April 11-15, 2016

General Announcements:

• Spring Pictures were sent home before Spring Break.  Your order and money are due by April 13th.
• May 2nd will be Elementary and Intermediate Transition Night.  Students will go to their Elementary schools from 5:30-6:30.  The Intermediate Transition will be from 6:30-7:30.  Students will be able to visit their new elementary or intermediate school to see the facilities, meet teachers, and learn more about the programs within the schools.
• On Monday, May 9th, the middle schools will have a Middle School Transition Night.  All middle schools will be open from 6:00-8:00 p.m. for any student who will be NEW to their middle school next year.  This includes rising 6th graders.  We will not be visiting Bumpus at a separate time during school this year.  Please see the attached flyer for more information: HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL TRANSITION NIGHT FLYER
• This week is our ACT Aspire testing. The testing schedule will be as follows:  Monday, April 11th:  Reading Test; Tuesday, April 12th:  Math Test; Wednesday, April 13th:  English Test;  Thursday, April 14th:  Science Test.  
• We will be keeping all Chromebooks and chargers at school until ACT Aspire testing is complete.
• On Thursday, April 14th at 5:30, we will be showing the physical maturation video to parents at BGIS in preview for the showing for the students the following Thursday, April 21st.  Please plan to attend or contact your homeroom teacher with any questions.  A letter was sent home about this as well as a copy sent in a separate email.  Please return this letter by April 19th.
• Hello Parents!   Your child should have received an invitation for the June 2017 Florida Trip and hopefully shared it with you! There will be a parent meeting on Tuesday, April 12th at 6:00pm in room 304 about the trip.  At this time, Mrs. Maynard will share further information about the trip. Should you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Maynard ad maynard@hoover.k12.al.us
• Our front office has created a document that will help as you navigate our recent zoning changes.  Please see this link for information on what students will attend Brock’s Gap:  Brock's Gap Rezoning Information

• Please check your child’s grades from time to time on INOW.  Please note that there might not be as many grades this 9 weeks, due to ACT testing. We've talked to our students about making every grade count this last nine weeks! :)

Important Dates for This Week

• April 11:  ACT Aspire Reading Test
• April 12:  ACT Aspire Math Test
• April 12:  6:00 p.m. meeting in Mrs. Maynard’s room about the June 2017 Florida Trip

• April 13:  Spring picture money/order due
• April 13:  ACT Aspire English Test
• April 14:  ACT Aspire Science Test
• April 14:  Physical Maturation video and parent meeting at 5:30

Important Curriculum Dates

• No scheduled tests or quizzes this week

Looking Ahead

• April 19: Fine Arts Night/PTO at 6:00-7:30 p.m.
• April 21:  Physical Maturation Lessons with students
• May 2:  Elementary (5:30 -6:30) and Intermediate (6:30-7:30) Transition Night
• May 9:  Middle School Transition Night 6:00-8:00

Curriculum News:

Math News:

**Math- In math, we will be working with measurement and graphing this week. There will not be any math homework, this week. Our next area of focus will be in geometry.

Science News:

**Science- We will continue with looking at the relationship between the sun and shadows on the earth and moon. After looking at this, we will start to look at gravity, and how it affects objects above and on the earth's surface.

Language Arts News:

Topics of Study -

**Reading: We will pick up with our normal language arts schedule after testing is over.

Social Studies:

Topics of Study – We are completing our study of the Industrial Revolution this week in class.  There will be no tests or quizzes.

                   

We hope everyone has a great week!