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Hello Parents,

Happy Sunday! This past week was productive. Most of the students made beautiful happy birthday cards for our Blessed Mother on her birthday, September 8.  Grades 7 and 8 took a test on the phrases in the Our Father and the Hail Mary and the deeper meaning of each. And most importantly we participated in our school Mass on Tuesday!!!

This  coming week...in grade 6 we will finish listening to each other's stories, which are thoroughly enjoyable. Then we will watch an amazing video about  Audrey Santo who lived in Worcester, Massachusetts in the 1990s, who spent most of her life in a coma, and through whom our Lord worked many miracles. On Wednesday we have the same test on the Our Father and Hail Mary. If Murielle knows all her notes that we took together, she will get a 100 on this test.

In grade 7 we will go to church tomorrow to draw and color the symbols in front of the church. On Wednesday and Thursday we will begin to draw the statues and what the symbols for each saint are and what they mean. At the same time every seventh grader must be memorizing the church diagram that some students handed in on Friday. We will have a definitions test on that around September 20. Everyone should get a 100 because everyone will have the complete list of 16 terms and definitions, and this gives them 9 evenings to study for this test. In Geography 7 each student is selecting one place in New England to research and prepare an oral report to present to the class around September 22. One student will talk about Lake Champlain, another about Boston, another about Nantucket, another about  the Berkshires, etc. ALSO....we are memorizing the first 17 states for a test around September 26.

In grade 8 we are researching miracles. Each student will tell two miracle stories to the class, using no notes and no slides. In History we will examine cattle drives of the 1860s, then the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, and then homesteading in the 1870s.  BUSY WEEK!

One of the reasons why I send all this information to our parents each weekend is so that we will know what tests and quizzes and assignments are upcoming. Parents, please have your child show you how to access their grades on the online grade book. This morning I entered all the grades that I have for grades 6 and 7 and 8. If there is a space next to a particular quiz or test, or assignment,  then your child has not yet handed that in or taken that test. If any assignments are missing, please speak with your child about getting that in to me on the next school day. Please email me if you have any questions.

I look forward to meeting many of you tomorrow evening between 6 and 7:30 at school. May God bless our week!

Mr. Grant

Supplies for Mr. Grant.......

I will be teaching Religion to grades 6, 7, 8, , Geography to grade 7, and History to grade 8.

one yellow 3 brad notebook with 30 pieces of lined paper for Religion

one red 3 brad notebook  with 30 pieces of lined paper for History

one blue 3 brad notebook with 30 pages of lined paper for Geography

one set of colored pencils to be kept in school

one Bible to be kept at home

one computer printer at home that works and has ink

The classes that I am teaching this year are...
Religion 6,7,8
Geography 7
History 8

Supplies needed for my classes are:
yellow notebook for Religion
red notebook for History
blue notebook for Geography
Set of colored pencils to be kept in class
a Bible to be kept at home. Catholic students should have a Catholic Bible
a printer at home that works and has ink