6A Cheetahs

This Friday will be Patriot Day at Untalan.  Teachers have been covering the events of September 11, 2001 in their classes.  Half the day will be set aside for various activities as well as the first dance of the year.  Students will be allowed to dress down on Friday, however–please remember to follow the dress code rules in your student handbooks. In celebration of Patriot Day, our students have been assigned red, white, or blue for the day: sixth grades students are assigned red shirts, seventh graders will wear blue, and white is reserved for the eighth graders.

The first quarter progress reports will be distributed to our students on Thursday.  Please make sure that you reutrn them to your first period teachers along with your parent/guardian signature.  The due date for the return of the progress reports is Monday, September 14.

Welcome to the 6A Cheetah family! You will have many opportunities to explore new ideas, learn interesting ways to understand the world around you, and make many new friends!  Mr. Borja will guide your Science explorations, Mr. Meno will help you build your Math skills, Mrs. Cruz will help you understand the importance of history and government in Social Studies, Mr. Massimo will help you develop good writings skills in Language Arts, and Mrs. Salas will help you examine different ways of understanding literature in Reading.  We look forward to working together with you and your families.  Let’s make this year a great one!

Thank you to all of our students and parents for a great year! It was challenging, but you made it fun and very memorable.  We will miss having you in our classrooms.  Enjoy your summer break and when you come back to UMS in the fall as 7th graders, make sure you drop by every so often to say hello to your favorite teachers!  Good luck and best wishes to all of you!

Our final 6A Raffle was a great success! Congratulations to Austin B. for winning the grand prize!  Austin went home with a brand new laptop!  Juliette G. now has an awesome 19 inch flat screen TV to enjoy for the summer, and Mae Ann P. walked away with an electric guitar and amplifier set! Nathaniel C. won the mountain bike and Trevor M. got the cool XBox 360! Raymond M. got a brand new cell phone and Rebecca C. gets to keep the 2008-2009 UMS Wildcats Yearbook!  CONGRATULATIONS to all our big winners!!! Enjoy your summer!

Congratulations to Austin Bay-Asen, Joseph Casila, Trevor McDow, and Kyle San Nicolas! They impressed the science fair judges with their individual experiments and presentations so much that they share the honor of being 4 of the top 5 winners of the 2008-2009 Untalan Middle School Science Fair!

Congratulations to our 6A Cheetahs for successfully completing the grueling National Junior Honor Society application process! Our NJHS Faculty Council was impressed with all of you!

Joseph Casila

Juliette Garcia

Chaina Pereira

Mae Ann Picayo

Kyle San Nicolas

Domaniquemonet Smith

We are so proud of you all!  You have demonstrated outstanding character, leadership, scholarship, service, and citizenship that the NJHS demands of all its members.

Starting next week, our students will begin the annual SAT 10 tests. Please make sure that you get enough rest and eat a good breakfast–we want to make sure you are prepared to do your best!  A practice test run is scheduled for April 27th, and testing continues until May 8th.  The SAT 10 will be administered in the morning each day.  If you need to schedule appointments, try to make them for the afternoon.  Students have been instructed where to go for testing.  The test schedule is below:

Monday, 4/27–Student information sheet, practice test

Tuesday, 4/28–Science and Social Science

Wednesday, 4/29–Math Procedures

Thursday, 4/30–Math Problem Solving

Friday, 5/01–Spelling

Monday, 5/04–Reading Vocabulary

Tuesday, 5/05–Reading Comprehension

Wednesday, 5/06–Listening

Thursday, 5/07–Language

Friday, 5/08–Make Up Day

So make sure you get enough sleep and eat brain food!!!  Let’s show Guam why we are called the School of Excellence!

Our Cheetahs are going to watch Earth this Friday, April 24th.  Joining us in our Earth Week fieldtrip are the 7B Tigers.  Please make sure you turn in your signed fieldtrip forms to Mr. Borja along with your $13 fee.  This will cover the bus and movie ticket fees.

Sk8ter Girls beat out Grilled Cheese and Spam with Soy Sauce, Kidz of Rock, and Super Crew in our first ever Rock Band 2 competition! The four groups faced our tough judges in the final round and the competition was fierce–only THREE points separated the Sk8ter Girls from the runners-up! Thank you to our judges Miss Yvonne Pereda, Mr. Louis Gombar, and Mr. Mike DiAmore for helping make this a memorable event!