Title I @ Teasley

1/8-2/28 ---ACCESS Testing for English Language Learners (learn more below)

1/20 ------- Martin Luther King Jr. Day (student holiday)

2/17-21 --- Winter Break (no school)

2/27 ------- Talent Show - Cafe @ 6PM

3/6 -------- STEM Night - Cafe @ 5:30PM

Please see below for important high school transition information:

FOR STUDENTS

High School counselors will meet with all 8th students at TMS on 1/27-1/28 (1/29-if needed) to discuss course selection and draft a 9th schedule.

Please make sure your 8th student is in school on these days.

FOR PARENTS

Freshmen Focus Night at Cherokee HS ------ 1/28/25 CHS Auditorium (please notice this date has changed from the original date).

Please join us at 6:00 pm on January 21st in the auditorium at Cherokee High School for Rising Freshmen Future Focus Night. There will be important information for all rising 9th graders regarding:
- Graduation requirements
- The elective course registration process
- AP and Honors courses at CHS, and much more.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see all that Cherokee High School has to offer!

ACCESS is an English language proficiency assessment administered to students who have been identified as English language learners (ELLs). It is given annually to monitor students' progress in acquiring academic English. If your child is serviced by the ESOL program, then he/she will be required to take the ACCESS assessment.

How to interpret your student's ACCESS score (en Español)

Sample Access for ELL Score report (en Español)

Este video a continuacion es una breve descripción de como interpretar el reporte de puntaje de la evaluación lingüística de ACCESS para estudiantes aprendiendo Inglés.

Visit Teasley Parent Resource Room in the media center to check out books. You may also have your student stop by to get books. These books are purchased with Title I funds and have no time restrictions, so you may keep them for as long as you need them for. Feel free to stop by the Family Resource Room at TMS or contact Yudy Soro at 770-721-5424 or yudy.soro@cherokeek12.net

While it is important that students read on a consistent basis to increase fluency and knowledge, it is also important to help them make sense of what they are reading. In school, students learn different strategies to help them process what they read. Below are 3 suggestions parents can use to support their student's comprehension at home:

Please note that there will not be a book fair this year. The company that we previously worked with is no longer servicing middle schools. We value the book fair experience and hope to find an alternative company for next year.

In the meantime, encourage your student to utilize any of these resources:

- Media Center at Teasley, where students can check out up to 2 books every 3 weeks.

- Sora and Destiny, which offers a selection of online and audio books.

- Parent Resource Room inside the Media Center.

- Teasley Lending Library (pictured here), outside the school by the car line. Students can grab a book, and return it when they are done.

- Book Swap at Teasley, located in the Media Center. Students can bring a book from home and swap it for another book.

- Your local library: students can use their student ID (lunch number) to check out books.

6th GRADE

In ELA ~ students will begin a mystery reading and writing unit. Students will read and analyze a Sherlock Holmes short story before writing a mystery narrative of their own. Throughout the unit, students will work on their skills related to identifying theme and central idea, characterization and character types, point of view, plot, dialogue, figurative language, and descriptive writing.

In Math ~ students will start writing and solving one-step equations and inequalities.

In Science ~ students are studying how weathering, erosion and deposition create soil layers.

In Social Studies ~ students are learning about geography in Latin America - including the location, climate, natural resources, and where people live in Latin America. They also will be learning about deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest and air pollution in Mexico City.

GA Standards of Excellence for 6th: ELA Math Science Social Studies

7th GRADE

In ELA ~ students will be determining a theme and/or central idea of a text, analyzing its development over the course of the text, and providing an objective summary of the text.

In Math ~ students will engage in practical applications and conceptual understanding of percentages. This will include learning to calculate, interpret, and apply percentages in various contexts. They will also be introduced to the fundamentals of statistical reasoning.

In Science ~ students are completing their Genetics unit, where the students will be learning about heredity, DNA and Punnett Squares.

In Social Studies ~ students are learning about the history of SE Asia including the independence of India, the rebuilding of Japan after WW2, and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

GA Standards of Excellence for 7th: ELA Math Science Social Studies

8th GRADE

In ELA ~ students are working on rhetoric and informational texts. In this unit, students will be observing speeches presented by other school aged students and analyzing them. Then, they will be drafting their own speeches to uplift and inspire younger students and presenting them to their peers in class.

In Math ~ students are learning to solve systems of linear equations.

In Science ~ students will be learning to explain the similarities and differences between electromagnetic and mechanical waves.

In Social Studies ~students will be learning about the Westward Expansion. That includes the Civil War, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and Reconstruction.

GA Standards of Excellence for 8th: ELA Math Science Social Studies

If you missed our Winter Family Night on 12/4, click here or click the picture below to review the literacy resources that were shared and distributed to parents that night. Per request, a printed parent packet can be sent home with your Raider. Request yours to yudy.soro@cherokeek12.net

If you attended the event, or accessed the resources online - please give us feedback!

Email: yudy.soro@cherokeek12.net
Website: https://tms.cherokeek12.net/
Location: 151 Hickory Log Drive, Canton, GA, USA
Phone: 770-721-5420
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeasleyMSRaiders
Twitter: @MiddleTeasley