April 4-8, 2016

General Announcements:

• Scroll down the page to see a few pictures we snapped at the 5K! :)
• 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
• Next 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.  
• 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.
• Our front office has created a document that will help as you navigate our recent rezoning 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

No dates for the week

Important Curriculum Dates

• No scheduled tests or quizzes this week

Looking Ahead

• April 11:  ACT Aspire Reading Test
• April 12:  ACT Aspire Math Test

• 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
• 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: We are still working with decimals in math. Looking at how to divide decimals, will continue to be our focus. However, throughout this week, I will be adding in some opportunities to review prior learning and skills. We will be implementing ways to use our understandings to solve multi-step word problems.

Science News

**Science: In science, we will continue to look at how shadows created on the earth, and the moon, are directly connected to the position of the sun. We will also using this knowledge to help us explain the apparent movement of stars in the night sky. As time permits, we will also look at using our inferencing skills to help us solve science questions.

Language Arts News

Topics of Study -

**Reading: Our focus this week will be to prepare for the ACT Aspire test. We will discuss test taking tips, key words to look for in questions on the reading portion of the test, take online practice tests, etc.

**Language/Language IXL- We will continue to work on skills that will be present on the ACT Aspire.  All 3 IXL skills are due before class on Friday.

Social Studies:

Topics of Study – We are studying the Industrial Revolution this week.

                   

We hope everyone has a great week!