Mueller Messenger

Volume 2, Issue 21 February 11, 2010

What’s New? MATHEWS RAP the MAP!!!

February Character Trait is
Trustworthiness!! Reaching for Awesome Performance on the
If you say it, you mean it; if you MAP!!!
mean it, you do it!! 
Test Tip: Slow & Steady Shows Your Ready: Keepin’ It Real Yo! AKA
Weekly Quizzes & Work Staying Calm and doing what you can do with all you have.

Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test, Reading Skill It is important to remember to stay calm and use your time wisely. If
Assessment you rush through the test, you might miss your opportunity to “Do
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for the week, damage”, which means to go the extra mile in the hip-hop classroom.
DLR Always take the time to read all parts of the test. Some questions are
worth more than one point. Look for those opportunities. Also, don’t
Future Plans! spend too much time on one problem, skip it and come back later. If
you are overwhelmed, take a break and come back with the fresh
Feb. 15th, 17th, Parent/Teacher attitude.
Conferences Brain Based Strategy
Feb. 18 th Make-up School Day Power of Storytelling-Use Emotion: Listen to and tell stories to learn
Feb. 21st No School an important concept. For example when learning long division,
Mar. 10 th End of 3rd quarter/PBS remember the story of the Division Family (D,M,S,B,R). It’s a family
that’s never divided. Creating an emotional tie with what you learn,
Big Event helps you remember. So mike it “all the way live”, which is rapper
Mar. 14 -18 Spring Break
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slang for something so cool, so memorable, you can’t explain!
Mar. 29th Boot Camp
Word of the Week:
Mar. 30th-Apr. 8th MAP Testing 
Support: Support means to prove, verify, or give reasons for
something you say, write or do.

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What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Paraphrasing/Reading Non-fiction literature
Writing: Friendly Letters/Subject-Verb agreement
Working With Words: I’m, through, its, forecast, international, misbehave, mistreat, misled, misplace,
misspell Prefix: mis-, inter Suffix: -al Math: Division
Science: Mixtures and Solutions
Social Studies: Famous Missourians