Your source for all things LVMS U PCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER Friday, June 9 – 8th Grade Celebration Dance 8:00pm – 11:00pm Tuesday, June 20 – 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony – 6:30pm Tuesday, June 20 – 8th grade students dismissed at 11:00am. All other students dismissed at 1:35pm. Wednesday, June 21 – Last Day of School – Early Dismissal @ 12:40 No lunches will be served. Showcasing Sensational Students House 6-1 Alphabiographies By: Sean Krentz and Matt Healy On Thursday, May 4th, the Long Valley Middle School held a showcase to show what all the students did during the amazing year. It showed art, and work they did in class and also involved a fun scavenger hunt. It was open to anyone who was interested in going. All the parents that came were super happy and House 6-1 students and even a number of their parents have amazed when they saw all the cool and fun work the been busy writing in their ‘alphabiography’ journals all students did all year round. They had lots of snacks school year. What is an ‘alphabiography’ journal? It is an including cake, cookies, cupcakes and more. All the autobiography with a twist to it. Each journal entry is snacks were delicious. written with a letter in the alphabet used as a springboard for When you walked in there was a super nice a topic. An entry records a life event, describes a special girl who greeted you and handed you the scavenger person, or documents anything important to the writer. A hunt. To get the cool prize you of a delicious jolly life lesson in reference to the topic is written at the end of rancher you had to visit and look at all of the each entry. As a culminating activity, the students and interesting work that was completed by the students. parents will participate in a sharing session in Mrs. Fusaro’s th In each grade section there were certificates of the class on June 9 . When asked about their favorite aspect of students that got student of the month, which they this journal project, the students said giving their parents told us on the announcements. Each “house” for each homework and writing about things that mattered to them; grade got to display anything they did during the year. the parents said sharing their journals with their child and having their child’s journal to treasure; Mrs. Fusaro said it Mrs. Tighe had a slideshow that showed pictures of was hearing her students’ voice (writing personality) and the students doing work. Overall it was a great way getting to really know her students through reading their for the parents to see what their children have done journals. during the incredible year that we are having. LONG VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL May 2017 House 7-1 Language Arts is in the middle of an extensive poetry unit. The unit involves reading, analyzing, and writing various types of poetry. It even includes a prose novel, Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, which is a highly recommended read for anyone at any age! Read some amazing poems written by some amazing students. The creativity continues to bloom in the halls of 7th grade. Rings on a Tree Untitled By Courtney Donnerstag By Gigi Rauchut The rings on a tree mark the years that pass White. The only color that I carve my name into my favorite is stained easily. You do the same Black. The only color that It’s our safe place, like in Capture the Flag can never truly stain. We’ll see each other when we’re “older” She went through life with fire Cross your heart and swear upon your grave in her eyes, We’ll see one another when more rings form bold, confident, and a smile that has been said to shine like the sun. Deep down, her heart was changing. Over and over, All of us deserve true joy. We spent so much time with unspoken words and broken memories, Heart but deep down, By: Gigi Rauchut we’re all shattered, puzzle pieces trying to become whole. Mind is credited for everything, yet it isn’t true It is heart that does remarkable things I could be one of Heart makes us feel emotion when you’re watching a funny movie the only whole puzzles, Or when you’re at a funeral for someone close. but where’s my Heart is the will to go on when you’ve been kicked down and are not ready to go, so you stand back up. beautiful picture people Heart is the life, liberty and happiness that a person needs. worked so hard Heart is where you love, where you know your home is, Where you know you’re safe and where you find yourself. to find? Heart is extraordinary; we just don’t know it yet. Where’s my glue to fix everything? LONG VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL May 2017 Highlights from House 6-2 LVMS Showcase Evening Science Cake Bake-off Models: Layers of the atmosphere, Earth, and soil Language Arts represented in cake form. Blackout Nature Poems: Discovering a hidden poem within a given text. Houses of Net boxes: Using nets the students were challenged to fold it into a house. Posters of Nets’ Surface Area: When a net is flattened students had to calculate the total surface area. Instagram Greek God Posts: What gods would say if they could Advertisement Net Boxes: post their powers and thoughts using Students made proposals and a username and image on Instagram. created economical packaging for invented products. LONG VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL May 2017 Students in House 7-2 dissected flowers and studied the adaptations of insects to pollinate certain flowers. Students then designed and illustrated their own flower and pollinator. LONG VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL May 2017 A Look Back at 7th Grade and House 7-3 Seventh grade. You already know the basics of middle school, but you still have another year until you get to high school. I think of it as the year of improvement because you are not really distracted by anything like you are in 6th and 8th grade. My favorite part of 7th grade is hard to determine because it was pretty good in all. I think that my favorite part was getting to know my teachers so well that they knew what I was going to say before I ask them. Like some days I will go to ask Mr. Katzoff something and he will answer my question before I even get to ask it. If he had not given me this opportunity to help with the newsletter then I may not have gotten the same experience out of 7th grade. For that I am grateful to have the teachers that I do and for them to be able to teach me to the best of their ability. If I didn’t have that opportunity this year then I may not have been the person that I am. By: Olivia Montuore My favorite part of 7th grade was a project we did in Social Studies. The idea of this project was to research an event leading up to the revolutionary war and having to prove that it was one of the reasons we fought for our country's rights. The reason I liked this project so much was because I had a really good partner that made the project fun to do, it was very interesting. We got to make a trifold. I liked making the trifold because we got to put as much decoration on it as we liked, so my partner and I made it as big and unique as we could. Seventh grade was a great fun year, I am so glad that I was able to make the friends that I have and meet the teachers I have met. By: Makenna Lindert One of my favorite things about 7th grade is that it’s the first year that you are allowed to try out for sports. LVMS has a lot of amazing sports to choose from like soccer, basketball and field hockey! When tryouts come, for whatever sport you like to play, it’s really nerve racking. But, when you finally see your name on that list, it’s the best feeling in the world! I liked soccer season the most because it’s my favorite sport. I really liked being on my school team because it let me branch out from my own grade and interact with some eighth graders that have the same interests that I do. A lot of the girls are really nice too! The coaches are great as well because they give you great advice and help you become a better athlete. My soccer coach, Mr. Demarest, and my basketball coach, Mr. Petty, were a lot of fun to practice with. Overall, the entire environment of playing on a sports team for your school, with another grade and with fun coaches is so enjoyable. For me, playing on a sports team was definitely the best experience in seventh grade. By: Kacy Smith Have you ever had two different teachers for the same class? I have, in the span of only one school year. Having two teachers can be a good or bad experience. For me it was a good one because I got to meet two wonderful teachers with different personalities but similar teaching styles, which made the transition just that little bit easier. The transition was still hard because we had to introduce ourselves and eat to know our “new” teacher for the remainder of the year.