History Day

These were the students who participated in regional History Day. 

SPAN news

SPAN news:  SPAN (Synergy/SAGE Parent Action Network) will have its last meeting of the school year on Tues., April 23 at 7pm in the WestWood Media Center.  Barbara Dullaghan, the Elementary Gifted and Talented Coordinator in the Bloomington School District, will give a presentation on and answer questions about Executive Functioning and organizational skills in gifted children.  We will also have elections for the SPAN Board for the 2013-14 school year.  We are still  looking for another Board member with younger elementary students to join our Board; please email Apryl at span.priorlake@gmail.com if you are interested in joining our Board, to ask questions, or to be placed on SPAN’s email list.

FROG Faith Club at FMSC

HOMS/TOMS FROG Faith Club

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) Outing on March 15^th

Dinner with over 70 people at Tin Shed (average price per person)-$7.00

Driving in winter weather to Chanhassen’s FMSC  location – 15 minutes

Working with 30 students and 10 adults at FMSC – 90 minutes

Packaging 44 boxes/9,504 meals/feeding 26 kids for a year in Peru – PRICELESS!  

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Introduction to German class

As we wrap up 3rd quarter in Introduction to German, we had one last fun project to do.  We studied animal vocabulary, and how to talk about our favorite animals.  Then to finish up the unit each student had to create a 'compound animal' using the German grammar concept of compound nouns; where multiple nouns are put together and the gender of the last noun is the gender of the whole word.  (Which is why German as 40+ letter words! Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän (Danube steamship company captain))  Everyone created a compound animal from at least three of the different vocabulary words we learned.  Here are just a few of the cool creatures created by the Intro to German class!

Picture 1: Der Schildkrötetintenfischhai (Turtle-Octopus-Shark)

Picture 2: Der Tintenfischschweinseestern (Octopus-Pig-Starfish)

Picture 3: Der Hundkatzewaschbärtiger (Dog-Cat-Raccoon-Tiger)

Picture 4: Das Schildkrötepenguinetigernashorn (Turtle-Pinguine-Tiger-Rhino)

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Emily Thomas
German Teacher 

PTC Carnival

The annual PTC Carnival is coming up on Saturday, April 20^th  from 11-4:30 and we need the help of the middle school students!  We need a LOT of student volunteers to staff all areas of the Carnival, primarily Games, Crafts, Bingo and Food Sales.  A volunteer flyer should be coming home with students this week with all of the details.

Sign up is online and really easy.  Go to http://tinyurl.com/2013ptccarnivalstudent and select the time and the place where you would like to volunteer.  Please note that an e-mail address and password is required to sign up and all reminders and updates will go to that e-mail.  

Parents: Please encourage your son or daughter to volunteer for one or more shifts.  We really rely on and appreciate their help and it is a great local volunteer opportunity for your student.  Thank you for helping us make this community-wide event a success! 

Track & Field

Attention track athletes - spirit pack orders are due this Sunday.  There is a track meeting in the TOMS auditorium Monday after school. See the website for details.

History Day Regionals

Congratulations to all the students who took part in the History Day Regional Competition on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at Normandale Community College!

Receiving honorable mention were:

Mimi Weightman-Bragg for her exhibit board on penicillin and also Hannah Beer and Abby Skapyak for their documentary on Japanese Language Camp at Camp Savage.

Advancing to the state completion at the University of Minnesota in May were:

James O’Neal and Jack Peterburs for exhibit board on The Battle of Midway and also Liz Heile and Sydney Lance for their documentary on the Pacemaker.

Thanks to all of you for your hard work and best of luck to those heading to state!