Band: Cami Roper

Orchestra: Vickie Marshall

Choir: Maeve Kearney

Art:  Elizabeth Marshall

Robbie Gingrich

6th:  Kris Verash

6th/7th:  Molly Bush

7th:  Braden Black

7th/8th: ***** STILL FILLING ****

8th: Laura Furfaro

PLTW: Kyle Sagarsee

Brian Loring, Sarah Brady
6^th Grade

Brian Budd, Patrick Higgins
7^th Grade

Patrick Higgins, Emily Shreve
8^th Grade

6th: Elizabeth Stroven

6th/7th:  Nick Paliga

7th:  Nicole Kaczynski

7th Algebra/ Geometry: Emily Graham

8th/ Math Strategies:  Derrick Thomas

8th/ Math Strategies:  Laura Plasschaert

6-8 Interventionists: Christy Zobrosky (instructional leader), Emily Sidwell

6th: Natasha Bean, Kelsey Baich

7th: Brianne Adams, Caitlyn Wood

8th: Josh Kelver (instructional leader), Jacque Miller

6-8 Interventionist:  Eva Daniels, Julie Sloan, Pam Walters

Reading Strategies:  Robbie Gingrich,  Shelli Treel

Resources

• Scholastic SRI
• My Reading Coach
• Mindplay

Join in on the fun of an Academic Competition Team! 

All grades are eligible for any team. 

Please contact Mrs.Furfaro  for information.

Spell Bowl is a written spelling contest with words from lists given at practices at school during the fall.  Students will travel by bus with their coach to a regional competition at Kessling Middle School in LaPorte, Indiana. 

Lego League consists of creating and building innovative projects using Lego blocks and accessories.  Meetings are held at school during the fall and projects are entered in a regional competition.

Academic Super Bowl takes place during the second semester with weekly practices at Grissom.  Teams are divided into four subjects including: Math, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.  This year’s theme is “World War I” with questions from each academic area centering on this topic.  Students travel by bus with their coaches to an invitational at Schmucker Middle School in April and a regional competition at Wawasee Middle School in May.

What is a Chromebook?   

A Chromebook is a personal computer that runs Chrome as an operating system. The device is made to connect quickly to the Internet and supports apps that are on the web, not ones that are downloaded to the device.

• Students can use a variety of websites for Digital Storytelling.  Digital storytelling allows the students to “show with they know” in a creative, digital format.  Digital storytelling on the web also allows for publication and sharing of projects with a wider audience.  Students can use digital storytelling to support a variety of subjects.  A few examples of websites that allow for Digital Storytelling are listed below along with curriculum connections:
  • Prezi: Book Reviews/Reports, Research Reports, Story Telling
  • Animoto: Field Trip Pictures, Classroom Events
  • Voicethread: Biography Poems, Small research projects, Author Studies, Poetry Share
  • Blabberize: Reserach projects
  • Glogster: Book Posters, Character Posters, Who Am I Posters

• Students can use productivity tools on the web that allow them to access their work anytime and anywhere.  Students can use the Chromebooks to access Google Apps.  Below are some examples of the ways that the students cam work in the cloud using the Chromebooks.
  • Google Docs: Personal narratives, fiction stories, paragraph writing, Internet Safety Presentations
  • Google Maps: Social Studies Standards, State Studies Projects, Minnesota History mapping of important places
  • Picasa: Classroom pictures, field trips
  • Google Earth: Book Setting Trips, Geography tours, Literature trips
  • TCI: Online Social Studies Text

• Using Chromebooks, students can communicate using 21st century tools.
  • Gmail (grades 6-8): Communication with students, Book Club Communication, Reader Response Journals,
  • Canvas: All classroom projects and assignments

• Collaboration is one of most important 21st Century skills that we can teach our young students.  The Chromebooks allow students to collaborate face to face or on the computer while working on projects. 
• The following Apps support collaboration (just to name a few):  
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets