Dear Carmody 7th & 8th Grade Elective Computer Class Students and Parents.

October 26, 2006

  1. Progress Report Time!!!! On Friday, progress reports will be given out based on all work within this 2nd grading period. Your child will still have two weeks after this week to makeup all missing work. Please sign the progress report and if your child returns it by Friday, November 3rd, 100 points will be rendered to your child's electronic grades. Hope the Carmody Parent Portal has been helpful in keeping you up-to-date about your child's progress.

  2. All The Right Type typing software has been received and should be distributed to the appropriate students on Thursday, October 26th.

  3. Parents are really needed in Dr. Data's class on a regular basis!! Believe it or not, the best school districts in the USAA are not found in the wealthy suburbia schools such as in Beverly Hills, California, Winnetka, Illinois, Short Hills, New Jersey;, etc., but in the U.S. Military Schools throughout the USA. Why? Parents there are required to assist their children's teachers regularly or they get a military court marshal. 60 Minutes TV show some 5 or 6 years ago did a feature story on the U.S. Military Schools on USA military through the country and found that they consistently had the highest ACT and SAT college qualifying tests in the entire nation. What's important here is that military families abundantly live in sub-standard on military bases just to enroll their children in the military base school. With a dozen or more parents regularly assigned in the class room on a daily basis, students get more quality instruction than any private or public school in country. Money is not the reason either. So if there are any parents are ever available to assist Dr. Data with any of the following units of instruction below, please volunteer. Below is the 7th grade curriculum.

    8th grade parents might also have expertise in some of the following areas at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Lesson_Plans.html

  4. Parents Who Need To Learn Computers and with no charges! Dr. Data cordially invites all parents to participate in daily classes along with their children to learn PowerPoint, Database Management, spreadsheets, Internet Search engines, etc. and all for free on a daily basis. Just look at the curriculum calendar above for which weeks for each unit above. Dr. Data really wants to parents to learn with their children in class if parents can schedule themselves. Come one, come all, you are all warmly invited!!

  5. Note: 7th grade has begun the database unit of instruction. But now we do need photos, post cards and other forms of light memorobilia before mailing the Korean pen pal letters to Seoul, Korea soon.

  6. Special 7th Extra-Credit Assignments: For Those Students Looking To Accelerate!!! See Dr. Data for the following database assignments. Extra -credit assignments: Scrabble a photo of Dr. Data into order for 25 points. Simply print it out and submit to Dr. Data, President's Worksheet #2 , Denver Nugget Player Background, Birds, Zoos of the World, Denver Broncos Statistics , and Denver Nugget Statistics . Each extra-credit assignment completed is worth 25 extra-credit points. 500 points will be awarded to any student who can develop a good clue sheet for the Denver Nugget Player Background, Birds and Zoos of the World.

  7. 8th grade curriculum is focused on doing PowerPoint assignments this week and Newsletters next week. For extra-credit assignments, have your child see Dr. Data for what kinds of PowerPoint slide shows and newseltters they can do for extra-credit.

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Hope this information is helpful.

Thank you.

Till next time,

Dr. Data