MS 50 Weekly News: 3/25/24
March 25, 2024
In this Issue:
- Complete your School Survey!
- Summer Rising Applications Due TODAY!
- "Promises" Screening
- MS 50 Presents: The Lion King Jr.
- Classroom Spotlight: Math
- PTA Updates
- Upcoming Events
- Senior Dues
- i-Ready Homework Reminder
The 2024 NYC Public School survey is now live! We want to thank all of the families who have already completed the survey, your feedback is valuable to help improve the learning environment for all our families.
To access the family survey, please go the NYC School Survey website or access the survey through your NYC Schools Account. To complete the survey, you will type lowercase "f" followed by your student's OSIS number–for example, f123456789. If you have any difficulty completing the survey, please contact Edda our Parent Coordinator.
Applications for Summer Rising are now open on your MySchools account. MS 50 is a host sight this year in partnership with El Puente Beacon. The application closes TODAY, Monday, March 25th. The MySchools account is the same one used to apply for middle school and high school. If you need assistance accessing your account, please email our Parent Coordinator Edda for help. See the NYC Public School's website for more information.
MS 50's Equity Team will be hosting the second part of a two-part screening of the 2001 documentary "Promises," a film which explores the lives and perspectives of children living in Israel and Palestine, followed by a facilitated discussion on March 27th from 5:00-7:30pm.
Our goal for this event is to create a space where our beautiful, diverse, community can come together to learn from each other, engage in meaningful dialogue, and build community. This is our first event on this topic and we are only opening this space for our current families, students, and staff to engage with this film. If you are outside of our immediate community, we appreciate your understanding. Registration is required at ms50.org/promises.
MS 50 Theatre is proud to present "The Lion King Jr." on Friday, April 5th at 4:30PM and Saturday, April 6th at 1:00PM. This FREE production is perfect for all ages! Watch our students transform into the iconic characters from the Pridelands and perform your favorite songs including "The Circle of Life," "I Just Can't Wait to be King," "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," and many more! We hope to see you there!
6th Grade: Expressions and Equations
In this unit, students learn to understand and use the terms “variable,” “coefficient,” “solution,” “equivalent expressions,” “exponent,” “independent variable,” and “dependent variable.” They begin to write coefficients next to variables without a multiplication symbol. They learn other situations in which the multiplication symbol can be omitted. They work with expressions that have positive whole-number exponents and whole-number, fraction, or variable bases, using properties of exponents strategically to evaluate these expressions, given a value for the variable.
7th Grade: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
In this unit, students draw, interpret, and write equations in one variable for balanced “hanger diagrams,” and write expressions for sequences of instructions, e.g., “number puzzles.” They use tape diagrams together with equations to represent situations with one unknown quantity. They learn algebraic methods for solving equations. Students solve linear inequalities in one variable and represent their solutions on the number line. They understand and use the terms “less than or equal to” and “greater than or equal to,” and the corresponding symbols. They generate expressions that are equivalent to a given numerical or linear expression. Students formulate and solve linear equations and inequalities that represent real-world situations.
8th Grade: Associations in Data
In this unit, students generate and work with bivariate data sets that has more variability than in previous units. They learn to understand and use the terms “scatter plot” and “association,” and describe associations as “positive” or “negative” and “linear” or “non-linear.” Students describe scatter plots, using a term previously used to describe univariate data “cluster,” and the new term “outlier.” They fit lines to scatter plots and informally assess their goodness of fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the lines, and compare predicted and actual values. Students learn to understand and use the terms “two-way table,” “bar graph,” and “segmented bar graph,” using two-way tables to investigate categorical data.
April PTA Meeting
Our next PTA meeting will be on Thursday, April 4th at 6PM. We invite you to join us in planning our end of year events and as we begin to brainstorm our activities for next year.
Are you interested in joining the executive board for the 2024-25 school year? Nominations will occur at the May meeting.
MS 50 Laundry Room
Did you know MS 50 has a laundry room for our community members? Reservations can be made at ms50.org/laundry.
Upcoming Athletic Calendar
Baseball
- Wednesday, March 27: MS 582 @ Lindsay Park
- Thursday, March 28: Liberty Ave @ Parade Grounds Field 3
Softball
- Thursday, March 28: IS 318 @ Roberto Clemente Field
- Thursday, April 4: MS 582 @ Roberto Clemente Field
Volleyball
- Schedule coming soon!
One of our goals this year is for every student at MS 50 to complete 30 minutes of i-Ready ELA lessons and 30 minutes of i-Ready math lessons as part of their homework every week. Teachers will check the previous week’s work every Monday. Students can use their @nycstudents account to log into i-Ready by visiting clever.com.
If logging in on an iPad, you must first download and login to the Clever app. You can then launch i-Ready from Clever and students will be logged in. Download this information sheet for more detailed instructions.