Patton 7th Grade Newsletter

• August 20, 2024 - Math Beginning of the Year Test
• August 23, 2024 - Parent Teacher Conferences - (Tell us about your child.)
• September 2, 2024 - No School (Labor Day)
• September 6, 2024 - Early Release Friday (1 PM)
• September 11, 2024 - Freedom Walk
• September 20, 2024 - Early Release Friday (1 PM)

On Friday, August 16, the district will activate Food Service alerts, which will notify when a student's account balance goes below zero dollars. As a parent/guardian, you must opt-in to receive this notification in Skyward Family Access. If you are interested in receiving this notification, please take a look at the attached document with directions on how to ensure you are opted in. The attached document also shows the steps on how to set a purchase limit on your student's food service account. Setting up notifications and purchasing limits works best on a laptop or desktop computer rather than through the app on a mobile device. Please reach out to the office if you need any assistance setting up notifications or purchase limits.

Welcome to ELA 7. Our ELA teaching team is made up of 2 veteran teachers with combined experience of over 50 years. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to spend this year with your child.

This week has been spent getting to know one another in our classes. The students are becoming more familiar with our general operating procedures as well. Also, we took the STAR Assessment of skills to give some insight to the students’ strength and challenge areas.

Next week, we will have our first trip to the Patton Library Media Center (LMC), and the students will have the opportunity to check out books. In addition, we will distribute the textbook, and the students will spend some time familiarizing themselves with the book.

Ms. Paradies

pparadies@usd207.org

Ms. Behrens

gbehrens@usd207.org

Hello parents and students!! I am so glad to meet all of you. I am looking forward to a fun and engaging year with your child. It is always so fun to witness their growth in speaking, writing, listening, and reading in English. These are the things we will work on through the year.

I will post a link to my monthly newsletters in skyward. There you will find information about early dismissals and No School Days listed.

Ms. Hewitt

nhewitt@usd207.org

It's been a great first week of school! In 7th grade math, we did several get-to-know-you activities, created classroom norms for the school year, reviewed our one class rule (please ask your child what it is), and discussed classroom procedures. The kids took their first STAR math test of the year on Friday. We'll begin learning about operations with integers (adding and subtracting positive and negative whole numbers) on Monday. I hope to meet you at the 23 August parent-teacher conference. Have a great weekend!

Mr. Ragan

mragan@usd207.org

This week in Science, we spent time getting to know each other, developing classroom expectations, and setting up our interactive science notebooks. Next week we will begin our first unit, Structure and Function of Cells. Your students will be learning how the structure of cells determine their function. Below are the codes for your student's Google Classroom.

1st period- pf5w3jf

3rd period- nt43yek

4th period- deqjtzv

6th period- lictdb5

7th period- pgq2lhu

8th period- 5sbd6la

Mrs. Raymond

kfeitl@usd207.org

My name is Gwendolyn Johnson. I am a graduate of Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA. I have a MA from Southwestern University, Weatherford, OK, and an MS in School Leadership from Benedictine College, Atchison, KS. I have been a teacher in excess of 36years with over 30 years at USD207/Patton JHS. Since I have been at Patton, I have been teaching Social Studies. I am really excited in meeting and working with your student this year.

Mrs. Johnson

gjohnson@usd207.org

This week, the students reviewed classroom expectations and history skills. Next week, students will begin studying different kinds of maps and their importance. Students will also do a collaborative project where they will look at data and create a map. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ms. Nelson

enelson@usd207.org

Mrs. Bargmann

sbargmann@usd207.org

Students enrolled in AVID this semester have started building relationships with their classmates and learning how AVID can help them be successful someday.

Mr. Hunter

jhunter@usd207.org

Ms. Bessette

sbessette@usd207.org

Welcome to Drama 7. I’m looking forward to a great semester with your child. This semester we will focus on various public speaking and acting activities. The semester “final” is an evening performance of small ensembles and possibly reader’s theater. The date for the show is December 17th. More information will be sent out closer to the show date.

We hit the ground running this week. The students have been on stage to answer the roll question each day. We also participated in 2 get acquainted activities with facts provided by the students.

Beginning Tuesday, each student will give a short presentation of a Me Box. This presentation is a container with 5 items that help the speaker tell the audience about himself/herself. After that, we will have lessons that will assist students as we prepare our reader’s theater scripts.

Ms. Paradies

pparadies@usd207.org

Hello! We are off to a great start in Intro to FCS! Students have started work on understanding the FCS Career Clusters. Starting next week we will begin our focus on Personal Finance and Job Skills. Students will need to bring their FCS Binder to class everyday. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out.

Mrs. Cox

kcox@usd207.org

Students joined the Google Classroom. Please go to the google classroom for all information. Classroom expectations and syllabus have been posted there.

Mrs. Bargmann

sbargmann@usd207.org

Hello! My name is Nicole Elder and I teach PLTW courses at Patton Junior High School. We are off to a fantastic start in Medical Detectives class! Students have a syllabus & parent letter to share with you. See links below for access to these documents in case your child can’t find their papers. Please sign and return the parent letter after reading through the information. Students also have access to the online PLTW curriculum and can share with you if you are interested. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns. Thank you!

Mrs. Elder

nelder@usd207.org

Welcome to Patton Physical Education. Mr. Amon, Mr. Turner and Mrs. Dreiling are excited to get this year started. We have been working hard in preparation for this school year. Mrs. Dreiling will be teaching Lifetime Fitness and Health. Mr. Turner will be teaching Lifetime Fitness, MTL, and 6th grade. Mr. Amon will be teaching Team Sports and Sports Conditioning. Dressing out for PE this year is optional. PE teachers will be furnishing locks for students that would like a locker in the locker room. All students will need tennis shoes and comfortable clothing on PE days. We are pleased to announce that for students in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade you will have PE everyday this year. 6th grade students will be on a specials rotation and receive PE every 4 days. Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have for your student!

*We will look to go outside as much as possible for PE (weather permitting). Please help us in reminding our students to bring water bottles and tennis shoes every day they have PE.

Coach Amon

pamon@usd207.org

Coach Dreiling

tdreiling@usd207.org

7th Grade Spanish is off to a great start! Students have just begun with Señor Wooly, our main curriculum. Our first speaking quiz will be on Thursday. Dichos are sayings of the wise which are also called proverbs. Our first DICHO is <<El hijo de la gata ratones mata.>> It means "The son of a mama cat kills mice." A looser translation would be "Like father , like son" or "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.""

Mrs. Ford

kford@usd207.org