I am happy to welcome you to the 2019-2020 school year at ASD! Looking back on my previous years here, I am so excited and grateful for a fesh start this September. This year will be full of challenges, growth, and, of course, fun! Get ready to hit the ground running. This month, students can look forward to learning new classroom practices, including using their own Chromebooks and Pearson Realize, as well as new ideas, facts, and experiences. Please check back in later this month to hear all we learned about in ELA and religion, as well as to hear directly from our students on what they took away from all this month's work!

Please see below some helpful documents to help get your year started off right!

Here is week 1 in review by our journalist, Sarina G.:
I love Academy of St. Dorothy so far. I made a bunch of friends and I love all the teachers. Mrs. Pintus has taught me so much about science that I didn’t even know and I am really excited about the project we are doing. Mrs. Callangari is an amazing math teacher and has taught me some really awesome math tricks. Mrs. Lake is super funny and she took my not-so-favorite-subject and turned it into one of my favorite subject. Mrs. Cooper, I love Mrs. Cooper sooo much, it was my first year of middle school and I had never had a homeroom teacher before. I am so grateful that God gave me Mrs. Cooper. Mrs. Cooper is a religion and ELA teacher too. I never understood religion but now I understand it fully. Gym is really fun and exciting. The only reason I like Mondays just a little, because we get to have GYM!!!

Week 2 brought to you by Sofia A.:
I am reporting this week to tell you what we are doing in the 6th grade at the Academy of St. Dorothy. First of all, in ELA, Ms. Cooper’s class, we have been working on the interesting and descriptive poems in Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. We have been listing all of the poetry terms that we could find in these poems. Even though some might think poetry is boring, Jacqueline Woodson has a way of making it exciting to read her poems. In Math, Mrs. Callegari’s class, we have been working on multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbers while also using graphs to figure out how to solve them. In science, Mrs. Pintus’ class, we have been learning about molecules and we also are doing a project on them. In groups of two or three, we are choosing three types of molecules to build. My group is doing caffeine, vinegar, and soap. In Social Studies, Mrs. Lake’s class, we are learning about the Stone Age and the early people. We also learned about Mary Leakey, who was an archaeologist in the mid-1900s. We did a worksheet on interesting facts about her and a worksheet with questions about her life and her discoveries. In religion, Ms. Cooper’s class, we had a test on topic one, where we learned about the parts of the Bible, and how God has revealed himself to us. In Spanish class, we learned how to conjugate verbs and we are having a test on it next week.