Dear Families,
As we approach the 2020 holiday season, the Sanborn School District will once again sponsor local families in need with our annual "Giving Tree". Please consider clicking the link below to fulfil a gift wish.
Anyone who would like to help is asked to choose a gift from the list, purchase and return the item unwrapped with the ID# on each gift to the main office of any one of the schools no later than Wednesday, December 18th.
We thank you in advance for your generosity. The community response to "Giving Trees" of the past has been AMAZING, and we are sure Christmas mornings for the families that we sponsor are so much brighter because of it.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to any of the school nurses.
(If you select a gift and are unable to find the item or fulfill your commitment, please delete your name from that item so that we can be sure that everyone's wish is filled.)
Cindy Cole, RN Juliann Herrick, RN & Camille Mawhinney, RN
Sanborn's School Nurses
Athletics:
Team News:
Grade 7:
7th Grade Update
We had a great week in 7th grade! Most students were able to transition well into full remote mode and we were impressed with their flexibility and focus.
ELA: Last week, students finished the final drafts of their own realistic fiction stories. Students did a really fantastic job with this assignment, creating unique story ideas, and working very hard on their stories during the writing workshop process. We have also started looking at two other genres of literature - fantasy fiction and science fiction. We will continue to study these two genres, in order to prepare for our dystopian fiction unit later this year. Our next reading strategy will be learning how to make connections to literature – text to self, text to text, and text to world.
Social Studies: Last week we focused on the battles leading up to the Allied victory in Europe and worked on individual research. This week students will be learning about the end of WW2 and the aftermath. They will also be completing their research and starting their projects.
Math: This past week, we began to explore writing equations from written descriptions instead of tables. We will continue to explore the relationship between real-world problems and writing equations. There will be a summative assessment at the end of the coming week. It will reassess the standards on the last summative as well as assess the new standards we are covering. This will be posted next Thursday and Friday.
Science: Students did a great job on their Bouncy Ball summatives. Thank you to all the parents for helping with their experiment! They have two weeks to resubmit their summative if they wish to improve their grade.
We have started our new unit in science called Cellular Biology. Students will study cells and their functions. We will also learn about diseases that attack the cell.
Have a wonderful week!
Grade 8:
The shift this week back to remote learning came without much notice, but we are happy to report that student attendance was high and it was a productive week for all. We are impressed with, and thankful for, our students’ flexibility and hard work.
We were presented this week with a new challenge. We experienced several instances of “Zoom Bombing” in which persons outside our district were attempting to gain access to Zoom classes by posing as students and staff of the district with the purpose of disrupting our classes. As a result, we implemented a “Camera On” policy so that we could verify Zoom class attendees were all Sanborn Middle School students. This seems to have solved the issue and has helped us to keep students safe from outsiders and inappropriate content.
At home, please review with your student the importance of not sharing their identity or Zoom class information with people outside the Sanborn Community. This will help us to keep students safe from strangers and inappropriate content in the virtual classroom, as we do in our physical classrooms.
As always, we thank you for the support you provide at home.
Counselor’s Corner:
I hope everyone had a restful break and a great week of remote learning! While we are remote, students/parents - email me if you need to talk, if you need support, if your child needs support, etc. and I will set up a Zoom call
This article was written by a teacher in Concord. It has very helpful tips to be successful in a remote learning setting.
Please check out my “virtual office” on our School Counseling home page for resources, information, and more.
Alma Gradebook
Please log in to Alma to view grades as report cards will not be mailed home. Your user name in Alma is “firstname.lastname” (example susie.smith). Every student and parent was sent a welcome email. If you did not receive one please make sure you check your spam folder. If you did receive one but your password is not working, please click the “forgot password” button and follow the instructions. If you cannot log in at all please contact Kevin Harrington at kharrington@sau17.net. You can also find a button to access Alma on our website at sau17.net. Below is the link to access Alma.
SRMS Student Attendance Expectations 2020-2021
This year at SRMS we will be tracking attendance a little differently than we historically have. This is to ensure your child’s safety in our building and to be consistent across the middle and high schools. If your child will be absent, late, dismissed early, or will miss a class period please use Pickup Patrol to report this absence as an excused absence. Any absences that have not been reported through Pickup Patrol will be marked as unexcused. Teachers will be taking attendance at the beginning of each period. If your child misses one or more classes during the day and it has not been documented through Pickup Patrol, the absence will be marked as unexcused and an automated email will be sent home from Renee LeBlanc. If you get a message and have information or documentation as to why your child’s absence should be excused, please contact Renee LeBlanc at rleblanc@sau17.net.
