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Middle School News

*2009-10 International Travel

*MATHCOUNTS Practice will be Mondays from 3:25 to 4:15 starting October 19 in WHB. All middle schoolers are welcome. Students will be well prepared for the MATHCOUNTS competition (February) as well as the AMC 8 Math Contest November 17th, the online American Math Challenge in November, as well as solving a wide variety of problems requiring out of the box thinking.

Home Room

6th: Focus on Service Learning (Making stockings for dog treats)

Throughout month of November - house baking parties to make dog treats for Christmas in Davidson. Bring in your baked biscuits on Monday 11/30 so we may package them to sell on December 4th. If you baked them early, you may store them in the freezer to keep them fresh.

7th: Crochet project

8th: Plan Brian Center Holiday Program

Important Dates:

The items posted here include field trips (including driver requests), tests, quizzes, project deadlines, assemblies, school socials, and some miscellaneous events. Both students and families are encouraged to check this posting regularly to help keep agendas and family calendars up-to-date. Some dates are subject to change.

	All Grades	6th Grade	7th Grade	8th Grade
NOV	11/24 Assembly in Barn 1st period 11/25-11/29 Thanksgiving Break	11/23 Electoral College Math Project Due with Cartogram (Map) 11/23 Fall Trimester Portfolio Review for students and parents from 3:30-4:30 in Spanish room 11/16-11/29 Service Learning Remember to bake a batch of dog biscuits for our sale to raise money for the Humane Society. 11/30 Bring your dog biscuits to service class today. We will be packaging them in class.	11/23 Population Dynamics Project Due with Graph (Math) 11/23-24: LA Red Scarf Girl Test (study guide distributed in class on Monday; optional study sessions during FLEX on Thursday -- ask an 8th grader how helpful these sessions were) 11/30 - 12/1: LA Propaganda Speeches presented (you have Thanksgiving Break to polish if you'd like, but will have no required homework over break)
DEC		12/4 We will be selling dog biscuits at Christmas in Davidson in the evening 12/3 Science Test on Chapter 1 12/04 Math Test Chapter 5 (Graphing and Measuring Data) 12/09 Spanish Unit TEST	12/03 Spanish Unit TEST - la Casa 12/04 Math Test Chapter 5.1-5.7 (Data and Graphs + Stem-Leaf and Box-Whisker) 12/11 Service Field Trip to Levine Museum. We will take CATS bus. Pick up at NORTHCROSS (not Griffith St.)	12/2 Spanish Vocab Quiz 12/3, Thurs. - Algebra chapter 5 test 12/8, Tues., !:15 - 3:15 - Make blankets in the Red Barn 12/15, Tues., 12:30 - 3:15 - Lunch in Mooresville and the Brian Center Holiday Show. Drivers: Wills, Hager, Navarro, and Kaczmarczyk 12/17, Thurs. - Algebra chapter 6 test
JAN				1/12, Tues., 1:30 - 3:15 - Brian Center. Drivers: Deming, Butler, Bodner, Cunningham, and Fletcher
FEB				2/9, Tues., 1:30 - 3:15 - Brian Center. Drivers: Cunningham, Kiley, Navarro, Adams, and O'Connell
MARCH				3/16, Tues., 1:30 - 3:15 - Brian Center. Drivers: Butler, Deming, Fletcher, Shaw, and Kaczmarczyk 3/22 - Payment of $170.00 due for Washington DC trip
APRIL		Friday Evening Symphony Field Trip, April 23, 2010 Depart from Davidson Green at 6:00 p.m., attend German festival booths, symphony at 8:00. Driver/chaperones are Hedrick, Rose, Kinser, Shaw. Alternate driver/chaperone is Debi Ault. Wed.-Friday, April 28-30, 2010 Class Trip to GSMIT in the Great Smokies Chaperones/Drivers - John Rose(5), Courtney Hedrick(5), Debi Ault(5) Driver - Kim Ball(4) one direction More drivers needed so contact cadenham@woodlawnschool.org		4/19 - final payment due for DC trip 4/20, Tues., 1:30 - 3:15 - Brian Center. Drivers: Gordon, Navarro, Kaczmarczyk, Snyder, and Kiley 4/26 - 4/30 - Washington DC trip
MAY				5/?, Fri., 12:30 - 3:15 - Brian Center Senior Prom. Drivers: Neal, Crawford, Shaw, Bowman, Tyson
JUNE				6/8, Tues., 10:30 - 11:45 - Brian Center. Drivers: Butler, Wills, Adams, Felts, and Fletcher