assignments during
a quarter (including homework) will not be eligible to receive
extra credit for the 9 weeks.
​The Bliven Beacon ​ ​ Literature 8th - ​We will continue to work on our Research Papers - source cards, note cards, & thesis statements this week as well as working on our introductions 7th - ​Weekly story: Poetry Collection 1 (multiple poems in this unit); New concepts: Asking questions to draw conclusions, latin root -lum-, Infinitives and infinitive phrases 6th -​ Weekly story: ​Alvin Ailey​; New concepts: Sequence, main idea & details, connotation & denotation, homographs, adjectives, capitalization and types of sentences Writing Students will work on their creative writing prompts this week and grade them against the rubric. Homeroom Thank you to all chaperones who went on the Chicago Trip. I could not have done it without you! Thank you so much for working so hard to keep our kiddos safe! We (8th grade) will be having a bake sale during the Spring Program on Tuesday of next week (May 9th @7pm). Please send in your pre-packaged goodies for this event the day of (before or after school). And thank you! *Time is running out to meet AR goals. Not meeting goals will drop final grades down by 1 letter grade. Questions: Contact me at ​[email protected]​ or by phone at (812) 279-2540 The Collier Chronicles
HealthNo Health this week.
Science6th- Distinguish between the terms position,
distance, and displacement, as well as, the terms
speed and velocity. 6th grade will also be working on graphing speed.
7th- Describe the difference between plant and animal cells as well as the functions cells carry out.
Students will be able to describe the cell theory.
8th- Students will create models to show how the
structures of chromatin, chromosomes,
chromatids, genes, alleles and deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA) molecules are related and differ. They will also be working on describing the process of
Transcription and translation of DNA.
Questions?- Contact Miss Collier at [email protected] or (812) 279-2540
~Knight’s News~
Religion
All Religion Classes-​Exploring the Book of Revelation
Social Studies
6th-​U.S./Canada Unit
7th-​Asia Unit
8th-​Pre-Civil War America
**Service Hours (2 hours required) and all Extra Credit is due Friday, May 19th.
Homeroom
7th grade families are in charge of the 8th grade’s graduation dinner. We will need plenty of
help with this event. Thank you to Michelle Land for coordinating the food, and Kelly Davis for
coordinating decorations/set-up/clean-up!
Irish Quarterly Student Newspaper ​We are working on our 4th quarter edition!
Feel free to contact me at ​[email protected]​ or call (812)-279-2540.
Thatcher Times Math
Math curriculum website: my.hrw.com
Accelerated Math website: hosted278.renlearn.com/117570
6th- Polygons in the Coordinate Plane
7th- Probability
Pre Algebra- Transformations in Geometry (Dilations)
Algebra- Solving Quadratic Equations
Technology6th- Prezi Projects
7th and 8th- STEM activity
STEM-
BOARD GAME CLUB:
Thursday after school until 4:30pm.
Questions? You may contact me at ​[email protected]​ or by phone at 812-279-2540