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P A R E N T S TO D O L I S T

• Check your child’

s agenda
8th Grade Gazette
daily and sign the agenda
on Thursdays
Kennedy Road Middle School
• Schedule a time to visit

Saturday School
your child’
s classes
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• Contact teachers for a
conference to assess your
child’
s progress

• Contact Mrs. Lubin for

In an effort to provide additional support for eighth sessions have been scheduled: December 11 & 18
any questions or concerns

• Monitor your child’

s
and January 8 & 15. The 8th Grade State Writing
grade students, Kennedy Road Middle School is
grades using Infinite Cam-
Assessment will be administered on January 19,
pus offering Saturday School beginning on

• Contribute to our annual

2011. All Georgia 8th graders who
December 11, 2010. Students in need
canned food drive
are not eligible for an alternative
of additional support have been identi-
• Model the spirit of giving
assessment are required to demon-
by donating items to your fied utilizing data collected from writing
child’
s class effort to adopt
strate writing proficiency on this
a student for the holidays prompts administered to student s
exam. If you have additional ques-
during the months of September,
tions, please contact Mrs.
DECEMBER October, and November. If 8th Grade Writing Assessment will
be January 19, 2011. Lubin.
your child has been selected to
Benchmark 7-10
Testing attend Saturday School, he/she will be provided

Band Concert 9 transportation to and from school. Students will

also receive breakfast before each session. Four

KRMS vs. 10
Rehoboth (H)

Saturday 11
School

Semester
Exams
14-17 What we’
re learning!
KRMS vs. 17 Georgia Studies home explaining all the things person perspective letter for-
MMS (H) Students will be participating they are experiencing while mat.
in our role play activity for fighting in battles such as
Saturday 18 Gettysburg, Chickamauga,
the Civil War unit. Students
School and Antietam. Other topics
will choose and assume the
role of a Union or Confeder- such as Andersonville Prison
ate soldier in the Civil War. and the “ Union Blockade of
Assuming the role of a sol- Georgia’ s Coast”will be re-
dier, students will write letters corded and discussed in first
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Science Fair
8th Grade Students will be
working on Science Fair pro-
jects for the remainder of the
month of December and into
January. Students will explore
the scientific method as a part
of 8th Grade Georgia Perform-
ance Standards. All projects
will be due on January 29,
2011. The project is to be
completed in stages and will
account for 6 assessment
grades. Information will be
Science Fair Projects sent home periodically. Please
due on January 29, check with your student in
2011. order to monitor their pro-
If there is a
book that you
Reading and Language Update
English Language Arts classes
are focused on activities
really want to geared towards writing in
preparation for the upcoming
read that hasn’
t assessment. Students have
been flexibly grouped accord-
been written ing to data gathered from
three different writing tests.
yet, then you Instruction has been individual-
ized to assist students with
must write it. improving their writing profi-
ciency. It is important for stu-
-Toni Morrison
Math News
The essence of
mathematics is
not to make sim-
ple things
compli- Students are learning
about mathematical
cated, but
relationships and func-
to make
tions, slope and y-
complicated intercept. They are
things sim- graphing linear equa-
ple. tions and exploring
-Gudder their relationship to
the real world. The
graph at the left
8TH GRADE GAZETTE
gress. Materials needed for
the completion of the projects
include a log book, tri-board,
and inexpensive household
items for the experimentation
part of the project. If your
student is experiencing diffi-
culty completing their project,
afterschool assistance is avail-
able on Mondays and Tuesdays
from 4 to 5 p.m. If you have
additional questions please
contact Miss R. Davis.
dents to be able to demon- completed by parents and
strate their level of proficiency returned to the school. We
on the state assessment. In are committed to providing
order to provide support for quality instruction for your
students in the area of writing, child. Please contact your
we will begin offering Saturday child’s Language Arts teacher
School writing workshops. for additional details.
There are four scheduled days
for the workshops. Students
who need additional practice
with writing have been pro-
vided an application to be
shows an example of a linear with teachers. Georgia OAS
inequality. These concepts are and Study Island are two
entirely new to 8th graders as online programs available to
they have not been exposed to students to practice skills. Each
them previously. If your stu- student was also issued a text
dent is experiencing difficulty, book and a problem solving
there are several sources of practice manual. Please en-
support available to them. courage your child to actively
They may schedule a date and participate in class work and
time for after school tutoring discussions.