March 15, 2010

FAMILY FUN NIGHT MARCH 19TH FROM 5-8 PM

Don't forget to attend a fun filled evening this Friday at STRIDE. There will be concessions available and many fun games or activities to choose from. Some of them include: cake walk, bingo, crazy hair, fishing booth, duck pond, sucker pull, golf, karate, and many more. If you haven't signed up to help work and would like to please contact either Mrs. Swanson or Ms. Wallwork.

Welcome back from a nice break, it appears the nice weather may be here to stay. Over break the new middle school buildling is finally started!!! YEAH! If you have any questions please contact Mrs. Swanson, Mr. Ulbrich, or Mr. Beutel.

Social: Students will begin presenting their power points on Wednesday and finish up next week. Each group is responsible for one chapter and a hand out for each student. Students will be graded on their power points and handouts/assessments. We will then begin our unit on Industrialism, Capitalism, and Socialism.

Science: This week students are studying how plate movement creates different underwater features such as trenches and ridges. Students are also being the teacher by presenting information on volcanoes features. Our next science test will be Monday, March 29th. The science project on the Earth is also due on test day.

Language Arts: No spelling this week, we are devoting some extra time to the MCA's that are coming up in April. We will continue on with Julius Caesar by finishing up critical thinking questions and starting in on Act II.

Math:

Ms. Wallwork's class is working on fractional parts and we began this week with Lesson 71. We will also be finding the area of complex figures and solving ratio problems.

Mrs. Swanson's class is working on area of a circle, solving for an unknown number, using proportions to solve ratio word problems, estimating square roots, and measuring turns.

Reading: Ms. Wallwork's class is a little over half way through Travels with Charlie. We continue to work on vocabulary for the MCA's and the NWEA's. Be sure to study the RIT words that were sent home before break.

Updates and Reminders:

School pictures were sent home this week. As a parent you must decide to either keep the pictures and pay for them or send them back to STRIDE.

MCA testing dates are April 22nd and 23rd for Reading and April 27th and 28th for Math. Mark your calendars now. It is important your child attends school on these days.

The end of the quarter is March 31st. Conferences are on April 1st. Reminders will be sent home of the time you signed up for conferences last fall. If this time works then do not return the slip, if it does not work please inform us of another time.

There will be a short break from April 1st to April 5th. Class will resume April 6th.