Brian's Song: Language Arts

Students are concluding a unit on drama in language arts. We read the original script for the movie "Brian's Song" and then watched a more recent version of the movie to compare and contrast the dialogue and camera effects.

Spartans of the Month

Congratulations to Kathryn and Noah, our Spartans of the Month for April! Way to go!

Endangered Species Pathfinder

Mrs. Barbarino, our librarian, was kind enough to create a Pathfinder full of great websites about the endangered animals! Here is a link to the site! If you need more information, feel free to look here!

Endangered Species

Spartan students will be starting a unit on endangered species soon! They will be discussing some aspects of endangered animals in Science class. In English, they will write a research paper about one particular endangered animal. In Language Arts, students will be reading Hoot!

This should be a fun unit for the students! We're hoping they will learn lots of great new information about endangered species!

Jonathan - Geography Bee Success!

Congratulations to Jonathan, our representative at the Geography Bee this past weekend! Out of 101 students from across the area, he placed 4th overall!

Jonathan, we are all so proud of you!

Winning Wall Decorations

Congratulations to Mrs. Wright's homebase (301) for winning the PSSA door decorating contest! Congratulations to Mr. Cornali's homebase (304) for coming in 2nd place!

All of the Spartan doors look fantastic! Everyone did a wonderful job decorating them to motivate all CM students to do their best on the PSSA!

Congratulations, Spartans!

Pennies for Patients Fundraiser

Students in Mrs. Wright's homebase count their donations for the Pennies for Patients Fundraiser.

Poetry Cross-curricular Unit

Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Drakeley are implementing a cross-curricular poetry unit during the month of March. Students have been reading poetry and analyzing poetic techniques in language arts with Mrs. Wright. Students will now be applying the poetic techniques to their own poetry, written in English class with Mrs. Drakeley.

Spartans of the Month

Congratulations to Isabella and George, our Spartans of the Month for February! We are very proud of you!

Spartan Field Trip

The annual Spartan Field Trip took place on Wednesday, February 24, 2010. We enjoyed seeing the novel The Lightning Thief come to life on the movie screen as the culminating event in our cross-curricular unit. Check out these pictures of our excited Spartan Campers getting ready to join Percy at Camp Half-Blood!