You have arrived at Mrs. Buchholz’s Website!!! 

Scrabble Club meeting schedule:

Open to grades 5 – 8 in Science Lab from 3:15 – 4:00 PM

February 29th

You must have a permission slip to stay.

National Junior Honor Society

We have successfully concluded our drive for toiletries for homeless veterans.

This year’s members include:

Laura Bierbrauer

Michael Englert

William Frank

Alexis Fredricks

Grace Fredricks Treasurer

Katie Howell

Peter Kroetsch President

Zachary Lenz

Sabrina Mistriner

Charles Panepinto

Hannah Panzica Vice President

Luke Strott

Nicholas Terlecky

William Tompkins

Ciara Vedella

Brigid White Secretary

Elliott Ziolkowski

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8^th Grade Information

Minutes of the Parents’ Meeting

Please check your planner for daily assignments.

If you are absent, check the Master Planner in the Science Lab.

Extra credit projects will be available during each quarter.

All Science textbooks are available online. Your child has received directions on how to access them. Some of the online versions allow you to “hear” all the text and all questions have a “Hint” button, to take you directly to the paragraph where the answer may be found.

Here is a summarized version of the directions:

http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

Login: username

Password - for grade 5 - sf52011

- for grade 6 - phes11

- for grade 7 - phls11

- for grade 8 - phps11

- on your Home page, click on the title of your text

- navigate by page, chapter, section, etc.

February

17 8^th grade Dress Down for Charity

20-24 Winter Break

29 Scrabble Club

March

TBA Scrabble Club

TBA 8^th grade Dress Down for Charity

April

4 Hope Ribbon Ceremony during school liturgy

TBA Scrabble Club

TBA 8^th grade Dress Down for Charity

May

9 May Crowning during school liturgy

4 Scheduled Date for Class Trip

TBA Scrabble Club

TBA 8^th grade Dress Down for Charity

June

1 Class Night

TBA 8^th grade Dress Down for Charity

19 Graduation (7:00 pm)

8^th Grade Homeroom Supplies and Mrs. Buchholz’s Science Class Supplies

This is my 13^th year as St. Stephen’s Science teacher for grades 5 – 8. I am the School’s Science Coordinator, supporting the primary teachers who teach Science.

I have the additional duty of assistant to Mrs. Ende.

I am faculty adviser for our School’s National Junior Honor Society and the Scrabble Club.

Since 2004, I have been the SSS representative to the Board of the Tonawanda/Grand Island Teacher Center, serving on their Communications committee and coordinating all grants from the TC.

I attended Canisius College and am a graduate of SUNY Buffalo. I also have 15 years experience as an Industrial Engineer at Fisher Price Toys.

My son and two daughters are alumni of St. Stephen School and Canisius High School or Holy Angels Academy. All of my children are graduates of Canisius College. My son has his Master’s Degree and is teaching Mathematics at Lancaster High School. My middle daughter also has her Master’s Degree and is teaching kindergarten at Catholic Academy of Niagara Falls. My youngest daughter is finishing her MBA through St. Bonaventure University and is employed by 1^st Niagara Bank in Lockport.

As a former SSS parent, I was also the Treasurer for HSA during the 2000-01 school year.

My philosophy as a teacher –

As a “scientist” and teacher, I like to think that my teaching makes a difference. I hope that my students walk out of my classroom not only knowing more about the world than when they walked in, but that they are better prepared to tackle the issues with a scientific basis that comes from their own lives.

In other words, I expect my students to gain not only content knowledge from my classes, but process knowledge – how they know what they know.

Classroom guidelines - Classroom%20guidelines.doc

Safety Rules - Safety%20rules.doc

Charity Choices - Request%20for%20Charity%20choices%20for%20Dress%20Down.doc