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Counselor’s News: If you are interested in joining a leadership team, please consider running for student council.
Student Council campaigns & elections will be September 7-14. Campaigning will begin next week. You can run for class president, vice-president, secretary or representative. If interested, you can pick up a petition next Tuesday from Ms. Callwell and begin campaigning. Speeches and elections will be held on the following Tuesday, September 14 during seminar.
Science: This week we will be taking the Acuity Test to give us an idea of the student’s current knowledge. The science department will be using the data gathered from this test and last year’s MAP test to help plan seminar activities for the students and to continue to better align our classroom curriculum. Students will also continue to practice identifying variables, writing problem statements and hypothesis given experimental scenarios. Students will be able to design data tables and graphs including all necessary components. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.
Mrs. Rhoad… rhoade@huskers.k12.mo.us Plan: Gold: 11:45 - 1:15 Blue: 1:45 - 3:00 Phone: 584-2533
Mrs. Lettau…lettauc@huskers.k12.mo.us Gold: 1:45 - 3:00 Blue: 10:05 – 11:30
Health/Physical Education :
The student will be able to recognize the signs of good mental health. They will differentiate self-concept from selfesteem, and explain ways to improve self-esteem. The student will also discuss how their thought and behaviors affect the way they feel about themselves. In physical education the student will be able to demonstrate their fitness levels through the mile run, sit-ups, push-ups, sit-and-reach, and shuttle run. searss@huskers.k12.mo.us, forseet@huskers.k12.mo.us
PRE-ALGEBRA: Students in this course worked with numerical and geometric patterns this week in addition to Stanford
Testing. Next week, we will be completing our first Acuity test in the computer lab. We are looking forward to getting back to our normal schedule!
ALGEBRA: Students in this course are working on multiply and dividing real numbers, including whole numbers, integers, fractions, and decimals. Next week we will learn about the properties of real numbers.
Have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend! Please feel free to contact me anytime with questions or concerns.
Ms. Nikkel: nikkeln@huskers.k12.mo.us or 660-584-7161 Conference: 1:30-3:00
Math--Mrs. Lettau: Students will continue next week working in Chapter 10 – reading and creating tables and graphs. .
If you have questions, you may call me at 660-584-7161 (Gold – 1:30-3:00 or Blue – 10:04 – 11:30) or email me at www.lettauc@huskers.k12.mo.us
8 th Grade Band
We have been reviewing music in Essential Elements Book 2, which they already have from last year. I have spoke with students who need another book and have let them know a price and who to write checks to. We are working on playing the school fight song
“Onward Huskers” and will begin to learn how to march and play to prepare for the Homecoming parade on October 15th in which the 8 th grade will march with the High School. Please check out the concert events and dates in the syllabus that was sent home with students.
Please let me know if your student needs another MS Band Blue Polo for concerts! The price is $15. Please make checks payable to
Lafayette County C-1 Middle School. I will have a deadline for purchase at a later date.
Please contact me with questions! weldona@huskers.k12.mo.us
Vocal Music
7 th and 8 th Grade Vocal Music students will be able to identify quarter, half, dotted half, and whole notes and rests.
Students will be able to identify pitches that go up, down, or stay the same. We are studying these objectives through daily sight singing lessons and our choral music. Please contact me if you have any concerns or questions. My plan times are Gold 3 and Blue 1. Thanks, Sarah Cook cooksa@huskers.k12.mo.us
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Signatures indicate glimpse has been read…both signatures must be present for extra credit
Student Signature:________________________________________________________ September 3, 2010
Parent/Guardian Signature:________________________________________________ Date: ___________________
Glimpses need to be signed and returned to Mrs. Rhoad no later than Wednesday, September 8 for extra credit

8 th Grade Art:
Due to Stanford testing this class is behind a bit and we will be working with our animal grids this week. The students will be able to use a mathematical grid system to illustrate an animal portrait layout. They will demonstrate their ability to illustrate life like details and textures using color. This class will begin drawing their layout compositions of animals using pencils and will create their final details using conte’ pencils.
All students will need to bring in their supplies of….6B Pencil (soft lead), 2B Pencil (medium lead), Magic Rub Eraser,
Kneadable Eraser (*Kramer Clothing carries theses suppliesJ) Masking Tape, and Sharpie Markers. If you can’t send the supplies with your child, please send a note to let me know they have sent a supply list home to you and a possible date when I can expect that they will bring their supplies to school.
Students will be creating a portrait later in the semester but will need to bring in their own photos to work from. Please help them locate a photo that could be scanned and returned to you. They may also use photos from magazines, books, the internet, or other photo sources for this project. It takes time to scan and print these images for the students to use so I appreciate them bringing those to me early in the year. The subjects may be family members, friends, or other people that they want to illustrate. The larger photos work best….no billfold sized.
Computer Graphics: The students in this class will demonstrate proper keyboarding position of the body and use a variety of software applications. They will continue demonstrating proper keyboarding skills and improving their accuracy while working from the Keyboarding Connections textbooks. We will be using Microsoft Word for keyboarding lessons. Microsoft
Publisher will be used for creating desktop publishing projects also found in the textbook. This week the students will be creating a tri-fold flyer.
Rhonda Boedeker boedekerr@huskers.k12.mo.us Middle School Office Phone: (660)584-7161
Conference: Semester 1 Gold 1 8:00-9:26AM and Blue 3 10:04-11:30AM
8 th grade Exploratory Ag will be making a power point presentation on an Ag related career they choose. They will explore those careers and they will know the requirements to enter that field of study. Ag students will also be learning what FFA is all about. Mr. Rogers
Com. Arts: Stanford testing is complete! Next week we will take a short Acuity assessment to identify our strengths and weaknesses in communication arts. In addition, we will begin our “fiction” unit. Further details will come home later next week. Please feel free to contact Mrs. Sellman G/B3 10:05 – 11:30 or Mrs. Lettau G5 1:35 –
3:00/B3 10:05 – 11:30 at 584-7161 or sellmanj@huskers.k12.mo.us or lettauc@huskers.k12.mo.us. Enjoy your extended weekend!
Food Science Week of Sept.7
th students will be working on taste testing and describing flavors and textures. We will be learning descriptive words to use in place gross, yucky, etc.
FACS We continue the study of line and space, doing scaled drawing, and learning architectural symbols. We are working on house plans which will be due Sept. 13 (B) or Sept. 14 (G). Students will need poster board in order to complete this project.
Mrs. Goodman
RISE : Students will learn new vocabulary and use the new words in sentences and in pictures. They also will solve higher level thinking skill problems. Students will read chapters 2 and 3 of I Have Lived a Thousand Years, and create a sequencing chart of the levels of prejudice encountered in the novel. They will exchange information, questions and ideas while recognizing the perspectives of others.
Marybeth Fuller
Gifted Education Lafayette Co-C1 Schools School: 660-584-7127 e-mail: fullermb@huskers.k12.mo.us