Team Kani News: March 14-19, 2016
Upcoming Events:
HAPPY PI DAY!!! - Monday, March 14th (3/14)
End of 3rd Marking Period: Wednesday, March 16th
Please ensure that all missing assignments are turned in.
Parent Conferences
Dates:
Wednesday, March 23 - 1:30 - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, March 23 - 1:30 - 6:00 pm
Thursday, March 24 - 1:30-8:00 pm
Location:
Hilsman Middle School Rooms 213 & 214
Hilsman Middle School Rooms 213 & 214
*Each Team Kani student received a conference request form the Wednesday prior to
Spring Break. If your child did not bring a conference request form home, please email his or her homeroom teacher.
These are the conferences that have been scheduled: Spring Parent Conference Schedule
These are the conferences that have been scheduled: Spring Parent Conference Schedule
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Math News
This week in Math we begin Unit 6 Inferences - FINAL 7th Grade Unit!!!
Monday: Using Center & Spread Homework assigned (2 hrs. of Waggle)
Tuesday: Using Box & Whisker Plots
Wednesday: Distinguishing categorical data from numerical data
Thursday: Using Inter-Quartile Range to Compare Samples
Friday: Check-Up Quiz. Homework Due
WAGGLE: Students are expected to complete at least 2 hours per week in order to get full credit for their weekly homework grade. Students who do not meet this requirement will be given a grade of 55. Students can make up that grade by doing additional time another week. Please encourage your child to spend at least 30 minutes each night completing their assignments.
Students who make a grade below 100% are expected to correct their wrong answers and re-submit for partial credit for all assignments except vocabulary tests and some on-line assessments. Vocabulary tests can be re-taken during ELT. Corrections can be done during homeroom, ELT, lunch or after-school. Students must have their homeroom, ELT or lunch teacher's permission. Arrangements for after school must be made in advance. Students are to be picked up by 5pm.
Parents please check Campus regularly and monitor your child's grades and assignment completion. Assignments with a grade 55 and NHI in the comment box means that assignment was Not Handed In. Email me at baldwink@clarke. k12.ga.us for questions, comments and concerns.
Extra Credit
Students who reach 75% completion with a grade 70 or higher on MobyMax State Test Prep by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16th will receive extra credit for the 3rd marking period.
Science News
Class Activities This Week:
Friday = Big 10 Quiz #28
Trout Release Field Trip - Permission Forms due by Tuesday, March 15!
Join us on April 6 for this field trip! Turn in your field trip permission form and $31 payment by March 15.
Members of Trout Unlimited will accompany us to Blue Ridge Outdoor Education Center to release the trout and spend a day studying ecology in the North Georgia mountains.
Parents are welcome on this trip; however, we are limited to 46 seats on the bus. As of today, there are 8 spaces left for this field trip. We will depart at 7:00 am and return by 5:00 pm. Lunch is included.
Social Studies
This week in social studies will be continuing in Unit 7 Africa geography. Retakes for all three unit exams given this 9 weeks will administered on the computer. The study guides for these exams with answers are still linked in the blog and posted in Google classroom. Continuing to use the Africa coach book and other resources posted in google classroom to reinforce what we are doing in class will be very beneficial. Thank you for your support!
Language Arts News
This week, we will allow some class time for "credit recovery," allowing students to make up test assignments and make up failed quizzes. Since Parent Portal is closed right now, ask your child if I have given them any makeup work or retake assignments.
Students will continue reading A Long Walk to Water, an engrossing story of two children in the Sudan. One is a Nuer tribe girl who must walk eight hours a day for her family. The other is a Dinka "Lost Boy," one of thousands of young boys who were separated by war from their families and who must struggle to survive and avoid being drafted as child soldiers..
Some students have already completed reading the book. They will have time for silent reading of their own choice and/or enrichment activities.
REMEMBER THE OUTSIDERS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL?
This story is one of the most popular books I have ever taught; hardly anyone who reads the book doesn't like it. Ask your child to tell you daily what's happening each night. We start this wonderful adventure next week.
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