Last month Mr. Petrie's eighth grade students completed their World War II projects. Their task was to create a display to demonstrate their knowledge. Students created museum-like exhibits to show their knowledge of a variety of topics.
Lunch is served! Last weekend the custodial team transformed the cafeteria! The students are thrilled to have more flexible seating options and the ability to look at their peers while eating!
On Saturday, April 9th the University of New Hampshire Women in STEM Hamel Scholars Taskforce will be hosting an event on the UNH campus. This event is targeted at middle school girls in grades 6th-8th from any school in the seacoast area. During the day participants will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with young women with similar interests in STEM activities, hear about the experiences of professors, students, and staff who work and study at the college level, tour labs and classrooms on the UNH campus, and eat lunch in the dining hall. Please sign up using the link on the flyer!
We are in the final pairing of our Marshwood Madness book bracket challenge! Do you like dystopian style novels? If you do, you have probably read these two titles which come highly recommended by our middle school readers! Click the link to place your vote- will it be for Katniss Everdeen or for Scythe Faraday and his apprentices?
https://forms.gle/Q9sdDDxCVPQtgYKf7
Mrs. Caverly and Mr. Drouin, our Physical Education teachers have designed an incredible ropes course in our gym. The Climbing unit encourages problem solving, team building and trust among participants.
Marshwood Middle School is fortunate to have our amazing lunch monitors to help supervise our students during lunch periods. Thank you Amanda Smith and Michelle Melvin for you patience, energy and sense of of humor!
Grade 6 Art students, under the direction of Ms. Balsiger, created Transparent Self Portraits in class.
Marshwood Middle School's We The People Met with
US Representative Chellie Pingree
On April 4th Marshwood Middle School's We The People group met with US Representative Chellie Pingree. They were able to ask Congresswoman Pingree about her career as a legislator, about being a female in Congress, about the biggest priority for Congress going forward (as she sees it), about her vision for America's responsibility in the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and more! It was a great opportunity for the kids to see what members of Congress actually do as representatives of the people.
Marshwood Madness Battle of the Books
We are in the Final 4 Phase of our book bracket. Do you prefer science fiction? Realistic Fiction? Fantasy? Cast your vote here!
https://forms.gle/c38bF8qSimiSsoPd9
The Winter Guard and Winter Percussion teams performed at the MBDA Finals at Sanford High School on March 27. Both groups did a fantastic job and earned silver medals for their performances. They worked very hard and included students from the middle and high schools. Marshwood Middle School's participants included:
Charlotte Smith, Connor Grogg, Luci Cox, Baylor Horvath. William (Ozzie) Gilbert,
Delia Morris, Trinity Rix and Sophia Bogh
Youth Basketball Camp for June 27th-July 1st at Marshwood High School. The camp is available for both boys and girls basketball players. Camp is hosted by Coach Littlefield and Coach Pratt. The middle school camp runs from 8:30-10:00 and camp for students in kindergarten though fifth grade is 10:00-11:30. Camp for the week is $65. Questions about camp can be sent to angie.littlefield@rsu35.org or bobby.pratt@rsu35.org
Because of Covid restrictions, parents, family, friends and community have been un able to enjoy the displays, bulletin board and student projects that the students and faculty have worked on.
"If these walls could talk!" will feature some displays and highlights from the halls of Marshwood Middle School throughout the next few weeks on this web page.
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Ecology club is getting ready for spring under the direction of Annie White. We started some seeds this week and students will take care of these indoors for the next 6-8 weeks until they are ready for the garden! Stay tuned for our upcoming plant sale- we'd love to see you stop by and take some seedlings home for your own garden!
Karen Lawrance, an Educational Technician at MMS, cheerfully greets every student as they enter the gym on late start Thursdays.
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