General News
Q2 Progress Reports
Progress Reports for Quarter 2 went home with students on Friday. These provide the 4.5 week notice of how your child is progressing in their classes for this quarter. If you have questions or concerns about your child's grades, please reach out to your child's teacher(s) - a full 6th grade faculty contact list is provided at the bottom of this blog. Please check Parent Portal frequently so that we can address any academic concerns early!
College & Career T-Shirt Day - Monday 11/18
Our monthly College/Career T-Shirt day will be this Monday, November 18th. Students are encouraged to wear a t-shirt representing a college (or career) with uniform bottoms. Please make sure the college is visible on the shirt, as solid colors are not permitted. Students who do not wish to participate must wear regular uniforms. Our staff will be decked out with shirts from our colleges and we hope students will join us!
Thanksgiving Food Drive
The Food Pantry at Hilsman Middle School is planning a Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit students and their families. We will start food collection November 13th - November 20th. Right now, we will be collecting in the cafeteria & car rider line during the morning, and we will gave drop-off boxes throughout the school. We will be accepting perishable and nonperishable food items, but we suggest contacting our AmeriCorp Vista, Ms. Charlie Evans, before donating large amounts of perishable food items (772-207-6036). In addition, students can receive a free dress down day if they donate 5 or more items. (The details on how to keep track of this are still being worked out, but we will update ASAP!)
Content News
Math News:
ELA News:
Students will be working on writing their own literary claims
Progress Reports for Quarter 2 went home with students on Friday. These provide the 4.5 week notice of how your child is progressing in their classes for this quarter. If you have questions or concerns about your child's grades, please reach out to your child's teacher(s) - a full 6th grade faculty contact list is provided at the bottom of this blog. Please check Parent Portal frequently so that we can address any academic concerns early!
College & Career T-Shirt Day - Monday 11/18
Our monthly College/Career T-Shirt day will be this Monday, November 18th. Students are encouraged to wear a t-shirt representing a college (or career) with uniform bottoms. Please make sure the college is visible on the shirt, as solid colors are not permitted. Students who do not wish to participate must wear regular uniforms. Our staff will be decked out with shirts from our colleges and we hope students will join us!
Thanksgiving Food Drive
The Food Pantry at Hilsman Middle School is planning a Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit students and their families. We will start food collection November 13th - November 20th. Right now, we will be collecting in the cafeteria & car rider line during the morning, and we will gave drop-off boxes throughout the school. We will be accepting perishable and nonperishable food items, but we suggest contacting our AmeriCorp Vista, Ms. Charlie Evans, before donating large amounts of perishable food items (772-207-6036). In addition, students can receive a free dress down day if they donate 5 or more items. (The details on how to keep track of this are still being worked out, but we will update ASAP!)
Math News:
Monday and Tuesday-Station Activities for Unit 3 review
Wednesday and Thursday-Unit 3 study guide
Friday-Unit 3 Post Test
Students will be working on writing their own literary claims
Science News:
Students will be reviewing all week for their Unit 2 Test on Friday.
Science Lesson Plans
Social Studies News:
Family & Consumer Science:
Next week in FCS, we will continue working on designing our own functional spaces. Classes will begin to apply knowledge of scale and traffic patterns to design floor plans of residential or commercial dwellings. Design projects will be the cumulative summative assessment grade for this unit, which will come to an end next Friday.
PE:
Coach Kemmerer's class will start meeting in the health classroom on Monday. The room is located at the end of the connections hallway next to Dr. McGee's room.
Coach Varnadoe's class will start meeting in the gym.
MathMs. Olabisi Oyeyemi, oyeyemio@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Kyle Smith, smithk5@clarke.k12.ga.usMs. Natasha Thompson, thompsonn@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Ernest Watford, watfordn@clarke.k12.ga.us
Social Studies News:
Students will continue to learn about the Treaty of Versailles and begin to explore the effects of Worldwide Depression and the rise of Nazism.
Connections News
Spanish:
Monday : Expressing agreement or disagreement. Tuesday: Leccion 1/A Quiz Wednesday: Introduction to Leccion 1-B (Como eres? Thursday: Video historia. Como eres? Friday : Adjectives.
Spanish:
Monday : Expressing agreement or disagreement. Tuesday: Leccion 1/A Quiz Wednesday: Introduction to Leccion 1-B (Como eres? Thursday: Video historia. Como eres? Friday : Adjectives.
Family & Consumer Science:
Next week in FCS, we will continue working on designing our own functional spaces. Classes will begin to apply knowledge of scale and traffic patterns to design floor plans of residential or commercial dwellings. Design projects will be the cumulative summative assessment grade for this unit, which will come to an end next Friday.
PE:
Coach Kemmerer's class will start meeting in the health classroom on Monday. The room is located at the end of the connections hallway next to Dr. McGee's room.
Coach Varnadoe's class will start meeting in the gym.
6th Grade Faculty
MathMs. Olabisi Oyeyemi, oyeyemio@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Kyle Smith, smithk5@clarke.k12.ga.usMs. Natasha Thompson, thompsonn@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Ernest Watford, watfordn@clarke.k12.ga.us
ELAMs. Chantal Brown, brownch@clarke.k12.ga.usMs. Edwina Holden, holdene@clarke.k12.ga.usMrs. Dorothy Jones, jonesd@clarke.k12.ga.usMs. Verne Rucker, ruckerv@clarke.k12.ga.us
ScienceMr. Corey Holland, hollandc@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Josh Truitt, truittj@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Randall Watkins, watkinsra@clarke.k12.ga.us
Social StudiesMrs. Cynthia Hollis, hollisc@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Miller Barnett, barnettm3@clarke.k12.ga.usMr. Steven Engelsen, engelsens@clarke.k12.ga.us
