By Bethany Vickers
SILVERDALE--This past month our Raiders have been working hard, trying their best and putting their best work forward for their SBA testing. SBA or Smarter Balanced testing is our state’s standardized testing program. It is used to show what we know and how much we know through a Classroom Adaptive Test and a Performance Task on subjects such as math, english language arts, and for our eighth graders science. On the first day of testing, which for us this year was on Tuesdays, students had to report to their testing classrooms and take the Classroom Adaptive Test or CAT, which is a series of questions designed to gather information on what the students in each grade learned throughout the year. Day one of testing was on May 9th.The next day students were given a Performance Task to show how well they could gather and retain information on a certain topic chosen randomly. They then had to write about it or solve a series of math problems based on the topic. The science test for eighth graders went faster than expected. Students only had to take a Science CAT about the things they learned in Earth Science. “The science SBA was easier than I thought it would be; it was really short,” said 8th grader Kydn Dibert Over all our Raiders worked hard, breathed, and took it one problem at a time. Students were so good at testing and staying focused that the last day of testing finished early, giving us regular 3-6 periods. This also happened for our eighth graders during their science testing. Good Job Raiders!!! By Ryley Just
SILVERDALE--Moving westward! In all five of DJ Sweet’s history classes there is a westward expansion project going on. All of the classes are doing a project to show younger kids what it was like to be involved in the westward expansion. There are many different choices of projects. Students could make a board game, make a craft, design a video game etc. Sweet gave all his classes four weeks to complete and present the project. Some classes will be showing their projects to sixth graders, and the others will be presenting to kids from Silver Ridge. Every week Sweet acts as the boss to check in with every group to see what they have gotten done. He wants to make sure everybody is making a kid-friendly project that helps kids learn more about why and how the people moved west. Story by Lexie Fortney
Recently, students from the secondary schools in Central Kitsap School District attended the Distinguished Readers’ Ceremony at Klahowya Secondary School. The students who participated in the club and read 10 books were recognized by staff and guest speaker Martha Brockenbrough. Martha Brockenbrough was a speaker at the ceremony and a current author, along with students from different schools: RMS, Klahowya secondary School, Fairview, Olympic High School, and both CK Middle School and High School. The two speakers from Ridgetop were Michelle Polo and Lexie Fortney, who are both seventh graders. There were many students who participated in Ridgetop’s Distinguished Readers’ club. The 5 students reading the most books were: eighth grader Alanna Lopez with 12 books logged, seventh grader Autumn Yi with 13, seventh grader Michelle Polo with 20, seventh grader Lexie Fortney with 21, and the student with the most books read by far was eighth grader Olivia Holland with 38 books logged! Next year, students of all grades can join the Distinguished Readers’ club. It is every month on the second Wednesday. The requirement to go to the Ceremony, is to have logged 10 books by the end of March. |
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