Beatrice and Jade's Weekly Update...

Hi, this is Jade and Beatrice here with your Weekly Update! Our week was so fabulous that we just had to tell you all about it. We assume our whole class enjoyed this week, so read on to find out what we did. Three things that we did were learning about MAP testing, elective classes next year, and the last but not least, Rock Star Mall! We had some things where we were all “YAY” about and some things where we were all “uh-oh” about but that did not change our week. So sit back, relax, and enjoy as we bring you reports of our week. Throughout the week we were learning about MAP testing and some test taking skills. MAP stands for Measurement of Academic Progress. One thing we were definitely not excited about was the MAP testing discussion. Although a lot of people were excited that we would have no homework that whole entire week we did the MAP testing. We will take this test for teachers and parents to see how we have improved over the year. This also helps the teachers for another reason because our results will be sent to some of the middle school teachers to see where they would place us next year in subjects like math, reading, and language. We also learned some things that would help us just in case we forgot when taking the MAP test. We also learned that we should eat some sort of breakfast to get our brains working before coming to school. That definitely would help us get ready. Some of us were freaking out because we will be taking  MAP tests next week, but others were just being calm and not minding too much. Mrs.Clayton also told us that there was no failing so that relieved us all. ATTENTION ALL PARENTS: Please make sure that your child goes to bed early, gets a good night of sleep, eats a good breakfast, and is not too stressed out about the test. This will help your child get better grades. If your child is too tired, then he/she might not get as good grades as they normally would. Good luck on the MAP test everyone! On Tuesday, our class had music. We met a special guest, Mrs. Craig. She talked about some things that we could be doing next year in music. She talked about being in the choir, the strings, or the band. The choir is basically singing. The strings is instruments but not any instruments. It’s instruments like violin, viola, cello, and bass. Only a few people raised their hands when she asked who played any of these instruments. However, we were allowed to start any instrument as a beginner so, we do not have to be able to play the instruments to join. Last but not least, the band group. The band group is also instruments but is more instruments that would play in a band, like flute, trumpet, euphonium, and some other instruments. Most of us said we wanted to join the band because we could play the drums, but Mrs. Craig said that we can only play the percussion in intermediate band which takes a lot of practice. She also said that when we mastered one of those instruments, we can play other instruments that are in the program like the clarinet, the tuba, and many more. She talked about other different electives that we could take. Elective classes are when we sign up for different classes of our choice to take during the day. A few of these were: art, drama, cooking, IT, etc. She told us that music and language were all year classes but others were just one semester. She said that if we take music and a language, we only get to pick one other elective class. But, if we take either music or language, then we would get to choose three more elective classes. If we didn’t take music or language, we would get to choose four elective classes. We all thought this talk helped us a lot in choosing our elective classes next year. The best thing was EVERYONE is welcome in the music classes. Some of us said we were looking forward to middle school but some of us were not happy about going into middle school. It sure will be a big change!
On Friday, we had our third Rock Star Mall! We all mostly had quite a lot of money to spend. While kids shopped at the rock star mall, we watched the Variety Show 2014. Everyone had worked very hard to get as much money as possible, especially the people with jobs. There were some things that we had that was also in last quarter’s Rock Star Mall but we also had some new things that really caught a lot of our eyes. Some of the things that were super popular at the rock star mall were the mustache necklaces and the candy. Some other things at the Rock Star Mall were headbands, pouches, and many other items. The people with jobs got to exchange their checks for starbucks and go over to the Rock Star Mall to shop first. After that, Mrs. C called on multiples to go and shop. Finally, everyone who wanted to shop got their chance. After the Rock Star Mall, almost all the items were gone. Although, some things that were not as popular were still there. It looks like the Rock Star Mall went well again.  A big shoutout to the Rock Star Mall backstage crew, Jade the economist, Young Seo the banker, and Meaghan the cashier! Thank you for helping run the rock star mall.  Almost everyone got what they wanted. We hope everyone enjoyed this quarter’s Rock Star Mall and we will be looking forward to next quarter’s Rock Star Mall. Our week was one of the most enjoyable weeks of the year and we had so much fun. We were all really happy about spending a week with the (sort of) fun lesson about MAP testing, the interesting talk about next year’s elective classes, and last but not least, the cool Rock Star Mall! We hope all of you enjoyed this week’s Weekly Update brought to you by Jade and Beatrice. Next week’s Weekly Update will be presented to you by the amazing Alyssa and the nifty Noemi. Be sure to hang around for next week’s Weekly Update!