Raging Waters

Reminder: Friday is our field trip to Raging Waters to celebrate the end of the school year. Please remember to bring a swimsuit, rash guard, beach towel, lots of sunscreen, and a sack lunch. A dry change of clothes for the ride home is a great idea as well.  We will most likely be getting back to Rio del Mar around 5:00 pm so be sure to make pick up arrangments. 

THANK YOU!

Thank you so much for all the wonderful gifts I've been receiving this week. I feel very appreciated!! My lunch today was super yummy : ) and I love the card from the class, especially because it's one of Nate Tall's cards.

Smarter Balanced CAASPP Testing

We did practice testing today. I had three students absent today, so I've decided to start testing tomorrow. Students should be well rested and have eaten a healthy breakfast to help them be as focused and comfortable as possible during testing. 

Please do your very best to ensure that your son/daughter is present every day for these next two weeks. 

Guitar Lessons

If anyone is interested in guitar lessons this summer, I'm available. Or if you know anyone who is looking for guitar lessons, please pass my name along.

Contact me at:
avey.devin@gmail.com

Raging Waters

Rio del Mar Elementary School

SIXTH GRADE CELEBRATION!

Friday, June 2, 2017 

Leaving at 8:30 a.m. We will arrive back to school after buses have left for the day.  

Please arrange for alternate transportation for your child to get home – 

we should be back by 5 p.m.

Suggested Donation: $21.00/Student

Please make check payable to RDMPA  

Write your child’s name and “Raging Waters” in the memo.

Please send your donation with signed permission slip by 

Friday, May 12 to secure your child’s spot.

• Please send a brown bag lunch with your child. 

We will be eating lunch outside of Raging Waters.

• It is going to be hot & sunny!  Please make sure your child brings lots of sunscreen and remind him/her to reapply throughout the day.

• Send your child with a refillable water bottle and encourage him/her to stay hydrated.

• Recommended Dress Code: One piece bathing suit for girls and/or a t-shirt or rashguard for boys & girls due to the water slides and activity.

Questions? Please email Christy Tall at ctrun831@gmail.com or call 831.818.0095

Please return the attached form if you can help drive & chaperone on Friday, June 2. Chaperones will get in free to Raging Waters.

Jr. High Field Trip is Cancelled / Volunteer Appreciation

Thursday's Field Trip is CANCELED.

We are canceling the field trip on Thursday because they have canceled the campus tour and the class visitations due to SBAC Testing. These are the best parts of the field trip, so it doesn't make any sense to go now. We've already received all the information we need from Mr. Moran's visit to our school and the 8th-grade presentations. It would be redundant at this point to listen to another speech in the gymnasium for and hour.


Volunteer Appreciation:

We are blessed at Rio to have so many wonderful volunteers serve our school throughout the year. I am so very thankful for all who have helped make this school year one of my best ever. Please join us Friday morning during drop-off for coffee and treats as a small token of our appreciation. We will also be honoring those 6th-grade volunteers who are serving for their final year at Rio at our all-school assembly from 8:00 am to 8:30 am.

End of Year Math Placement Study Guide

Here is a link to the Study Guide that the District is providing students to help prepare them for the End of the Year Big Ideas Math placement test. This "high stakes" test will be used to determine whether or not a student qualifies for accelerated math in 7th grade.

EOY Study Guide

Khan Academy

I just created a Khan Academy class that is linked to my Google Classroom. We will be using Khan Academy to help students review for the end of the year assessments. Please log in to my new Khan Academy class using this code:

QAU66Y

Student Feedback Form

Feedback Form

Please fill out the form above to let the 8th grade presenters know how well they did.

AJHS Accelerated Placement Test

The writing test for accelerated placement will be offered this Tuesday at 3:30 at the Jr. High. Some students received an invitation letter that said the test would be at 2:00 on Tuesday. THAT IS INCORRECT. IT IS AT 3:30. If you can't make it this Tuesday, then it will also be offered on Wednesday, May 3rd at 2:00.

Field Trip Friday

Our field trip to the Egyptian Museum is this Friday. I'll be contacting parent chaperones about driving Friday. I'm planning on leaving school by 8:00 because our tour starts at 9:00, and with traffic I want to make sure we get there early or at least on time.

Students should bring a sack lunch that day. We will leave them in the chaperone cars. After our tour we will walk over the Rose Gardens to eat lunch (it's only a few blocks away from the museum).

My goal is to make it back to school by 1:00.

Aptos Jr. High Info

• There will be a 6th grade Parent Night on Wednesday, April 19th at 6:00 pm in the AJHS Gym. 

• 8th graders will be visiting our classroom that week to deliver a presentation to our 6th graders about what they can expect at the Jr. High next year. 
• If your son or daughter is going to AJHS next year, please try to get the registration packet turned in soon, however they are not due until May 2nd.
• The entire 6th grade class will be visiting the Jr. High on May 4th from 8:45 to 10:15. 

*Placement tests will happen in May and I will do my best to prepare students for those tests and to communicate when they will be taking place. At this point, I do not know when the tests are. 

Spring Auction

Hello Parents,

Below is a link to Rio's Spring Auction. For many of you, this is the last big even at Rio. Please join us in support of our awesome school.

www.rdmspringauction.org

You can bid on online auction items and buy tickets at the link above.

Hope to see you there!

3.14

Tomorrow is Pi Day!

We will celebrate during math class with various math activities involving Pi. Students may bring in pies, and we will measure their circumference, and then of course enjoy eating pies : )

End of 2nd Trimester

The Second Trimester ended on Wednesday. Report cards will be sent home on Friday, March 17th. As a reminder the report cards have changed in 6th grade. They will look very different and in many ways, way scaled down and basic. This may be alarming at first, but it is to prepare students for the type of report cards they will receive in Jr. High and High School, where students receive a letter grade for each subject/class.

Students will receive one overall grade for the following Subjects:

Math
Reading
Writing (Language and Speech grades have been calculated into the overall reading grade)
Social Studies
Science
Art
P.E.
Citizenship

There should be no surprises for students and parents if they've been checking grades online at iGradePlus on a consistent basis. I remind students weekly to be checking their grades online and missing assignments, however most students do not take advantage of this.

Again, Report Cards go home March 17th.

Kinder Pics Needed

 3/6/17

Hello 6TH GRADE PARENTS,                                                                                     


It’s not too late to submit pictures of your 6th graders for the promotion slideshow 2017!
 
We prefer GROUP pictures of the sixth graders of when they were in kinder. If your child did not attend Rio Del Mar Elementary, then a kinder picture from their school will do.  Pictures can be from birthday parties, field trips, sporting events or school activities.  We need lots of group pictures so the more the merrier. Please try to find some time to go through your pictures and send them in ASAP! We want to include ALL of our 6th graders in the slideshow.
 
Please bring jpeg pictures in using a flash drive with GROUP Kinder Pictures!
Another option is that you can simply upload them to: https://6thgradeslideshow20162017.shutterfly.com/
We need these pictures no LATER than April 1,2017.  If you have any questions, please contact your 6th teacher.
 
The sooner we get these pictures, the sooner we can begin working on finishing the slideshow.
 
Thank you!!!
 
Mr. Kyle, Ms. Birchall, and Mr. Avey

Thank You Parents!

I was just informed that the parents purchased me two tickets to the school auction on March 25th. Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. Hope to see you all there.

iGradePlus

I've added a link in Class Links for students to log into iGradePlus to check current grades.

Rosicrucian Museum

We have a field trip planned for Friday, April 21st to the Rosicrucian Ancient Egyptian Museum in San Jose. I'll be looking for 9 chaperones to join us on the field trip. Chaperones will need to have all the info on file with the school office though. That means fingerprints and proof of TB Test, thus the early announcement of this trip.

The cost is $13.00 per person. I can only ask for donations toward the cost of this field trip, so if you are able to cover the cost of the ticket then please send in cash or make a check out to RDMPA for $13.00.

Congratulations Science Fair Winner

I am so proud of how well Mr. Avey's students presented their hard work at the Science Fair. Every single student had a project to share and it is evident that a lot of hard work went into these projects.

Congratulations to the Room 20 winners and runner-ups.

Winners:
Vivi B.
Summer
Samy
Abigail

Runner-Ups:
Kyle
Trent
Dominic

County Science Fair is Saturday, March 11th. Students must set up their projects on Friday, March 10th between 2:00pm and 6:00pm.

Science Fair

Join us tomorrow night for the Science Fair in the MPR from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. You can check out all the wonderful projects and see who is moving on to the Santa Cruz County Science Fair.

Announcements!

Science Fair Poster Boards and Speeches are due this Thursday! The Science Fair is on Tuesday, February 7th.  Parents are welcome to come that night to view all the presentations and see who the winners are. 

Take Home Folders will be sent home today. Chapter 4 Math Quiz and Chapter 4 Math Tests results are in there. Students have until this Friday to take any retests.

The Read-a-Thon starts today! Get those pledges!!

Here's a blurb about our upcoming Math Festival:
Hi parents,

The Rio del Mar Math Festival is coming up and we are in need of parent volunteers!  Here are the details: 

Tuesday, February 21st

Two possible volunteer sessions: 

7:55 - 10:35  OR   11:35 - 2:10 

Volunteers will be assisting with classes, grade K-6th, as they filter through the MPR to explore math activities and games. 

You do not need to teach any math or know the skills, you will be more of a facilitator at a center - cleaning up materials between each class, helping younger students read the directions, etc.  

If you are interested and can commit to one of the above times, please email alyssa_davis@pvusd.net  

with your name, child's name, child's teacher, your email address, and your preferred volunteer time  (7:55 - 10:35  or   11:35 - 2:10) 

Thank you!

Alyssa Davis

Happy New Year!

Welcome Back! I hope you all had a restful and fun break. I bet many of you are actually eager to get back into school mode, except for the waking up early 😊. So here we go...science fair, finish informational textbooks, and start the new argument writing unit...there's lots to do. Don't worry, we'll ease into it. See you all Wednesday (short day).