2nd Term Book Report Information

You will use the same website as we did before: http://www.bighugelabs.com/deck.php

You will be making a Trading Card...

Choose "CENTER" where you want your picture to be. You will need to find a picture that represents your book and use that for your image. If you don't remember how to upload it, ask someone.

Choose a "COLOR" for your card.
Title: is your Title to your book
Subtitle: Author of your book

Description is where the rest of your information is going to go.
You need to include the following information:

• Main Characters
• Target Audience (who should read your book (grade level and type of people))
  
• Genre of your book (fantasy, biography, sci fi, etc.)
• Brief overview of your book without giving your plot away
• Catchy phrase to get people hooked on wanting to read your book
• Your name needs to be at the bottom
  

Before you actually print your card:

• Preview and review
  
• Print it as big as the sheet of paper
• Print in color if you would like (library $.25 or do at home)
  
• Remember you can't save it once you get started so make sure you have plenty of time to complete it
• Save to your H drive
  
• Bring me your Trading Card or e-mail it to me...
  

Good luck and post a comment when you get finished!

Sending Cards to the Military

http://www.letssaythanks.com/SendCard.asp

On Monday December 14 and Tuesday December 15, students were given the opportunity to write Christmas cards out to military persons who were injured in the war. We are hoping to send about 100 cards from our team. I also have another opportunity for everyone and it is to click on the link above and choose a card to send via the internet. When you do actually send a card, post a comment and let me know you did one and I will give you 5 extra credit points for Inspire!

Thanks for showing someone you care enough to send a card.

Winding down 2000

Winter is here and so is the end of 2009...

Hoops for Heart deadline is Wednesday Dec. 16. In order to participate on Friday the 18th students must get pledges for at least $25. They then will get to get out of class and participate in pizza luncheon, basketball and a movie.

We will be finishing up our Chemistry unit in Science before Winter Break begins and our test is going to be on Friday December 18th. Ask your kids about all the experiments we did during this unit...it was pretty fun!

Both math classes have some quizzes this week, please check out www.galmish.com. We hope the website has been useful for everyone and let us know if there is other information you would like on there.

Thank you to all the parents who donated the boxes of Christmas cards, we really appreciate it. They will be sent out to Washington this week.

Thanksgiving Break

Just wanted to remind everyone of Thanksgiving Break next week. We only have a half day of school on Tuesday November 24th. Then no school Wednesday until the next Monday.

Thank you to all parents who came to conferences! It was great talking with all of you and we hope you are satisfied with what is going on with your kids. If you ever have any questions please feel free to get ahold of Andy or I.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Conferences November 11 and 12, 2009

Conferences

Conferences are coming soon. Unlike conferences at Highlands and the elementary schools, you do not have to schedule an appointment. You can come during one of the time periods and wait to talk to your child's teachers. The evening times tend to be busier than the day times, so if you can attend during the day you may not have as long of a wait. (Wednesday evening is always VERY busy!)

Here is the conference schedule:

• Wednesday, November 11 5:00 to 8:00 PM (usually busy)
  
• Thursday, November 12 8:oo to 11:00 AM
• Thursday, November 12 12:30 to 3: 30 PM
• Thursday, November 12 5:00 to 8:00 PM

If you are unable to attend conferences and you would like to schedule another time, please contact Kristy Templar at ktemplar@nvps.net or 361-3430.

Book Report Guidelines for Inspire

You will be creating a Movie Poster for your book report for Term 1.
Use the following requirements when making your movie poster.

Click on this link: http://www.bighugelabs.com/.

Choose Movie Poster on bottom left hand side

Requirements:
Tagline 1: Author of your book

Movie Title: Title of your book

Tagline 2: Catchy phrase to get people to come watch your movie

Acting Credits: Use your main characters names and then choose stars to play your characters

Production Credits: Brief synopsis to explain your book without giving the plot away. Also, what type of audience does your movie target?

Rating: give your movie a rating

Release date: when is your movie coming out

Add a picture that represents your book.

Change fonts and colors.

Review your poster before you create it and press create. If you need to go back and redo something up at the top of the page is an edit button.

Print it!

Save it into your S drive if the computer will allow you. Create an Inspire folder to save your poster in.

End of the Term

The end of the Term is coming up on Wednesday Oct. 28. All missing work will be due that day! Please make sure you check the website www.galmish.com for dates of tests that will be coming up.

Kids that have no zero's in their core classes will participate in our "Zero Free" day. Kids will have the opportunity to celebrate their success while watching a movie, going to the computer lab and having some treats during the day.


CONFERENCES
Report cards will come out at conferences on Nov. 11 and 12 and if you don't make it to conferences they will be mailed home.

Conference times:
Wednesday November 12 from 5:00-8:00 pm
Thursday November 13 from 8:30-11:30, 12:30-3:30, and 5:00-8:00.

We hope that you can make one of those times. If you can't, please let us know and we can set up another time to meet.

Extra Credit Question

When is there going to be a Hazardous Waste collection day within the Grand Rapids area, where, and what types of items can you bring? Make sure you give me updated information not something that has already happened!

Academic Help Sessions

• Just wanted to remind you after school help started on Tuesday the 29th of September. Kids can come in and make up work or get extra help in any subject area. If you live within the district we have an after school bus that will take kids home to your doorstep. The help session lasts from 2:35-3:30.

• Also, on Wednesday's during our 1st hour Inspire class, students have the opportunity to work on homework during that time. Tuesday's and Thursday's during Inspire, students will be either be working in a Math help session or a Reading/Writing session.

• Starting next week, we are also going to have kids come to our classrooms during lunch if they are missing assignments in our classes. This usually helps kids get going a little bit because they don't like to miss the social hour of lunch. P.S. They do bring their lunches with them!

If you have questions please let me know:)

Spirit Week

Just a quick reminder: Homecoming/Spirit Week this week
Monday: College Fan Day
Tuesday: Hat Day
Wednesday: 60's day
Thursday: PJ day
Friday: Northview Spirit Day and MS dance from 3-5

The high school is also having a carnival from 4-6 on Friday night before the football game.

Parents I know some of you have checked edline and are asking questions, keep them coming. If you have problems viewing or getting into your account please call Cathy Nezwek at 361-3430. As time goes on, you will understand how to use the system better and we will get all the kinks out.

GO WILDCATS!

New This Week...

It is going to be a busy week in class. We are just getting into our Science and Math curriculum now we are finished with Camp. We hope your kids enjoyed the camping adventure, I know Andy and I did.
Pre-Algebra students will have their first Quiz this week on Friday over Sections 1-1 to 1-4.
7th Grade Math will be starting to get into their books and having homework. You should be seeing Math practice work almost every night.
In Science the kids will have the opportunity to start looking over the text and then on Tuesday we will actually start our science curriculum and experiments. Our first experiment is going to be discussing what hazardous waste products are.

Let's hope we have a great week and talk with you soon.

Math Book Online

We also received new 7th grade math books. We sure are lucky! There is an online option for these books also. The students received a yellow sheet today giving them access codes and the web address which shows them where to go and the codes they need to input for accessing certain areas. There are many different places the kids can go for extra help, reading the book online, video tutorials, etc. We also be going over how to access the book online here at school so if you are having difficulty please let me know. This one is much more complicated than the science book.
https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp

Science Book Online

This year the district bought new science materials for our 7th grade curriculum. We are fortunate to have also purchased the option to have a science text online because we only have 30 textbooks to use during class time. You can access the text from this website and then username is crossroadsmiddle1 password is ktemplar. I hope you can find some time to go and explore our next text! The site is located at http://labaids.com/ebooks/ebooks.php
Username is crossroadsmiddle1
Password is ktemplar