The Educational Technicians organized a school-wide "wearing buffalo plaid or checks/flannel" on Friday, March 18 to celebrate the last school day of Winter!
In Ms. Gray's ELA class students on the 8 Purple team are bringing the book Lord of the Flies to life through art.
For one assignment, students were tasked with creating a mask with images, colors and elements that symbolize what the island and the boys represent. Students started with a mask template and used the mask to bring the character analysis to life.
As an ongoing assignment, the eighth graders reading Lord of the Flies signed up to analyze a chapter. This assignment is designed to help students demonstrate an understanding of the significant events taking place in each chapter. These chapter illustrations will also help students write their literary analysis essays at the end of the unit.
The students are all anxiously awaiting the trial Ms. Gray is planning for the end of the quarter.
The "Music In Schools" concert was held March 9 at Marshwood High School. The MMS school band, grades 6-8 directed by Kayla Burke performed a variety of musical selections. The celebration of "Music In Schools": was celebrated with a performance from the Strafford Wind Symphony.
Marshwood Madness is in full effect! Our middle school students had the opportunity to nominate books to face off in an epic battle of books. This week students will vote to narrow down the book choices from 16 to 8 in our Marshwood Madness Bracket challenge. Thank you to Mrs. Lawson for designing and creating this bulletin board!
Today in Mrs. Stauffer’s Science class students practiced their microscope skills by looking at a wet-mount slide. A wet-mount slide is composed of a thin, rectangular glass slide, a drop of water, a small specimen, and an extremely thin square of glass or plastic called a coverslip. The students used these items to make a “sandwich” and placed them under the microscope to allow them to observe the specimen. Today’s specimen was a lowercase “e” from a piece of newspaper. Through this lesson the seventh grade scientists are getting practice with how to use a compound microscope using low and medium power objective lenses. Students explore the ink, the paper, the edges of the paper and more. All of this in preparation for more advance microscope work.
A message to families from Food Service
Breakfast and lunch are available to all students at no cost. In addition, for students who bring lunch from home, milk is available at no cost when students take at least two other items, with at least one being a fruit or vegetable. The Cafeteria staff at each school can assist students with choosing the required items. Milk taken alone costs $.40
Thank you.
Karan Pfingst, Director of Dining Services
Maine School Admin. District 35
Eliot/S.Berwick, Maine
C: 603.339.8275
Marshwood Middle School has purchased a new digital display board for our lobby that staff and students have enjoyed. The board highlights extracurricular activities, upcoming events, announcements, news around the school, word of the week, and videos and pictures of students and event occurring at our school. The digital board is managed by administrative assistant, Martha Guptill.
Thirty Marshwood Middle School Chorus students from grades six, seven, and eight were honored to sing the National Anthem at the March 4 UNH Men's Hockey game. The students and their director, Mrs. Kris Bisson, would like to give a huge thank you to all of the families and friends who attended to support them and to the UNH Athletics Organization for the invitation.
Thirty Marshwood Middle School Chorus students from grades six, seven, and eight were honored to sing the National Anthem at the March 4 UNH Men's Hockey game. The students and their director, Mrs. Kris Bisson, would like to give a huge thank you to all of the families and friends who attended to support them and to the UNH Athletics Organization for the invitation.
Marshwood Middle School Wrestling team meets daily after school for practices and is scheduled for wrestling meets in the southern Maine area. The team is coached by former alumni and Marshwood wrestlers, Sam Hebert and Seamus McManus
Happy Two-s-day! Today is 2-22-22 what a super fun date! Though we didn't have school today I didn't want to pass up this opportunity to post about the word work some of the sixth graders have been doing.
Through Social Studies classes students are working with etymology, the history of words. Each of the words in the attached image has a connection to the number two. Are you able to see those relationships?
Marshwood Middle School Newspaper Honor Roll Q2 21 22
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Spirit Week: Thursday Crazy Hair Day! Students dressed in an array of funky hairstyles and wigs for a fun day!
Spirit Week Continues to be a blast for Marshwood Middle School students as they celebrated "SUMMER" today in the balmy 20 degree heat on a Fun February day!
Marshwood Middle School kicked off its' Spirit Week with "Character/Hero Day".
Are you looking for a new book to read? Check out Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson.The students on both 7 Purple and 7 White this Historical Fiction novel. I overheard one seventh class begging Mrs. Williams to read more. No better recommendation than a group of 13-year-olds asking to read more!
Marshwood Middle School Theater. Department presents Seussical Jr.directed by Sharon Arsenault and performed by MMS students at Marshwood High School's We Kennedy Auditorium.
MMS Student Council is sponsoring a school-wide SPIRIT WEEK! this weeek from February 14-18. The week promises fun and festive "DRESS UP" theme days with a culmination of school-wide Virtual Bingo on Friday !!
Take a look at these scientists in action! Mr. Carson's sixth grade class is honing their observation and questioning skills. In the pictures you will see students observing soil under different conditions. One of their jobs was to think about condensation and evaporation in the different soil environments presented.
Creativity Week was held at MMS and was sponsored by Google. Students submitted their creativity through a Google Classroom format created by Ms. Balsiger.
