Meade Middle Happenings
Volume 1, Issue 2
By: Dr. J .
Meade Middle School 1103 26th Street, Ft. Meade MD 20755
What’s happening
around AACPS?
Below is a schedule of
support groups and
local services.


Family Support on
Mental Illness
12/5/13 @ 7:00
pm @ Provinces
Branch Library in
Severn
Getting an Autism
Spectrum Disorder
Diagnosis: Where
do I go from here?
12/6/13 at 9:30 am
@ Center for
Autism and Related
Services at Kennedy
Krieger Institute

Mindfulness
Meditation for
Holiday Om!
12/10/13 at 7:00pm
@ Severna Park
United Methodist
Church

EFMP Walking
Group 12/12/13 at
8:30 a.m. @
Arundel Mills Outlet
Mall
410-674-2355
The Admin Corner: Our administrators for a week)
In celebration of American Education Week, we had students write an essay, “If I
were Principal for One Week’. Below are essay quotes of changes they would
make:
“I would let us have our phones out, because when we are working, music can help us
concentrate and work better,”
“Recess after lunch, because after lunch, kids are crazy, so they could calm down with
recess.” ; “We should have a study hall’.
‘I would give teachers a raise, because they work so hard.” Yes! :)
“Boys and girls would sit at lunch together. We sit together in class anyway.”
“Have fun before a stressful test. Some kids need to let go of stress before tests.”
“Have tattoo classes and freedom of expression”; “Coffee machine for kids”
“Install a jungle gym.”; “School sports.’’ ; “Longer lunches for teachers”.
“Teachers should have more fun.” (Hmm.)
The two mentioned most often were uniforms (no surprise there) and Spirit Week,
which I did find surprising. Well, at least now, we know what our kids are thinking.
What’s happening in Math?
The Math Department is implementing some fun and exciting material for students beginning second quarter. Students will be working on Math Mysteries where they will become a Math Sleuth as they work through a math mystery to solve a problem. This will
enhance student's problem solving skills and better able them to continue using the
concepts they learn in class to solve math problems. Students are also completing
weekly Independence Day problems where they work on their own to problem solve,
model math and persevere in finding solutions to math problems. Students in each
grade continue learning through Common Core Curriculum connecting skills to realworld problems. Eighth grade students in STEM 8, Geometry and Algebra will have a
mid-term at the end of first semester to assess their learning of all 1st semester concepts. Sixth and seventh grade students will continue to be assessed through unit assessments and will not have benchmarks. We look forward to continuing to prepare
your child with the math skills needed as they continue to grow academically.
-Mrs. Miller
The Holiday Head- scratcher Puzzle
The first person to give the right answer to Dr. Jewer will receive notable mention in the next newsletter.
The Puzzle:
"What day do you go back to school, Horace?" asked his grandmother one day.
"Well," Horace replied, "Nine days ago, the day before yesterday was three weeks
before the second day of term."
If Horace had this conversation on a Sunday, what day of the week did he start school?
Puzzle Author: Stephen Froggatt
Family Riddle
A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor's son, but the doctor was not the boy's father.
Who was the doctor?
The answer is located at the bottom of this page.
W hy C a n ’t I S k i p 2 0 M i n u t e s o f R e a d i n g To n i g h t ?
Let's figure it out mathematically. . .
Student A: reads 20 minutes, 5 nights every week. ; Student B: reads 4 minutes a night . . . or not at all
Step 1: multiply minutes read per night X 5 nights
Student A: reads 20 minutes X 5 nights = 100 minutes; Student B: reads 4 minutes X 5 nights = 20 minutes
Step 2: multiply minutes per week X 4 weeks per month
Student A: reads 400 minutes per month; Student B: reads 80 minutes per month or less
Step 3: multiply minutes per month X 9 months per school year
Student A: 3600 minutes of reading per school year; Student B: 720 minutes or less
Student A practices reading the equivalent of 10 whole school days a year. Student B gets the equivalent of
2 school days or less of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade, if student A and student B maintain the same reading habits, student A will have
read the equivalent of 60 whole school days while Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school
days or less.
One would expect the gap of information and the fluency of reading will have widened considerably, and so,
undoubtedly, will school performance.
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better? Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better? Which student would you expect to have a better
vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school . . . and in life?
Retrieved from http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/SStearns/resources.cfm
Riddle answer: his mother