Please return your permission slip and $15 tomorrow!!!

Who: 7th graders, 7th grade teachers, Parent Chaperones

What: Field Trip

Where: Detroit Zoo

When: Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Why: To have fun, to get some fresh air, to visit a place that some of our students have not been to before, and most importantly, to learn something new about some animals you may or may not be familiar with!

How: Cost is $15 for students (Chaperones attend for FREE!!) Please pack a lunch and drink. Students may bring money to purchase a snack during the day.

We are traveling by school bus. Chaperones will gather in the Bryant lobby around 8:45am. We will be leaving Bryant sometime between 9-9:30 (depending on when the buses arrive to pick us up). Before getting on the bus, chaperones will be given a group of about 10 students to supervise while we are at the zoo. More parent chaperones would mean smaller group sizes. This trip will take place rain or shine (or cold weather!) so bundle up, wear your cold weather gear or bring an umbrella. There are several buildings throughout the zoo to get some reprieve throughout the day if needed….the Reptile Conservation Center, the Amphibian Conservation Center, the Arctic Ring of Life, Butterfly House, etc.

Click Here to learn about the Detroit Zoo

• The district has been given the opportunity to pilot an online resource from Ready Common Core, called I-Ready, for the next few months. Therefore, students have been working to complete the “diagnostic” test on the computer all week. About half of the students have completed it and have already started working on their “Path”, which is skill practice at their level based on how they performed on the diagnostic test.  In January, on the district professional development afternoon, teachers got an overview of how I-Ready works and how we could use it to support our students. Teachers were asked to have their students take the diagnostic test and have them start working on their “Path” so everyone could get a feel for how I-Ready works. Now that many of us have results from the diagnostic test, we are going to work with our math instructional coaches, as well as have another professional development opportunity, to learn how we can use the results and reports to inform our small groups in class and provide support to students at their individual levels (which will in turn help them with our grade level material).

• Students were given the whole hour on Monday to complete the Lesson 11 quiz. Besides using a calculator, they were allowed to use their notes/flipbook and even their math books to help themselves. Anyone that did not complete the Lesson 11 quiz on Monday was offered the opportunity to come to my advisory class any day this week or to see me after school on Thursday or Friday to complete it. Unless your child was absent today or will be tomorrow, quizzes that do not get completed by tomorrow after school will be graded AS IS, with questions that are left blank marked as 0 points. (I’m working individually with students that were absent Thursday or Friday last week and/or Monday this week to get them caught up on the Lesson 11 book work before having them take the quiz. These students will take their quiz after break.)  

Homework
1) Lesson 11 math menu (if not already turned in)

Important Dates:
Monday, February 10-14 — SPIRIT WEEK at Bryant
Friday- Bryant Colors Day (7th grade wears White)
Monday, February 17-21 — NO SCHOOL (Break)