October 4, 2019

Dear Parents,

Thank you for your help in the afternoons with traffic patterns for carpool lines and

walkers. We are trying to ensure efficient and, above all, safe systems. I want to make

sure our morning drop-off process goes smoothly and safely as well. Before 8:00 am we

have some students who are dropped off for morning tutoring and some who wait in the

car until 8:00. If you are dropping off your child before 8:00 am, please pull into the left

lane and we can make that a through-lane; if you are waiting until 8:00 am with your

child, please pull into the right lane. Please avoid cutting through the teacher section of

the parking lot to drop off children.

A few calendar items to be aware of: this Wednesday, October 9 is a teacher workday so

there will be no school for students. The following Wednesday, October 16 will be a

3-hour early release day and students will be released at 12:30 pm.

Best,

Lisa Bailes, Principal

10/9 Teacher Workday—No School

10/10 HOME Softball/Volleyball vs Crestdale

5pm

10/14 HOME Softball/Volleyball vs

Community House 5pm

10/14 SLT Meeting 4pm

10/15 Fall PEP Rally

10/15 HOME Football vs Quail 5pm

10/15 HOME Golf vs Quail 5pm

10/16 Early Release Day—Dismissal 12:30

10/17 Counselor Coffee with Parents 9am

10/17 Counselor Coffee with Parents 6:30pm

10/21 HOME Softball/Volleyball vs Alexander

Graham 5pm

10/22 Fall Chorus Concert 7pm

10/23 DC Interest Meeting—8th Grade 6pm

10/25 End of 1st Quarter

10/28 Teacher workday

10/29 Softball/Volleyball vs JM Robinson 5pm

10/30 HOME Golf vs Crestdale 5pm

Congratulations to Zion Walden (6th),

Sophia Orchard(7th), and

Madeline Capraro (8th)! They have

been selected by teachers as SCMS

Shocker Standouts. Shocker Standouts

are scholarly, honest, optimistic,

caring, kind, energetic, and responsible

(SHOCKER).

“Programs for Exceptional Children at Charlotte-

Mecklenburg Schools is excited to have text

messaging via Remind as another way for families to

receive district-level information and

communication relevant to families of students with

disabilities. To opt in to these text messages, copy the

following url into an internet browser: remind.com/

join/7dgd9d or text 7dgd9d to the number 81010.”

Reminder.... the SCMS Building A Legacy Annual Fund Campaign is in full

swing! Your green donation form was sent home with your child the first week

of school. To make a donation, please complete and return the form with

payment, or submit online through pay4schoolstuff.com. All donations are

100 percent tax-deductible. Please contact Mandy Zytnik, VP of Fundraising

with any questions at mandy.zytnik@gmail.com.

There are only 4 weeks to go in the Campaign!

School Required Fees - Past Due!

Have you seen this form? Don't forget to pay your school required fees. Pay online

at www.pay4schoolstuff.com or by check to SCMS PTO.

We need your help! SCMS needs adult volunteers to assist in the cafeteria during 6th grade lunch. Tasks will involve walking around and encouraging

good behavior, reminding students to throw away trash, etc. If you are available between 12:20-12:55 pm please sign up to volunteer using the

link below. Thank you so much for your support!!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090849a8ae29a13-cafeteria

Our Box Tops fundraiser is an easy way to earn extra funds

for our school while shopping for our favorite brands. Each Box

Tops submitted equals .10cents for our school. It all adds up

when we all pitch in. This year we are able to double up on our

earnings. Box Tops for Education has developed an App which

allows customers to electronically upload the receipt and

automatically tallies how

much $$ has been earned

towards our school on that

purchase. Please follow the

easy steps to register and link

your account to our school.

And if those items on your

receipt have the actual Box

Tops coupon you can still clip

and send them in to our Box

Tops mailbox for submission

and earn extra $$. Please make

sure to send your clipped Box

Tops coupons with your

student by Friday, Oct. 25th.

Shocker Sponsor Spotlight

Platinum Level Sponsors

Gold Level Sponsors!

While anxiety is a normal feeling that all of us experience at

some point, not all of us will have a panic attack. Panic

attacks are characterized by their abrupt onset and often have

symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, shaking, sweating, and

difficulty breathing. While panic attacks are rare, they can be

especially frightening to a young student who does not know

what they are experiencing. If your child has suffered from a

panic attack, we encourage you to tell both your pediatrician, outside counselor if you have one, and your school

counselor so that we can be on the lookout for any reoccurrence. However, if you are with your child when they

are having a panic attack you may want to utilize the below techniques that we use in our counseling office.

When we have a student who is actively having a panic attack, the goal is to calm them down and get them to focus

on breathing and regulating their body. We do this in our offices in a variety of ways. We often have them deep

breath or do a breathing exercise. An example of this would be the 4-7-8 breathing technique. Ask your child to

empty their lungs of all air, and then breathe in through their nose for 4 seconds. Hold their breath for 7 seconds

and breathe out for 8 seconds. By counting and breathing, it often calms them down enough to pull them out of the

panic attack. Another technique is called grounding. Ask your child to name 5 things they see, 4 things they feel, 3

things they hear, 2 things they smell, and 1 thing they taste. As with the deep breathing, the goal is to get them to

focus on their body and senses rather than their anxiety and panic.

Our hope is to teach our students how to self-manage feelings of anxiety. However, panic attacks can sometimes be

random and unexpected. Trying to focus on the body and calming the mind can help your child come back from a

panic attack.

Speak out, Show Kindness, Respect Everyone and Respond Appropriately

What’s happening with FAN?

A very big THANK YOU to those who have already paid their fine arts fees, and for those who have become FAN Patrons. Your contribution benefits the students directly by paying for art supplies, sheet music, scripts, instruments, costumes, competition fees, transportation costs, clinics and much more. Thank you so much for your support!!!

If you still need to pay your fees, or if you’d like to become a FAN Patron, simply go to www.Pay4SchoolStuff.com You have two different options:

Option 1: Become a FAN Patron ($150) When you become a FAN Patron, all Fine Arts fees are covered for the year (class fees and Honors fees) and you will receive 2 tickets to the Spring Musical.

Option 2: Class Fees Only Art $10 Honors Art $50 Band $50 Honors Band $50 Chorus $10 Honors Chorus $50 Dance $10 Honors Dance $50 Drama $10 Honors Drama $50 Orchestra $50 Honors Orchestra $50

FAN is the Fine Arts Network at South Charlotte Middle School.

Field hockey is one of the fastest growing sports in Charlotte. Did you know SCMS has a club Field Hockey team open to 6th-8th graders?

We are so proud of our Lady Shockers! After 6 games, they are undefeated with 5 wins and 1 tie! No opponent has yet scored a goal on them. There are only 3 games left in the season and they hope to

end strong. If you are interested in learning more about our field hockey program, contact Cathy Kirkland at cckirkland@carolina.rr.com.

We would like to thank the following SCMS volunteers who helped throughout the day on September 23rd, our Fall Picture Day. A special thank you goes out to Mrs. Naomi McRary who organized the volunteers for the day. We appreciate each and every one of you.

Kim Wilkoff

Sara Weltz

Naomi McRary

Payal Setia

Jill Pickett

Sal Howard

Maura Reyes

Anamika Devara

Theresa Joiner

Kim Ball

Reyna Watson

Margaret Coppola

Belinda Joy

Thank you to the families who have already contributed to the 2019-20 Building A Legacy

Annual Fund Campaign as of September 30, 2019!

*Designates a corporate match contribution

PRINCIPAL'S CIRCLE $750 +

The Hardwick Family * Marc and Shari Sokolowicz

PLATINUM LEVEL ($500 - $749) Zusi Family *

The Buechler Family * The Góis Family * Kumar Family *

James and Helen Kim * Larry and Jermeliah Martin

The Wallach Family The Schubert Family Jay and Lindsey Eich

Brady and Niki Koesel The Im Family

Xiong Liu *

GOLD LEVEL ($250 - $499)

O'Keeffe Family * Sun Family

Michelle Thiny Jon & Laura Moore The Dinkin Family

Seufert Family The Zaidman Family The Kirkland Family

Tara & David Hill

The Antshel Family * The Kaeppler Family

The Fitton Family The Hutchinson Family *

The Bashore Family * Darrell and Haydee Johnson *

Ken & Shannon Burbe The Knox Family *

SILVER LEVEL ($100 - $249)

Anonymous * Meg and Scott Garand *

The Kinlaw Family * The Partel Family * The Roof Family *

The Maddox Family * Nicholas Mosca *

Nurit & Dror Kaelter Sean Allen and Nancy Behrens

The Elmore Family Asnot & Ivina Suivazyan

Fickling Family Chris and Marty Metzl

The Derrick Family The Milheim Family

Hutchens Family The Crews Family Zalomek Family Rebekah Pauls

The Blackwell Family The Bamert Family The Manoim Family The Mitchell Family

Ryan Family The Berliner Family The Bernath Family Lisa & Ron Nelson

The McHaffie Family

The Nee Family Tim and Jamie Hatmaker

Dalton Gang The Chang Family

Andy and Nicole Love Drs. Sumit and Sonia Kalra

Joel & Shelly Barber The Peter Family

The Graves Family The Herring Family The Mitchell Family The Jensen Family

Croswell Family McLendon Family The Dines Family

The Perrone Family The Brooks Family

Mr. & Mrs. Bryan McRae The Cremin Family

Ard Family Cunningham Family *

Subin Family Stewart Family Stimart Family Talluri Family Kiker Family

The Harding Family David Bolouri

PURPLE LEVEL (Up to $99) Anonymous Lisa Bailes

The Kern Family The Hannon Family

Sheppard Family Vijay Ganapathy *

The Spiegler Family Tracy and Kristen Curry

Ken and Wendy Oettinger The Tabor Family

Alex Wells The Randle Family

Sumana Family Marsh Family

The Silverstein Family The Wilson Family *

The McWilliam Family Mary and Matthew Wallace *

Dul Family Ferro Family *

Pearce Family Stacey Pazzula

The Asby Family Daniel Ragona

Monahan Family Pak Family

Orchard Family Christopher Daniels

Yafit Reichenthal Serrano Family

The Collins Family Mr. & Mrs. Leach

Mrs. Blanco The Hall Family

The Evans Family Srivastava Family

Kruglov Family Yls Virkler

Maddox Benton

In compliance with federal law, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools administers all education programs, employ-ment activities and admissions without discrimination against any person on the basis of gender, race, color,

religion, national origin, age or disability.

SOUTH CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL 8040 Strawberry Lane Charlotte, NC 28277 Phone: 980-343-3670 Fax: 980-343-3725 Office Hours: 8:00 am—4:15 pm Phones answered from 8:00 am—4 pm

South Charlotte is a member of the Southwest Learning Community. (980) 344-7160

To report an absence email scms.attendance@cms.k12.nc.us or you may phone the

school at 980-343-3670.

Online School Payments (OSP) - CMS has provided us with the opportunity to accept

payments for school events on-line. It is much like Athletics Pay-to-Play, comes with a

fee (4%), and allows you to pay at your convenience. If you choose to pay on-line, it also

relieves our teachers from the time taken to do the paperwork and to receipt and turn in

money or checks. Teachers will continue to take cash and checks as they always have.

Just sign in to: osp.osmsinc.com/CMS

Choose your student’s event and homeroom teacher, and make payment.

The teacher and Financial Secretary are sent advisements of your payment.

We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity. Through the year, events will be

added including field trips, textbooks, fees, and other payments.

Re-link your Harris Teeter VIC card! Our TIE number is 1933.

http://www.harristeeter.com/community/together_in_education/link_to_your_school.a

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