Middle School Newsbite: December 9th, 2024

Posted Date: 12/09/24 (4:27 PM)

The Erinys Quartet stopped by for a special performance on December 5th. They put on two performances, once for 5th grade and one for 6th grade & PreK. Students loved listening to pieces and asking questions. We thank Pat Masterson and the Delaware Valley Music Club for helping organize this great experience.

Classes & Clubs

Join the Coding Club!

Are you ready to explore the exciting world of technology and creativity? The Coding Club is the perfect place for 5th and 6th graders to dive into coding, build cool projects. Coding Club is a fun and welcoming space for students of all experience levels—from beginners to coding pros! Whether you’ve never written a line of code or you’ve already built your own games, there’s something for everyone. No experience? No problem! We’ll teach you everything you need to know!

Why Join?

Learn: Discover how coding works and develop skills in problem-solving, logic, and creativity.

Create: Build apps, games, websites, and more!

Collaborate: Work on exciting projects with other students and share your ideas.

Have Fun: Explore technology in a relaxed and fun environment!

Coding Club will meet once a week beginning Thursday, January 9th and run for 6 weeks. Meetings are from 3:20-4:10 in Mrs. McPherson’s room. If you are interested in signing up, see or email Mrs. McPherson (amanda.mcpherson@shrsd.org).

Lego Robotics

Congratulations to LEGO Robotics team members: Ben, Rory, Javier, Sam, Sean, Jonah, Henry, Grant and Pierce for receiving the RISING ALL-STAR Award at the 2024 Robotics competition in Hillsborough NJ. The team worked diligently on programing and creating an innovative solution revolving around this year's theme "Submerged". All your hard work and efforts were recognized and you should be proud of the time you spent with the projects.

Update from ESL

The 5th and 6th grade ESL students at the Middle School on Location have been learning about literary devices to help enhance their writing. They have been identifying literary devices in literature and discussing how authors use them to create moods and enhance imagery as well as engage readers. Students demonstrated their understanding of literary devices by decorating a Fall-Themed bulletin board filled with examples of personification, metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and repetition.

Multilingual Learners and their parents enjoyed an evening of family games, pizza, and cookies at the ESL Parent Advisory Meeting on December 4 held in the Elementary School. Attendees circulated around a variety of board games, card games, and BINGO. The event was well attended and enjoyed by all.

News from World Languages with Ms. Magnolia Perez:

The Spanish bulletin board during November and December is a collaboration of Special Area teachers and their subjects. For December the theme is the holidays: Santa visits Spanish class and the Los Tres Reyes Magos visit all the other Special classes. In this way, we are teaching our students about cross-cultures collaboration and fusion. Spanish class students will be contributing to the December bulletin board with decorations. (Note: SHRES Bulletin Boards are pictured below. SHRMS Bulletin Boards depict the same imagery).

Congratulations!

Zin Kassel was recently accepted into the All National Honor Choir. Choir teachers throughout the whole country have their students audition and it is highly competitive so this is an exciting achievement! Zin will be traveling to Dallas, Texas to sing with them in March. Congratulations, Zin!

Congratulations to this year's Governor's Educator of the Year, Mrs. Cindy Zidzik, and Educational Professional of the Year, Mrs. Yvonne Penna!

What's Coming Up?

We are all excited to be taking our 5th and 6th grade students to South on December 19th to see the winter concert!

12.10.24 Concert Rehearsal @ South
12.12.24 Winter Concert (Band & Chorus) @ South
12.16.24 Board of Education Meeting
12.23.24-01.01.25 Winter Recess - School Closed