{"id":576,"date":"2019-05-28T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/?p=576"},"modified":"2019-05-28T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:41:04","slug":"weeks-of-may-27th-and-june-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/2019\/05\/28\/weeks-of-may-27th-and-june-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeks of May 27th and June 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hi Everyone!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So,\u00a0<em>testing is finally over<\/em>!\u00a0 It was a long month, but we got through it all and all my students were such good sports about it; they took their time and devoted much energy and effort.\u00a0 And with just 9 teaching days remaining (days off in June, 1\/2 day for field day and 1 field trip day), here&#8217;s a look at\u00a0 how we&#8217;ll be wrapping up the school year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">6th Grade Math Hours 2nd, 3rd and 4th<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We will have a summative assessment on Wednesday, May 29th to assess the last of our Pre-Algebra skills (simplifying Alg Expressions)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We will devote the next 6 days of teaching to the Geometry skills for 6th Grade CCSS; all skills will be taught and practiced enough that students will be exposed and able to find Area, Volume and Surface Area of Polygons and Triangles, as well as find the Area of Net and Irregular shapes.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We will wrap up the year with the rest of our Probability and Stats Unit by reviewing line plots and learning to both read and construct a box and whisker plot.\u00a0 We already learned to calculate Mean, Median, Mode and Range back in the winter prior to testing for the Winter NWEA.\u00a0 We will, however, do some review of this skill as well.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>There will most likely be another summative assessment with a few geometry and Prob and Stats problems, but students will be able to refer to their notes\/examples in the interactive notebook when taking this final assessment.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>NOTE 1:<\/em>\u00a0 There will be\u00a0<em>absolutely<\/em>\u00a0no late work accepted after this Friday, May 31st (except on the day after something was due).\u00a0 I have taken late work all year right up until the very last day of the marking period\u00a0<em>except\u00a0<\/em>this final cardmarking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>NOTE 2<\/em>:\u00a0 The district does plan to have Summer Learning requirements for students in Math again; I haven&#8217;t gotten word BUT I don&#8217;t doubt that it will be similar to years prior requiring 480 minutes (excluding video time) on Khan Academy.\u00a0 I will send home final RIT scores when I send the Summer Learning packet so students can enter them in Mappers as we&#8217;ve learned to do in class.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Now, for some general school reminders<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">\u00a0June 11 &amp; 13 Field trip permission slips (and $2 if students want the 2 pizza slice lunch) is due back NOW!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">\u00a0The Adventure Park waiver (on line\/go through 2nd Hour Google Classroom, Monday May 20th) is due NOW!\u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">\u00a0 There is no school June 3, 4 and 5.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">\u00a0 There is a schoolwide Field Day on Friday, June 7th for students who&#8217;ve earned 3 PBIS Viking Vouchers.\u00a0 If the weather is warm and sunny,\u00a0<em>please\u00a0<\/em>be sure to send sunscreen for your child that day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">\u00a0Here are some ways to help your O.L. Smith P.T.S.A. earn $$ starting NOW!\u00a0 And &#8230;.. GO!\u00a0 A note from your P.T.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">***<\/span>Looking for some easy ways to support the PTSA over summer break? Listed below are three simple ways to do so that require little effort!<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 <em><strong>Amazon Smile<\/strong><\/em>! &#8211; Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to the PTSA when you shop.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/smile.amazon.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1559160414657000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEinQ3cpHLt2cdcHEsT53ZC4TzyqQ\">smile.amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>Kroger Community Rewards<\/strong><\/em>! &#8211;\u00a0Did you know you can support the O.L. Smith PTSA just by shopping at Kroger?\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s easy when you enroll in Kroger Community Rewards\u00ae!\u00a0 To get started, sign up with your Plus Card and search for Smith Middle School.\u00a0 Once you&#8217;re enrolled, you&#8217;ll earn rewards for our P.TSA every time you shop and use your Plus Card!<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<em>Shoparoo<\/em><\/strong>! &#8211;\u00a0Forget cutting labels or selling door to door to raise money for schools. Shoparoo is a free app for iOS and Android phones that allows anyone to take pictures of their shopping receipts and earn cash donations for their schools!\u00a0\u00a0Just snap a picture of your grocery receipt on your smartphone, and <em>voila<\/em>, you&#8217;ve made an instant cash donation!\u00a0 You can also take pictures of your non-grocery receipts (from clothing stores, electronics stores, restaurants, home improvement stores, etc.) for entries into Shoparoo&#8217;s cash donation sweepstakes that can reward a school up to $15,000!<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to email Yasmine Hicks at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:yasminehicks@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yasminehicks@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0with questions. Thank you for your continued support!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So, that wraps things up for the next 5 school days (2 weeks).\u00a0 As always, contact me if you need anything and\u00a0Eid\u00a0Mubarak to all of those celebrating this blessed holiday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ms. C.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! So,\u00a0testing is finally over!\u00a0 It was a long month, but we got through it all and all my students were such good sports about it; they took their time and devoted much energy and effort.\u00a0 And with just 9 teaching days remaining (days off in June, 1\/2 day for field day and 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/consigp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}