8-3 Newsletter
April 11-15 2016
What's New?
REVIEW-RETEACH-RELEARN-REPEAT
Students are or will be receiving reviews in all of their academics. It is up to them to use these reviews to study for the End of Grade tests. It is very important for them to stay on task and take advantage of the opportunities to review the 8th grade content.
Snack Donations for Testing In previous years, the school provided students with a snack during each day of testing. These snacks are no longer being provided by the school so we are asking for donations so the students will have a snack each day of testing (testing runs from approximately 8-11 am each day). If you are able and willing to send in any donations, we would greatly appreciate it. We are also requesting mini bottles of water (we plan to keep them each day and let the students refill them throughout the week).
Homeroom Totals: Bridwell—20, McKinney—24, Richardson—24, Siekkinen—28.
Snack Ideas:
**individual bagged/packaged items would be best due to break time limits
Crackers/Goldfish/etc.
Graham crackers
Fruit snacks
Cookies
Pretzels
Rice Krispy Treats
Yearbooks-Last chance to pre-order the SMMS yearbook until 5/1/16. The cost is $45. If you need an order form, see the front office or order online at
http://www.jostens.com/apps/store/customer/1040785/St.-Mary's-Middle-School/
WE NEED YOUR INPUT!!
Title I Parent Survey - Help us better serve you
Georgia School Climate Rating - These ratings are part of our CCRPI score
Coming Soon!
April 14 ZAP and WOW (Last one before Progress Report)
April 18-22 EOG Testing
April 22 Team 8-3 grade cut-offs for progress reports
April 27 Progress Reports
April 28 8-3 Field Trip
April 28 ZAP and WOW
May 5 ZAP and WOW
May 6 8th grade dance 6pm-8pm
Here is what is happening in our classes!
Dr. Bridwell- Physical Science
Students received two grades this week for review materials covering Matter and Energy. Next week we will be reviewing S8P3 Forces and Machines on Monday-Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, we will review S8P4 Waves and S8P5 Electricity & Magnetism. There will be grades generated from the work that they do on those reviews.
Mrs. Richardson- Language Arts
Block 3 students will be reviewing skills learned throughout the school year. Towards the end of the week, I will be posting a document in Google Classroom that will have several links on it listed by skill for the students to use as a review. We will spend some class time using these websites, but they can also use them at home.
Blocks 2,4,5 will be receiving our next novel, October Sky. We will not officially start reading the text till Tuesday, April 19th. They will be given class time after testing to read, so they will have time to review for tests in the evening.
Dr. Siekkinen- Georgia Studies
We have covered all new material for the year and are into “review” mode until the GA Milestones. The last ZAP/WOW before progress reports will be 4/15. Please check grades so there are no surprises.
Mrs. McKinney- Math
Wow, it is hard to believe that next week is the last full week prior to testing. There is a Milestones review in google classroom that will be due on Wednesday. This review will be the unit 3 review and will cover transformations and transversals. Monday-Wednesday we will be learning how to solve systems of equations by elimination. Tuesday we will be doing an activity that will give them some practice on simple problems where they can see the answers. For the activity students will need M&M’s. If possible, please send your student with a small bag of M&M’s. Keep in mind that there are students who are allergic to nuts so please buy the plain ones. Students will be able to eat them once they are finished with them. Thursday we will review and practice the important parts of unit 1, exponents, rational and irrational numbers, and solving equations. Friday we will practice unit 2, Pythagorean Theorem and volume. The following Monday we will review units 4 and 5, Tuesday will be units 6 and 7.
We are here if you need us!
Best way to contact us is by email!
For conference requests, please contact the main office.
Email: contact@camden.k12.ga.us
Website: http://smms.camden.k12.ga.us/
Location: St. Marys Middle School, Martha Drive, Saint Marys, GA, United States
Phone: (912) 882-8626