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LETTER REGARDING SWINE FLU CAME HOME THURSDAY – PLEASE READ IT.  “SCS will follow the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and guidance from the Memphis-Shelby County Health Department on how to proceed if any cases arise in Shelby County.”  Our field trip is Tuesday. Remember to wear comfortable walking shoes, eat a big breakfast since we have a late lunch, and pack your sack lunch with a drink.

Mon. 4/27 CW: (1) Light and It’s Uses chp. 17 lesson 3 pp. 495-500. Read together & discuss. (2) workbook pages 146-148 Section 3 # 1-26 (3) textbook pp. 510-511 # 1-14, 19, 20, 21, & 23 HW: be ready for tomorrow’s field trip – comfortable shoes, big breakfast, & pack your lunch & drink.

Tues. 4/28 CW: Field Trip to Pink Palace Museum HW: none

Wed. 4/29 CW: (1) Light & Color pp. 501-505 read & discuss. (2) Decide if different colors really do absorb more energy. Write up lab Which Color is Hottest p. 575 HW: lab tomorrow – dress for it.

Thurs. 4/30 CW: (1) finish writing lab (2) wkbk pp. 148-150 (3) vocabulary puzzle on chp. 17 HW: Dress for LAB tomorrow and textbook pp. 510-511 # 1-14, 19, 20, 21, & 23 due tomorrow. Test over chp. 17 light will be Tuesday

Fri. 5/1 CW: (1) Complete & check workbook pages for chp. 17 & pp. 510-511 LAB HW: Test over chp. 17 light will be Tuesday

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General News – Interims go home Wednesday. On science, please note that while we have many grades, we have only ONE test grade right now. Since tests count 40% of the average, some students’ averages are lower due to just one test & project grade. We will be having several more tests and a project. Students need to be sure they continue to work hard up until the last day of school. Spring Fever can ruin averages.

Also, Wednesday is Earth Day. Disney has produced a movie called Earth that comes out this week. It is REAL life and death stuff for the animal families that the documentary follows. So know that there will be fighting among the animals for survival and death of animals. Anyone on our team who would like to meet at the Collierville Malco for the FRIDAY 4:40 showing of Earth, please come meet and go with us. You will need to be picked up at 6:15. If you don’t get to go with us, and you want to see the movie, please try to see it sometime before next Wednesday. Disney will plant a tree for each ticket sold the first week of the movie.

Science 4/20 – 4/24 We have our Family Life curriculum this week. This is a GREAT chance for you to let your kids ask you questions. We will have fun one night with homework this week learning about dominant & recessive traits. We will see why some of us can roll our tongues and others can’t. At any time this week if a student asks a question that is not specifically & exactly covered in the curriculum we teach for the 6th grade level, I will respond, “That’s a great question to go home and ask your parent!”

Mon. 4/20 CW: We talked about the Endocrine System today. We talked about how glands make hormones which are chemicals and they regulate all kinds of things from metabolism to sugar to male and female characteristics. We began a discussion of dominant & recessive traits. HW: Trait chart is due Wed.

Tues. 4/21 CW: Dominant & recessive genes & sex linked traits like color blindness. Begin drawing of person based on the traits you ended up with from flipping your penny twice. HW: Trait chart is due Wed.

Wed. 4/22 EARTH DAY! INTERIMS WENT HOME TODAY CW: Review which traits on the chart were dominant & recessive. Make final drawing of person on manilla paper. On back. write about your person’s traits and talents. HW: we need kleenex, please send a box if you can. If you want to meet to see Disney’s Earth movie – we are going Friday at 4:40. Meet at Collierville Malco around 4:30 & you need to be picked up at 6:15

Thurs. 4/23 CW: Film about puberty with Mrs. Butner (guidance counselor).  She encouraged students to go home and start a discussion with parents.  HW: If you want to meet to see Disney’s Earth movie – we are going Friday at 4:40. Meet at Collierville Malco around 4:30 & you need to be picked up at 6:15

Fri. 4/24  CW: HIV/AIDS and open notes family life test  HW: If you want to meet to see Disney’s Earth movie – we are going Friday at 4:40. Meet at Collierville Malco around 4:30 & you need to be picked up at 6:15

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Help, please! Our big drawing for the 3rd weeks report cards and E or S in conduct is THIS Friday. If you can send in a $5 gift card or two, please do so by Friday. Think of places the kids like – Starbucks, McDonalds, Target, Walmart, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, etc. THANK YOU!!!!

Reminder: Our field trip is next Tuesday. IF you have not returned your $8 & permission slip, you need to do so immediately. We’re very excited about our day at Pink Palace to see the Scoop on Poop exhibit and the IMAX on Egyptian tombs.

This week is TCAP testing week. Students need two wooden #2 pencils (NO mechanical pencils – they damage the answer sheet) AND they need a good night’s rest, and a protein filled breakfast (meats, cheeses, eggs, and/or nuts). This is their homework every night!

Your student’s scores are vital for the exciting programs offered at middle school: enriched Language Arts, enriched math, & in 8th grade Physical Science for high school credit. I’ve told all of the kids that I want them to do as well as possible so that that they have the option of ALL the classes (enriched or regular). Students must score at high percentages to qualify for enriched classes.

Science 4/13 – 4/17

Mon 4/13 – CW: TCAP review HW: This week is TCAP testing week. Students need two wooden #2 pencils (NO mechanical pencils – they damage the answer sheet) AND they need a good night’s rest, and a protein filled breakfast (meats, cheeses, eggs, and/or nuts). This is their homework every night!

Tues 4/14 – Fri. 4/18 CW: TCAP testing This week is TCAP testing week. HW: students need two wooden #2 pencils (NO mechanical pencils – they damage the answer sheet) AND they need a good night’s rest, and a protein filled breakfast (meats, cheeses, eggs, and/or nuts). This is their homework every night!

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Permission slips for our Field Trip (Tuesday 4/28 to Pink Palace) went home last week. The money and permission slip is due no later than this Thursday. You must also indicate if you are bringing your own sack lunch OR you want one from the school. Parents we need chaperones. There is a description of what a chaperone does on the permission slip. Please indicate if you are willing to come help for the reduced cost of $6. Tickets for chaperones are limited. First come first served.

Science 4/6 – 4/10

Mon. 4/6 CW: (1) Check pp. 478-479 (2) TCAP review over chp. 15, 16 & EM spectrum on 17. (3) Write 10 good questions and answers you would expect to see on tomorrow’s test. If your question is good AND original and I use it on tomorrow’s test, you get bonus points. HW: TEST tomorrow over chp. 15 & 16 – all and the EM spectrum in chp 17

Tues. 4/7 CW: (1) TEST (2) Bill Nye Light & Color HW: TCAP review sheet on Chp. 2

Wed. 4/8 CW: TCAP Review HW: TCAP review sheet on planets

Thurs. 4/9 CW TCAP Review HW:   I have made a great practice for TCAP.  IF you do it, print out the answers, OR you & one of your parents/guardians sign that you did it.  Also, tell me which numbers were hard for you.  Go to www.thinklinklearning.com    log in as a student     click on the yellow button  & enter the code TG 4307    If you do this, you WON’T have to do definitions for the next chatper.  Have a great Easter. See you Monday. Have two wooden #2 pencils ready for TCAP

Fri. 4/10 Happy Easter – no school today

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Picture money due April 3rd payable to Lifetouch. St. Jude’s art auction is here at CMS next Tuesday evening from 5-6 pm See the CMS website to bid online. Go to the bottom right corner where it says CMS St. Jude’s art auction 2009.  WE’RE GOING ON A FIELD TRIP – PERMISSION SLIPS COME HOME FRIDAY.  It costs $8 which is due on Thursday.  We also must know if you need a sack lunch.  If you want to supervise 8-10 students & chaperone – see the bottom of the form.  Thanks!

Mon. 3/30 CW: (1) pp. 457-461 mediums & sound, pitch, frequency, loudness & amplitude. (2) MSB video on sound. HW: wb pp. 133-134 due tomorrow. I signed all students’ agenda books with homework for the entire week.

Tues. 3/31 CW: (1) Wave interaction pp. 463 – 469. (2) MSB video on echolocation. HW: wb. pp. 135-136 due tomorrow

Wed. 4/1 CW: (1) noise p. 473 (2) EM spectrum pp. 487-494 (3) Drawing of EM spectrum detailing what each type of wave is, how much energy it has, & what the waves are used to do. HW: (1) Dress for lab tomorrow (2) wb p. 137 due tomorrow TEST NEXT TUES. OVER CHP. 15, CHP. 16, & pp. 487-494 IN CHP. 17

Thurs. 4/2 CW: LAB today & check hw HW: wb pp. 143-144 due tomorrow TEST NEXT TUES. OVER CHP. 15, CHP. 16, & pp. 487-494 IN CHP. 17

Fri. 4/3 CW: (1) check wb pp. 143-144 (2) Review sheet over sound (3) p. 478 -479 # 6-16, 18-20 & 22-25 TEST NEXT TUES. OVER CHP. 15, CHP. 16, & pp. 487-494 IN CHP. 17

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