Hello 6th Grade Hornets Welcome Back! We hope you had an enjoya- ble and restful break and are ready and rearing to go. A few housekeeping notes before we get started: 1. Class begins at 7:45; in order for students to be able to get the full benefit of each class, is it imperative that they are in their classrooms on time. Warm-ups happen in the first few minutes of class, and teachers begin teaching right away. We un- derstand that things happen occasionally which cause us all to run a little behind, however, chronic tardiness harms your own child and interrupts the learning pro- cess and flow of the entire classroom. 2. School supplies, such as writing utensils, are necessary items for students to have. Too often instructional time is taken up because multiple students come to class unpre- pared, and teachers must stop what they are doing to distribute these items. If there is a financial or other issue preventing your child from having these items, please contact Mrs. Browning either by phone @ (404)767- 7730, ext. 130, or email @ cbrown- ing@hapevillecharter.org. 3. We are a uniform school. Please make sure your child is dressed in full uniform, daily. A copy of the dress code is at- tached. Please review it with your child. If you have any ques- tions about it, please contact the school. Please pay specific attention to jacket and belt re- quirement. As with the school supplies, if there is a financial or other issue preventing your child from being in full uni- form, please contact Mrs. Browning. We are confidant, that will all of us working on the same team, each student will be suc- cessful. Contact Information Parents, it is extremely im- portant that we have the most up-to-date contact information for you. If your contact infor- mation changes, please update the school immediately. Parent Volunteers We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hav- ing parent volunteers at school and in our classrooms. For the safety of all our students, how- ever, all volunteers who will be near/with students must view a volunteer training video. Please make arrangements with Mrs. Clark to do so. Tutorials and Saturday School: There will not be any after school tutorials this week. There will be Saturday School this weekend, January 11th. Mrs. Browning (Reading), and Mrs. Arnold (Math and Science Resource) will be pre- sent. *Please note that Saturday School does not begin un- til 9:00 am. and ends at 1:00 pm. We have re- ceived notification from Hapeville Police that stu- dents are unattended out- side of the building on Saturday morning as early as 8:45, and they will begin issuing fines to those parents who leave their children unsupervised. At 1:15 teachers will no longer be responsible for students whom have not been picked up; Hapeville Po- lice will be notified. 6th Grade Weekly Newsletter January 7-10
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Hello 6th Grade Hornets
Welcome Back! We hope you had an enjoya-ble and restful break and are ready and rearing to go.
A few housekeeping notes before we get started:
1. Class begins at 7:45; in order for students to be able to get the full benefit of each class, is it imperative that they are in their classrooms on time. Warm-ups happen in the first few minutes of class, and teachers begin teaching right away. We un-derstand that things happen occasionally which cause us all to run a little behind, however, chronic tardiness harms your own child and interrupts the learning pro-cess and flow of the entire classroom.
2. School supplies, such as writing utensils, are necessary items for students to have. Too often instructional time is taken up because multiple students come to class unpre-pared, and teachers must stop what they are doing to distribute these items.
If there is a financial or other issue preventing your child from having these items, please contact Mrs. Browning either by phone @ (404)767-
3. We are a uniform school. Please make sure your child is dressed in full uniform, daily. A copy of the dress code is at-tached. Please review it with your child. If you have any ques-tions about it, please contact the school. Please pay specific attention to jacket and belt re-quirement. As with the school supplies, if there is a financial or other issue preventing your child from being in full uni-form, please contact Mrs. Browning.
We are confidant, that will all of us working on the same team, each student will be suc-cessful.
Contact Information Parents, it is extremely im-portant that we have the most up-to-date contact information for you. If your contact infor-mation changes, please update the school immediately.
Parent Volunteers We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hav-ing parent volunteers at school and in our classrooms. For the safety of all our students, how-ever, all volunteers who will be
near/with students must view a volunteer training video. Please make arrangements with Mrs. Clark to do so.
Tutorials and Saturday School:
There will not be any after school tutorials this week.
There will be Saturday School this weekend, January 11th. Mrs. Browning (Reading), and Mrs. Arnold (Math and Science Resource) will be pre-sent.
*Please note that Saturday School does not begin un-til 9:00 am. and ends at
1:00 pm. We have re-ceived notification from Hapeville Police that stu-dents are unattended out-
side of the building on Saturday morning as early
as 8:45, and they will begin issuing fines to
those parents who leave their children
unsupervised. At 1:15 teachers will no longer be responsible for students
This Week We will clear out the cobwebs and review classroom policies and procedures before learning some new ones.
Warm-ups this semester will be vocabulary-based. Students will be learning Latin and Greek pre-fixes, roots and suffixes in order to expand their vocabulary. Stu-dents will have a mini-quiz on this each Friday.
Homework There will not be any homework this week. Reading logs will re-sume next Monday.
Trip to Italy: We are getting closer to the deadline for registration. If you are definitely planning on send-ing your child, you may go ahead and visit the website and register: www.eftours.com/1357533. It is important to register as soon as possible in order to lock in cur-rent pricing. Please contact me if
Tutorial: I will not have after school tuto-rial this week. Please note that my tutorial schedule will change. Beginning next week, I will have after school tutorial on Tuesday and Thursday from 4:00 until 5:00. Please be sure to pick your child up by 5:00. Students who are picked up late more than once will not be allowed to come to tutorial.
Lost Documents: If your child loses any docu-ments I distribute, you can find them on my website:
http://mrsbrowningreading.weebly.com
Volunteer Opportunities: I NEED HELP!!!! As you know, each family at Hapeville Charter
is required to complete 15 volun-teer hours annually. If you have any time during the school day to volunteer, please let me know. I have lots of stuff that needs to be done.
Classroom Needs: I am completely out of tissue, disinfecting wipes and construc-tion paper. While I can provide a small amount of those things, I certainly cannot do so for 175 students. If you are able to send in any of the above items, I would be extremely grateful.
Questions, concerns: If you have any additional ques-tions or concerns, feel free to contact me @ 404-767-7730, ext. 130, or [email protected].
Thank you,
Mrs. Browning
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Reading
6th Grade Weekly Newsletter
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ~Malcolm X
We will be reading the book, Hatchet during the month of January and February. We have a few books as a class set, but I would like for the students to rent the book for the library of get a copy of the book for their own personal use. We will begin the book after the MLK break.
Tutoring Days: Tutorial days and times HAVE CHANGED. Afterschool tutorials will be offered on Mondays from 3:40 until 4:15 and some Saturdays. Parents need to make sure that the students have transportation from tutori-als and are picked up no later than 4:15 PM. After-school and Saturday School tutorials are NOT MAN-DATORY. It is a resource for extra help for students that need some. Second Semester afterschool tutori-als will begin Thursday, January 27th.
We need materials for our class. Please bring in Expo Mark-ers (all colors), colored copy paper, expo board cleaner, cleaning cloths, Kleenex, paper towels, pens (blue, black and red), and 3-subject notebooks.
We will be ordering CRCT Practice books the first week in February. The books will cost $10 if you order it with the school. You do have the option to go directly through the
company to order the book. If you order it through the company, it is $26 plus shipping and han-dling. You can use a credit card or mail a money or-der; the company will ship it directly to your home. If you order through the school, money will be col-lected by Mrs. Chlebeck at the Main Campus starting January 13th until January 31st . Books will be or-dered on the February 3rd , and it will take a week to get the books in. ALL STUDENTS WILL NEED TO HAVE THEIR BOOK BY FEBRUARY 18th. If you have any questions concerning the book, please contact Ms. Evans.
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Please parents encourage students to review daily concepts for at least 30 minutes each day. This includes notes, lesson packets, extended les-son materials, etc. This will help
them learn the material and be pre-pared for the next day’s lesson.
HAVE A GREAT REST OF THE WEEK!
Language Arts
This Week in Language Arts…………..
Goals for January 7-10, 2014
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the Writing Pro-cess and the different techniques used to generate ideas.
Students will:
To learn about the stages of the writing process.
To practice techniques for generat-ing ideas such as brainstorm-ing, freewriting, WH-questions, and clustering.
To understand the difference be-tween revising and editing
Homework: Class Homework will vary- BRING IN HOLT HANDBOOKS FOR BOOK CHECK.
Monday: No Homework
Tuesday: Bring in Signed Syllabus Ad-dendum by Friday, January 10th.
Wednesday: None
Thursday: Action Plans due.
Friday: None
Book Check on Friday, January 10th. Please visit Language Arts Website
Students will receive a copy of textbook, pages 88-108, Chapter 3, Lesson A, to keep. They must bring these pages with them just in case we are not able to use the technology in our classroom. Students will also be responsible for keeping the Vocabulary for Chapter 3, page 131. This page can be kept at home to help stu-dents study their vocabulary words. On a separate sheet of paper they will have the first vocabulary words that will be use for the first two weeks of school. This page must be avail-able every day for class. In Chapter 3, students will
talk about places in the city, ask and answer questions, make introductions and ex-
press courtesy, say where someone is going
in the city. talk about thing that people
do,
talk about places in Mexico, talk places they would like
to visit in Mexico. We will being talking about places in the city of Atlanta and how to say it in Spanish. Then when we begin the textbook, the subject will change to “la ciudad Mexico.” We will also begin using computers in the class-room and review how to get to the online textbook, how to send emails, and how to send attach-ments. This will be new in our curriculum. Homework will be vocabulary words and their English transla-tion. Students will use questions in Spanish and understand the interrogative words and their English translation. In Spanish, we will build questions from sentences and answer questions with full sentences.
Please insure that a composition book is available for Spanish. Also, students will need a folder or 3-hole binder to keep up with their packets. We are in need of facial tissue for the classroom and hand sanitizer. Tutorial will begin Friday, 17 January 2014. If a student does not complete an assignment or homework it will be mandatory to attend tutorial to make up the grade. If you have any question, please send me an email. L.Torres 6th Grade Spanish [email protected]
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Spanish
6th Grade Weekly Newsletter
“Education is a gift that
none can take away.”
~American Proverb
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Weekly Objectives:
Review graphing ordered pairs on a coordinate grid (MCC6.NS.6c)
Review reading and writ-ing inequalities and graphing them on a number line (MCC6.EE.8)
Use data in a table to write an equation for a function and use the equation to find a missing value (MCC6.EE.9)
Homework:
There is no official home-work assignment for this week. However, you do need to review your notes on a daily basis.
and defining all vocabulary words in chap-ters 3 and 4. The reading and vocabulary should be completed by Monday of next week. In class we will be doing lessons on Rocks and Minerals out of the CRCT Coach Book. These lessons will be copied, and students are asked to keep all CRCT lessons in a special Science CRCT section in their school binder, or have a separate smaller binder to keep all CRCT materials, as we will be doing a lot of CRCT prepara-tion work between now and early April. Let's all start this semester off on the right foot. Parents, please make sure your stu-dent is reading their science textbook and completing vocabulary-related homework assignments. Please make sure they are studying their test notes in their science notebook each week, as those will be giv-en to the students each week and they will be having major exams at least once every two to three weeks throughout the semes-ter. If your student tells you that he or she does not have any work to do in science then they are not being completely truthful with you, as they should have something to do at home on a very regular basis. There is a ton of material to cover this semester, as well as preparing for the CRCT exam, so students who do not do the required work at home will fall behind quickly, and will not be able to catch up. Please work with your student on study skills, and be-
Since it is the start of a new semester, please make sure your student has a new composition notebook to take test notes in and do warm ups. This needs to be a new note-book, and not a continuation of the one they used first semester. If you can, please make sure the composition notebook is green in color, or that the student colors a portion of the front cover green, as that is the official color for science. Also, if you can, get a small binder (1/2 or 1 inch should work). This binder will be used to keep CRCT materials for this semester. This week in Earth Science we will be tak-ing an assessment on Tuesday and Wednes-day that will show me the progress each stu-dent has made in the class through the first half of the school year, and what areas we will need to concentrate on the most during the spring semester. Like the test that was given at the start of the year, this one will be graded and you will see the grades on the progress reports, but the test will be weighted at a 0, which means the grade will not have any af-fect on the overall grade. So, when you see a 0% on the progress report, do not be alarmed as that simply means the weight is at 0%. On Thursday we will begin work on the Rocks and Minerals unit. Students will need to read chapters 3 and 4 in their science text-books at home, as well as complete writing
Science
Ms. Pugh’s Math 2013 has gone and it is time to reflect and make positive chang-es for 2014! Sixth grade will be-gan with unit 3 (Expressions). Please encourage your child to study the previous units covered last year. There will NOT be tu-torial this week, nor will I be in attendance at Saturday school. Continue to check your edmodo account weekly for any updates or announcements. Parents if you have not set up an account
please make provisions to do so. You can expect for your student to have homework DAILY!!!! If your student has misplaced his/her mathematics workbook he/she is still responsible for ALL assignments and late assign-ments will be handled in accord-ance to the guidelines specified in my 2013-2014 math syllabus. If you need to purchase a new workbook the cost is $15 and there are limited quantities. Stu-dents can continue to use their old composition notebook or
come involved with them in studying for exams. Take their science notebooks and look at the notes and quiz them over the material. Last semester test grades were quite low across the board, and that is directly related to the student's lack of study and preparation at home. They thought that what we did in class was enough for them, and they found out that it wasn't. With the increased number of exams this semester, if students do poor-ly on exams again, their overall grade will be greatly impacted much more than it was first semester. Finally, first semester supplies are running low. If any parents would like to donate hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes to wipe down the tables, paper towels, and boxes of tissues, it would be greatly ap-preciated. Remember that the spring semester is the MOST IMPORTANT semester. The tendency is for students to relax and start taking their education less seriously as they see the end of the year ap-proaching. Please continually stress to your student the importance of staying focused and doing well this semester as their final grade at the end of May is very important to them in many respects, as well as their success on the CRCT ex-ams.
feel free to purchase a new one (the color should be pur-ple).
MANDATORY items needed for class EVERY day are: 3
sharpened #2 pencils, mathe-matics workbook, and math
composition notebook!
Social Studies
I hope everyone had a wonder-ful break and is ready to get back to work! I will be intro-ducing the European portion of the standards this week. We will start with Europe’s geogra-phy (physical and political). Make sure that the students are reviewing their geography at home this week. This semester we will be focusing on Europe.
Also, I will no longer be
making copies of the CRCT Coach Book practice pages. Please purchase one if you have not done so already. The book is $15, it comes with the standards we have covered and will cover, prac-tice questions (which will be used in class), and practice tests. This book we will be used a lot for review for the
CRCT. We will also have more homework out of the book this semester. Let’s get the semester started!
~Mr. Coleman
This two weeks passing out study guide for each test. We will be reviewing the health cur-riculum for this semester. Study guides will be passed out every Wednesday. A test will be ad-ministered every Wednesday.
We will review the begin-
PE
ning of Life and setting goals. Videos will be shown to help students on nutrition and physical fitness. This will be for the next nine weeks
Resource Science and Math
Math resource: Parents, please be sure to check EDMODO for infor-mation that will be beneficial to you and your student. This week we will begin to work on dividing fractions. Students should come home with multiplication flash cards. Please study with your child.
Science resource: Parents, please be sure to check EDMODO for in-formation that will be beneficial to you and your student. This week in Earth Science we will pick up where we left off with Climate, and in Life Science we will begin to study the Human Body Systems. Please con-tinue to study with your student.
I'm looking forward to a great and prosperous 2nd semester! My tutorial will be on Tuesdays
and Thursdays 4-6 p.m.
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2013-14 HAPEVILLE CHARTER AFTER- SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
SEE MS. EVANS IN ROOM 109 TO SIGN UP AND REGISTER FOR THE PROGRAM. LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE FOR THE PROGRAM. SPACES WILL FILL QUICKLY!
School is back in session
Are you looking for somewhere for your child to go afterschool that is not just a “babysitting” service?
That offers:
x Academic Assistance in Critical Target Areas x Test Preparation and Study Skills
x Guaranteed Homework Completion before leaving the program x Enrichment Activities for Developmental Growth
We have the perfect opportunity for you.
Hapeville Charter After- Hours:
PRESENTS:
hapeville after hours enrichment program
This tutorial and enrichment program is conveniently located at the Hapeville Charter Middle School Main Campus between the hours of 3:30 PM and 6:00 PM., Monday- Friday. The program is designed to offer academic assistance by certified and highly qualified staff members. It will also offer the students an opportunity gain personal development skills through a number of planned enrichment activities. The program will serve as an outlet for students to grow academically, personally, and socially in an effort to be more productive students.
Cost- $50/weekly per student- Spaces are LIMITED and will be offered on a first come, first serve basis.
DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS OPPORTUNITY TO purposefully place YOUR CHILD AND LETTING US WORK WITH YOU TO DEVELOP YOUR CHILD ACADEMICALLY, PERSONALLY AND SOCIALLY.
Hapeville Charter Middle School
3535 South Fulton Avenue Hapeville, Georgia 30354
Main Campus (404) 767-7730 /Fax Number (404) 767-7706 Dr. Gary Martin-Director
Principal- Marcia Lowe Associate Principal - Mr. Darrie Nowell Counselor- Ms. Sabrina Floyd IST- Mrs. Stacy Henry
January 2014 Dear Parents: Starting February until April, the Language Arts and Reading classes will be reviewing and preparing for the CRCT that will be given in April. To help us in our reviewing process, we will be using the CRCT Workout books for Reading and Language Arts. The cost of the book is $10. These books are valuable resources to help the students meet and/or exceed the state standardized test. We strongly recommend that each student has his or her own book. We will be working from a classroom set of the coach books, but they MUST have their own workbooks which will give them an opportunity to take the book home and review the information. We will be collecting money for the books starting January 13th. The deadline for the money will be Friday, January 31st. Please provide cash or money orders for the books. Money orders need to be made payable to Hapeville Charter Middle School, and money needs to be turned in to Mrs. Chlebeck at the Main Campus and Ms. Walker at the 8th Grade. We will order books on Monday, February 3rd. Please return the attached order form along with the money for the book before or on the previously stated dates. Thank you in advance for your support of your child and his/ her education. Sincerely, Ms. Evans, Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Garcia HCMS Language Arts Department
Language Arts Coach Book Order Form
Student’s Name: _____________________________________________ LA Class Period ________ Homeroom Teacher’s Name:______________________________________ Amount Collected: _________________________________ Receipt #_______________ Check the box next to the book that you are ordering.
6th Grade ______________________________
7th Grade __________________________________
8th Grade_______________________________________ Date Order Received: _______________________________________________________________ LA Teacher Signature: ______________________________________________________________
HAPEVILLE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL 2013-2014 UNIFORM POLICY
ALL UNIFORM SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES AND ACCESSORIES CAN BE PURCHASED AT J&R CLOTHING. IT IS LOCATED 1307 HWY 85 FAYETTEVILLE, GA 30214.
PE UNIFORMS CAN BE PURCHASED ON SITE DURING OPEN HOUSE.
Boys Girls
Shirts
6th Forrest Green HCMS polo shirt with emblem 7th Gold HCMS polo shirt with school emblem 8th Navy HCMS polo shirt with emblem **SOLID WHITE, NAVY, BLACK OR GOLD THERMALS CAN BE WORN UNDERNEATH POLO SHIRTS DURING WINTER MONTHS
6th Forrest Green HCMS polo shirt with emblem 7th Gold HCMS polo shirt with school emblem 8th Navy HCMS polo shirt with emblem **SOLID WHITE, NAVY, BLACK, OR GOLD THERMALS CAN BE WORN UNDERNEATH POLO SHIRTS DURING WINTER MONTHS
Pants/ bottoms
Solid Navy casual full length pants or knee length shorts (pants should not have more than two pockets, be excessively baggy nor contain decoration) No cargo shorts allowed.
Solid Navy cotton/polyester casual pants full length (no capris!) Solid Navy cotton/ polyester skirt or skort- knee length Solid Navy cotton/ polyester knee length shorts (clothes should be, contain no decoration, or excessive amount of pockets)
Accessories
Solid Black/brown belt without decoration Solid white/ black/ navy ankle socks Conservative Jewelry: 12in or shorter gold or silver necklace, bracelet, and small earrings only
Solid black/brown belt without decoration Solid white/ black/ navy ankle or knee socks Conservative Jewelry: 12in or shorter gold or silver necklace, bracelet and small earrings only
Shoes Solid black K-Swiss casual shoes Brown suede dirty buck shoe Brown Dockers loafer shoe
Solid black K-Swiss casual shoes in canvas Brown suede dirty buck shoe Brown Dockers loafer shoe
Jackets Students will be allowed to wear HCMS hooded sweatshirts, sweater or jackets which contain the HCMS emblem or are solid navy in color ****Other jackets will be prohibited
Students are expected to dress and groom themselves in such a way as to reflect neatness, cleanliness, and safety. All students shall be modestly dressed and groomed so as not to distract unreasonably the attention of others or to cause disruption or interference with the educational program or the orderly operation of the school. Extremes in dress or appearance will not be permitted. The principal or other duly-authorized school official shall determine whether any particular mode of dress or grooming results in a violation of the spirit and intent of this rule. The following rules apply to all students: 1. Apparel or jewelry which designates “gangs,” neighborhood affiliations, or similar organizations will not be allowed. Solid colored tees (tees that hang below the waist) are not allowed. 2. All male students must wear belts and pants must be worn at the waist. No Sagging pants/shorts. 3. Shirts must be tucked in and belts must be visible. No excessive blousing. 4. No short-shorts or mini-skirts are to be worn. a. Shorts, culottes, skorts, and skirts must be of appropriate knee length (appropriate length as determined by administration). b. Boxer or bicycle shorts are not allowed. 5. No hats, curlers, head scarves (religious exceptions are permissible), bandannas, earrings (for males), sweat bands, sunglasses, or gloves are to be worn during school hours. 6. No clothing that is low cut, transparent, or that has revealing sides are allowed. 7. All jewelry must be in good taste. 8. All T-shirts must be in good taste (no suggestive wording or advertisements for tobacco, drugs, or alcoholic beverages). School administration will determine what is appropriate and acceptable. 9. Pants any length between the knee and the ankle are acceptable. Pants must not be frayed at the edges and peppered with holes. 10. No midriff tops, ripped or torn jeans will be allowed. 11. Shoes must be worn at all times. No flip flops. Shoes must have a wrap around the heel. 12. Tank tops and “white-tees” are inappropriate for school for males or females. 13. Wallet chains are not allowed. 14. Pajamas and bedroom shoes, flip flops are inappropriate for school. !
