To Kennedy Middle School

Step Up NightMay 21, 2015

J F Kennedy Middle School4th Grade Parent Evening Program

• Welcome & Introductions • PTO• Teacher Presentations• Guidance Counselor• Questions & Answers• Classroom Tours

Language and Literacy

Common Core Curriculum• Reading

• Writing

• Speaking

• Listening

Social Studies

• Explorers

• Early America – Settlements and Colonies

• Revolutionary War

• Creation of American Government

• Growth of the Nation

MathematicsCommon Core Curriculum

•  Number Sense in Base Ten• Operations in Base Ten• Introductions to Integers

• Algebraic Thinking • Geometry & Volume

• Measurement• FRACTIONS!!!

Science

• Weather and Climate

• The Earth, the Moon, & the Solar System

• Energy, Electricity, and Magnetism

• Simple and Compound Machines

• Engineering Design Process

SpecialsAll Year

• Physical Education• Chorus or Band

One Trimester • Health

• Instructional Technology• Drama

• Technology Ed.• Music

• Art

THINGS TO KNOW• School hours 7:50-2:05

Students may go up to lockers at 7:35• “Working” Snack time during morning

block• Lunch 11:11-11:35• Students with a bus pass may take a late

bus at 3ish if participating in after school activities. Late bus stop list is available in the office.

• There are four 2-teacher teams with 40-50 students split by teachers into 2 flexible sections.

Communication• Virtual Backpack• Newsletters and Email Blasts• Emails and Phone Calls• Notes in Assignment

Notebook• Conferences upon request• Coffee with the Teachers• Open House

Extra Curricular Activities• Extra Help with Teachers

• Weather Service in AM• Intramurals• Clubs – Newspaper, Speech, Literary

Magazine, Math Club, Art Club, Destination Imagination, Robotics, Interact Service, Student Council, Yearbook, Students as Readers, Theater Arts, Specialty Chorus, Select Band

Summer Preparations

• Summer reading (mandatory title)• Summer online TenMarks Math work

(mandatory participation)• Summer BrainPop (Sci/SS) (optional)• Summer typing (optional)• Summer digital citizenship module

(optional)

Transitioning to Middle School

• First day• First 2 weeks

Team Building• YMCA Ropes Course

Field Trips

Guidance Department

• Pupil Services brochure-what we do• Anti-bullying program-Second Step

(bullying, empathy, respect and problem solving)

• Being a middle schooler…• Find Your Way Day-August 27th(come anytime between 11-1)