Swann Lion Times

Your weekly update from your Lion Pride!

What our Lions are Learning

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8th Grade

PRIDE Assembly: Our proud 8th grader Davis volunteered to share her definition of what it means to run the "Victory Lap" to her.🐾

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8th grade Science

Ms. Moore's students engaged in a lesson on electrons.

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6th Grade ELA

What a great day to be outside!!! Ms. McKinney's class enjoyed having their lesson in the courtyard!

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6th Grade Science

Ms. Montgomery's class did an outdoor lesson on distance and balance.

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6th Grade

Today we had our PBIS lunch with friends and dance music during lunch and oh what a great time we had!! Robbie had the best time dancing!!

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7th Grade

Today we had our awards recognition during lunch. Our scholars were recognized for their growth and efforts in showing PRIDE during quarter 3.

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Art

Students in art got to make paint palettes to use in their next project.

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PE

Each grade level had a student-coached basketball tournament this week. Student coaches designed drills and plays for their teams all week and competed on Friday! Ask your students about the final results.

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7th Grade ELA

Students used a graphic organizer to catch their notices and wonders about the new texts they read and watched about the Harlem Renaissance.

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8th Grade ELA

Ms.Smith was took some of our 8th graders on a field trip to explore the Holocaust monument in LaBauer Park. Students were able to make real world connections and interact with guest speakers who survived the Holocaust.

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8th Grade ELA

Students collecting information as they toured the monuments.

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8th Grade ELA

The trolley ride!!! Oh what fun!!!

Be sure to talk with your Lions each night about what standards they are working on and what activities they are doing to master those standards! Here is some general information to get the conversation started.

In Math, students use the Open Up curriculum. Click here to see the Open Up lessons for all grade levels! Click here to see the Math 1 Open Up lessons. 6th graders are exploring rational numbers; 7th graders students are working with angles and triangle math; and 8th grade working on exponents and scientific notation.

In ELA, students are closing out their text studies. 6th grade is reading Two Roads, 7th is exploring texts from the Harlem Renaissance, and 8th is reading Maus.

In Social Studies, 6th graders are learning about the Islamic Empire, 7th grade is learning about the Cold War, and 8th grade is exploring the mid 20th century.

In Science, 6th graders are in their Earth Science unit, 7th graders are learning about organisms and evolution, and 8th graders are learning about matter and chemistry.

Math Moments

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6th Grade

In 6th grade, students are practicing with rational numbers. See if you can apply that practice to this scenario. Here are the boiling points of certain elements in degrees Celsius. List the elements from least to greatest boiling points.

Argon: -185.8
Chlorine: -34
Fluorine: -188.1
Hydrogen: -252.87
Krypton: -153.2

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7th Grade

In 7th grade, students are working with triangles and angles. To find an unknown angle measure, sometimes it is helpful to write and solve an equation that represents the situation. Here, line L is perpendicular to line M. Find the value of X and W.

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8th Grade

In 8th grade, students are learning about exponents and powers of 10. In the diagram, the medium rectangle is made up of 10 small squares. The large square is made up of 10 medium rectangles. How could you represent the large square as a power of 10? If each small square represents 10^2, then what does the medium rectangle represent? The large square?

Character Trait of the Month

Today during our awards recognition we recognized our students that were selected by their teachers as showing preserverance and fairness. Take a look at our scholars who were recognized today for doing an outstanding job!

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Announcements

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Chromebook and Charger Collection

Take note! Chromebooks and chargers will be collected for physical inventory and test set building on MAY 1st! After this point, Chromebooks will not be going home with students. Classwork and homework will not be online after May 1st. Students can still access PowerSchool, Clever, and Canvas on their personal devices to see their grades and Classcraft data.

Please locate any missing Chromebooks and chargers in advance! We will need them all for EOG testing!

Family and Community Involvement Opportunities

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Parent Academy

GCS Parent Academy is a great resource to helps support families with a variety of things such as homework help, digital resources, resume assistance, homeownership, and much much more. Click on the link below to explore the many benefits of being a part of the GCS Parent Academy.

GCS Parent Academy

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Join the PTA Today!

Swann is a proud PTA school! Click here to join our PTA as a parent, student, community, or staff member. If you are interested in serving on the Board, let us know and we will put you in touch with the current PTSA reps! School is better when we work together!

For more information, please reach out to swannpta@gmail.com.

Counseling Corner

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Meet the Counselors!

Ms. Dorsey is serving our 6th grade and N-Z 8th grade students.

dorseyc2@gcsnc.com

Ms. Kelly is serving our 7th grade and A-M 8th grade students.

kellyc2@gcsnc.com

Because our counselors work with students all day, email is a good way to contact them when you need them!

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Character Trait of the Month

In April, our focus trait of the month is caring and kindness. Watch the video with your family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXel1Vmvmhw. What does it mean to be caring? How can you show someone you care? What are the similarities between caring and kindness? How are they different?

Athletics

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Spring Sports

Spring sports practices have begun! See the athletics page of the website for the schedules. Note that most Spring athletic events do not happen on middle school campuses due to facilities. Note the location of the event on the calendar carefully.