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St. Anthony Indian School
INTERMEDIATE TEAM
PO Box 486, Zuni, NM 87327 505-782-4596
http://www.geocities.com/feliciasamson/sais_2005_2006
St. Anthony 2005-2006
For Students and Parents
Weekly Bulletins Index
Autobiographical Project is due between September 14-21st. Students received a handout with the five parts necessary for completion last week. All five parts must be completed for an "A"; 4 parts for "B"; 3 parts for "C"; 2 parts for "D"; 1 part for "F" (students made corrections on their handouts). Bonus activities will only add a "+" to the grade. For example, complete 2 parts and 10 bonus activities... the highest grade you can get will be a D+. Students also received "Language Arts Activities for Computers 5-8" Handout last week.
Make-up Quizzes will be administered on Thursdays during Homework Club.
Spelling Quiz scores can be improved by taking the mis-spelled words, and identifying a strategy for the student to remember the correct spelling. Write your strategy on a separate piece of paper, staple it to your quiz, and submit to Ms. Felicia. Some examples on page 1 of this week's bulletin
Late Work Grading Change. You will receive one tick for each late assignment. The total number of ticks for each category (homework, classwork, projects, etc.) received at the end of the quarter will be subtracted from your total number of bonus points for that same category. If you have no bonus points, or there are ticks remaining after being subtracted from the bonus points, those ticks will be reduce your class participation grade.
Weekly Homework (due Wed, Sept. 21st):
1. Spelling: 10 times each. Bonus activities (word art, sentences, stories, WOW, etc.) available!
Grade 5: easel, level, example, recycle, double
Grade 6: enormous, therefore, forty, order, explore
Grade 7: secretary, favorite, really, restaurant, victim
Grade 8: narrative, definition, inspection, strategic, stability
2. Vocabulary (WOW): ambiguous
(1) Word (2) Definition (3) Etymology (4) POS (5) Picture (6) Sentence
3. Reading Logs: 60 minutes per week
Weekly Meditation (due Wed, Sept. 21st):
(1) Copy the song/ scripture into meditation journal ; (2) Meditate on
the song/ scripture, and write what it means to you; (3) Illustrate
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord.
--Jeremiah 29:11
WOW: observation
Math WOW: place value
Ms. B's Web Page Address, where all assignments for Science 5/6/7/8, and Math 5/6 are posted!:
www.geocities.com/mellyb56/mypage.html
Accelerated Reader is worth 5% of your Language Arts grade. Grading in AR is as follows:
A. Points are worth 40% of your grade. See the back of your book for points.
A: 2 points per week
B: 1.5 points per week
C: 1 point per week
D: .5 point per week
B. Quizzes (The number of quizzes taken per student will vary based on the point levels of their books). Quiz scores will be averaged, and worth 10% of your AR grade.
C. Class Participation includes reading in class, and appropriate behavior during classtime. This is worth 10% of your AR grade.
D. Classwork includes Reading Log, and completing written assignments. This is worth 40% of your grade.
to the Intermediate Team Weekly Bulletin? Send a note to Ms. Felicia
by Monday afternoon
for it to appear in the Wednesday bulletin!
Questions, comments, concerns, suggestions should also be sent to Ms. Felicia