LIFE AT SCHOOL

 PE, physical ed ,gym, its when you do a lot of fun exercise

 Chorus, Singing in a group
 study hall ( And it’s not a hall that you study in) A room that you make up
homework or study for a test
 Band and orchestra if you play instrument
 General Music you learn who to play different instrument
 You switch every quarter (our school has 4 parts)
 Career Basics we learn about having… a job.
 2D Art drawing
 3D Art making sculptors and stuff with detention
 Living Skills you learn about taking care of kids and learning about measuring
stuff
 Computer and Health, we switch of every semester ( Half of the school year )
 In computer we learn about well computer
 Health is about being healthy and other stuff
A typical day at school is crowed with people. Your bumped into like everyday
(well unless you can doge the Middle school traffic .) We all have 8 periods
(classes) which last for 42 min. When you are going from class to class you
have 4 min.

Your 2nd and 6th period are the specials

 Holidays weFourth
celebrate
of July
labor day
Valentines day
Easter
Halloween
St. Patrick's day
Passover
Cinco de mayo
Mardi gras
Independence day
Memorial day
Christmas
New years
thanksgiving
•Gary Paulsen
Roald Dahl
Hatchet Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
•Judy Bloom
 Kate DiCamillo
Tale of the Fourth Grade Nothing Tale of Despereaux
•Barbara Parks Charles Dickens
Junie B. Jones Tale of Two Cities
•Neil Gaiman Frances Hodgson Burnett
Coraline Secret Garden

 Herman Melville
Moby Dick
 Red Robin- Ham Burgers, French Fries
 Red Lobster- Sea food
 Texas Road House- Ham Burgers, Chicken
 Olive Garden- Italian
 Out Back Steak House- Steak
 Papa Johns- Pizza
 Hot Dogs
 Noodles
Popular Websites
 Popular websites in the U.S. are probably …
 Myspace.com ( website allows you to talk to others online and
watch video clips.)
 Aol.com ( can be used to send emails and instant messages to
friends and more.)
 Youtube.com ( can be used to watch numerous amounts of clips
consisting of music, comedy, sports, and by far more.)
 We also have some of the websites you have like google.com and
Ask.com
 Overall I think my favorite website is Youtube.com because I am a
sports fan and can watch funny clips and sports clips. P.S. a clip is
a short video and if at Youtube.com go to penguin fight or top 10
soccer goals.
Barack Obama Our first Black
President
They serve for four years then they can be
elected again and serve another four years
then that's it. They live in the White house for
the years that they serve. They control the
United States with the rest of the congress
 Famous people in the U.S.

There are many kinds of famous people and celebrities in the U.S. like movie
stars, sports stars, and Rich people. Some of the famous movie actors are Ben
Stiller, Adam Sandler, and Jim Carry. Famous people in sports lately are Albert
Pujols (a baseball player), Lebron James (a basketball player) , and Jozy
Altidore (plays for the U.S. Soccer team). The richest person in the world is Bill
Gates, incase you don’t know.

Ben Stiller
( on right)
Albert Pujols
( on left)
 Animals in Iowa  Pets- These are animals
 Wild animals- These are we keep in our homes
animals you might find in
Birds
the wild.
Turkey

Deer Hamsters

Bald Eagle

Cats &
Squirrels Dogs
 1,012 students are in
enrolled at Bettendorf
Middle in 08-09.
 We have 6 elementary
schools and a high school
and a middle school in
our district.
 There are 1,422 students
enrolled at Bettendorf
High School.
 the mascot of our
district and a of
Bettendorf Middle
School is a bulldog.
(pictured at the right)
o the grading system at
BMS is:
2) 90-100% = A
3) 89-80% = B
4) 79-70% = C
5) 69- 60% = D
6) 59% and below = F
 Some of the activities after school, are
school sports such as football,
basketball, or volleyball.
 There is also many groups that are
started by teachers such as the Red
Cross club started by Mrs. Phelan.
 There is also a Society for Historical
Mysteries, started by my teacher Mr.
Mauer.
 And one more is the science club, that
is after school Friday started by Mr.
Flathman.
Popular T.V. Shows
By: Keegan
 Sponge Bob Square
Pants
 The Red Green Show
 George Lopez
 Mythbusters
 Pokemon
 Americas Funniest
Home Videos
Popular T.V. Shows Pg. 2
 Star Wars The Clone Wars

 American Idol

 Dancing With The Stars

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LIFE AT SCHOOL
 PE, physical ed ,gym, its when you do a lot of fun exercise
 Chorus, Singing in a group
 study hall ( And it’s not a hall that you study in) A room that you make up homework or
study for a test
 Band and orchestra if you play instrument
 General Music you learn who to play different instrument
 You switch every quarter (our school has 4 parts)
 Career Basics we learn about having… a job.
 2D Art drawing
 3D Art making sculptors and stuff with detention
 Living Skills you learn about taking care of kids and learning about measuring stuff
 Computer and Health, we switch of every semester ( Half of the school year )
 In computer we learn about well computer
 Health is about being healthy and other stuff
A typical day at school is crowed with people. Your bumped into like everyday (well
unless you can doge the Middle school traffic .) We all have 8 periods (classes) which
last for 42 min. When you are going from class to class you have 4 min.

Your 2nd and 6th period are the specials

 Rewards and punishments
Punishments in our school are not as harsh as you think. If you don’t
finish your homework It’s a late assignment and It’s worth half the
points it was originally assigned. To get a detention you don’t have to
do much. If you sass off to the teacher that’s a easy detention. If you are
late to class that’s a detention. Minutes can be added on to a detention if
you skip one. You can also get ISS’s (in school suspension). That’s if
you get in a fight or something worse than being late like ditching
school. If you push the limits to far you will end up with a OSS (out of
school suspension). If you actually hurt someone in a fight or steal
something from someone. The rewards are cool. If you do something
good in class we get thing called Lottery tickets. You can put the Lottery
tickets in the Lottery Box. At the end of each quarter we get a time to
draw the Lottery tickets out of the Lottery Box and someone draws the
tickets out of the box. Whoever's name gets called, gets to pick a prize
out of all the prizes provided. Once or twice a year you can build a team
up and combine your teams Lottery tickets and you can bid. The Items
would be in bags that are big and small. In the bags you bid for are
really good prizes, but sometimes you can be tricked by the teachers
and get a bunch of toothpicks. Most of the time it ends up to be a good
bag.
Slang Words
Slang Words
 Fo-fool
 Home Dog- A really cool person
 Homie-a person you are close
with
 TTYL-talk to you later
 IDK- I don’t Know
 LYLAS- love you like a sister
 Dang- A word used to say
oops!!!!
 JC- Just Chilling
 JK- Just kidding!
 G2G-Got to go
 BRB-be right back
 Gonna- going to
 Ain’t- isn’t
 BTW-by the way
 Sup-what’s up
 Peep’s- friend’s
 Ya’ll-you all
 <3-I love you
 ILU-I love you
 LMTU-let me tell you
 OMG- oh my gosh
 TTFN- ta ta for now
 Bam-got you
 BFFL-best friend for life
 BFF-best friend for ever
 LOL-laugh out loud
 GF-girl friend
 BF-boy friend
 JW-just wondering
There are lots of different hallways
in our building!
 Grading System
Amount of homework
How do you earn your grades
.
 The teachers grade
you by how well you
do on the homework
they give you.
 During our ITBS
tests, ITBS stands for
Iowa Tests of Basic
Skills, ( 3rd grade and
up) is the biggest test
in school and so how
well we do on it, it
shows up on our
grades.
 A lot of kids in my grade
don’t like homework
especially the amount
that some of the teachers
give us.
 It sometimes depends on
what sort of teachers we
have here, like
sometimes the teachers
give us constant
homework especially Mr.
Maurer, then if we forget
about some homework
we have, it shows up on
report cards as a late
assignment which brings
our grades down.
 Iowa grows corn, soy
beans, and oats.
 In 2005 Iowa almost
grew 2.2 million
bushels of corn
 There are 180,000
soybeans in one
bushel
Iowa’s land
 Iowa is a very flat
land with few hills
 Iowa is 310 miles
long and 200 miles
wide
 The Mississippi river
(the longest river in
the Unites States)
runs through Iowa
Cool Places in Iowa!!
 Maquoketa Caves has the biggest
caves in the state.
 Amana Colonies because it is a big Strawberry
tourist attraction.
Point
 Backbone National Park
 Iowa River because it’s the 2nd biggest
river in Iowa.
 Strawberry point because it has the
biggest strawberry in the world and it is
where we go to 6th sixth grade camp
for a week.