The Bodine School

Middle School Memos

Upcoming Middle School Events

• January 17-20 - Spirit Week
  
• January 27 - Middle School Dance - "Red Carpet Roll-Out:  You're the Star!"

Chattanooga Trip Information

Middle School Materials List 2011-2012    

Typing Home Practice Passage - Click Date  

1-26 - 2-7 - Typing words

1-26 - 2-7 - Typing sentences

Websites for Skills Practice

Word Reading, Vocabulary and Spelling Practice:

• http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/proofread/ (for editing practice)

• http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ (to practice word choice and parts of speech)
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ (for writing tips and practice at the word, sentence, paragraph, anc composition levels)
• http://school.typingpal.com/index_ecole.asp (typing practice)
• http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/grammar/ (grammar practice)
• http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/evalstation/ (checklists and tips for evaluating writing)
http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html (identify parts of speech within sentences)

 Math Practice:

• http://www.mathisfun.com/index.htm (general assistance and practice with math at all levels)
• http://www.ixl.com/?gclid=CNmBhL6Xi6kCFRNl7AodNkg4pA (leveled math tutorials and practice grades 1-8)
• http://www.mathplayground.com/ (math games)
• http://www.funbrain.com/numbers.html (math games)
• http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0876863.html (measurement - types and conversions)

 Science Practice:

• http://www.quia.com/ba/229400.html (physical science "Battleship" game)
• http://www.quia.com/ba/229401.html (life science "Battleship" game)
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/ (technology odyssey through history)
• http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_14/BL_14.html (virtual earthworm dissection) 
• http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00548/DissectionGame.html (virtual salmon dissection)
  

• http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html (cow's eye dissection)

• http://www.funbrain.com/periodic/index.html (identify elements by clicking on their symbols)

Social Studies Practice:

• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com (click on world geography and US geography games)
• http://ilike2learn.com (for many map quizzes)
• http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/socst.html  (general social studies games and quizzes)
• http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/# (virtual tourof the Smithsonian Museum of natural History)

• http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/index.html (for information and games about American government)
• http://library.thinkquest.org/3901/ (economics games and information)

Brain Games:

• http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games (Click on games to play without an account.)
• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/braingames/braingames.htm (variety of thinking games)

• Parents' Guide to Middle School
• Welcome to a Day in the Life of a Middle Schooler

Student Work Guidelines and Tools: 

• Format Guidelines for Student Work

• Revising and Editing Symbols 

• Virtual Timer - http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

Technology: 

• 2011-2012 Laptop Policy [Updating - coming soon]

 Study and Review Tips:   

         Students perform best when they develop and use their own study strategies. Parent should work with middle school students to create a study plan, ensure adequate prep time, and exeriment with strategies to learn which are most effective. Most students perform better when strategies include auditory, visual and kinesthetic elements, and fortunately there is some overlap in most strategies.  

• Examples of auditory strategies (hearing-based) include oral repetition, oral quizzing, practicing flash cards aloud with another person, creating songs or oral mnemonic (memory) sentences, using a tape recorder or other listening device to practice how answers sound.
• Examples of visual strategies (sight-based) are reading notes or outlines; flash cards; written quizzes; creating mental or actual pictures that link information; or creating diagrams, webs and flow charts.
• Kinesthetic activities (doing or movement-based) can include any of the above when motion or tactile elements are included - such as pacing or tapping fingers on the table while reciting responses, charades, tracing terms on a rug or other rough surface while quizzing, or writing responses, especially in cursive.

Yearbook Committee Members:  Click here to Access the Taylor Publishing Website  

Popular Mechanics Magazine - February, 1950, "Miracles You'll See in the Next Fifty Years"

 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/05/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/?Qwd=./PopularMechanics/2-1950/next_fifty_years&Qif=next_fifty_years_02.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdig