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As a reminder, in September, we have the following events: 

• 9/12: Site Based Management Meeting @ 3:00 p.m. in Room 103
• 9/21: Senior Class Parent Meeting & College Night @ 6:00 p.m. in the Library 
• 9/28: PICTURE DAY for Grades 5-11 
• 9/30: High School Showcase at Performing Arts 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Our HOMECOMING dance is Saturday, October 7th — Tickets go on sale the week of September 25th. More information coming soon. 

Darcey Sojka      

AP Literature and Composition Incoming seniors for AP Lit   

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• packet of short stories  

Mr. Gelsomino     Grade 6 Science (Incoming 6th Graders)    

• Research the following topics:  Matter, Physical and Chemical Changes, Convection Currents, The Water Cycle, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Layers of the Earth, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Tsunamis.  Feel Free to use Brainpop, Kids Youtube, or anybooks that you can find.     

Mr. Collins Technology  (Incoming 8th grade students)

• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough     

Mrs. Richie Spanish (Spanish IV and AP Spanish)     

• Watch some Spanish-speaking shows – Netflix has a ton of great options
• Listen to Podcasts from Duolingo in Spanish https://podcast.duolingo.com/spanish
• Listen to Spanish Language songs, Switch your phone to Spanish for a day or week      

Mrs. Hill     English 8

Suggested Summer Reading list for incoming 8th graders

• See below

Mrs. Dean      ELA / AP Language and Composition  (incoming 11th grade AP Language students)  

• Learn to Touch Type, Study for SAT, READ!!!     
• See attached

Mrs. Garmon and Ms. Zaffram– Dual Language 

• See attached

Ms. Varallo- Grade 5 ELA

• See attached

Mr. Miller  7th math    (incoming 6th, 7th, 8th)  

• Moby Max Login in through Clever and work in Moby Max 15 – 20 minutes a day in the math section 6
• Khan academy 7th grade – review material done though-out the year.   Redo some previous topics you struggled with  8th grade – watch some videos and do some assignments to get a head start on next year.  

Online Interactives and Games  

• Illuminations – a lot of very good interactives and games, which can be sorted by grade level   Math games –  a lot of very good interactives and games, which can be sorted by standards for each grade level pre-k through 8th grade  
• Emoji math – solve puzzles using emoji’s.  
• Sheppard Software – variety of games for a wide range of math topics  
• Hooda Math – variety of games for a wide range of math topics  
• Top Marks – variety of games for a wide range of math topics which are sorted by age groups Money Games by Rate.com for Percentages, Decimals, and More!     – games on fractions, percentages, and decimals  Interactive Activities and short videos on math application  Videos Mashup math videos (grades 7, 8, 9) – free and free to subscribe  
• Math Antics – basic math skills through 8th grade  
• Numberock –  math songs for some basic math skills  Projects and Games 10 math project ideas grades 1-8  10 math games to play with Dominoes  Math games with dice  Extra math practice sheets https://www.mathgames.com/worksheets  https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/skills.php?year=7  http://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/  http://www.kutasoftware.com/  http://www.mathworksheetsland.com/  http://www.commoncoresheets.com/  https://www.mathopolis.com/questions/course.php?year=7  http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/common-core-math-worksheets-grade7.html 

https://adnanmhphotography.pixieset.com/olmsted12thgradeportraits/groupshots/

Thank you to our amazing scholar/photographer, Adnan Hossain ’25 for helping me to take and host the photos from today. He is currently preparing to attend the New York Times NYC Summer Academy. If you would like to donate to his trip or support his career as a photographer, you can reach out to him through his site. He is hosting and allowing for downloads for free.

The livestream is still available at YouTube Grad Video. Thank you to Shuvom Golder ’25 for all his hard work in setting up and maintaining the livestream.

Thanks, Mr. Maulucci!

The graduation will be streamed on YouTube. The link will be posted below once we get all the camera gear set up! Check back closer to 2:45PM EST!

https://youtube.com/live/NdG3i2yX6uI?feature=share

https://adnanmhphotography.pixieset.com/olmsted8thgradegraduation/

Thank you to our amazing scholar/photographer, Adnan Hossain ’25 for the photos from today. He is currently preparing to attend the New York Times NYC Summer Academy.