5/6 Weekly News

Dear 5/6 Families,

March is Reading Month and our team has planned some super fun activities for our students. On Monday, our students wore athletic apparel to remember that “Reading jogs your memory.” On Tuesday, students wore a word (adjective) to describe themselves. On Wednesday, they wore “Hats off to reading!” On Thursday, we dropped everything and read in our hallways and on Friday, we finished with flashlight reading. See the calendar below for next week’s fun:

We recognize that reading is a fundamental skill that all of our students need to be successful in whatever life endeavors they choose. We are committed to supporting all of our students to become readers and to develop a love for reading. Thank you for joining us in this work as partners in education.

With Spartan Pride,

Bess Hodges

Principal

(269) 565-3980

ehodges@lakeviewspartans.org

Mrs. Emily Burton reads to Mr. Anderson's class.

This week our 5th graders started a unit on our environment. Students considered the ways in which we litter and damage our earth. Using their learning to be more responsible stewards of the environment, Ms. Cavinder’s class picked up trash around the LMS campus. What a great way to demonstrate our Spartan value of responsibility!

At Lakeview School District, we are a Professional Learning Community where staff work together to ensure all students learn at high levels by continually answering four questions as a team:

• What do we want students to learn? (Essential standards)

• How will we know if they learned it? (Assessment)

• What will we do when students don’t learn? (WIN time/intervention)

• What will we do if they already know it? (WIN time/enrichment)

Ms. Hodges and three of our teacher leaders attended a workshop this week to strengthen our team’s ability to help all of our students master essential grade level standards. During the workshop, our participants learned about how important it is for teaching teams to have clarity around what we want all students to know and be able to do, to plan units of study together, and to develop collective responses to our students’ needs. We look forward to using this important training to refine and improve our work for students.

We need your help to rebuild our Spartan Closet! In the past, our Spartan Closet held gently used clothes for any student who may need a change of clothes during the school day. If you have items that are no longer needed and you wish to donate them to our closet, our students would appreciate any and all you donate.

Gently Used Clothing for 5th-8th graders

• T-shirts
• Sweatshirts
• Sweatpants
• Leggings
• Jeans, etc.

New Items that would be appreciated:

• Underwear
• Socks

Hygiene Items

• Small travel size deodorants
• Toothbrushes and toothpaste

We are excited to share with you that we are able to offering ELA tutoring services for our 5th graders:

Mr. Jack Anderson, 5th Grade Teacher, is offering ELA tutoring on Wednesdays from 3:05-4:00PM here at the 5/6 Academy. To sign up, please contact Jack at janderson1@lakeviewspartans.org

Our 5th grade math teachers are continuing to offer tutoring. To sign up, please contact your child’s math teacher.

We are excited to share with you that we are offering tutoring services beginning this week for our 6th graders:

Ms. Deborah Rutherford, HS Math teacher, is offering math tutoring Mondays and Wednesdays 3:15-4:15PM at the High School. To sign up, please email Deborah at drutherford@lakeviewspartans.org

Ms. Karin Canfield, Math Interventionist, is offering math tutoring Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:30PM at Westlake Elementary. To sign up, please email Karin at kcanfield1@lakeviewspartans.org

Ms. Kelly Gutsue, 5/6 Reading Interventionist, is offering ELA tutoring Tuesdays and Wednesdays 3:05-4:00PM here at the 5/6 Academy. To sign up, please email Kelly at kgutsue@lakeviewspartans.org

As part of our commitment to partnering with our families to ensure all of our students learn at high levels, we want to keep you informed about what we are learning.

5th Grade Math - We are multiplying whole numbers by fractions and fractions by fractions. Here are some links to some free games to practice on the Bridges website for families:

Same and different fraction of a book

The Shrink O Matic

Same and different: Geoboard fractions

What comes next: Geoboards

5th Grade Science - We are learning about taking care of our environment (not littering).

5th Grade ELA - We are comparing and contrasting two different texts. We are looking at text structures and multiple accounts of the same event.

5th Grade Social Studies - We are learning about the conflict between Britain and the colonists leading up to the Revolution.

6th Grade Math - We are in the middle of unit 6 which is expressions and equations (introduction to algebra.) All of the lessons that we have worked on or will be working on are linked here: Unit 6 videos 80-96. About 90% of the video lessons are taken directly from the student math book. A few problems have changed but all the information is relevant to your students' current learning.

6th Grade Science - We are creating graphs and the coordinate plane as well as starting to learn about weathering and erosion.

6th Grade ELA - We are learning about writing argumentative essays.

6th Grade Social Studies: We are learning about Europe.

Friday, March 21st - No School, Professional Development Day

Monday, March 31-April 4 - Spring Break (No School)

This is the daily schedule for middle school students.

Mondays: 7:40 am - 2:10 pm

Tuesdays - Fridays: 7:40 am - 2:40 pm

Half Days: 7:40 - 11 am

Doors open for students to enter the building at 7:30 am. Morning supervision will not be available until this time. We do not offer after school care/supervision.

Lakeview Middle School

5/6 Academy

300 S. 28th St.

Battle Creek, MI 49015

269-565-3900 (Phone)

269-565-3908 (Fax)

Office Hours (August 5 - 21): Monday - Friday, 7 am - 3 pm

Office Hours (During the School Year): Mondays, 7 am - 3 pm

Tuesday-Fridays, 7 am - 330 pm

LMS 5/6 Academy Mission Statement

LMS 5/6 Academy is committed to meeting the individual needs of our students by providing equitable educational experiences in a safe learning environment that develops knowledgeable, healthy, responsible citizens who contribute and flourish in the global community.