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The Cougar News
Message from the Principal
Dear Parents:
Kennedy Road Middle
School is committed to
continuous school im-
provement and fulfilling
the school’s vision through
quality teaching and learn-
ing. As a part of our efforts
to improve communication
between stakeholders and
the school, we are improv-
ing procedures to keep you
informed. Teachers will be
making information avail-
able through a monthly
grade-level newsletter and
through daily teacher
blogs. The newsletter,
which is attached, will con-
tain a snapshot of the cur-
ricula to be covered during
that month. Teacher blogs
will be updated on a daily
basis and will be available
through Kennedy Road’s
webpage. Blogs will pro-
vide specific information
regarding daily class as-
signments, homework,projects, and assessments.
Additionally, to keep you
current on student pro-
gress, at least three grades
will be entered on a weekly
basis in Infinite Campus,
our student information
system. Specific informa-
tion regarding each assign-
ment can be viewed by
clicking on that assign-
ment ’s name.
Also, procedures for log-
ging into Infinite Campus
were mailed during the
summer. However, if you
do not have a current pass-
word and login or are ex-
periencing difficulty log-
ging in, you may contact
Mrs. Shropshire at Ken-
nedy Road for assistance.Sincerely,
Brenda James - Ford
Dates to Remember
Band Concert /
Parent Work-
shop
10—11:00 am
12/9
Basketball vs.
Rehoboth
Starts at
5::00 pm
12/10
Lunch with the
Principal
12/14
Basketball
At Upson Lee
12/15
Chorus Concert/
Parent Work-
shop
10-11:00 am
12/16
Basketball vs.
Manchester
Starts at
5::00 pm
12/17
Special points of
interest:
• Writing Workshop
for 8th grade stu-
dents
DATES:
• Saturdays—
December 11 and
18
• Saturdays—
January 8 and 15
• The assessment
will be on Janu-
ary 19th
What’s Going on in 6th Grade?
K e n n ed y R o a
d M idd l e Sc h o
o l
December 7 , 2010
V olume 1 , Issue 1
6th Grade Language Arts & Literacy—Ms. Ponder, Ms. Worley, & Ms. Wyche
Students are currently
working on expositorywriting, using the 6+1
Traits of Writing. Our
classes are reading Bud,
Not Buddy, a novel by
Christopher Paul Curtis.
Also, we are discussing
the elements of litera-
ture, figurative lan-
guage, and vocabulary,
in addition to analyzingand evaluating main
ideas and themes. Stu-
dents participate in
Daily Grammar Practice
each day, which
includes the
parts of speech,
sentence parts,
clauses, sentence types,
sentence purpose, capi-talization and punctua-
tion, and sentence dia-
gramming. By December
17th, students should
have read 1200 pages
for the school year.
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For the month of December we
will be working on an algebra unit
in sixth grade math. We will be
learning the following skills: writ-
ing and evaluating
algebraic expres-
sions, solving one-
step equations using
basic operations,
and analyzing and
creating algebraic
equations from ta-
bles and graphs.
Our classes have just finished the
unit on fossil evidence and plate
tectonics, and will be taking an
assessment on Dec. 8 - 9. We will
be beginning our unit
on earthquakes soon.
Students have been
assigned a First Se-
mester Project, and
have been given in-
formation related to
the project.
We are learning about the econ-
omy. We are discussing the differ-
ent ways in which goods are pro-
duced, distributed, and con-sumed. We are also examining
the various economic systems
throughout Europe. We are focus-
ing on three different economic
systems: traditional, command,
and market. In order to empha-
size the differences between each
system, the students created skits
describing each economic system.
Accessing Blogs
All teacher blogs can
be accessed by visiting
the school website. If you navigate to
www.gscs.org, you can
select Kennedy Road
from the link under
our schools.
On the Kennedy Road
website, hover over
the link for facultyand staff. You may
then click on the link
for 6th grade teach-
ers. On this page, you
will find a link for
each teachers’ email
address and his or her blog. The
blog will give you a daily update of
what is occurring in each class.
6th Grade Mathematics—Coach Sanders & Ms. Evans
To encourage and reinforce good
behavior, 6th grade teachers have
implemented the Stars and Strikes
program. Each class period, stu-
dents have an opportunity to be
chosen as receiving a star or a
strike, based on classroom aca-
demics and performance.
Students who earn stars are given
special incentives, such as a “Fast
Pass,” which allows the student to
jump to the front of the line at
lunch, good behavior celebrations
for up to 15 students, lunch with
the principal, or cougar bucks.
On the flip-side, stu-
dents who receive 3
strikes are put on a be-
havior plan that limits
movement throughout
the day, locker breaks,
and designates the stu-
dent to silent lunch. While stu-
dents can remove strikes by earn-
ing stars, as students earn more
strikes the consequences increase,
which could include a parent con-
ference or having a parent sit with
the student
for part of the school
day.
Stars and Strikes
Volume 1 , Issue 1Page 2
6th Grade Science— Ms. Cheek & Ms. Traylor
6th Grade Social Studies— Mr. Posey & Ms. Traylor
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