MS 50 Weekly News: 4/17/23
April 17, 2023
ELA State Exam this Week!
Welcome back MS 50 family! We hope you all had a restful Spring Recess. This week we are excited for the opportunity for our students to demonstrate their hard work on the ELA State Exams on Wednesday and Thursday. Please make sure that your student gets a good night of sleep and eats a good breakfast so they are ready and relaxed to give their best!
In this Issue:
- Summer Rising Information Session
- Classroom Spotlight: Math
- Free Kids Bike Swap
- Senior Dues
- School Surveys DUE THURSDAY
- Upcoming Events
- PTA Updates
Summer is just around the corner! This year MS 50's Summer Rising site is at IS 71 (Juan Morel Campos Campus) with afternoon programming from El Puente Beacon. Beacon will be hosting an information session this Thursday, April 20 at 6:00PM, with an opportunity to ask questions and discuss procedures for how to register your student. Join at the Zoom link below.
6th Grade Math: Unit Rates and Percentages
In this unit, students learn to understand and use the terms “unit rate,” “speed,” “pace,” “percent,” and “percentage,” and recognize that equivalent ratios have equal unit rates. They represent percentages with tables, tape diagrams, and double number line diagrams, and as expressions. They use these terms and representations in reasoning about situations involving unit price, constant speed, and measurement conversion.
7th Grade Math: Probability and Sampling
In this unit, students design and use simulations to estimate probabilities of outcomes of chance experiments and understand the probability of an outcome as its long-run relative frequency. They represent sample spaces in tables and tree diagrams and as lists. They calculate the number of outcomes in a given sample space to find the probability of a given event. They consider the strengths and weaknesses of different methods for obtaining a representative sample from a given population. They generate samples from a given population, e.g., by drawing numbered papers from a bag and recording the numbers, and examine the distributions of the samples, comparing these to the distribution of the population.
8th Grade Algebra: Quadratic Equations
In this unit, students will generate a quadratic function as a product of two linear equations where they will compare quadratic, linear, and exponential functions. Students will write quadratic equations and inequalities using real world situations and graph them in order to find key features. Using what we know about families of graphs, students will perform transformations on the quadratic functions.
Bring in the bike your child has outgrown, choose one that fits, and get a free NYC DOT Vision Zero helmet! For kids 5 feet & under.
- Parents/guardians must attend & sign a waiver.
- Swapping is on first-come, first-serve basis.
- Bikes will be sized and must fit the child.
- At 1:30pm, we will donate remaining safety inspected bikes to families without bikes
When: Sunday, April 23rd 11am to 2pm, rain or shine
Where: NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull @ 760 Broadway, Brooklyn, enter at the Marcus Garvey Boulevard Parking Lot
June 8, 2023 - PROM - GIANDO ON THE WATER
- 400 Kent Ave
- Brooklyn, NY 11249
- 5 pm to 9 pm
- $100.00 (Dinner included)
June 16, 2023 - SENIOR TRIP
- Great Adventure/Six Flags
- Need to be in school by 7:30 AM
- $40.00 (lunch is included)
June 26, 2022 - GRADUATION
- 3 pm to 5 pm
- MS 50 Auditorium
- $40.00 (includes Cap and Gown, Yearbook)
TOTAL: $180.00
You can pay in cash, money order or check to MS 50, and make payment installments. You will get a receipt. June 2nd (Friday) is the last day to pay Senior Dues. Please see Ms. Sostre, Guidance Counselor in room 219 and call her with any questions at 917-202-6257.
