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|Feb 17| weathering & erosion unit test

Students will be reviewing for this Friday's test tomorrow and Thursday. If there items not undertood while studying, please ask either day.

|Feb 13| weathering & erosion unit test

Next Friday students will have a unit test on weathering and erosion. A study guide for this test was passed out today to all students.

|Feb 2| two contests

Kohls

Kohls' department stores are sponsoring their "Kohl's Kids Who Care Scholarship Program". This program recognizes and reward young volunteers who help make thier communitieis a better place. Winner are awarded gift cards, scholarships toward post-secondary education, and Kohl's will make a donation to a nonprofit organization on the student's behalf. Visit their website for full rules and requirements.

Weather Saftey Poster Contest

The Ohio Committee for Sever Weather Awareness is sponsoring a Weather Safety Poster Contest for students. Contest rules and forms are available through their website.

|Jan 30| erosion videos

This past Monday students in both science classes learned how to use stream tables. Using this a scientific model, this activity helped to understand the process of erosion. You can see students in Mr. Kinkoph's science class and Mrs. Hallis' science class in action!

|Dec 10| spellingcity.com

In Mr. Kinkoph's class, students can use spellingcity to pratice their weely spelling words. Students know how to search for the lists. Once the weekly list is found, they can practice their words by playing games and even be tested.

Unfortunately the possessives spelling list doesn't work at the moment because spellingcity doesn't recognize the apostrophe.

|Nov 12| a new word

Morgan created a new word today: stickish - being like a stick

|Nov 5| moving on in science and math

science

In science, students have just finished learning about weather. A final class activity was to complete a KWL (Know, Want to Know, What we've learned). Each student could say at least one thing they learned in the weather unit. We are moving on the scienctific method. The five steps in the scientific method are:

  1. Observe and ask questions
  2. Write a hypothesis
  3. Plan an experiment
  4. Conduct the experiment
  5. Draw conclusions

math

In math, students learned about multiplication and multiple ways to do this. The goal was to learn different multiplication strategies, and, from there, students could choose the method they liked the best. They are now on to division and have a quiz this Friday.

|Oct 15| weather unit test

Students will be taking a weather unit test next Thursday. Each student will receive a study guide tomorrow during science that explains what to study and strategies for doing so. Also, check out test tips on how to study for tests and quizzes.

|Oct 8| language arts: common assessments

Students will be bring home a record sheet for the September common assessments, and a letter that explains what you are looking at. Please review the letter and the common assessment scores. If you have any questions, please let us know.

|Sep 25| respect and connect week

A note from our counselors for Respect and Connect Week

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September 29-Oct. 3

will be Respect and Connect Week at Central School . The focus and purpose of the week’s activities are to cultivate a climate of mutual respect and acceptance. Through various activities and class presentations, we will be facilitating and encouraging positive interactions among students. Central School ’s SAFE strategies will be highlighted as a means for appropriate resolution of interpersonal conflicts.

Our schedule for R and C Week is as follows:

 

|Sep 23| language arts: common assessments

In Mrs. Hallis and Mr. Kinkoph's classes, students are taking common assessments in language arts. They will be reading along with an audio tape for the story entitled Donovan's Word Jar. After reading, they will answer literal comprehension questions, and answer fact and opinion questions about the story. On Wednesday and Thursday, students will read a nonfiction book they have chosen from the LRC and complete prereading and postreading activities. Prereading activities include writing the title and author of the book, writing questions about what they think they will learn,and writing down vocabulary words they think they will define. The postreading activities include taking notes from the book using ABC Boxes, writing four facts they learned from the book, and explaining whether or not they liked the book.

|Sep 16| science and social studies quizzes

As a result of not having school yesterday because of the power outage, the air pressure quiz and continents and oceans quiz will both be taken tomorrow. Students will need their science spiral to review for the quiz as the study guide given to them last week is pasted in it.

|Sep 12| spelling test

Today students in Mrs. Hallis' and Mr. Kinkoph's language arts classes took their first spelling test. This test was a dictation test where students were told a sentence and they wrote it word for word. Each word in the sentence is worth one point, and a point was given for capitalization of each sentence and having correct end punctuation.

|Sep 8| curriculum meeting & quizzes

curriculum meeting

On Tuesday, September 10th there will be a parent meeting here at Central School for Mrs. Hallis, Mr. Kinkoph and Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Hallis will meet in her classroom, and Mr. Kinkoph and Mrs. Peters will meet in his classroom. Both meetings will begin at 6pm and end at 7pm. The goal is communicate various items that deal with the school, classroom, and curriculum. We look forward to seeing many of you that evening!

quizzes

On Tuesday there will be compass rose quiz. We have done lots of practice with the cardinal directions, intermediate directions, and applying these skills. On Wednesday we have a science quiz over temperature. A study guide was pasted into the students science spirals last week. On Friday there will be a math quiz.

|Aug 28| supplies, books, math

extra supplies

An extra supply list was sent home yesterday, August 29, 2007, asking for just a few more supplies. A point of clarification: Each student needs a total of 6 spiral notebooks for school this year. We know that the original supply list said two so, in most cases, four more are needed. The extra supplies are needed by Tuesday, September 4th.

books

All school textbooks are to be covered so as to prevent damage to them. Three of the four textbooks are under three years old and will be in use for some time. Please make sure these do get covered.

|Aug 28|website

website

This website will officially become the Team 4C website comprised of Mrs. Hallis, Mrs. Peters and myself. This is being done so that student work can be posted here for all three teachers without having to create individual sites. It may happen that some things will be posted for one teacher or another that is specific to that teacher. In the future, it is possible this site will contain individual teacher pages although this is not for certain.