Hi Everyone! We would like to update you on what we have been doing in our classes. For most of the 4th marking period, in Replacement English and Math we have been doing work centered around the topic of baseball. We have learned both inside and outside of the classroom.
What we learned in math class is finding geometric shapes and score points. We learned different kind of shapes like squares, polygons, pentagons, octagons, rectangles, and hexagon. We learned how to multiply to find the total cost to purchase food at the Somerset Patriots game. Coach Chapman is a coach at Millburn High School and told us that he won the Championship, and he knows a lot about baseball. We learned where baseball players were being positioned on the field, that scoreboard shows which team or players scored points, and tells the batting averages. In math class we were making our own baseball cards by choosing any baseball player we wanted to choose. We had fun learning about everything baseball related in math class.
In English class, we research baseball history, including players, memorabilia, stats and records, rules of the game, The Baseball Hall of Fame, the MLB Network, and teams and top players. We completed independent reading work where every student read a book related to baseball and gave a presentation about the book. We watched a baseball movie, The Bad News Bears (1976), and we wrote a final essay about conflict in the movie. The Bad News Bears is about a guy named Coach Morris Buttermaker who was a terrible coach, and became a better coach later on. The baseball team the Bears were a bad team, they became better later on. Coach Buttermaker started to help his team and learned how to be a good coach. The Bears went from bad to better during the season.Finally, in English class, we are writing this blog post to share what we learned in the baseball unit.
Now we’d like to tell you about some field trips we took. On Wednesday, June 7th, the Replacement English and Real World Math Class went on a field trip to the Somerset Patriots game at TD Bank Park. Our chaperones who went on the trip were Mr. Askins, Mrs. Acitelli, Mrs. Basta, Miss Rosie, Mrs. Cicenia, Miss Brandt, and Mr. Kelly. During the trip, our class took a tour of the park, and did a scavenger hunt activity. The scavenger hunt had activities like baseball stats by inning, found shapes, calculated souvenir costs, sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”, and take a picture with the Patriots mascot, Sparkee. There were a few surprises during the game. Quinn, one of our students, got a birthday message from the main screen to celebrate his 15th birthday. Also, Mr. Askins and Mrs. Cicenia got picked to win a contest, but they lost. They did win a small prize each for being picked. We got to see the Patriots play against the Bridgeport Bluefish. While we watched the game, we got to eat lunch, and buy snacks to share. Everyone had an amazing time. The whole trip was funded by The Millburn Education Foundation, as well as fundraising efforts by the classes. It was a great field trip!
The Replacement English and math students went to The MLB Network on Thursday, June 15th in Secaucus, NJ. We researched the network as part of our baseball research project. Our chaperones include Mrs. Acitelli, Mrs. Boccia, Mrs. Basta, and Mr. Askins. The network has a wall of 4,200 baseball cards. The studios that we toured were studio 21, named after baseball great Roberto Clemente, and studio 42, named after Jackie Robinson, and studio 3, named after Babe Ruth. We also saw some NHL studios because the MLB Network also owns the NHL Network. Highlights included pretending to "work" the camera rooms and running the bases in Studio 42. The Network even had a banner running that said "Welcome Millburn High School." The MLB Network was a lot of fun, and a unique experience to tour a television network. It was also a great last day together for some of our seniors who are graduating! We will miss you!
We had an amazing year. We made a lot of new friends and kept some of our old friends too. We will deeply miss all of the faculty. Thank you to all of our blog supporters!
