Camp
Lejeune Dependents Schools
Brewster
Middle School
Brewster Middle School, working
together with families and community, is committed to providing the
best educational
practices so that all students become thinking, caring, responsible,
and productive citizens.
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| Welcome to the Pelican team web page! Here you will find important team information. *Parents please sign planners nightly! Students will lose their Pelican bucks if the planner is not signed each night. Team tee-shirts are on sale now! Show your team spirit! Shirts are $8.00 cash or make checks payable to "Sports Shak". Wear your tee shirts on Friday with jeans! Front side - Pelican Team; Back side - Goals are just dreams with deadlines >>>>>>Team teachers write notes in planners regarding missing or late assignments. Students are still responsible for turning in the work after the note is written. After 4 days, the grade will become a O! Please remind them of this. Pelican Team Supply List 2008-2009 - link! *We are requesting that you DO NOT purchase zippered binders;they do not fit well in the lockers. In addition, they do not fit under the desks. 6th grade late homework policy is that after four days, the assignment is a 0. Please ensure that your child turns in their homework that was due the day of their absence and turns in the new homework that was assigned the day of their absence! 6th Grade Homework and Discipline Policy Link! 6th Grade Schedule:
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Language
Arts
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| Do you know what your child is learning? Dodea Language Arts Standards information link! Standard E1a. Students are required to read twenty-five or more books from a variety of genres. The Book Assessment schedule for school year 08-09 is located below. Grading rubrics are also available below to download. PLEASE LOOK AT THE SYLLABUS TO SEE WHEN THE BOOK ASSESSMENTS ARE DUE! Some dates have 2 days due to BLOCK scheduling!
Your child is tested every September and every May. What does my child need for this class?
Parents: If you would like weekly homework assignment emails. I will do my best to do a mass emailing of assignments this year. **(This mass email will be blind carbon copy (BCC) so others will not see your email address for privacy purposes.) I will see how this goes. Email me at the BMS Pelican link (in the right column) and also include your child's name so I can connect your email address with your child name. Thank you. I hope this works well for everyone. Thank you to the parents who have already signed up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOMEWORK SECTION !!!!!!!
-------------------------------------------------- Reading Counts Book List is now on our library webpage!!!! Check it out! More than 3700 books to choose from. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SSR Oral Book Talk Form - Click link for explanation and expectations! The Oral Book Talk is when a student reads a non-fiction book and explains the 5 literary elements.This Oral Book Talk requires nothing to be written and is presented to the SSR teacher, which is the class at the end of the day. The teacher will sign the form stating that he/she did the presentation and the student is then responsible for placing the form in my LA wood box in my room. -------------------------------------------------- ????? We change from non-fiction to fiction throughout the year. Many non-fiction books in our library are grade level. I told them to choose a non-fiction book that they are interested in. Many non-fiction books have lots of vocabulary in them. I told the students that if they finish their book to reread it several times to ensure that they know and understand the vocabulary terms used in the book. For example, the characters in a space book may be the astronauts; the setting may be on the moon or on Mars (depending on thebook), etc. The students will use the literary elements throughout the year on all book assessments. -------------------------------------------------- Oral Presentation Grading Rubric (download here)- The visual aide is a poster on poster board. Creativity is honored. For example, a student last year read, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; she cut her poster board into a pair of pants. On her poster, she had the correct literary elements. It was fantastic. Please click on the grading link above! -------------------------------------------------- Reading Counts Book Assessment************ The students are to search the library computer for their lexile level as well as a Reading Counts book. They read the book, then take a quiz on the computer in the Reading Counts program. The program will send their grade to my computer. Any computer in the school is available to take an RC quiz. The students are able to take these quizzes before school, during Advisory and during SSR at the end of the day. -------------------------------------------------- Book Assessment Reminders : Nov. 3-4 Reading Counts Quiz Nov. 17-18 SSR Book Talk(Orally) Dec. 1-2 Parent Note Dec. 15-16 Reading Counts Quiz Jan. 12-13 Reading Counts Quiz Jan. 26-27 Independent Book Assessment (Assignment due?????) Feb. 9-10 SSR Book Talk (orally) Feb. 23-24 Oral Presentation with Visual Aide - see rubric) March 9-10 Reading Counts Quiz March 23-24 Independent Book Assessment (Assignment due?????) April 6-7 SSR Book Talk (orally) April 27-28 Reading Counts Quiz May 11-12 SSR Book Talk (orally) May 26-27 Reading Counts Quiz
Links below to download! Autobiographical Essay Information Autobiographical Essay Grading Rubric |
| Science Ms. G |
| Pictures of Cell Projects
CURRENT FOCUS: We are beginning a unit on Reproduction. The 6th graders will be using several different resources as we study this topic.
UPCOMING TESTS/PROJECTS: HOMEWORK:
ONLINE TEXTBOOKS username: RED password: 2UH8t2uSwe username: GREEN password: phes9Ehetr username: BLUE password: gutruna3af Do you know what your child is learning in Science? |
| Math Mrs. M |
Finishing up Chapter One and are having a test on Friday, Oct.24!
User name: MAC 104 Password: STaspEdUw2 Do you know what your child is learning in Math? Math Standards link! |
| Social Studies Mrs. T |
| Do you know what your child is learning in Social Studies? Social Studies Standards link! Homework:
*ALL tests are required to be returned with a parent signature. This is a homework grade.Thank you! *Cornell Notes are graded and due the day of the test. |
| Social Studies Mrs. M |
| Social Studies Ms. G |
CURRENT FOCUS: We are beginning a unit on Ancient Greece. HOMEWORK:
UPCOMING PROJECTS/TESTS:
Do you know what your child is learning in Social Studies? Social Studies Standards link! |
AVID Students! |
PARENT'S IMPORTANT:
Please make sure that these immunizaions are completed.
12:15-1:45pm
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Two Sculptors
I dreamed I saw a studio
And watched two sculptors there.
The clay they used was a child's mind
And they fashioned it with care.
One was a teacher - the tools he used
Were books, music, and art.
The other; a parent, worked with a guiding hand,
And a gentle, loving heart.
Day after day, the teacher toiled with a touch
That was careful, deft, and sure,
While the parent labored by his side
And polished and smoothed it o'er.
And when at last, their task was done,
They were proud of what they had wrought.
For the things they had molded into the child
Could neither be sold or bought.
And each agreed they would have failed
If either had worked alone.
For behind the parent stood the school
And behind the teacher, the home.
~Anonymous
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Get plenty of sleep and eat a healthy breakfast each morning before school.
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Dates to remember:
2008-2009
Oct. 31 Incentive Party to Youth Center 8:25-12
Nov. 3-5 Noon Release; Parent Conferences
Nov. 10 No School
Nov. 11 Holiday
Nov. 12 8am Patriotic Show
Nov. 26-28 Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 22-Jan. 2 Winter Break
Jan. 5 Students Return
Jan. 19 Holiday
Jan. 22 2nd Qtr. Ends
Jan. 23 Teacher Workday
Jan. 30 Report Cards
Feb. 16th Holiday
Feb. 26-27 Parent Conferences
March 4 (Wed.) Staff Workday
March 27 3rd Qtr. Ends
March 30 Teacher Workday
April 3 Report Cards
April 13-17 Spring Break
May 25 Holiday
June 10 Last Day for School/End of 4th Quarter
*Report cards are mailed to
sponsor's home address.
June 11-12 Teacher Days
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Homework Club sign-ups! Homework Club is on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30-3:30! Now will be located in the school library! This is a great place for hard working students who want extra help or need a quiet place to study.! Expectations will be higher on students this year. Note: *Students who no show three times, for no reason, will be exited from the afterschool program.
Need to stay afterschool to use the library! All students must have a written note from parents to stay in the library from 2:30-3:30. The activity bus leaves school at 3:30. Students may go to the library before school with a teacher pass as well as afterschool with a written note from a parent.
**Due to safety concerns, please due not allow your child to wear sneakers with wheels on them to school!
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Parents Corner:
New immunizatioon requirements for CLDS! Click here and then scroll to bottom of the page to read new requirements.
Need research help? Educational Websites link!
Cafeteria:
Read: Parents Guide to Sixth Grade Instruction and more!
Who do I call? Resource Information Base and Onslow County!
Read: Assisting Children with Separation!
Read: Tips for Parents: Supporting the Child Whose Military Parent Is Deploying
Inclement Weather link!- School and Base Information