Welcome back from your well deserved Easter Break, I hope you all feel renewed, refreshed and ready to complete this school year in the greatest possible way.
There are a couple exciting field trips that your child(ren) will no doubt find exciting, fun and educational. The 7th and 8th graders will once again be working with Civil and Environmental Engineering students from UCLA. This is my eighth year working with Professor Jay and her students and in each year the program has continued to improve. The 7th grade students are scheduled to visit Santa Monica Beach on Friday, May 6th. Once there they will obtain several ocean water and sand samples which they will then use to study bacteria levels. Then, scheduled for the following Friday, UCLA will be on our campus to analyze and interpret the samples, and on May 13th we will visit UCLA to present our findings to several UCLA professors and students.
I'll do my best to keep you posted about our research and discoveries.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Hello Parents and Friends,
Report Card day is near! Honestly, your children have been working very hard this past trimester, a trimester which began way back on December 6th. Overall, I am very happy with the effort that each student has shown and it appears that once again the majority of the class will be recieving an Honor Roll award.
Keep up the hard work.
A very special congratulations to 6th grader Christine Navarro who won the Elks Lodge Drug Awareness essay contest.
Report Card day is near! Honestly, your children have been working very hard this past trimester, a trimester which began way back on December 6th. Overall, I am very happy with the effort that each student has shown and it appears that once again the majority of the class will be recieving an Honor Roll award.
Keep up the hard work.
A very special congratulations to 6th grader Christine Navarro who won the Elks Lodge Drug Awareness essay contest.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Happy New Year
Welcome back,
The months ahead always seem to fly by, please continue to monitor you child's homework and study habits and discuss daily and weekly goals with them, then help them achieve these small goals.
This week looks to be especially exciting. On Tuesday (Jan. 11) the junior high will be visiting the Museum of Tolerance (www.museumoftolerance.com), a field trip that challenges the way we perceive one another and will surely prove to be a memorable day. On Friday, the author of "Saltwater Taffy" Eric Delabarre will speak to the sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Delabarre is a creative and kind friend and will be discussing the challenges he faces as a writer as well as helpful tips to help us all become great writers too. Read more his new book at www.whatagreatbook.com
Talk to you soon,
J. Murphy
The months ahead always seem to fly by, please continue to monitor you child's homework and study habits and discuss daily and weekly goals with them, then help them achieve these small goals.
This week looks to be especially exciting. On Tuesday (Jan. 11) the junior high will be visiting the Museum of Tolerance (www.museumoftolerance.com), a field trip that challenges the way we perceive one another and will surely prove to be a memorable day. On Friday, the author of "Saltwater Taffy" Eric Delabarre will speak to the sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Delabarre is a creative and kind friend and will be discussing the challenges he faces as a writer as well as helpful tips to help us all become great writers too. Read more his new book at www.whatagreatbook.com
Talk to you soon,
J. Murphy
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