Author: Tina Baker

Cameron Middle School

February 19, 2015

Volume 1, Issue 3

Baker’s Bulletin

Inside this issue:

“Leader in Me”	1
AR 360	1
Martin Luther King	1
Book Review	2
Math Expressions	2
Leader in Me cont.	2
Dragon Pride	2
Contact Information and Contributers	2
Tutoring schedule	2

Upcoming Events:
March 5– Early out
March 5– Student Lead conference
March 6 and 9– No School
March 6— Dragon Pride

“The Leader in Me” Begins in CMS

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“Be proactive” is a saying we have been hearing at CMS. Being proactive means doing things before being asked to. This idea is the first step to helping students become leaders. This idea came from a book, The Leader in Me.
The book is about a principal who wants to turn her school around. There are around 10 different stories in this book. They are all about the same thing, helping students become leaders. The places using the program are North Carolina, Canada, Brazil, Texas, Asia, the South Pacific, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa.
Mr. Albright read the book during the summer. Then a teacher asked if they could do a book study, so Mr. Albright decided that they could. They would come together
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goals of how many chapters they would read that week. Then after making goals they would sit around and talk about the chapters they read that week and how it can change the students.
There are about 17 teachers in the book study. Next year they might do another book study and would like more teachers to be involved in and Mr. Albright also would like to also have kids in it, too. The kids would help design the assembly’s and get involved in other things.
This is only the beginning of “The Leader in Me” changes. The next change is putting first things first.
Cole Henderson
In ELA we are learning about World War II. We researched about the war, what countries were involved and who was affected by it, so we have some background when we start reading our literature sets.
Next week we will start reading The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman. Mrs. Baker said depending on your reading level you could pick between Number the Stars by Lois Lowry which is a Yearling Newbery book or Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan.
as been learning about the writing p Books during World War II
By Cole Henderson
In ELA we are learning about World War II. We researched about the war, what countries were involved and who was affected by it, so we have some background when we start reading our literature sets.
Next week we will start reading The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman. Mrs. Baker said depending on your reading level you could pick between Number the Stars by Lois Lowry which is a Yearling Newbery book or Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan.
rocess. In our stories we used three graphic organizer. Narrative writing is when a story has a beginning, middle, and end, it doesn’t matter if it’s true or false. Narrative writing has dialog and other things. The steps are pre-writing, rough drafts, revising, editing, and the last is publishing. Those will get described more later on.
Pre-writing is the first step and when doing pre-writing you brain storm ideas. If you’re writing a non-fiction story you need to research, don’t forget to say where you got it from.
Next, you make a rough draft. When you make a rough draft you should skip a line, so if you need to add or change anything you can. Another good thing about skipping lines is that you can edit and revise in between the lines. After that, you revise.
During revising you want to make sure your story (paper, paragraph, or anything else you’re writing) flows and makes since. Also if you don’t use a word in the correct tense you can change it. For example, “I want to go to!” you would need to revise, because “to” should be “too”.
Editing is next. In editing you do punctuation. By that I mean periods, commas, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks, parentheses, and there are a lot more that I can’t list. Also you do correct capitalization, like if you make an I lower case like this “i” you should capitalize it to make it “I”.
The last step is publishing. When you publish you sell your story or if you’re doing a project for school you turn it in.
My teacher Mrs. Baker calls me “little editor” because in books that have been published I can find things wrong with it, even the professional publishers miss some things that I see wrong with a text. I like correcting texts.
Anyway, let’s talk about the pumpkin stories again. Both classes had to do the pumpkin stories, I mean Ms. Wiechman and Mrs. Baker’s classes have to do it. For me it was fun, but to some of the other kids didn’t think it was so fun, but I write for fun. Here is what we have been doing for about one month. Hope you enjoyed!

AR 360 Begins

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There is a new tool that your child/children can use here at school, and it’s called AR 360. AR 360 is pretty much AR (Accelerated Reader), but instead of testing on books you test on articles that are assigned to your child/children by their teachers. The student reads the article, then takes a quiz.
It will help students to comprehend what they read when they read news articles. It also provides information on topics they are studying in class. Many students have and will benefit from this because, when they’re older they might want to read a newspaper or aticle in a magazine and it won’t be beneficial if they don’t understand what they’re reading. So that’s good if they can comprehend it.

Learning About Martin Luther King Jr.

Editorial

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Do you ever wonder why we have Martin Luther King Jr. day off? I think the reason we get the day off is because we should always remember what he did.
King was born on January 6, 1929. He was always taught to treat others with kindness, all should be treated equally and that violence will always bring chaos.
King was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. The most famous peaceful was the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to 1956, it started on December 1 and lasted over a year. A boycott is when a group of people refuse to pay or do something for a long time. The boycott worked, but sadly King died when he was age 39 on April 4, 1968. He was a man filled with dreams of equality.

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5th grade

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Robie is a 15 year old girl who lives in the Midway Atoll. She was visiting her aunt Jillian or AJ in Honolulu.
When Robie decides to head home, she gets on the plane she has rode for years, since she was around 8. But only an hour into the ride an engine fails. The plane was made to fly with only one engine, but there has to be a specific weight.
The next thing Robie knows Max, the new copilot, is telling her to put on a life jacket. Before she can put it on, the plane starts to dip. Max comes to her and tells her to get in a raft. He pushes her out the emergency door. Then they get stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean. There are signs of sharks. Their only food is a bag skittles and there is no water. There is an island, but no sign of help along the way. To find out what happens to Robie read The Raft.
I recommend this book because it is a mystery down to the last page. You will never know what’s going to happen next. It’s a great book to just sit down and read.

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Leader in Me Cont.

to make goals of how many chapters they would read that week. Then after making goals they would sit around and talk about the chapters they read and how it can help the students become leaders.
There are about 17 teachers in the book study. Next year they might do another book study and would like more teachers to be involved. Mr. Albright would also like to have students in it, too. The kids would help design the assembly’s and get involved in other things.
This is only the beginning of “The Leader in Me” changes. The next change is “putting first things first.”

Expressions in Math

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This quarter in math started off with Variables and Algebraic Expressions on Lesson 8-8. Then we worked on Lesson 8-1, Using Variables to Write Expressions. The lesson we will work on next is Lesson 8-2, Order of Operations and Lesson 8-3, Simplifying Expressions will be after that next. Tutoring Schedule
The morning tutoring schedule is-
Monday– math tutoring
Tuesday– ELA tutoring
Wednesday– read in the hallway
Thursday– math tutoring
Friday– ELA tutoring
The afternoon schedule is from 3-4
Monday– math tutoring
Wednesday– ELA tutoring

Dragon Pride
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Students qualify for Dragon Pride by having a 82% or higher in all classes, no office referrals, no late assignments and at least a 94% attendance.
They earn a field trip to Power Play in Kansas City. The trip is March 6th, from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm.
The students in our classes that qualified are Cole Henderson, Natali Huff, Lanie Baker, Keisha Davis, Delaney Frances, Hataeya Jarrett, Eddie Willits, Morgan Rhoades, Brett Henry and Abby Testa.

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