February 23, 2007

Dear Carmody Middle School Elective 7th Grade Parents and Students:

  1. Grades for the fourth grading period are posted. Check student grades on the Carmody Parent Portal daily at https://campus.jeffco.k12.co.us/campus/portal/jeffco_IC.jsp. Report cards will be given out to students on Monday, February 26, 2007.
  2. The weather has significantly improved and bingo, significant Spring Fever symptoms are evident for some 7th grade computer students are not submitting this week's assignments, including the final word processing project: Korean Pen Pal letter. This cultural/academic project was due today. Deadline for submitting the preliminary draft to me was today, Friday, February 23, 2007 and the final copy along with pictures and other memorabilia is Friday, March 2, 2007. For specific details about this final project, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/penpal_908.html for more details in starting it this weekend! A total of 400 points will be earned for completing both the prelimiinary draft and the final letter which will be sent to Seoul, Korea by the beginning of spring break.
  3. Spring Fever is also evident in the 8th grade computer class as they have had four Internet assignments this week and again, assignments are not being completed.

  4. Last Time Special Offer: I believe it may be important for your child to have access to my 7th grade classes keyboarding software application for home use. Why? I'd like my students to double and/or triple the speed of their present typing speed of words per minute by the end of the semester. If so, your child be a super typist forever. Unfortunately, some students will not practice beyond class time and consequently, their speeds do not change much. But I know it is possible to accomplish this double or triple speed improvement, especially if coordinate with typing practice at home between now and the end of school. It would also be possible for others in your family to benefit from this instructional CD-ROM. Especially if you have younger children who could also be exposed to it. Carmody Middle School has a site license for the software application, All the Right Type, for use in our school PC computer lab. This is a highly effective ‘learn to keyboard” program. Ingenuity Works, the publisher of All the Right Type, has a special arrangement that enables students and parents to purchase a home version of this program for a very reasonable reduced price. You will receive a flyer on Monday via your child concerning this special pricing, but I have also enclosed the introduction letter and form for you to complete. In order to participate, you need to fill out the attached Student Bulk Order Form and returning it to me accompanied by a check in the amount of $21.00 (per program) by Thursday, February 15th (still will accept applications this coming week as the final offer). Be sure to include your child's name on the check. The check should be addressed to: Carmody Middle School. No cash please. These charges include:

    Important: the order will be cancelled unless a minimum of 10 orders are placed. right now we have only one order. So if you are interested in your child making significant progress in their keyboarding skills, now is the time to do it!

    If you would like to investigate more about this product, ask your child about this software application as there are using it class daily as well as visit the product's web site for more details at: http://www.ingenuityworks.com/iworks/main/products/all_the_right_type_3/

    Hope this information is helpful. This is the third year that we have offered this product to Carmody parents through our site license relationship and the results are amazing for students who practice daily at home. For example for one student who had a lot of difficulty in learning how to type, that child in one semester went from one word per minute to 18 words a minute. Usually, students who practice at home daily will easily double or triple their present typing speed by the end of the semester. And having the same program at home that we use in school is very helpful. An order form was given to your child last week. Deadline for ordering the software was extended to last week and now we need to make the final push for oders. You can also download the forms yourself, please go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/ATRT_Letter.html and return to Dr. Data ASAP.

Hope this information is helpful.

Thank you.

Till next time,

Dr. Data