Welcome to Woodland Middle School

Curriculum Night

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Welcome to Woodland Middle School

Curriculum Night

8th Grade Puma

MEET THE TEACHERS

●Mrs. Santry Language Arts/Team Leader

●Ms. Kistler Math/Team Leader●Mrs. Barkhurst Social Studies●Ms. Malinoski Science●Mr. Ehredt Resource

YOUR CHILD MAY ALSO HAVE…

● Mrs. MacDonald Pre-Algebra I

● Ms. Duerwachter Language Arts

● Mr. Priester Social Studies/Language Arts

OTHER PEOPLE TO KNOW …

●Mr. Snyder Principal●Mr. Murphy Asst. Principal●Ms. Stange Social Worker

Follow Mr. Murphy on Twitter at @Mr_S_Murphy

8TH GRADE“EVERY NEW BEGINNING COMES FROM SOME OTHER BEGINNING’S END.” SEMISONIC●8th Grade Schedule

●ROAR and Classroom Expectations

●Late Work Policy●Absences

●Conferences●8th Grade Activities

●Technology●Curriculum

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Schedule●Team Schedule

●7:15-7:30 Homeroom●7:30-7:55 Advisory●8:00-8:47 PE/Exp●8:52-9:39 PE/Exp ●9:45-10:41 Core 1●10:41-11:34 Core 2●11:38-12:08 Lunch●12:15-1:09 Core 3●1:09-2:00 Core 4●2:05-2:30 Bus Calls

●Throughout the year, we will focus on a variety of academic and organizational skills.

●Students will R.O. A. R. specific weeks throughout the year with PBIS activities that reinforce positive behaviors.

Advisory

R.O.A.R.● ROAR objectives teach behavioral expectations.

Be Respectful

Take Ownership

Be Accepting Be Ready

● PBIS and ROAR adds a positive reward system to our current discipline system.

● Contact Mr. Murphy if there is any way you can help.

CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS

●Classroom expectations were shared with students the first day of school.

●Students who show inappropriate behavior will receive demerits or detentions.

●Some behaviors will automatically be assigned a detention.

●Detentions are served before or after school.

ASSIGNMENT NOTEBOOKS/LOCKS

●Students are required to record daily assignments in their assignment notebook.●Parents and Teachers can communicate through written comments at the bottom of the page.●Replacement assignment notebooks cost $5.●Working locks are given to every student at the beginning of the year.●Replacement locks are $5.

                

TEAM HOMEWORK POLICIES

●Homework is required and should be turned in at the beginning of class.

●Assignments turned in late, unless due to absence or extenuating circumstances, will receive effort credit but a grade of zero.

ABSENT WORK POLICY- HOMEWORK●Homework due the day the student was absent is due the day the student returns.● Please try to limit absences so that your child does not miss valuable teaching time.●If your child is absent from school for three or more days, you may contact the office by 8:30 am in order to pick up work after school.

ABSENT WORK POLICY-CLASSWORK

●Students will have one day for every day they miss to make up work.

●Students are responsible for checking with their teachers when they return to school to see what classwork they missed.

●Classwork is not reflected on HW Hotline, but is an important component of a student’s grade and needs to be made up.

QUIZZES, TESTS, AND PROJECTS●As a team, we will do our best to spread out our quizzes, tests, and projects however, this is not always possible.●Some quizzes the students will know about and be able to study for ahead of time, other quizzes will be “pop” quizzes to check for understanding.●Students are always given ample time to work on projects and are encouraged to not wait until the last minute to start.

GRADES●Official grades are sent home in the middle and at the end of each quarter.

●Midterm and report card signatures are required. A signature is required on page 7 of your child’s assignment notebook acknowledging the receipt of midterm and quarterly grades.

●Parents and students can access grades on line through the Family Access system (separate handout). We encourage you to use our Family Access to keep track of your child’s grade. Please keep in mind we make every effort to keep grades updated, however they are not updated daily.

GRADING SCALE

A 90 - 100

B 80-89

C 70-79

D 60 - 69

E below 60

CONFERENCES●Conferences are held twice a year. Both fall and spring conferences are student led.

Our fall conference is an opportunity for you to communicate with your child and child’s teacher to review goals developed by your child for the academic year. ●Fall conferences are in November.●Spring conferences will be held in February.

8th Grade Activities

●8th grade dance●Boat trip●Field trip●Promotion

8th grade activities are privileges-- we are looking forward to creating these memories with you and your children

Technology ●SMART boards- interactive white boards are located in the Math and Social Studies classrooms.

●Moby Max- Web based program aligned to student MAP scores. It is a good resource that can be used at home.

●WMS Library-Our Middle School library has ebooks, audiobooks, access to online databases

Language Arts Curriculum●Representative of a variety of authors and cultures●Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, & PoetryNovel Studies:

Three fiction selections

Essay Writing: ●Narrative●Informative/ExplanatoryGrammar & Vocabulary Development●Students will study Greek and Latin word stems, weekly stem quizzesGrammar studies will include the

topics of word use, parts of speech and sentence structure

SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM

●Progressivism●Imperialism●World Wars I & II●Cold War●Vietnam War

•Domestic Issues•The Jazz Age•The Great Depression•Civil Rights Movement●Vietnam War●Current Events ●Illinois Constitution

●All students will complete at least 1 DBQ (document based question) per quarter. Each DBQ will require students to write a short essay.

8th Grade Pre-Algebra II

●Real Numbers

●Solving Equations

●Geometry

●Linear Equations

●Systems of Equations

●Transformations

8th Grade Algebra I

●Graphing Linear Equations●Writing Linear Equations●Solve & Graph Linear Inequalities●Systems of Equations●Exponents●Polynomials & Factoring●Quadratic Equations●Radicals●Rational Equations

Science Curriculum★ The Nature of Science & The Scientific Process★ Earth’s Place in the Universe★ Earth Systems & Change Over Time★ Matter

My primary goal is to prepare the students for any high school science class that they will take. In order to do this, we will be focusing on:

*Different types of scientific writing (Lab reports & claim/evidence) *Using a study guide*Taking notes and organizing a notebook*Strengthening non-fiction reading skills

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