Parents,
Today was an exciting day on the Patriotic Wolves team! Students were rewarded for their hard work this quarter with personalized Patriotic Wolves pencils. Additionally, we recognized fourteen students who exemplified one of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. We’re so proud of our students’ many accomplishments during the first semester, and thank you for your past monetary donations that made this celebration possible!
General Team Information:
This morning students received report cards from their homeroom teachers. We ask that you review your student’s academic progress, sign the report card, and have your student return it to his or her homeroom teacher on Monday. We will provide your student a copy of their report card when he or she returns the signed original. If you have any questions or concerns, please speak with your student first, and then email the teacher directly.
The Patriotic Wolves teachers continue to be available every Tuesday after school until 5:00 PM to help students in our core classes. This is a great time for students to receive additional help, work on projects, or study for upcoming assessments in a structured setting. We ask that you make sure your student has a ride home at 5:00 PM.
This is a reminder that Wednesday, February 3rd is an early release day, with students being dismissed at 12:30 PM.
The next school dance & activity night is on Friday, February 5th from 6:00-7:30 PM. The PTSA is also selling stuffed Valentine’s bears that students may adopt or send to a student or faculty for $2.50. Both stuffed Valentine’s bears and dance tickets may be purchased during lunch on Tuesday-Friday the week of the dance. No dance tickets will be sold at the door.
The PTSA is sponsoring a Spirit Night at Milton’s Pizza on Monday, February 8th from 5:00-10:00 PM. Milton’s will donate 20% of all sales to our PTSA. Come out and support by enjoying great food from the Milton’s Pizza near the school.
The WMS Student Services department is hosting a Parent Night on Thursday, February 18 from 6:00-7:30 P.M. The event will be held at the Fox Road Elementary School Media Center. Presenters will be sharing information with parents about helping students with test preparation, study strategies, homework preparation and organization. You can pre-register by contacting your child’s counselor (Dr. Inscoe) or register when you arrive on the 18th.
Wakefield Middle School is looking for community members to assist with proctoring the End of Grade (EOG) and End of Course (EOC) Exams. Exam dates are as follows: EOGs May 14th – 19th, EOG make-ups and EOC exams May 26th – June 4th. Volunteer proctors need to be available from 8:00am – noon (approximately). If you are interested in assisting, contact our Testing Coordinator, Annette Stegner (astegner@wcpss.net), with your available dates and make sure you are a registered volunteer at our school.
Ms. Adamson – Math (Overflow Teacher) – sadamson@wcpss.net
- Algebra students will begin a new unit. They will be solving systems of linear equations and inequalities. They will learn different methods to solve them, and they will learn to write a system of equations for real world problems.
- Math 8 students will continue to review volume and surface area of prisms and cylinders. They will also discover how changing dimensions effects perimeter, area and volume. Students will also be completing Blue Diamond tests.
- Math 8 Plus students will discover how changing dimensions effects perimeter, area and volume. They will also be completing Blue Diamond tests.
- Students are welcome to come to my room for extra help during CSI time.
Ms. Burnette – Language Arts – jburnette1@wcpss.net
Students will continue to study the Holocaust and read independently.
- Monday- Read Act 1, Scenes 4 and 5 from The Diary of Anne Frank.
- Tuesday- Students will respond to review questions from Act 1, Scenes 1-5. Study for Word Analysis Test.
- Wednesday- Word Analysis Test- (Root words)
- Thursday- Continue to study Word Analysis – (Prefixes and Suffixes)
- Friday- Final Test on The Diary of Anne Frank-Act 1, Scenes 1-5.
Students in 5th period will continue to read the selection, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. All students are trying to earn a reward day on Friday, February 5th, for reading four nights consecutively. They also must write a summary and get a parent’s signature at least three nights next week. Please continue to encourage your child to read independently. Thanks for your support! Reward….Dance Contest!!!
Mr. Misuraca – Social Studies – mmisuraca@wcpss.net
On Thursday students spent the period with Dr. Inscoe and Dr. Harper from Student Services going over options for high school classes, and today we continued our study of events leading to the Civil War. Students should continue working on their Civil War projects that are due on Friday, February 5th.
- Monday - Abolitionists and The Underground Railroad. Students receive Underground Railroad Diary assignment, due Wednesday.
- Tuesday – Manifest Destiny and the West. Unfortunately I will not be be available after school for tutoring due to a prior commitment.
- Wednesday – Underground Railroad Diary collected. Oregon Trail, Texas Wins Independence, and the Mexican-American War
- Thursday – Continue the Mexican-American War
- Friday – Civil War Project due & students will present projects to class.
Ms. Starr – Science – bstarr2@wcpss.net
Parents, we do hope that everyone is doing well in this new year of 2010. Since we have the greatest parents, I have some favors to ask of you again. I’ll write them in bulleted points to make it easier to understand and read.
- I need 160 apples on Thursday, February 4th, 2010, so that our wonderful students can enjoy completing a comparison lab of “Earth to Apple”. If I have enough apples for all, then the students will be able to eat their own apple at the conclusion of the lab. So if possible, please send in some bags of apples by Thursday morning. I’ll be more than happy to receive them earlier in the week. It doesn’t matter what variety or color of apple, and I’ll wash them so you don’t have to do that.
- Also we’re getting short of the “Disinfecting Wipes” on our team. With all the labs that we do, and all our “little germs” we do lots of wiping down in our rooms. We greatly could use some more containers of the wipes to use in our classrooms.
- We’re seeing many students without pencils and papers, so extra packs of these supplies would be greatly appreciated by our team.
We do from the bottoms of our hearts thank you, parents, for all that you do for your child and other students on our team. It means so much to us. You are truly the greatest parents!!
- Monday- Introduce Unit A, Chapter 1; Homework 23 Vocabulary Words to be defined using description wheels; Vocabulary review sheet also.
- Tuesday- Vocabulary is due!: Video; “Earth’s Crust” with questions.
- Wednesday- Analogies using the 23 Vocabulary words from Chapter 1.
- Thursday- Lab- “Apple to Earth”
- Friday- Lab is due with a cover page: Take Chapter 1 Vocabulary quiz; “Plate Tectonics”
Ms. Tyler – Math – mtyler@wcpss.net
Weekly Problem Sets that were due on Friday have been pushed back to Monday the 1st. Students were allowed to check their work on Friday and correct any mistakes before turning them in. If they did turn them in you will see my notes or corrections on the paper. Students that want to do corrections for the quiz on surface area must stay after school on Tuesday the 2nd or it will NOT count.
Algebra
Monday: 7.8 Graphing Inequalities
Homework: Pg. 440 19-45 odd and 46 – 48 all
Tuesday: Graphing Inequalities day 2
Homework: Wkst 7.8
Wednesday: Enrichment 7.8
Homework: Practice Test
Thursday: Review day Pg. 443 – 445, 1- 53 with a partner
Homework: finish assignment
Friday: Testing chapter 7
Homework: Pg. 416 8 – 15 all
Math 8 Plus
Monday: Cylinders lab
Homework: Finish lab to turn in
Tuesday: Geometric Probability
Homework: Worksheet
Wednesday: Geo probability and radicals
Homework: Algebra worksheet
Thursday: Square roots and Pythagorean Thm.
Homework: Pg. Worksheet
Friday: Pyth. Thm
Homework: Worksheet
Math 8
Monday: Cylinders lab
Homework: Finish lab to turn in
Tuesday: Changing dimensions
Homework: Worksheet
Wednesday: Dominos activity
Homework: Finish dominos
Thursday: Geometric Probability
Homework: Pg. Take home QUIZ on dimensions
Friday: Blue Diamond
Homework: Worksheet on Geometric Probability
Ms. I. Williams – Language Arts (Overflow) – iwilliams@wcpss.net
Ms. Williams’ students identified dependent and independent clauses in order to analyze complex sentences. Students will take the grammar Blue Diamond assessment next week.
Students should begin brainstorming 3 careers that they would like to research. Information will be forthcoming.
Upcoming Events:
January 29 – Report Cards Distributed
February 1 – Students Return Report Signed Report Cards
February 1 – Boys’/Girls’ Basketball at Wake Forest-Rolesville M.S.
February 2 – Millbrook High School Information Session – 6:00 PM
February 3 – Early Release Day – Students Dismissed at 12:30 PM
February 4 – Battle of the Books Meeting – 3:10 PM
February 4 – Boys’/Girls’ Basketball at East Millbrook M.S.
February 5 – Student Council Dance / Activity Night – 6:00-7:30 PM
February 8 – PTSA Milton’s Pizza Fundraiser – 5:00-10:00 PM
February 23 – Wakefield High School Information Session – 6:30 PM
March 4 – Wake Forest Rolesville at Heritage Info. Session – 6:30 PM
March 18 – Heritage High School Information Session
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