Author: Tina Baker

Cameron Middle School

March 31, 2015

Volume 1, Issue 4

Baker’s Bulletin

Inside this issue:

Student Led / Conferences	1
MAP Testing	1
Simple Machines	1
Poetry Begins	2
Math Expressions	2
Dragon Pride	2
Contact Information and Contributors	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

Student Led Conferences

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Student led conferences were held on March 5, 2015. Unlike normal conferences where the parents and the teachers talk, the students lead the conferences. The students went to Mrs. Robinson’s room to lead the parents through your data notebook. The data notebook is a binder that keeps track of your progress during the year.
Then, the student and their parent or parents went to Ms. Wiechman’s room. With your parents and teachers, the students went over what’s in your data notebook, how well they are doing in class, and talking about what they need to improve on in class.

MAP Testing Begins

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We’re focusing on the MAP Test that we take at the end of the year because (a) we’re doing it on computers for the first time ever, and (b) because our teachers want us to get good score. The reason we’re ‘studying’ now is because the real test is long, so they’re starting early on helping us study.
Since we’re doing it on computers it’s almost like we’re taking the test for the first time, but we’re not. It’s just our first time taking the test on the computer. Mrs. Baker and the other teachers have been preparing us for the test all year, and now we’re just studying how to take the real test. The MAP Test sometimes makes students nervous. If they follow some test taking strategies, they should be fine!

Simple Machines in Science
Simple Machines in Science

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In science we are learning about simple machines in Lesson 4 Chapter 13. We are also are doing a lot of labs. Sometimes they can be hard, like the one we just finished up was “A Special Kind of Lever.”
Some of the labs we did will be listed below: “Ramp with a Twist”, “The Ups and downs of a Seesaw”, “Ramps and Rocks”, “Three of a Kind”, A Special Kind of Lever”, and “Pulley Lab.”
The one that was most interesting to the class was the Pulley Lab. Garrett said that he liked because “ you got to work other classmates and make friends.

http://capocci.pbworks.com/w/page/22877939/Simple%20Machines

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In ELA we just did a miniature unit on poetry. It was a whole unit on poems. By that, I mean that we learned all about the different kinds of poems, how to write them, and a lot of elements that are in poems.
So in poems we have to have a certain amount of words on one line, and we might make them rhyme. When we write the poems we’ll have to do the writing process. Prewriting first, then drafting, after that we do revising, then proof reading, and finally we publish it. It’ll be like when we wrote our pumpkin stories, except this time it will be poetry and not a fiction story. We wrote Haiku poems. They have seventeen syllables in three lines. They must have five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. In the library we looked at the poems and we will choose our favorite poem to type up for Poem In Your Pocket Day, on April thirtieth.

Poetry Begins

Cameron Middle School

915 Park Ave.
Cameron, Missouri 64429
(816) 632-2898

tbaker@cameronschools.org
dwiechman@cameronschools.org

I am a Reader, I am a Writer, I can communicate, collaborate, cooperate with others!

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For the Dragon Pride trip the students went to Power Play. Eddie Willits favorite thing was the Spinning Apples. They went up and down up and down up and down. Then they went fast slow, fast slow at the same time.
Hataeya Jerret’s favorite was the rides. Lanie Baker favorite was the tilt-a-world were you get in a ball and spin in a circle faster and faster, and Cole Henderson’s favorite was the Go-carts. That’s what the students did for the Dragon Pride trip.
The reason these students qualified was because they had no ZAPs all semester and 80% or higher in every class along with no office referrals.

Students Qualify for Dragon Pride Trip

5th grade

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During Math

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In math we have a 2 hour math block. The first hour is for Ms. Wiechman to teach of the lesson, and most of the time some of the kids get their quick checks. Then they get there practice (homework). This month we worked on the whole Lesson 16 about line graphs.

Tutoring Schedule
Morning Schedule-
Mon– Math from 7:30-7:50
Tues– ELA from 7:30-7:50
Wed– Read in the hall
Thus– Math from 7:30-7:50
Fri– ELA from 7:30-7:50
Afternoon Schedule-
Mon– Ms. Wiechman from 3:00-4:00
Wed– Mrs. Baker from 3:00-4:00

Literature Festival

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The Literature Festival is where you see famous authors, like Mary Downing Hahn, Antony John, Lois ruby and Claire Rudolf Murphy. The authors talk about their lives, how they started writing, and answer any questions you have. We can buy books and get them signed by their authors.
Students can qualify for the literature festival by reading eight Mark Twain nominees. The people from our class who went are Brianna Essary, Brett Henry, Abby Testa, Natali Huff, Candice Mick and Hataeya Jarrett but she was sick.

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