May 21-23

Hiking Club
The Hiking Club project will finish this week. On Friday, all classes pushed hard during their last half hour walking opportunity on the Maxwell track. On Monday, the data sheet and graph will be completed in class. All students who qualify by turning in a completed graph, a completed data sheet with laps converted to mileage and the mean distance computed, and who walked at least two miles over the five walking opportunities will receive a cool treat on Tuesday. The class with the highest mean distance walked over the entire project will receive a special ice cream treat on Wednesday morning.

Bullying
On Tuesday of last week, all classes had the chance to watch a video on bullying. Ask about what they learned from this experience.

Survivor Day
Survivor stamps are still being given to students who bring a package of store bought cookies in to homeroom for our Survivor Day cookie-walk game. Survivor Day activities will begin Wednesday afternoon immediately following the year end awards in the gymnasium.

Grades
Final grades for semester 2 are coming soon. I have already gone through student scores and have eliminated the lowest outlier from computation of the mean score for Quarter 4. Grades and assignments for next year should be in the mail by the end of this week.

Locker Clean-out
Students have already begun the chore of cleaning out their lockers. A kitchen trashbag would be extremely helpful for bringing personal items home.

Next Year
It's not easy for students to make a transition in the middle of the year to a new teacher. I would like to take the opportunity to give special thanks to all the sixth graders who were so cooperative, helpful, and understanding while adapting to changes in procedures and expectations. Next year at the Junior High the new procedures and expectations there should be no problem. Good luck to everyone as you look forward to new experiences while I have the opportunity to move on to new challenges with old experiences.