September 15^th -19^th, 2014

General Announcements:

• Please continue to sell magazines!!!  Turn in your order days are Wednesdays, and prize days are Fridays.  This is our ONLY fundraiser and our biggest fundraiser for our school!  We appreciate your support of Brock’s Gap Intermediate so very much!!
•  Please see the following link to see copies of Brock’s Gap e News:                        Brock's Gap eNews

 Important BGIS Dates for the Week

• Tuesday, Sept. 16th -Student Council Meeting (Officers and Classroom Representatives) at 7:30 A.M.
• Tomorrow Night- Tuesday, Sept. 16^th – BGIS PTO Zaxby’s Spirit Night from 4:00-8:00 P.M.                           (Zaxby’s on 150 across from Wal-Mart)
• Wednesday, Sept. 17^th –First Priority- Choir Room 7:30 a.m.
• Wednesday, Sept. 17th- MAGAZINE ORDERS DUE for this week to receive a prize on Friday!
• Wednesday, Sept. 17^th - Lego-Robotics- after school until 4:30–Mrs. Willis’s room
• Thursday, Sept. 18^th - Bumpus Middle School vs. Berry (7th Grade at 5:00; 8th Grade at 6:45).  Wear ORANGE and BLACK to show your BUCS pride!                                                                                                                                                                                                
•  Important Academic Dates for the Week

• Monday, September 15:  Math IXL Contract Due for (Sept. 8-12)
• Thursday, September 18:  Math Computation and skills Test
• Friday, September 19:  Science Quiz  
• Friday, September 19:  Vocab/Reading Test

 Upcoming Important Dates

• Wednesday, September 24:  Social Studies Test on Explorers
• Monday, October 13:  Conference Day - No school for students
• December 10-12:  Camp McDowell for the Voyagers Hall

 Coming up this week:

Math: Topics of Study – A new IXL contract came home today! It is due next Monday. Students should spend at least 15 minutes per skill (unless they get a score of 100).  We will continue our study of 2 digit x 2 digit multiplication.  A weekly computation and skills quiz will be given on Thursday.

Science:

Topics of Study – We are studying food chains and food webs. The students really enjoyed observing and dissecting “Owl Pellets” last Friday.  I took lots of pictures and will let you know when they have been added to our blog.  We will  be building our own ecosystems this week.   Thank you so much for sending supplies for this class project!

Language Arts:

Topics of Study – This week is a reading/vocabulary week. We are continuing our focus on questioning and summarizing with our story is The Peddler.  Our vocab words for this week are: beam, beckon, bungle, discarded, flourish, inspection, intrigue, meek, scholar, transformed.

We are going to begin IXL for Language Arts to take the place of our grammar each week and your child will be bringing a contract home with them on Monday. They will concentrate on one skill each week for now. Also, your child will not have a Reading log this week as we are trying something new. They are still encouraged to read each night.

Social Studies: Topics of Study – We will continue our study of explorers in addition to gaining a greater understanding of the importance of map-making to the earliest explorers.  We will have a test Wednesday, September 24th on Explorers.  A study guide will come home next week with this information.
                                                We hope everyone has a great week!

Mrs. Ponder sponder@hoover.k12.al.us   & Mrs. Watson stwatson@hoover.k12.al.us