CM Fit Day

Spartan students will be joining the rest of the 7th grade to take part in the annual Fit Day at CMS. Students have received letters about this and should have brought them home for parental review. Letters outlined the day's schedule, had a permission slip to be signed if the student wants to participate in a half mile competitive run, and gave a lunch menu for the day.

Please ask your child to see the Fit Day letter if they have not already given this to you.

Subjects and Predicates

Spartan students are learning about subjects and predicates in English class! This video was shown in class, but is a nice review of how to pick out the simple subject and simple predicate in a sentence. Please use it to give yourself a review, if necessary!

Welcome 2011-2012 Spartans!

Welcome back to an exciting school year in Sparta! Our theme for the school year is The Spartan Team: Transforming Ordinary into Extraordinary. We believe that your experience as a Spartan will be truly extraordinary.

Remember to check our team blog for important updates and reminders.

We look forward to a great school year!

Spartan Team Awards

Spartan achievements were recognized at our team award ceremony held on Tuesday, June 7th. We would like to wish a special congratulations to our subject award winners: Taylor (English), Julia (Language Arts), Garrett (Science), Kari (Social Studies), and Nick (Algebra Connections). Nick also received our prestigious Spartan of the Year honor. Congratulations to our award winners and all of our Spartans on a successful 2010 - 2011 school year!

CMS Book Swap

Spartan students participated in the Book Swap, held on Thursday, May 26th. Students donated used books and were able to select books from the donations. The event provided Spartans with great summer reading! Here are some pictures from the Book Swap.

Speaker: Biodiversity and Threatened/Endangered Species

Jennifer Halchak from Washington County Conservation District came to speak to the Spartan students on Friday, May 27th. The presentation focused on a local view of biodiversity and threatened and endangered species in our own backyard, in Canonsburg and in the state of Pennsylvania. The topics discussed provided an excellent follow-up to the Spartan cross-curricular unit on Endangered Species.

Spartan Field Trip: The National Aviary

Spartan students had a great day at The National Aviary on Monday, May 23rd. In addition to touring the facilities, students attended a program called "Birds of Prey." Here are some pictures from the event

Spartan Field Trip: Adopt a Bird

Spartan students collected money to sponsor Barkley, an Eastern Screech Owl, who lives at the National Aviary. Students got to meet Barkley on our field trip to the Aviary.

Book Swap Alert!

Want some new books for summer reading? Have some old books you have already read? Then join us for Canonsburg Middle School's Second Book Swap!

A Book Swap is an event where students bring in books to exchange. Everyone in the school is invited to bring in used books to swap for books other students donate. Our goal is for every student in the school to bring in one book to exchange so that everyone has a new book to read this summer.

Bring in your used Middle School Level books to Mrs. Wright (301) or Mrs. Drakeley (303) from May 16-20. You will get a ticket for each book you bring. On May 26 & 27, you will have a chance to select one book for each ticket you have.

This is a great opportunity to get your personal library refreshed for Summer reading!

Comma Usage Unit

Students in Mrs. Drakeley's English classes are finishing up the final touches on their endangered species research papers, and are getting ready to gear up for the last large project!

We will be starting a Comma Usage unit on Thursday, May 12. Information to the students is forthcoming!