RMYC Mobile Health Clinic - March

Here's a neat feature:  If you click on one of the events on the calendar, a pop-up window will appear, and you can click "map" to see a map of where the mobile clinic will be that day.

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TeenBiz/KidBiz3000® Home Edition

Since August, your child has been using the proven-effective Achieve3000’s Solutions, TeenBiz/KidBiz3000®, to increase his or her reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing. Learn more about how you can use Achieve3000’s Home Edition, available in English and Spanish, to stay closely involved in your child’s literacy success.

How does Achieve3000 work? 

Every day, TeenBiz/KidBiz sends students a current events article. Each student in the class gets the same basic article, but the content is customized to match each child’s individual reading and language level. The article comes with fun activities to improve compre-hension, vocabulary, and writing skills.

How does Home Edition work? 

Home Edition delivers daily materials that enable you to extend your child’s reading comprehension, including summaries of the daily articles, discussion guides to help spark conversations about real-world topics at home, and reports that allow you to monitor your child’s usage and performance. Check out how you student can enter in each month’s contest!

Parent Hotline Number: 1-888-486-3316

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Internet Access to your student’s account

HOME.student’s user name and password

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Green= action has been 90% or more completed

Red= action has begun and will be ongoing

Black= action has not begun in these areas

 Wells Fargo Hands On Banking Brochure English and Spanish

Online registration for Hands On Banking

Youngsters develop an academic image of themselves at an early age, usually before they enter middle school.  This academic image influences the path they take in middle school, high school, and beyond.  Our most important responsibility as a learning partnership (school, family, and community), is to support students in the development of their academic image.  But, I worry about the pressures and temptations outside the school.    Students receive mixed messages from media and other sources that dangerous behaviors, such as fighting, drug use, gangs, and disrespect to adults or other students, is normal behavior and not harmful to their education.    It is essential that the learning community of Aurora Hills work together to support the development of a positive academic image and combat the negative influences that can be so pervasive in a student’s world. 

At Aurora Hills we stress the importance of youngsters actively engaging in the school by challenging themselves academically and by participating in athletics, clubs, and extracurricular activities.  Studies have shown that students who are actively engaged in their school earn higher grades and have fewer discipline problems.

Every Monday morning the entire school participates in a lesson that is focused on bringing about a positive learning environment for all.  We are currently using lessons from the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile, the Anti-Defamation League’s No Place for Hate, and Positive Behavior Support (P.R.I.D.E.) to support this work.   As a staff, we have committed to bring about positive student behaviors by encouraging, teaching, and expecting appropriate behaviors from all students.  We do our best to make positive connections with students, to provide positive encouragement as middle school students find their way, and to help students believe they can attain high academic standards. 

Parents understand the importance of a solid education and often ask what they can do to support the development of a positive academic image in their children.  A couple of key things that parents can do are impress upon your children the importance of good study habits and skills (which includes homework), insisting children read as much as they watch television, and to not allow the drama of middle school to get in the way of their education.  Parents can also be a tremendous influence in making sure your son or daughter attends school on time, every day. 

Your involvement in your child’s education reinforces the importance of an education.  Opportunities for parent participation include Parent-Teacher-Student Organization (PTSO) which meets the third Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m.; the School Accountability Committee, which also meets the third Thursday following or preceding the PTSO meeting at 7:00 p.m.; and other school events and activities.  “Night of Excellence” will be February 16, 2010, featuring the excellent academic work of your children.  Parent conferences are scheduled throughout the year—September, November, February, and March.  Our next scheduled dates are Thursday, February 25, and Tuesday, March 2, 2010.  Plan to attend conferences and other events with your child to strengthen the partnership among parent, child, and teacher to support academic achievement. 

Every day I look at Aurora Hills with a positive attitude. Yet, the problems we face are very real, very difficult, and very pervasive.  As a school and district, we have taken numerous steps to keep youngster safe and to ensure our school is an orderly place conducive to learning.  We have identified the non-negotiables of student behavior and will use the disciplinary system to address student fighting, encouraging a fight, defiance, insubordination, etc.   When we consolidate our efforts as a learning community, we will be successful in developing young human beings full of spirit, curiosity, and unique interests and talents.   I thank you for your support of Aurora Hills Middle School and invite you to support the school’s numerous efforts to keep the lines of communication open and positive.

Congratulations! Matthew Beckman 2010 Colorado Geographic Bee Semifinalist.

 

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