April 18-22, 2016

General Announcements:

• Please return the permission slip for your child to view the maturation video and attend the Dr. visit.  
• If students signed up to sing tomorrow night with Mrs. Vines for Fine Arts Night, this portion of the program has been cancelled due to a family emergency for Mrs. Vines.
• 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
• 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.  

Important Dates for This Week

• Tuesday, April 19th:  PTO Meeting and Fine Arts Night 6:00-7:30 p.m. (NO SINGING WITH MRS. VINES)
• Thursday, April 21st:  Students will view Maturation videos and Drs. will visit
• Thursday, April 22nd:  Middle School Course Selection Sheets due

Important Curriculum Dates

• Friday, April 22:  Reading and Vocabulary Test; DOL test
• Friday, April 22: Math test on number patterns and graphing

Looking Ahead

• 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 are starting to look at patterns in geometry, algebra, and graphing. We started by working with function charts, and trying to find the "rule" for finding any unknown variable. Today, we began by looking at growth patterns in data and how that would look on a graph. We will continue this before we move into more basic geometry.
Homework: Math Computation and for Mr. Williams' homeroom, finish pages 15 and 16 in Unit #8.

Science News:

**Science: We are starting to wrap up our lessons on shadows and how the position of the earth, sun, and moon will affect them. We graphed our data from previous weeks of shadow data collection. We will soon begin to look at gravity and Newton's Laws. As a culminating activity, we will made devices that will hopefully protect an egg from breaking, after being dropped from a second story window.

Language Arts News:

Topics of Study -

**Reading: We are back to a normal week this week.  Students received a new reading passage and vocabulary words.  We will read the passage several times, but it is always important to read it again at home throughout the week.  A reading and vocabulary test will be on Friday.

Homework: vocabulary sheet; READ!! Finish Personification sheet if it wasn't finished in class

**Language/Language IXL- Beginning this week, we will review grammar skills from this year.  A test will be on Thursday.

Homework: work on IXL if not finished in class; study DOL for test on FRIDAY (this day was changed from Thursdsy!)

Social Studies:

Topics of Study – We will begin our unit on slavery this week and soon move on to our study of the causes of the Civil War.

Homework: map sheet; answer questions on the back (due on Wednesday)

                   

We hope everyone has a great week!