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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
What’
s Going on in 6th Grade?
6th Grade Language Arts & Literacy—Ms. Ponder, Ms. Worley, & Ms. Wyche
Students are currently
working on expository
writing, 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-
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Volume 1, Issue 1
December 7, 2010
Dates to Remember
Band Concert / 12/9
Parent Work-
shop
10—11:00 am
Basketball vs. 12/10
basis and will be available do not have a current pass- Rehoboth
through Kennedy Road’ s word and login or are ex- Starts at
webpage. Blogs will pro- periencing difficulty log- 5::00 pm
vide specific information ging in, you may contact
Lunch with the 12/14
regarding daily class as- Mrs. Shropshire at Ken-
Principal
signments, homework, nedy Road for assistance.
projects, and assessments.
Sincerely, Basketball 12/15
Brenda James - Ford At Upson Lee
Additionally, to keep you
current on student pro- Chorus Concert/ 12/16
gress, at least three grades Parent Work-
will be entered on a weekly shop
basis in Infinite Campus, 10-11:00 am
our student information
system. Specific informa- Basketball vs. 12/17
tion regarding each assign- Manchester
ment can be viewed by Starts at
clicking on that assign- 5::00 pm
ment’ s name.
Also, procedures for log- Special points of
ging into Infinite Campus interest:
were mailed during the
• Writing Workshop
summer. However, if you
for 8th grade stu-
dents
DATES:
• Saturdays—
guage, and vocabulary, clauses, sentence types, December 11 and
in addition to analyzing sentence purpose, capi- 18
and evaluating main talization and punctua- • Saturdays—
ideas and themes. Stu- tion, and sentence dia- January 8 and 15
dents participate in gramming. By December
Daily Grammar Practice 17th, students should • The assessment
will be on Janu-
each day, which have read 1200 pages
ary 19th
includes the for the school year.
parts of speech,
sentence parts,

6th Grade Mathematics—
Coach Sanders & Ms. Evans
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.
Stars and Strikes
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
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.
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6th Grade Science— 6th Grade Social Studies—
Ms. Cheek & Ms. Traylor Mr. Posey & Ms. Traylor
Our classes have just finished the We are learning about the econ-
unit on fossil evidence and plate omy. We are discussing the differ-
tectonics, and will be taking an ent ways in which goods are pro-
assessment on Dec. 8 - 9. We will duced, distributed, and con-
be beginning our unit sumed. We are also examining
on earthquakes soon. the various economic systems
Students have been throughout Europe. We are focus-
assigned a First Se- ing on three different economic
mester Project, and systems: traditional, command,
have been given in- and market. In order to empha-
formation related to size the differences between each
the project. system, the students created skits
describing each economic system.
jump to the front of the line at dent to silent lunch. While stu-
lunch, good behavior celebrations dents can remove strikes by earn-
for up to 15 students, lunch with ing stars, as students earn more
the principal, or cougar bucks. strikes the consequences increase,
which could include a parent con-
ference or having a parent sit with
On the flip-side, stu- the student
dents who receive 3 for part of
strikes are put on a be- the school
havior plan that limits day.
movement throughout
the day, locker breaks,
and designates the stu-
On the Kennedy Road address and his or her blog. The
website, hover over blog will give you a daily update of
the link for faculty what is occurring in each class.
and 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
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