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Tutoring available through the Literacy Council
Barbara Hinchcliff of the Literacy Council has volunteer tutors available
for students who need assistance with reading, writing and math. This is a
free weekly tutoring service and can be available at school during school hours.
If you are interested in tutoring for your 6th, 7th or 8th grader, call
Marilyn Sterbick, school counselor, and she can make the arrangements.
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Eighth Grade Tackles Six-Trait Writing (again)
Because the class of 2008 will have to pass the WASL benchmarks to qualify for
their Certificate of Mastery (a requirement to graduate), the eighth grade students
are studying a writing process which will help them to "score" their own and
others' writing. If students are able to evaluate
their own writing, and understand the steps in the process of writing, it will help them to
be better writers. They will then be able to spot the areas in which their writing needs to
be improved, and be able to go in and do the editing that is required. It will no longer be
a mystery about what good writing really is.
Students are currently working on practice scoring of sample papers. They are
learning to use the rubrics (standards for grading)
to make accurate assessments of each of the six traits (Ideas, Organization, Voice,
Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions). As the quarter progresses, they will be
using the rubrics to score writing assignments,
and they will have a big writing assignment for the end of the quarter, written and
scored according to the Six Traits rubrics.
It is exciting to see the students start giving scores to sample writing that are
consistent and accurate (in other words it's a
score that a teacher would give the piece). They are becoming more articulate about
their reasons for scoring papers at a certain level
they really CAN tell you why they chose a 3 rather than a 1 or a 5!
Encourage your students to write, write, write there's nothing like a lot of
practice to make someone good at writing.
Thanks for your support!
Eighth Grade Language Teachers
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Art Room Could Use
Donations
Ms. Missig's art class can use donations of empty, clean yogurt containers
for painting projects and clean plastic bags (the kind used for vegetables) for
clay projects.
If you have any extras, please drop them off at the middle school office
and we'll make sure the art classroom gets them.
Thanks for your help!
Home Ec. Class Needs Help........
Do you have some free time and like to sew - are you interested in
volunteering in our home ec. class from 11:40 a.m.
- 12:35 p.m.
If so, please call the middle school office and leave your name and
phone number and we'll have Mrs. Martin return your
call.
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