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Past Fridays at a Glance Check out these highlights from previous weeks of the school year!
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April 23, 2010 |
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 |  |  | In Language Arts, 7th graders are leading discussions on the novel, Catherine Called Birdy. | After School Technology Class students learned how to use Microworlds EX , a multimedia program based on LOGO, and discovered that programming is fun, user-friendly and extremely powerful. | 8th graders are beginning to build their inventions for the annual Invention Convention. | |
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April 30, 2010 |
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 |  |  | The raffle is two weeks away! Proceeds benefit scholarship assistance and program support to our students. | When it rains, we get creative with PE!!! Girls did a tae bo workout in the MQ room. | 7th graders visited a local family farm in Oakland and the Lawrence Hall of Science as part of their life science studies. | |
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April 2, 2010 |
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 JMSG alumna Chanel Johnson was a guest speaker at the Engage Her conference last week. Chanel, who has served as a White House intern, co-led a workshop with Apoorva Rangan that inspired the girls. |  JMSG teamed up with the San Francisco Film Society to bring Producer/Director Catherine Gund and Co-Producer and lead actress Sadie Rain Hope-Gund from the documentary "What's on Your Plate?" to school. |  For the upcoming Sixth Grade Play, students performed vignettes showcasing their talents to help determine what role would best suit them. | |
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March 26, 2010 |
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 Students in the "You Grow Girl!" activity observed pollinators in the garden. |  The faculty defeated the students 10-6 in the annual Faculty/Student Basketball Game. |  7th graders participate in the annual Doodle4Google contest as part of Tech class, creating doodles based on the theme, "If I could do *anything*, I would..." | |
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March 19, 2010 |
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 Sixth graders practice putting up tents for their upcoming Hearst Castle Trip. |  In their study of Japanese architecture, seventh graders have been working on their floor plans using tatami mats. |  The sixth and seventh graders wowed the audience at this year's Spring Concert with performances showcasing instrumental ensembles, choir, contemporary dance and flamenco. | |
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March 12, 2010 |
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 In science, 8th graders are conducting experiments to compare chemical vs. physical reactions. |  6th graders are learning about mindfulness and meditation as part of their study of Buddhism. |  En Español, 8th grades are using a website called Voice Threads to record their responses to questions describing things they do now or have done in the past. | |
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March 5, 2010 |
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 Students are busy rehearsing for the upcoming Spring Concert on Thursday, March 18. |  A typical sighting at JMSG... students on laptops. |  8th graders are designing challenges for their robots by assigning a light sensor to a robot and programming it to follow the course. | |
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February 12, 2010 |
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 6th grade artists did a modern interpretation of Egyptian deity fashion and powers by making paper dolls according to ancient rules of Egyptian figure drawing proportions and gestures. |  The 7th grade science class is conducting an experiment in the garden by changing a variable as they plant chard, spinach, and mustard from seed. |  8th graders created metaphor posters after examining the pros and cons of the symbols of melting pot, salad bowl and cultural mosaic to describe collective identity. They wrote Spanish poems about identity based on the poem "Mestizo" by Francisco X. Alacrón, exploring different facets of cultural background and personality. | |
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February 5, 2010 |
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 8th graders learned about calorimetry through experiments that determine the amount of energy (calories) in a walnut. |  6th graders made models of rivers in Science this week and have been observing the way the water flows naturally and what happens when humans intervene with nature's course. |  The ERA activity calculated that due to pay inequities, JMSG students will lose $255 million in earnings in their anticipated professions over the course of their lifetimes because they are women. Students wore purple and took this photo to send to Maria Schriver. | |
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January 29, 2010 |
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 The 6th graders recently visited the King Tut exhibit, and are finishing their study of Ancient Egypt, and were thrilled to receive their very own piece of papyrus, courtesy of a friend of the school. |  Last Friday, 7th graders traveled to Cisco, Google, and Pixar... |  ...the girls have been corresponding with women at these companies through the eMentor program. A highlight of the trip was the eMentor lunch, where the girls got to meet many of the eMentors in person and chat face-to-face. | |
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January 22, 2010 |
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The 2009-10 Basketball season has officially begun. The JV squad remains undefeated after two games. 8th grade science is learning about gravitational and elastic potential energy by launching straws!
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January 15, 2010 |
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| | | | 8th grade science has been exploring Rube Goldberg machines, which are deliberately over-engineered machines that perform a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction of simple machines. | 7th graders have been taking turns bringing a special guest to science class. These guest visitors have ranged from dwarf rabbits to turtles!
| JMSG hosted teachers from Bay Area schools for a visual art workshop led by by artist-educators Luz Marina Ruiz (JMSG alum parent) and Cathleen Micheaels. The workshop offered an integrated arts experience through written and visual imagery.
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January 8, 2010 |
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| | | JMSG performed for the school AND were also featured at "Pergoleto", a recent SF Flamenco show.
| A Mills graduate student lead an informal show featuring The Music Improvisation activity group's final pieces.
| Before winter break, students were treated to a pajama spirit day and hot cocoa prepared by the student council.
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December 18, 2009 |
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| | | 6th graders visited the King Tut exhibit at the De Young Museum and afterwards did a meditative nature activity in Golden Gate Park. Each girl went on a silent walk and composed an individual Andy Goldsworthy sculpture.
| 8th graders are finishing their architecture projects, from designing floor plans and elevations for a house to constructing a scale model for an amusement park.
| The entire school enjoyed short performances from the chorus, band, string ensemble, flamenco activity, and percussion ensemble before our holiday break? |
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December 4, 2009 |
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| | | | Eighth graders headed to NASA to compete in a Robotics Competition with the robots they've been building and programming since the beginning of the school year. Girls had to present a research project involving a problem in transportation, describe their design, and perform a variety of robot missions. One of our three teams qualified to move on the regional competition on Sat. December 12! |
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November 13, 2009 |
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| | | | The first Spirit Day of the year, organized by the student council, was Colors Day! Students wore whatever color(s) are their favorite or best represent their personalities. At lunch, the student council reps organized everyone into a big group rainbow photo. |
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November 19, 2009 |
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| | | | Seventh graders are learning to replicate the sounds of an Aztec flute with recorders. | 7th graders observed the bacteria in yogurt in science class.
| In preparation for winter, 6th graders mulched the JMSG garden.
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November 6, 2009 |
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| | | 8th graders are busy working on robots which they will enter in the upcoming Robotics Competition next month.
| 7th Graders studied masking traditions of African cultures, then made their own masks, textured and painted with symbols that tell stories and add layers of meaning.
| Eighth graders listened to the accents of different countries and regions in Spanish class using iPods, and then recorded themselves to practice pronunciation.
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October 30, 2009 |
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| | | Students from all three grades ran in the cross country meet on Mills campus on Monday.
| 7th graders measured shadows and used proportions in order to solve the heights of tall objects such as the light post and goal post.
| Students defeated the faculty in the annual student-faculty soccer match with the ending score 1-0.
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