Greg Christiangchristian@rcs.rome.ga.us

January2012

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Dear Parents:It is the end of January and theschool year is rapidly passing by!Please make sure that your studentattends school each day on time. Our8

grade students recently completedthe Middle Grades Writing Test(MGWT) and we have 50 days untilthe CRCT. High school tours havetaken place this week for the 8

grad-ers and soon H.S. registration will beavailable on-line. Please make surethat your child attends school eachday. Instructional time is vital to theirsuccess.Our students continue to excel inmany areas. Several Rome MiddleSchool students will be recognized for

From the Principal

Spelling Bee

excellence at the March schoolboard meeting. We have much tobe thankful for at Rome MiddleSchool. We have received the TitleI Distinguished award for the fourthconsecutive year. Our faculty andstaff continue to do an excellent jobwith instruction, we have tremen-dous support from the central officestaff, and our students are workingvery hard to be successful!We have the winter break onFebruary 13

and 14

. I hope all ofyou have a happy Valentines Dayand I look forward to seeing yousoon at Rome Middle School.Greg Christian, Principal

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Magellan Highlights ................................. 2Pathfinder ................................................. 2Nautilus ..................................................... 3Media Center ............................................ 3Seawolf ..................................................... 4Voyager ..................................................... 4Stardust .................................................... 5Book Standard Winners .......................... 5Valentine Dance ....................................... 6

TeamChampions

System Spelling BeeRepresentatives

Congratulations,Nancy!RMS SpellingChamp

All Students will Graduate From Rome High School Prepared for College or Work

The team will be go-ing to tour Rome HighSchool on Thursday,January 26. The stu-dents will visit certainclasses, tour most of thebuilding by RHS juniorsand seniors, and will beable to ask questionsabout their upcomingfreshman year.RHS registration hasbegun! Your child re-ceived a paper with auser name and passwordto register on PowerSchool. Your childscore classes (Literature,Math, and Science) havebeen selected by thoseteachers, so you and

Magellan Team Highlights for December 2011

your child will need toregister for electives. Allof the instructions aregiven on the registrationsheet that your child re-ceived on Monday, Jan-uary 23. Please contactany of the Magellanteachers if you are hav-ing problems registering.Students in Mrs.Yeargan and Ms. Cald-wells classes are study-ing the Holocaust. Asyou may know, this eventwas one of the most hor-rific events to happen inworld history. Both clas-ses are reading two fas-cinating pieces of litera-ture about the Holocaust.In Literature class, thestudents are reading

Surviving Hitler: A Boyin the Nazi DeathCamps

, written by An-drea Warren. In Lan-guage Arts, students arereading the play versionof the best-selling book

The Diary of a YoungGirl

, written by AnneFrank. At the conclusionof each unit in both clas-ses, there will be a per-formance task based onwhat they read in thebook and in the play. Sofar, the students seemreally enthusiastic andinvolved in learning moreabout people involved inthe Holocaust.

January 9

Zelahid Martinez

January 16

Jonny Reyes

Congratulations toour Wolves of theWeek:

Pathfinder 7

grade ELA stu-dents have begun a research andtechnology unit. Students will be re-quired to complete a short researchpaper. If they have computer accessat home, PLEASE let them get on itto research their topic throughout thisprocess. We are learning how thereis no such thing as a boring topic. Itis all in how you look at it and thequestions that are asked about it.Pathfinder Life Science studentshave been looking at traits organismshave that help them survive in theirenvironments. We will soon beginour Ecology unit. In it, we will studyhow organisms interact with eachother and their environment.In Literature class, we have be-gun reading Among the Hidden byMargaret Peterson Haddix. The stu-dents are very absorbed in this bookand look forward to making the prop-aganda poster for their Performance

Task at the end. There is also a competi-tion among classes for highest vocabularytest average. Second period is currentlywinning with a class average of 96.6%.Way to go!Pathfinder students are currently work-ing on a Wump Investigation in their Mathclass. Students must examine differentshapes and determine if they are membersof the Wump family based upon shape andsize. This task tests students understand-ing of dilations: the proportional stretchingand shrinking of an object.Pathfinders geography classes beganthe new year with a study of India. Thestudents learned about Hinduism, Gandhi,environmental problems in India, and In-dias government. They concluded theirstudy of India on Martin Luther King, Jr.Day. The students read about a trip MartinLuther King took to India and the influenceGandhis philosophy had on him. Theywrote a short essay in which they com-pared and contrasted the two leaders.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder Wolves of theWeek!

Asa Nichols

Nancy Lopez

Mykah Knitig

All Students will Graduate From Rome High School Prepared for College or Work

Media Center Message

Happy 2012! We hope you had awonderful winter break. The yearseems to be off to a great start! In themedia center, the New Year alsomeans new books. Recently, the me-dia center added 40 brand new bookswith approximately 30 additional titlescoming soon.In January, eighth grade Literaturestudents reading the book,

Surviving Hitler,

by Andrea Warren were pre-sented with information on the Holo-caust including trailers for

The Boy inthe Striped Pajamas

The Diary of Anne Frank,

and a riveting trailer forthe book,

Night,

by Elie Wiesel. Themedia center has multiple copies ofthis title available for check out as wellas many other books on the Holo-caust.February is Black history month.Please stay tuned for featured books,classroom resources, and book offer-ings highlighting the African Americanexperience. If you want to view fea-tured book trailers, click on theFea-tured Book linkon the media centerwiki, updated monthly.As students work on their 25-bookreading goals, I want to emphasize theneed to choose books they enjoy reading,not just books they have to read. Stu-dents who read for pleasure are more like-ly to stick with a book and explore similartitles with the same author or subject mat-ter. Literacy during the middle schoolyears is critical according to the Interna-tional Reading Association (Moore et al.,1999, p. 3):

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Adolescents entering the adult world in the21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to performtheir jobs, run their households, act as citi-zens, and conduct their personal lives. They will need literacy to cope with the flood of in-formation they will find everywhere they turn.They will need literacy to feed their imagina-tions so they can create the world of the fu-ture. In a complex and sometimes evendangerous world, their ability to read can becrucial.

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In other news, students should contin-ue earning AR points. It only takes 50points and a 70% average to exempt oneexam this semester. Students are encour-aged to begin working on this goal sooner,rather than later.

In January, stu-dents in Ms. Coopers

Literature

class willbe reading the book,

Among the Hidden

.By Margaret PetersonHaddix. In

SocialStudies

, students willbe studying the coun-tries of Africa, and in

Science,

students willexplore how organ-isms change overtime. In Ms. Stuarts

Language Arts

class, we will contin-ue to focus on per-suasive writing, andstudents will write apersuasive essay. InMrs. Whites mathclass, students willcontinue their studiesin geometry.

Nautilus Team News

Nautilus- the first atomic sub.Launched 21-Jan-1954

Many thanks

for the cans yousent in for thecanned food drivethe school held inNovember. Nautilusteam students andteachers brought inalmost 200 cans!

Nautilus Wolvesof the Week!

Eduardo Perez

Ron Johnson

Jennifer Morales

Destiney McDaniel

Joseph Cheriyamparathu

Asher Monson

Autumn Fortenberry