Eisenhower is Under Construction

Eisenhower is under construction and our office has moved to Churchill School, located at: 1520 N. Jones Road Schaumburg, IL 60195. Our office phone number is still 847-357-5500.

Our office hours are 8:00AM to 3:00PM from Monday, June 3rd through Friday, June 7th. Should you need to register your child, you can visit the district office OR you can visit the district website at http://sd54.org/registration/ to register online.

Mr. Todd and Mrs. Prusko can be reached throughout June and August via email or by phone. We will also be at Churchill School during construction.

Have a wonderful summer!

Kara Prusko                                       Brandon Todd

Principal                                             Assistant Principal

847-357-5508                                   847-357-2018

karaprusko@sd54.org                     brandontodd@sd54.org

Final 2012-13 News to Use!

Hello!

Well- we certainly are in Chicago!  I am not sure if we should turn the heat or the air on!

The 2012-2013 school year is coming to a close quickly!! Thank you, from the staff of Eisenhower, for your continued support and involvement in your child’s education. There are many things going on this week I wanted to give you information on.

• Tuesday, 5/28- 8^th grade field trip/ 7^th grade- regular schedule
• Wednesday, 5/29- 8^th grade graduation practice/ 7^th grade regular schedule
• Wednesday, 5/29- All current requests on waiting list for extra graduation tickets will be honored. These will be sent home with students on 5/29! Please ask your child for the envelope!
• Wednesday, 5/29- LAST DAY FOR 8^th GRADE
• Thursday, 5/30- 7^th Grade field trip
• Friday, 5/31-Last Day for 7^th grade- dismissal at 9:40am

Eisenhower will be closed during the summer months for a few construction projects.  However, we can be contacted at the same phone numbers and email addresses.  The office staff will be at Churchill School from 6/3 through 6/7 should you need to register or update records.  You can also go to the District Office during the summer months for registration.  Mr. Todd and I can be contacted throughout the summer via email and phone.

Our school is due to reopen in August in time for School of Information Day on 8/8/13. You will receive a letter mailed in July regarding School of Information Day. If there is any construction delays,  I will send out an email and  update our website with information regarding School of Information Day. (https://eisenhower.sd54.org/)

Kara Prusko

Principal

Eisenhower JHS

847-357-5500

Summer Reading List

The junior high summer reading list has been posted.  You can see it below:

Author and Title

Aronson, Marc. Trapped: how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean  desert

Avi. The Seer of Shadows

Ayres, Katherine. Macaroni Boy

Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker

Bradbury, Jennifer.  Shift

Bradman, Tony. My Dad’s a Punk: 12 Stories About Boys and Their Fathers

Brereton, C., Steele, P., & Wilson, Hannah.

Warriors Verses Warriors: Ten Fighters, Five Battle, ONE WINNER

Bruchac, Joseph. Skeleton Man

Bryant, Jen. Pieces of Georgia

Bunting, Eve. Blackwater

Burns, Loree Griffin. Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion

Cadnum, Michael. Redhanded

Capuzzo, Mike. Close to Shore: the Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Shadow

Carlson, Lori M. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems for Growing Up Latino in the United States

Carter, Ally. I’d Tell You I Loved You, but I’d Have to Kill You

Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass Basket

Carvell, Marlene. Who Will Tell My Brother?

Cole, Henry.  A Nest for Celeste

Colfer, Eoin. Airman

Connor, Leslie. Waiting for Normal

Cummings, Priscilla. A Face First

Cummings, Priscilla. Blindsided

Cummings, Priscilla. Red Kayak

Curry, Jane Louise. The Black Canary

Draper, Sharon. Out of my mind

Ellis, Deborah.  Bifocal

Falkner, Brian.  Tomorrow Code

Frost, Helen.  Diamond Willow

Fox, Helen. Eager

Gaiman, Neil. Coraline

Gorman, Carol. Games

Haddix, Margaret. Claim to Fame

Haddix, Margaret. Double Identity

Han, Jenny.  Shug

Hayes, Daniel. The Trouble with Lemons

Herlong, M.H.  The Great White Sea

Holm, Jennifer L.  Middle School is Worse than

Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff

Holm, Jennifer L. Penny from Heaven

Johnson, Angela. Bird

Johnson, Maureen. The Key to the Golden Firebird

Ketchum, Liza. Into a New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West

Key, Watt.  Alabama Moon

Lawrence, Iain. Lord of the Nutcracker Men

L’Engle, Madeleine. The Arm of the Starfish

Littman, Sarah. Confessions of a Closet Catholic

Lord, Cynthia. Rules

Lupica, Mike.  Million Dollar Throw

Lupica, Mike.  The Batboy

Lupica, Mike. The Underdogs

Mack, Tracy. Birdland

Martin, Ann. A Corner of the Universe

Mikaelsen, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear

Moore, Wes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Mulligan, Andy. Trash

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.  Dairy Queen

Myers, Walter Dean. SLAM!

Nelson, Kadir. We Are the Ship

Nelson, Peter. Left for Dead

Nelson, Theresa. Ruby Electric

Nixon, Joan Lowry. The Other Side of Dark

Osborn, Shane. Born to Fly: The Heroic Story of Downed U.S. Navy Plane Pilot Lt. Shane Osborn

Palacio, R.J. Wonder

Paulsen, Gary. Soldier’s Heart

Reeve, Philip. Larklight

Rex, Adam.  The True Meaning of Smekday

Robinson, Sharon.  Jackie’s Nine: Jackie

Robinson’s Values to Live.

Rodman, MaryAnn.  Jimmy’s Stars

Rose, Malcolm. Framed

Roy, Jennifer. Mindblind

Sappey, Maureen Stack. Letters from Vinnie

Scrimge, Richard. From Charlie’s Point of View

Selzer, Adam.  I put a Spell on You

Selznick, Brian.  The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Shafer, Audrey. The Mailbox

Sherlock, Patti. Letters From Wolfie

Smith, Roland.  Elephant Run

Smith, Sherri L.  Flygirl

Sonnenblick, Jordan. Drums, Girls &Dangerous Pie

Soup, Cuthbert.  A Whole Nother Story

Starmer, Adam.  DWEEBS

Stewart, Trenton Lee.  The Mysterious Benedict Society

Walker, Sally M.  Written in Bone: Buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

Warren, Andrea. Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

Weeks, Sarah .So B It

Woods, Ron. The Hero

Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere Series Books

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games Series

Cooney, Caroline. The Face on the Milk Carton Series

Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker Series

Jacques, Brian. Redwall Series

Lupica, Mike. Come Back Kid Series

Noel, Alyson. The Evermore Series

News to Use at Eisenhower!

Hello Eisenhower Community,

Teacher Appreciation Week

I would like to thank the Eisenhower PTA for making all of our staff feel appreciated this week.  We enjoyed the breakfast so much!  Thank you!

MAP

We have finished our MAP testing.  Overall, Eisenhower has 79% proficient in Reading and 80% proficient in Math.  We did not meet the districts goal of 90/90, but we are setting goals and expectations for 2013-2014.  For growth, 57% of our students met their growth targets in Reading and 68% of students met their growth targets in Math.

Appropriate Dress

As warm weather is upon us, I would like to take this opportunity to talk about appropriate school attire.  We believe that students at Eisenhower Junior High should take pride in their appearance, and dress in such a way that they are positive representa­tives of our school. Appropriate clothing should be conducive to learn­ing and compatible with a productive educa­tional environment.

The following are inappropriate during school hours at a junior high:

• Revealing clothing such as bare midriffs, bare      backs, spaghetti straps, tank tops
• Pants and shorts that cannot be worn at or above the      hips.  No excessively baggy pants;
• See-through fabrics, low-cut tops, low-riding pants,      short shorts, or short skirts;
• Clothing with inappropriate slogans or pictures such      as depictions of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gangs, vulgar language, or      violence;

8^th Grade Dance

Our 8^th Grade Dance is Thursday, May 23^rd from 6-8PM.  Students must wear their 8^th grade graduation dance t-shirt for admittance.  T-shirts should not be altered in any way.  Please use caution –and drive carefully- when dropping off and picking up children.

Graduation

We are so very excited for the graduating class of 2013!! The 8^th Grade graduation will be Wednesday, May 29th, at 7:00 PM at HOFFMAN ESTATES HIGH SCHOOL, 1100 West Higgins Road in Hoffman Estates. Students should enter through Door #10 and be in the cafeteria by 6:45PM. Each family will be given 6 tickets for admittance.  If you need additional tickets, please contact Barb Bratt to be placed on a waiting list.

Important Upcoming Dates

• 5/22- ALL HOMEWORK DUE (Graduation Requirement)
• 5/23- 8^th Grade Dance
• 5/24- NO School-Non Attendance Day
• 5/27- NO School- Memorial Day
• 5/28- 8^th Grade Field Trip- Bulls/ Sox Academy
• 5/29- 7^th Grade Field Trip- Elk Grove Bowl
• 5/29- 8^th Grade Graduation-7PM Hoffman HS
• 5/29-Last Day for 8^th Graders
• 5/31- Last Day for 7^th Graders

Homework Club 2012-2013

Homework Club

HOMEWORK CLUB

Homework Club is provided each Monday and Thursday afterschool, to assist students who need to complete missing work.  Any student who is missing three or more assignments must attend Homework Club. Invitations for homework club are handed out during Advocacy/Homeroom every Friday.    Even though it is called “an invitation” it is not optional.  Here is a brief outline of the procedure to help better explain it:

Changes from last year (for 8th graders)

• Sheets will only be passed out on Friday.  No reminder sheets on Tuesday or Thursday.
• Homework club is now on Monday & Thursday afterschool-Room 709.

Age Appropriate Book Choices

Each year the International Reading Association polls thousands of students to determine top book choices for each age group.  Below is a link to 100 titles suggested by IRA based on the poll results.  These titles were chosen for the junior high age group.

http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Awards/ChildrensChoices2012_web.pdf