Team Roo News
Debbie Scheip, Team Leader & Language
Arts Teacher
Jennifer Lindsey, Social Studies Teacher
Paul Yeager, Math Teacher
Dave Capretta, Science Teacher
Bill Dunlap, Intervention Specialist
November 6th and November 13th are conference dates at the middle school. The Team Roo teachers will be available between 3:00 and 7:00 on both of those Thursday evenings. If you would like to schedule a conference with the team, please call the main office to schedule a time. Also, each team teacher is available for one-on-one conferences at various other times. The office personnel can schedule one of those conferences for you, too.
The students continue to be busy with many interesting activities. In Social Studies, students will learn about the glory and the fall of the Greek and Roman Empires through a variety of hands-on lectures, activities and projects. At the end of these units, students will understand what these two glorious empires gave to the ancient world and today’s world.
Mr. Yeager’s math classes have explored an area of mathematics which combines geometry and algebra, that is working with scale factors, which can stretch or shrink any geometric figure. Upon completion of that area, all classes will be involved in work with positive and negative integers, fractions and decimals.
Mrs. Scheip’s students will be finished with their first novel, CRASH, and then will be reading a play version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This play captures the language of Dickens but allows the students to read and present it as a readers’ theater. The students will also be reviewing their grammar and mechanics rules, continuing to practice their writing skills, and sharpening their reading and vocabulary skills.
Ms. Blasko, the student teacher working with Mrs. Lindsey, left us for Lee Eaton to complete the last half of her teaching experience. We enjoyed having her here, and we all want to wish her good luck. We know she is an outstanding teacher!
We want to remind all students and parents that our assignments are posted on Progress Book every week. It is an excellent site where you can find the nightly homework, projects that may be due, tests and quizzes that are coming up. Also, it is a great place to see the progress for each class. If you haven’t seen Progress Book yet, please take some time to check it out.
Check here next issue to see what’s “hoppening” on Team Roo.
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