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Friday October 17, 2014

Middle School Conferences November 3, 6
Art Show!!
The conference art show will feature artwork of the entire 6
th
grade class. A special
Impressionist exhibit will be displayed down the south wing towards the art room.
Students will be able to teach visitors about this style of art and its uniue
characteristics. Students will also help visitors learn how to discuss and critiue
artwork by recogni!ing certain elements in the piece and forming an opinion"
without #ust saying the artwork is $pretty% or $I don&t like it%. All will be impressed
by the exceptional work and creativity of these 'ne artists(
Social Studies-Mrs. Larsen
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)eady to start the *
nd
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,rade( A few students still have
to 'nish up the -
st
+uarter Assessment following absences. .lease
ask if they have taken their test. /y grades must be posted on
0ednesday. This coming week we will take a uick ui! over the
thematic maps we recorded information about in our ,eo"1ournals.
Next we will be getting started with a unit about a wide variety of land forms and
bodies of water. 0e will be learning de'nitions2 drawing pictures2 and locating real
examples in our atlases.
Math-Mrs. $etter
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This week in math we continued 3nit *"4perations with
0hole Numbers and 5ecimals. 0e continued reviewing whole
number and decimal place value2 and adding and subtracting
decimals. 0e began work with multiplying by positive and
negative .owers of -6 and some groups spent time multiplying
decimals.
Next week we will continue reviewing multiplying by
powers of -6 and multiplying decimals and then move into whole number and
decimal division.

%lease contact me with an& 'uestions or concerns.
%hone( )6"-)*3+ e,t. 3"-.
/ave a nice wee!end!
Language Arts with Mr. Kotz
Hello all! We have just wrapped up lesson 12, Airborn. Beginning next week we
will be beginning lesson 15 Team Moon. The details o this lesson are as ollows!
Lesson 15:
Main Selection: Team Moon
Big Idea: "o#eti#es $ou have to give it all $ou%ve got
Essential Questions: How do text and graphi&s show a &risis in spa&e'
Target Sill: Text and (raphi& )eatures Target Strateg!: *nal$+e,-valuate
"luenc!: .ntonation
#oca$ular! Strategies: "uixes /ous0 1i&0 1ure
Target %oca$ular!: lunar, hovering, as&ent, likelihood, i#pending, perilous, option, presu#abl$,
unpredi&tabilit$, rando#
This lesson will take approxi#atel$ three weeks to &o#plete. The pa&ing o ea&h a&tivit$ and
assess#ent #a$ var$, depending on our dail$ progress.
"urther &otes:
Test retakes or our previous lesson will be available through 2onda$ o next week.
)inal 3uarter (rades are due on Tuesda$ 14,21
Please feel free to use this link of our text book to have your students our main selection outside of
class:
http!,,www1k5.think&entral.&o#,&ontent,hsp,reading,journe$s,na,gr5,ese678945:8;54;446,laun&h.ht#l<
*s alwa$s, please eel ree to &onta&t #e i $ou have =uestions or &on&erns.
>onathan.kot+?indianola.k12.ia.us
5151751175;4 ext. ;119
Librar& News-Mrs.0anama!er
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2he Middle School 3oo! 4air will soon be here!
.lease stop by the book fair during conferences. The hours of the
7ook 8air will be as follows9 /onday November : and Thursday
November 6 ; <966 p.m."=9:6 p.m. Also 0ednesday November > ;
*9:6"<966 p.m. Students should be receiving brochures in their
)?A5 class. All money will be used to buy materials for the library.
0e could also use volunteers to help sta@ the book fair during those
days. .lease contact /rs. 0anamaker if you can help.
There is also an online book fair. Aou can purchase books and have them
delivered right to your door( The school still receives credit for all of the
purchases. 4ur school book fair is open online 5ctober #)-November "6
at this address9
http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/indianolamiddleschool
Art-Mrs. Smith
lisa.smithindianola.!"#.ia.us

Website: www.artinspiredbylife.com
This week Students accomplished these goals:
Took a formative assessment that showed improvement in both essential skills:
1. Criticizing artwork
2. Applying the elements of art
Learned the prpose of complimentary colors! tints! shades and tones.
Learned how to paint sing impressionist techni"es
Chose a pictre to paint sing the impressionist style
SQUAR ! ART
"y now parents should ha#e seen your child$s S%uare ! Art ordering catalog. To
make a purchase &ust follow the ' directions on the back of the catalog. #t is
simple and preferred if ordering is done online! bt paper order forms are also
accepted.

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. ,unds will
go towards helping out with additional technology for art classes and %uality art
supplies. Thank you for supporting your child4 and the Art )epartment-

5roducts will be in by 6o#ember !3th. # hope yo can take advantage of this great
opportnity to order cstom gifts with yor child$s artwork on it. %on&t forget Christmas
is right arond the corner' Again( thank yo for yor spport and participation'
Com7uters 8 Mrs. %etersen
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Students all have an In'nite Bampus Account and email account. They have been
instructed on how to log in to each of them. Burrently we are working on a 'nancial
literacy unit where students have access to the ever' website.
http9CCwww.ever'.comC login
0e recently completed a responsible choices unit. Next week we will begin our
session on income and careers.
Students will be assigned ,oogle accounts by the 'rst part of November.
Science 8 Mrs. Sim7son
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Science students are continuing to work on measurement skills. So far2 we have
focused on using graduated cylinders and triple beam balances to calculate volume
and mass respectively. If your child would like to practice more with reading a triple
beam balance2 and has access to the internet2 they may want to check out the
following website9 http9CCwww.ohaus.comCinputCtutorialsCtbbCtbbentry.swf.
Students were assessed over graduated cylinders early this week. /ost students did
very well( The results are in a table below and are divided by pro'ciency bands.
.lease ask your student how they did and check for their score on In'nite Bampus.
Any student may opt to retake the assessment2 but those that scored in the
develo7in: or be:innin: 7ro;cienc& bands are re'uired to reta!e the
graduated cylinder assessment. Students scoring *> and below were given a
Conce7t <ecover& %re7aration %lan worksheet to complete2 sign2 have a
parentCguardian sign2 and return to /rs. Simpson in order to retake the assessment.
2he scheduled times for reta!es are Monda& "+=#+ at 3(++ %M and 2uesda&
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This 0eek&s Targets9
I can explain how to read a triple beam balance.
I can describe the similarities and di@erences of graduated cylinders.
Box Tops
Send to school an&time! Collection tubs are located in
Lan:ua:e Arts roo's
and 'ain o((ice.
Ms. Loneman 8 Lan:ua:e Arts
The first few days of the week were spent reviewing and preparing for or lesson
12 vocablary and comprehension assessments. Those who chose to retake or
were re"ired to retake an assessment will do so before school or after school on
)riday! the 1*
th
or +onday! the 2,
th
. )or the most part! thogh! stdents did very
well with this lesson. All revised personal narratives and test retakes will be pdated in the
grade book before grades are de on Tesday! the 21
st
at -:,,. Continued on next pg.
Ms. Loneman 8 Lan:ua:e Arts- continued
.e/t week will be the beginning of or first nonfiction lesson! lesson 10. 1e will
spend ne/t week doing vocablary work! bilding backgrond! and introdcing te/t and
graphic featres. This will be another three week lesson! and the assessments are crrently
planned for .ovember 2
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+esson !7:
8ain Selection: Team +oon
"ig 0dea: 3ometimes yo need to give it all yo&ve got.
ssential Question: 4ow do te/t and graphics show a crisis in space5
Target Skill: Te/t and 6raphic )eatres Target Strategy: Analyze78valate
,luency: #ntonation
9ocabulary Strategies: sffi/es 9os! (ic! (re
Target 9ocabulary: lnar! hovering! ascent! likelihood! impending! perilos! option!
presmably! npredictability! random
0mportant )ates:
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;3TA> Test
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;+s. Loneman will be absent in the morning for a meeting
:ctober 2?
th
;+s. Loneman will be absent all day for a meeting
As always! please contact me at any time with comments! "estions! or concerns.
mail: melissa.loneman:indianola.k!2.ia.us
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Twitter: :msloneman @twitter.comAmslonemanB
Website: msloneman.weebly.com
.a#e a great weekend-