- Current Grade for 2nd Grading Period is Now Posted on Dr. Data's
Web Site at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Grades.html!
This advance notice will give you insight as to how your child is doing this
second grading period which will be a significant update to what was posted
last week. In some cases, the grades may have gone higher or even lower than
reported on Wednesday.
Today is the fifth week of the second grading period for second semester.
Grades are now posted!!! Grades are available at: <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Grades.html>
This latest newsletter can be read/printed at: <http://www.kuzmich.com/parent_newsletters.html>.
Do start to be concerned if you are not satisfied with your child's grades
since we are now well past the mid-period grade point. Here are the individual
class average grades which means half of the students have higher grades
and half lower grades for each class. How does your child's grade compare?
On-line progress reports are also available for your convenence which not
only reporst the status of every assignement/test for your child, but also
the class ranking of your child for that class. Grades are available 24/7
at: <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Grades.html>.
Ask your child for their special Dr. Data user ID and pin number or password.
Then go to their appropriate class period and enter that data and you will
know "The Rest of the Story."
- 1st Period: 82.3% = B
- 3rd Period: 87.7% = B+
- 5th Period: 88.7% = A-
- 6th Period: 85.5% = B+
With unlimited makeup available to April 15th, let's start making up missing
work before it becomes difficult to makeup huge amounts of assignments and
tests.
- Final deadline for submitting the Korean Pen Pal of March 17th for
photos and other memorabilia has passed. After March 17th, you can
mail directly to the Korean school, but you have to pay for the postage! Here's
the address:
Mr. Young Hun SHIN
Pen Pal Coordinator
Kweang-Ju P.O. Box 160
Seoul. Korea 501-600
- The database curriculum began on Monday, March 13th. For
an overview of it, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/database_syllabus.html.
Final database project will begin the week after spring break. Students will
actually construction a database from scratch and end up with 25 records and
eight fields for each record. And then construct 15 test questions based on
the database in which members of the class will answer. For more insight about
this exciting final project for our unit on database construction, go to:
<http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/database_project.pdf>.
- What's coming next in Dr. Data's classes: go to: <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Curriculum_Preview.html>
or view it below or view it below
- For more insight about this curriculum, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/spreadsheet_syllabus.html
and electronic spreadsheets will being the second week of April for
about 1.5 weeks. Here is what follows next in the sequence of upcoming
instruction.
- Internet Search Engines: 1 week
- PowerPoint Multimedia Slideshow Presentations: 2 to 4 days
- Newsletters and Web Pages, 3 to 5 days.
- Drawing and Painting: 1 week
- Computer Music: 4 days.
- Designing Computer Games with Animations & Sound Effects:
- Individual Unit Final Projects! (nine of them)
- Final Two Weeks Syllabus: Creativity With Graphics! Choose various projects
with Microsoft Publisher, Band In-A-Box, Clarisworks, and Klik & Play.
- Behavior Modification Assignment for Disruptive Students:
Dr. Data can handle disruptive students very easily during "Spring Fever"
times!
Parts I & II: (You volunteered for it!): <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/modifications.html>.
Part I:
- A disruptive student is defined as one who inhibits the classroom instruction.
If after one reminder and a discussion with Dr. Data, your behavior in
class today has not improved, you will complete a "Think Sheet."
You will also be assigned to after school “Mop Squad” detention.
Part II:
- If you continue to be disruptive, you will complete the following alternative
class assignment consisting of three paragraphs all with topic sentences
and correct spelling and grammar.
- You are to read the enclosed computer article. Then you will write three
paragraphs with paper and pencil. If not done neatly, you will do it again.
If necessary, you will be asked to go to classroom to do this assignment
in which the teacher of that classroom will monitor your behavior.
- Paragraph one: you are to write ten sentences summarizing the contents
of the article all within the first paragraph.
- Second paragraph: you will write three or more sentences about the three
most important ideas that you learned from the article.
- Third paragraph: who would you recommend this article to? Teacher, Parent,
Business person, student, etc.? Give two reasons why?
You are expected to complete parts I and II and understand why class disturbances
are not to be tolerated and hopefully the alternative class activity of
computer technology reading and writing helps you understand more about
computers. If you do not finish this assignment within the present class
period, it will be done for homework. A parent signature is required for
both parts I and II. Because your classroom behavior is not conducive for
instruction, you need to focus your efforts on this alternative assignment.
In addition to this assignment, you are still expected to complete the daily
assignment that was given in class today.
- For the parents that did not attend the March 3, 2005 Parent-Student-Teacher
Conference, you can do it another creative way. I wish that I could
meet with every parent/student, but there's another innovative way to do it.
To clarify how to best evaluate your child, I have come up with a unique self-assessment
that you can use. To view this form, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/parent_newsletters.html
and go to the second section entitled: "Self-Assessment of Parent-Student-Teacher
Conferences." After reading it click on the link entitled: http://www.kuzmich.com/web_conference.html
and you can begin assess where progress can be made. Then after evaluating
your child, please e-mail/fax your assessment and I'll attempt to clarify
anything and everything that can make a difference. School fax number is 303-982-8931.
To make things more convenient, I've even attached an HTML file for you to
print out and use ASAP and send it back to you.
Or you can even mail the web conference form to:
Carmody Middle School
c/o Dr. Data
20500 S. Kipling Street
Lakewood, CO 80227
Or complete the CGI form on-line and submit and it will be e-mailed directly
to me, automatically at: <http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/web_conference_form4.html>,
To me, this is the most painless way to go about this matter.
Hope of this information is helpful.
Dr. Data
7th Grade Computer Class Teacher