March 9, 2018 Southern Middle

BUILDING CAPACITY

in a

Building of COMPASSION.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Calendar of

Events………………..2

National Jr Hon

Society………………..2

7th GradeNews…....3

PTA News ……….....4

Nurse info …….......5

Let me Intro-

duce…………………..6

For the Community.6

IEP Process Info…...7

Bulldog Newsbites

STUDENTS SHOWING OFF THEIR

CRAZY HATS !!!!

Our eligible 7th

graders turn in applications on

February 28, for review by our JNHS Faculty

Council. Notifications for next steps will go

out in mid-March. Our 8th

grade members

are finishing up their community service re-

quirements. Documentation for this is due on

or before May 1. For more information see

the Blackboard site which is located at

www.aacps.org. Click on: Student, Black-

board, User Name: sms Pasword: bulldogs,

Click on: 7th

grade, main menu, clubs and ac-

tivities, Junior National Honor Society. Or

please contact Mrs. MacAdams at mmacad-

ams@aacps.org.

NATIONAL JUNIOR

HONOR SOCIETY

Calendar of

Events:

March 8-9 State

Science Testing

March 14-15—

Band Music Fest.

March 29-

April 2—Spring

Break

Picture of some of our French students enjoying the cul-

ture and weather during their Quebec trip last week. All

reports were that the trip was merveilleux .

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7th Grade News

In Language Arts, we are wrapping up our science fic-

tion unit and starting to compare themes across multi-

ple texts. Authors have many different tools at their

disposal when crafting a story, and the tools they

choose to use impact the reader.

Math 7 - Solving inequalities using addition/subtraction and multiplication/division Math 7/8 - Understanding angles, lines, and trans-versals (next week) (March) Exterior and interi-or angels of a triangle.

In Science, we are continuing Unit 3 on Forces and

Motion and working on our Rube Goldberg Machines.

We will focus on kinetic and potential energy in the

upcoming weeks and observe energy transfers occur-

ring within our machines.

Our Social Studies students are exploring the Middle

East to find patterns of culture that influence that re-

gion today. The Quarterly Test at the end of March will

be a major writing assignment using selected primary

source documents.

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Due to many parents on the board moving up to the high school with their children, the PTA has sev-eral positions that will be open for the 2018-19 school year.

These positions include:

Vice President Cultural Arts

Grants Communications Hospitality Assistant Chair

Ways N Means Assistant Chair

If interested, please email Jessica King, JLGates83@hotmail.com. Anyone interested must be a cur-rent SMS PTA member, or become a current member, if they are family of an incoming 6th grader.

*PBIS is always looking for donations for items to "sell" in the school store. Students use their bull-dog bucks to purchase these items which can include things like: lead refills for mechanical pencils, lanyards, pens, pencils, etc.

*Next PTA Meeting will be Thursday, April 5 @ 6:30pm in the Media Center

Thank you!

Jessica King

PTA News

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Good manners will open doors that the best education

cannot.

Clarence Thomas

From The Desk Of The School Nurse:

VACCINE REQUIREMENT FOR 7th Grade

The Maryland State Department of Health issued immunization re-quirements for students entering 7th grade. The required vaccines are MCV4 for meningitis and Tdap for tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis/whooping cough. These immunizations are also required for any 8th or 9th grade student new to the county for the school year 2018-19. Written verification that your child received both im-munizations must be provided to the school nurse before the first day of school begins in the fall. Without the immunizations, your child may be excluded from attending classes next year. If you have any questions about these immunizations please speak with your child’s health care provider. Please care for this before the end of this school year if possi-ble.

Debbie Warman RN, CRRN

School Nurse

Thoughts to Ponder

I did my undergraduate work at University of British Columbia; earn-ing a Bachelor of Science, major Bio-chemistry. I earned a Second Bacca-laureate: from Acadia University; with a Bachelor of Education, major Secondary Science and English Lan-guage Arts.

I've got a 10 month old son at home who amazes me and makes me laugh every single day. He loves to read, and is very vain (he loves to look at himself in videos and the mirror). The rest of my family is still in Canada, so I spend as much of my time off there as possible.

LET ME INTRODUCE YOU

TO…...

Ann Curtin

In middle school I was CHATTY! (I was that kid that gets sent out of class for talking CONSTANTLY) I enjoyed music. I was part of a community choir that travelled all over the world - I sang in West-minster Abbey in 8th Grade.

Chris Hadfield is my hero, and I would give anything to meet Julie Andrews!

Southern Middle School was the very first school that I worked at when I ar-rived in the United States. On my first day as a substitute, I was hired for a long term position, and the rest is history. I love the close-knit community of South County, and I could not have asked for a better group of colleagues.

I have loved my time at SMS.

SMS is very lucky to have

Ms. Dixon!!!

8th

Grade

Science

I am a native of Vancouver, British

Columbia (Canada )

For the Community

Ambassador Coffee Chat: Active Shooter Conversation

A representative from Anne Arundel County Police will lead a

conversation for community members about Active Shooter situations

and how to keep yourself and your organization safe.

Please come to join in the discussion about this timely topic of

community concern and learn from both the Police and our neighbors

about how we can safeguard our communities.

Refreshments provided.

Friday, March 9th at 9 a.m. Deale Community Library 5940 Deale Churchton Rd.

Deale, MD 20751

Understanding

the IEP Process

Presented by Partners for Success

Chris Ostendorff & Kathy Flaherty

Southern Middle School Media Center

Tuesday, March 20

6:30-8:00 PM

Join us to learn how to:

Maximize the Family-School Partnership

Understand the steps of the IEP Process

Create a Vision Statement for your student

Please RSVP for this workshop by emailing

partnersforsuccess@aacps.org

The Resource Center at Point Pleasant1450 Furnace AvenueGlen Burnie, MD 21060410-222-3805partnersforsuccess@aacps.org