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**6th Grade Field Trip Chaperons** - Yesterday I heard back from the administrator of Beech Grove Cemetery and they can accommodate us! Our trip will be September 9th. We will leave school around 8:30 A.M. and return by the end of our Social Studies/ Religion classes (about 9:40 A.M.). We will need protocol - trained chaperons to drive the students to and from the cemetery. There, they will be doing a Social Studies assignment that will also be used in Math! If you can chaperon the trip, please E mail me at sticklers.class@yahoo.com. Also, let me know how many people can fit in your vehicle (each will need 2 adults for Protocol & Child Safety reasons). If you need to do protocol training, please call the Parish office to see when the next scheduled training is. (The training only takes about 35 minutes).  Thank you for your help!  -- Mr. Stickler

**__Parent Resources Library__ -** Beginning in the fall, I will have a library of parent resources available to check out. I have a collection of books and textbooks from Ball State with chapters related to topics like adolescent growth and development, parenting styles, and limit - setting techniques. Also, I have several classroom management books with chapters on creating a set of class rules and ways to enforce them. (This could be used as a house rule - setting guide.) I will warn everyone that there will be handwritten notes and highlighting in some of them!) These will be available starting during the back to school Ice Cream Social (August 15th).  -- Mr. Stickler

__NATIONAL HISTORY DAY VIDEO__ - I posted a new National History Day video: Day 5 - the Awards Ceremony!! It's great to watch and see so many students from all over the country (and some from China) parade into the arena! The video shows interviews with some of the student participants (both middle and high school) before and after the ceremony. Listen and see what they have to say after having gone through the competition this year.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in school next Tuesday!! (It feels like our countdown counter sped up the last two weeks!) Have Fun! -- Mr. Stickler

I have posted an electronic copy of our Week 2 classroom newsletter on the Parent Page. I will try to continue doing this as they come out. I will also send a paper copy home with your student(s). Please let me know if there is any information you need that does not appear on the newsletter. --Mr. Stickler

**__Got Post-It Notes?__** This is a help request! This year I will be teaching students how to use Post-It notes to "mark" text. This is one way to help students understand how to identify important passages without marking in their books (they'll have to wait until college to highlight their books!). It will require a lot of Post-It notes! Do any of you work in a business where vendors provide free Post-Its or sticky notes? I ask because when I worked as a Social Worker at Lifestream Services, local home health care agencies always stopped by and gave us TONS of Post-Its and sticky notes! We had //way// more than we could use. If you have access to Post-It notes - and your employer doesn't mind - please send me an E mail and let me know if you could donate some. We would need Stickies that are at least 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" (but not the real large "note pad" size). Please use the sticklers.class@yahoo.com E mail address to let me know. Thank you for any help you can give! -- Mr. Stickler

 __**Notebooks for Journaling**__ - Although I do not have the "official" St. Mary's/ Pope John Paul II school supply lists for 2010 - '11, Social Studies students will need a wire bound notebook to leave in class for journaling. I've decided to color code these by class:

 (If you notice, the text on the top of each class web page matches this color code!) Students will need a 50 - 70 page notebook. -- Mr. Stickler
 * 6th Grade = Orange
 * 7th Grade = Red
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8th Grade = Blue