Weekly Update 5/12-5/16

IMPORTANT REMINDERS/EVENTS:

PROGRESS REPORTS GO HOME FRIDAY, MAY 9th.

8th Grade Eng-of-Year Activities:
Friday, May 23—Schlitterbahn and Post-field trip “Activity Fest”
Wednesday, May 28—Academic Celebration (Awards Ceremony)
Thursday, May 29—Promotion Ceremony at Butler Field House; No school for 8th graders

Opportunity for comments on the school accountability laws to your representatives:

JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:

Public School Accountability, Select

TIME & DATE:
12:00 PM, Monday, May 12, 2008

PLACE:
Houston, Texas

CHAIR:
Sen. Florence Shapiro and Rep. Rob Eissler

The Select Committee on Public School Accountability will hold a hearing on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. at the M.O. Campbell Educational Center, Room 104, 1865 Aldine Bender Road, Houston, Texas, 77032. The Committee will hear invited and public testimony on issues related to the Public School Accountability system. Public testimony will be limited to 3 minutes per person.


English:
We are continuing Mango Street with the short amount of time left in the year. In addition, we are doing some work with poetry and our last independent book unit. Project are due Monday/Tuesday, May 12-13. Please make sure your child is working on this and turns this in on time.

Laying the Foundation testing will take place this week Monday-Thursday for approximately 45 minutes each class period. This test will occur during normal class periods; we are not on a testing schedule. Monday/Tuesday is multiple choice and Wednesday/Thursday is Free Response (writing). With the time left in each class period, we will present projects. We won’t get through all of them, so we’ll finish up the following week.

Wednesday/Thursday, May 7-8, I sent home individual reports for my class with each student. This should provide you with a breakdown of specific assignments for my class that made-up the progress report grade you’ll see on Friday 5/9; however, the reports I gave are more current than the progress report grade, so please focus on my report for “real-time” status. Missing assignments should be taken care of immediately. There is no extra credit this grading period. Students who were absent for the Boston field trip should get work in ASAP. The work was posted in my room before they left, but only a few picked up the work. After next Tuesday, I will count work late for these students.

Important Dates for Independent Reading Unit 4: FREE CHOICE
Projects Due MAY 12-13. These count three times and there isn’t much time for late projects. Please make sure your child submits a quality project on time to avoid any bad surprises on report cards.

History:
All students have due next week the big project on Landforms. This is a grade for history and science. It is a grade for one of the first projects for those attending Bellaire in Pre AP Geography. The students may inquire of their teachers in other schools if those teachers do a similar project or if they can receive credit for the project. The students received this assignment a month ago. Since it takes some time to grade these, we cannot take them late. I have told the students not to tell me at the last minute that computers did not work or they left it at home. Mr. Scott and I expect the students to have this assignment on time. I am including the assignment again on this Update.

Our last history test was this week and the grades, hopefully, will be on the grade reports the students should have either May 9 or the following Monday. Please ask your student for both the grade report and the progress report. There will be some geography tests or quizzes so students should not assume they have no more work to do.

Science:
Please email Mr. Scott for information about Science.

Math:
Please email Ms. Qureshi for information about Math.

Foreign Language Department BLOG: See link below

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