Week 1 June 5th-9th, 2017

XTREME NEWS Welcome to Xtreme Summer

Academy

Welcome to Middle School Xtreme Summer Academy! We are so excited to have you and cannot wait to get started! This year we look forward to seeing you all 15 days of the program. #Team AFOAOFA (All For One and One For All)

Language Arts classes will offer engaging, thought provoking reading for students using Scholastic’s On the Record. The books pair profiles of contemporary men and women, telling stories of struggle, perseverance, transcendence and transformation. Each person is on a quest – to survive disasters, to stake out a place in the world, to find a voice and tell a story. Each student will enjoy two whole-class books and two or more books of their choice. A culminating project will allow students to express their identity with quotes from the books, using words and pictures.

Literacy

Important Information

School Day

Summer Food Service

Team AFOAOFA shirt order forms are due Tuesday, June

7. Shirts are $10.00 (cash only please) and payment is due at

the time of order.

T-Shirts

8:30 am to 1:30 pm

June 5-30th Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:00 am Lunch: 10:30 to 11:00 am

A Family AfFAIR

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Week 1 June 5th-9th, 2017

Math AVID Summer Bridge

In STEM class (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) this summer, we are focusing on the engineering strand. Students will be asked to test an object then redesign the object under certain constraints. During the first week of STEM, we are working through a Twirling Toy Challenge. During this challenge the students will be exploring how forces and air resistance affect falling objects.

STEM

AVID students will be working with their tribes this week to learn the ropes of taking Cornell Notes and using Costa’s Level of Thinking to guide learning. Topics we will cover this week include fractions, decimals, percents, rational numbers, ratios and proportions, fraction operations, and integers. We will also be playing BINGO, participating in a scavenger hunt, and engaging in tribal challenges! One tribe will be declared the winner at the end of summer school!

This year, at Xtreme Summer Academy, students will continue to learn good math practices and how to create a ritual of showing their work. Some of the topics that will be covered will include area models, set models, linear models, recognizing equivalent fractions, and using various operations to solve fractional equations. Students will have the opportunity to work in teams and partners to strengthen their skills through the use of games and group activities. For more information on student daily activities, please check student bags for daily objective statements.

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Week 1 June 5th-9th, 2017

Math Teachers

Gina Goss-Rodgers is a math teacher at Jefferson Middle School. I have taught math for 7 years. I look forward to meeting all of you and cannot wait to get this summer started!

Welcome Summer Academy Participates! My name is Ms. Carol Draper and I will be one of the math teachers for Summer School. I graduated from Bradley University and now teach math at Jefferson Middle School. I enjoy fishing and jogging. I am looking forward to seeing and/or working with you

this summer.

Hello, I’m Mrs. Wankel, your AVID Summer Bridge instructor. I teach 6th-8th math at Lincoln Magnet School and I’m looking forward to meeting you! "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.”

~ Henri Poincare

Welcome to Summer School! My name is Ms. Hutchens and I am excited to be apart of Xtreme Summer Academy. This is my second year teaching summer school. I have 3 children of my own, and I look

forward to serving your children these next three weeks. I am here to help.

Hi! My name is Mr. Buerkett. I am a 7th & 8th grade math teacher at Grant Middle School. I look forward to

teaching your kiddo addition/subtraction & multiplication/division with fractions at Xtreme Summer Academy.

Together we can succeed. #All for one and one for all!

Literacy Teachers

I am Ms. Reed, and I have been teaching English Language Arts for eight years. I am thrilled about exploring the journeys of various ambitious characters with your child. We will be reading about people who have endured and overcome, and apply the same concepts to obstacles that students have faced. I look forward to learning with and

about your student!

Welcome Summer School participants, my name is Ms. Angie Jimerson and this is my 20th year of teaching. I am currently a fifth grade teacher at Harvard Park, however I have taught Middle School Literacy for over 10 years. I am excited to be your Xtreme

Summer Academy Middle school Literacy Teacher! I have a great joy and passion for Reading and Writing and love to spend most of my spare time outside reading a good book or enjoying nature! I am looking forward to learning with you!

Hi! My name is Mrs. Johnson and I teach 7th and 8th Grade Reading, Writing, and Health at Lincoln Magnet School. Having good literacy skills is important to me because it is the basis for success. I am looking forward to meeting everyone and enhancing our skills together. This summer we will be reading a few interesting books

and holding some very engaging discussions with each other. Together we will make our summer fun and engaging!

Hello my summer school students & parents/guardians! My name is Miss Phillips. I am an 8th grade Literature/Writing teacher at Grant Middle School.

I am excited to be one of your Lit/Writing Summer School Teachers for Xtreme Summer Academy 2017. We have 15 days to reach our goal and by working together, I know we can do it! :) #AFOAOFA #Summer2017

STEM Teacher

Hello! My name is Sara Franklin. I teach 8th grade science at Jefferson Middle School. I have been teaching for 17 years. I am excited to be teaching STEM this summer. Our motto this summer

is Problem-Solving the puzzles of the mind.