In Language Arts, students recently began Unit 6: Research. Since returning from spring break, we have been exploring the true story, Escape From Alcatraz. Students have been using the story to revisit and apply concepts learned in Unit 2. Over the next week, we will be reviewing and preparing for Milestones while also focusing on commas, dashes, and parentheses.

If a student has not submitted missing work, then it will remain as a “missing” in the gradebook until it is turned in. Please have your child reach out and plan for a time to make up their missing work with their teacher. 

Upcoming assessments: 

Language Arts Milestones—April 24th-25th

ELA final—May 18th

Lakeside 6th graders voted, and A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin is our March Madness champion! We are so thankful that our Media Center was able to use Read-A-Thon funds to purchase a copy of all 16 books from this year’s bracket. The kids are very excited to check out these new books! With testing coming up and our school library closing in May, we introduced students to using the Forsyth County Public Library eBooks feature. This allows students to read available books on a school Chromebook without having to download them to a Kindle or other personal device. Students have been advised that they may only select books from the kids’ or teens’ sections and that parents/guardians should be aware of any book they are reading. In order to reach their goal of reading 25 books, students should be working on book 21 and genre 7.

The Math Milestones test is scheduled for April 26.  We are reviewing all standards prior to the test.  Please check ItsLearning for daily work. Advanced math students are also working on 7th-grade standards covering operations with positive and negative rational numbers. Accelerated math students will start a project to review math skills we have learned this year in anticipation of Milestones testing. After this, accelerated math students will complete our last 7th grade unit which will take us to the end of the year!

Students just finished learning all about water, which included currents, waves, the water cycle, and even ocean floor features.  A summative will be given on this unit on April 14th or April 17th.  Next week, students will learn about the Earth’s atmospheric layers, greenhouse gases, and the transfer of heat to air, land, and water at different rates in our fifth unit called Weather and Climate.  A formative will be given early May. A summative of this unit will be in sometime in the month of May.

This week we began our Australia Geography unit. Students will locate and examine the significance of the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Uluru/Ayers Rock, Indian and Pacific Oceans, Great Dividing Range, and Great Victoria Desert. Students will explain how the climate and distribution of natural resource affect the population distribution within the country. 

VEX Robotics:

The Lakeside Kings (VEX) sent three teams to the State Championship on Sunday and came back with 5 awards . In addition, all 3 teams qualified to go to the Worlds VEX Championship in Dallas at the end of April/Beginning of May. Lakeside is sending more teams to State and Worlds than any other middle school.

Team A:

Anishva Manikandan

Jyotheesh Telu Venkata

Karthik Pammi

Shriyans Thakur

Anirudh Shome

Mokshaditya Telu 

Team E.

Nivan Majhi

Manas Maheshwaran

Aditya Mittal

Team F

Connor Sickles

Eli Murphy

Pranesh Sathish- Kumar

Elli Owens

Adhrith Pingali

PE:

We also have quite a few personal items (sweatshirts, lunch boxes, etc.) in our GYM lost and found. If your child is missing something, please have them come look.