Mavericks Team Update
April 7, 2017
Announcements
April 7: Friday Fun (3pm)
Please don't forget that you can regularly check your student's grades in PowerSchool. If you see that a score for an assignment is highlighted in blue you can click on that assignment to see a comment.
Mavericks FIELD TRIP Coming Soon!
Students MUST turn in the permission slip NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, APRIL 28.
Due to scheduling, we cannot accept permission slips after this date. Students are also receiving permission slips in Science class today, and may retrieve permission slips from their Science teacher later if needed. A copy of the permission slip can also be found here.
EDP
What did we do in class today?
Math:Students will continue to practice Unit 8 material - perfect squares & cubes, irrational/rational, imperfect squares, & Pythagorean Theorem. Students will do a quick two-way table activity as well.
ELA: Today students are working on a MAP practice test. We will review the test on Monday and some skills will be retaught next week.
ELA (Mrs. Brown): Students will work on identifying prepositional phrases and using commas in a series.
Social Studies:Discussing the causes of the Civil War. Reading primary and Secondary sources
Yearbooks available for purchase
Upcoming Dates to Remember
April 12: Swim meet @ Belton
April 14: Yearbook Order Forms and Money Due to the office
April 19: Swimmers end of season celebration
April 20: Swim championships @ Gladstone
April 25: Spring Band Concert (7 pm) in the Eastgate Auditorium (all three bands will combine in the end to play “Cake by the Ocean"!!)
Contact Information
(816) 321-4204
Jessica Nolin, Science
(816) 321-5829
Troy Sielaff, Social Studies
(816) 321-6137
Leslie Goodwin, English Language Arts
(816) 321-4691
Additional Resources and Links
E-Campus (Blackboard) Username - student lunch number, password- student's birthdate (MMDDYYY)
I-Ready The I-Ready program provides students with lessons and assessments to strengthen their knowledge Math and ELA concepts. The Math and ELA teachers use this program in class frequently, and will use the students' scores on the assessments that follow the lessons in their grade books. We strongly encourage students working on lessons at home if possible. The student username is the student's ID #@nkcschools.org (123456@nkcschools.org, for example) and the password is the student's birthdate (MMDDYYYY).
PowerSchool Be sure to sign up for a Parent Portal account! From this account you can view student's grades and attendance. Don't have a parent portal account? Contact the EGMS office to obtain one.
Scholastic Scholastic Reading Clubs allow parents and students to order book and other items at an affordable price. If you use Mrs. Goodwin's classroom code, N8ZDY , when you check out, you earn free books for the ELA classroom! Want to write a check? That's fine! Simply write the check to Scholastic and turn it into Mrs. Goodwin. Monthly paper catalogues are available in Mrs. Goodwin's room as well.
Eastgate Middle School Calendar
Eastgate Middle School Website