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Monday, April 25, 2016
April 24-29, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016
April 18th-22nd
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Berry 6th grade Berry Middle school video link
Bumpus 6th grade http://bit.ly/6thCR
Simmons 6th grade http://bit.ly/1YvUrWt
The deadline for ordering a BGIS yearbook has been extended until April 29th. You can pay the $35 at myschoolfees.com
Let your child's teacher know if you need a yearbook order form.
Hoover City Schools Middle School transition night will be May 9th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Bumpus, Simmons, and Berry. Students and parents can visit their new middle school and get an overview of classes and activities available to students.We will not be visiting Bumpus at a separate time this school year (The rezoning is pending court approval). For more information click on the following: HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL TRANSITION NIGHT FLYER
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Today we started our Multiplying and Dividing Decimals Unit.
New IXL activities were assigned today and are due next Monday. Students have homeroom time to get started on these activities every morning. Here is the link for IXL for April 18th-22nd
Cumulative review #22 was assigned today and is due Thursday. We will have a short quiz on Friday
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
April 11th-15th
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Monday, April 4, 2016
April 4th-8th
“No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.”
- We hope you all had a wonderful week of rest and fun!
- Starting this Wednesday, students will need to leave their Chromebook and charger at school. This will be in preparation for testing next week. Chromebooks will begin going home again after testing week.
- ACT ASPIRE Testing is next week!5th Grade Testing April 11-14GradeDateTestAmount of Time5Monday, April 11Reading65 minutes5Tuesday, April 12Math65 minutes5Wednesday, April 13English and Writing40 minutes and 30 minutes5Thursday, April 14Science60 minutes
- Please make sure your child gets a good night's sleep, eats a nutritious breakfast, and is at school on time.
- Looking ahead: Hoover City Schools Middle School transition night is May 9th, 6:00-8:00 P.M. (Bumpus, Simmons, and Berry will all host transition nights at this time.)
- Mr. Josh Lynch, Brock's Gap/Bumpus Middle School band director, recently spoke to our students during their Music class. He sent an information letter home about band. Let us know if this information didn't make it home and we can make sure you get another copy.
Language Arts:
- There will be no Tween Tribune this week. There will be a spotlight reader on Friday, April 8th! Please make sure your child has a chapter book to be reading at home.
- We are finishing up interpreting poetry today. The rest of the week will be spent on test preparation activities. We will be practicing using the ACT Aspire app and tools, constructed response questions, and test vocabulary words.
- We will have Grammar IXL contract this week. We will do it completely in class, as the kids cannot take their chromebooks home. The contract will be due Friday, April 8th. It consists of some review skills and test preparation.
Social Studies:
- We are beginning a new unit on slavery and the Civil War. We will begin by talking about the reforms and movements taking place in the United States at the time. We will then transition into discussing important people that spoke out against slavery. After our unit on slavery, we will talk about the Civil War. This is always a favorite topic and we look forward to lots of fun activities and projects!
- On April 19th, we will have a quiz over the slavery portion of our unit.
Math:
- This week, we will be studying customary and metric measurement conversions, exploring multiplication of decimals, and learning how to identify and classify two-dimensional figures. A new IXL contract was assigned this week. Due to the fact that students will be leaving Chromebooks at school starting Wednesday, I am going to givesome class time daily to complete IXL activities this week (and next week, if needed). Here is Link to April 4th- 8th IXL activities.
- Cumulative review #21 was assigned today and is due Thursday. We will have a short quiz on Friday
Science:
- We are still in the midst of our "A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes" Unit. This unit introduces the field of aerospace engineering by guiding students to explore how aerospace engineers design and test technologies to be used in extra-terrestrial (non-Earth) environments. This unit involves hands-on activities, discussions, and readings to introduce the Engineering Design Process, the work of aerospace engineers, and other engineering and technology concepts.
- This week we plan to design and then test our parachutes. We are pretty excited about this activity! Today we discussed the differences in size, temperature, location in the Solar System, Surface, Quick facts, and atmospheres of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Earth's Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
- Grades will be taken on class work, reading passages, and a Brain Pop quiz on gravity.
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