Community Agreements and We Are On Our Way!

So last Thursday two of our representatives met with six representatives from the 7th & 8th grades, and Middle School Cultural Studies and Science teacher, Simon Hurd, and they hashed out the final three community agreements that the Middle School will agree to abide by for the school year. The agreements were as follows:

We agree to respect ourselves and the community.
We agree to be open minded, responsible, and positively engaged.
We agree to try to Behave Exceed expectations Succeed Take risks.

We will spend the rest of the year exploring what these agreements look, sound, and feel like in a learning community.

Today in Language Arts we revisited nouns, and identified that usually a noun is a word that is a representer, such as
The student lost her book.
and sometimes words that we think of as nouns may be really describers, such as,
The student lost her book bag

Homework:
Reading: ongoing. Read for 30 minutes and record your reading in the reading at home section of your reading journal.
Language Arts: due Tuesday, September 14th. Complete questions #1 to #5 of the noun handout you were given.
Literature: Please complete this survey about your summer reading by Thursday, September 16th.