1/17/2020 UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, 1/20/2020 NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, 1/21/2020 WRESTLING @ HOME vs. Decatur Central JHS 5:00PM

Wednesday, 1/22/2020

Boys BASKETBALL @ HOME NSC Conference Rd 1 Time: TBA

Thursday, 1/23/2020

Girls BASKETBALL @ HOME vs. Plainfield MS* 5:00PM

*indicates a “B” game following “A” game

Friday, 1/24/2020

Saturday, 1/25/2020 Boys BASKETBALL @ HOME Conference Finals Time: TBA

WRESTLING AWAY vs. Paul Hadley JHS 9:00AM

**Please Note all Athletic Events are Subject to Change

Important Upcoming Dates

Feb. 12 - 1 Hour Delay - Professional Development

Feb. 17 - Possible Snow Make-Up Day

Mar. 11 - 1 Hour Delay - Professional Development

Mar. 23 - Apr. 3 - Spring Break

AMSS yearbooks are available for pre-order at this time through January 31, 2020.

The cost for a yearbook is: $26.00

You can pre-order your child's yearbook through the Josten’s website at:

http://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A02019560

All students who pre-ordered during the pre-sale event will get their books delivered to them in homeroom on a date to be determined.

These are the days your student will want to remember forever…

Buy their yearbook now to make it unforgettable.

News from our Teachers:

Panthers Team News From Ms. Kennedy, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Jaynes, and Mr. Williams

Language Arts: We will be working on an essay prompt in Amplify where students will be identifying how either Frederick Douglass or Abraham Lincoln tried to change people’s beliefs about how “all men are created equal.” Social Studies will be studying the War of 1812. Science: We will be putting the finishing touches on our Natural Selection Unit and preparing for the exam that goes with this unit. Pre-Algebra is going back to Describing Scatter-plots in more details and creating rules from the line of best fit. Algebra 1 is wrapping up Exponential Functions and will be having their assessment on Friday January 24th.

2020 is off to a great start. Let’s keep it going!!!!

Greyhounds Team News From Mrs. Warthan, Mr. Casey, Mr. Gullion, and Mr. Osen

Math Scatter plots and lines of best fit. Extrapolation. Interpreting Slope and Y-Intercept

Algebra Write exponential functions given a variety of information. Chapter 7 Test on Friday!

Social Studies The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

Science Evidence of Evolution

Biology Cell Cycle: Quiz Friday

Language Arts Unit 8B test is Thursday

Titans Team News From Ms. Hickey, Ms. Jones, Mrs. Tharp, and Mr. Ferris

This week Titans will be reading “The Curious Case of Phineas Gage” and practicing writing structure in Language Arts. In Social Studies, students will begin a unit on ancient India. Math 7 students will be practicing the distribu-tive property, and Pre-Algebra students will be practicing percent increase and decrease.

News from our Teachers:

Foresters Team News From Mrs. DeBow, Mrs. Jordan, Mr. Rodgers, and Mr. Thoennes

Algebra students are wrapping up exponential functions and equations and testing on Friday, January 24. Pre-Algebra students will be applying their new understanding of slope to lines of best fit for scatter plots. Social Studies students are exploring what makes Thomas Jefferson a Renaissance man. Science students are explor-ing the biological evidence that scientists have for evolution. Biology students are learning about cell size and the cell cycle and will quiz on Friday. Language Arts students will build on their knowledge from the past unit to write an essay about the idea that, “all men are created equal.”

Knights Team News From Ms. Skoniecke, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Wheeler, and Mr. East

In Pre-Algebra students will begin working with percents

In Math 7, students will be learning how to use and apply distributive property.

In Language Arts, students will be learning about parts of the brain and applying it to the story of Phineas Gage.

In Social Studies, students will continue working to develop and finish their Mesopotamia narratives.

Grizzlies Team News

From Mrs. Ringham, Ms. Weinstein, Mr. Livingston, and Mr. Wolf

Math 7 will being working on solving 1-step equations. We are also starting a new version of Daily Math Review questions that will consist of 9 questions instead of 6. Pre-Algebra students will work with calculating percent change, D=rt problems, as well as calculating taxes. Language Arts students are studying the story of Phineas Gage and the functions of the brain in our Brain Science unit. In Science we are going in to a physical science unit learn-ing about matter and the transfer of heat. Social Studies students will be traveling to ancient India and China to learn about beginnings of ancient civilizations in those regions. Students will learn about their inventions, art, ar-chitecture, and religions.

News from our Teachers:

Encore Team News

Art - Ms. Leonard

Art- This week we finished up a series of quick drawing studies to help us develop observational skills and hand -eye coordination. The studies only take a few minutes and can be done repetitively to further develop drawing skills. The next time you are at a restaurant waiting for your food, pull up a tutorial posted on ParentSquare and

give it a try together! Next week we are applying our observational skills to a final charcoal still life drawing.

Computer Apps News - Mrs. Lucas

Computer Apps7th Grade: Students will be formatting Word documents using images and shapes

Computer Apps 8th Grade: Students will be working on business letters and creating a short informational

video. Letters and videos will be emailed home to parents so be checking your email!

Japanese News - Mrs. Hauptmann

Japanese students will be working with prices in yen, larger kanji numbers,

and the verbs for giving and receiving.

News from our Teachers:

Encore Team News

Spanish News - Señora Barker

Spanish- students will have a clothing/ colors quiz and continue their practice with the unit 4 vocabulary

Industrial Technology News - Mr. Murphy

8th grade: Designing projects that will be used with the CNC Router.

7th grade: Programing tasks that will be implemented using the Lego Robotics.

FACS Family and Consumer Science- Ms. Gleissner

FACS- all FACS classes will be beginning their introductory food unit

News from our Teachers:

Encore Team News

Performing Arts News -

Mrs. Wagoner, Mr. Zimmerman, & Mr. Ziolkowski

Band - Mrs. Wagoner

Band- 7th Grade Practice charts due Tuesday. Quiz on Wednesday, Periods 3 and 6 Warm Up Set 1 Option 3/5,

Period 4- #13 Blue Book

Jazz Band on Wednesday 2:45-4:00 PM

8th Grade: Quiz on Thursday, Period 1 #2 Green Book, Period 2 #12 Green Book

Jazz Band on Thursday evening from 6:00-7:15 PM

Choir - Mr. Zimmerman

Choir Show Choir rehearsal at the high school on Thursday, 6:30-8:30 PM. Show Choir concert on Friday at Avon High School. Sight-Reading Factory assignment in all classes due Thursday at 11:59 PM. Students are continuing to practice their festival music for the ISSMA competition in March.

Orchestra - Mr. Ziolkowski

Orchestra Students in 7th and 8th grade orchestra will start working on ISSMA contest music this week. Students received music on 1-17-2020 to start doing a musical inventory. 7th grade will continue to work in the Red Sound Innovations Book and 8th grade will dive deep into their scale supplement packet. All students who are registered for Solo & Ensemble will continue to have pull out time with Mr. Ziolkowski, Mr. Westman, Mr. Powell, or our stu-dent’s teacher Ms. Marr.

On Thursday January 23, Mr. Ziolkowski will be participating in a teacher swap with the intermediate schools. On this day, Mr. Powell will be teaching all of the middle school class periods.

This week’s lessons in PE:

Your Physical Educators are: Mrs. Porep, Mr. Hansel, and Mr. Walden

Love to Exercise

Wellness News:

This week in Wellness students will be learning the fundamentals of floor hockey, working on gaining muscular strength in the weight room, and cardio-vascular endurance/flexibility in Rec Games/Fitness.

News from our Media Center:

Library News

Mrs. Winningham

Weekly Trivia This week The Morning News started our weekly trivia contest with the question what is the largest lake?

Students had to locate the answer and cite the source of their answer to be eligible for the random drawing.

THIS WEEK’S WINNER IS:

8th grader Ibraheem Radwan was our first winner. He received a Starbucks gift certificate.

CONGRATULATIONS, Ibraheem!!!

For our visitors to our building:

The safety, health, and well-being of AMS South students, staff, volunteers, and visitors is a top priority.

For more details on the Avon Community School Corporation’s safety

procedures please visit our webpage or by following this link

https://www.avon-schools.org/Page/6585

Entering the Building

Anyone entering our building beyond the front office will need to have a valid photo ID with them so that they

can be checked in through our Safe Visitor Solutions system. You will be given a badge to wear while in the

building so that you are identified as a visitor. When leaving you will return to the front office so that

we can check you out of Safe Visitor Solutions and take your badge.

Early Dismissal

When a student needs to leave school early for an appointment, if someone other than a

parent or guardian will be picking up your student, please include his/her name

on the note or email (msattendance@avon-schools.org).

Once we verify their photo ID then the student can sign out and leave.

For more attendance information please see Absence Procedures later in this newsletter.

Visiting Students during Lunch

If you would like to have lunch with your student we will follow the same procedures for

entering our building. If you would like someone other than a parent or guardian to have lunch with your

student we will need that information in writing, either with a note from a parent/guardian turned into the

front office before school or an email (msattendance@avon-schools.org).

Please include the person(s) name that will be visiting, we will then follow the Entering the Building

procedure and check them into Safe Visitor Solutions.

ABSENCE PROCEDURE

If a student is absent from school, the PARENT must call the school by 8:30 A.M. to report the absence. If

no call is received, the automated school system will make an effort to contact the parent, but if NO

PARENT CALL has been received by 3:00 P.M. the day following the absence, the student will be charged

with an unexcused absence.

ATTENDANCE NOTIFICATION

The parent will be contacted by letter after their child has acquired five (5) absences excused or unexcused.

The purpose of the letter will be to offer help and support to the student. The parent will be contacted

again, after their child has acquired eight (8) absences excused or unexcused. The importance of good

school attendance will be stressed.

EARLY DISMISSALS

When a student needs to leave school early for an appointment, please send a note to school with your stu-

dent. Your student will then need to bring that note to the Main Office before the start of school to obtain

an Early Dismissal pass. If you are unable to send a note with your student, you may email the

school msattendance@avon-schools.org with all the necessary information: Student name, reason for the

early dismissal, and the time the student needs to leave school. If someone other than a parent or guardi-

an will be picking up your student, please include his or her name on the note or email. Once we verify

their photo ID then the student can sign out and leave.

If leaving early for a Dr. appointment, please provide Dr. verification to ensure that the

absence is excused.

EXCESSIVE ABSENCES

Students who have (10) ten absences will be required to sign a “Parent Attendance Contract” and must have a

doctor's statement verifying each absence after the tenth absence. Failure to comply will result in a referral to

the “Project Attend” program. A student with a serious medical condition should have a medical report on file.

***To view the entire attendance policy please see your Student Handbook***

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

AS THEIR BUS DRIVER Can you remember at least one of your bus drivers?

Why do we remember them? Perhaps it’s because

that driver was there with a smile and greeting,

morning and evening, day after day. Maybe that

driver helped you focus your life, encouraged you to

see your potential.

YOU CAN MAKE AN IMPACT

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ON SITE CLINIC, $114.00 A

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Avon, IN 46123

Phone: 317-544-6140 YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

So, are you ready to get on Board?

If so, go to the Avon Website at

www.avon-schools.org to apply for a

Bus Driver Position.

Bus Monitors are also needed.

THINKING ABOUT

BECOMING A SCHOOL

BUS DRIVER?

To be eligible to drive a school bus for

Avon Schools you must:

Be twenty-one (21) years of age

Have a clean driving record

Pass a national background check

Be drug free, and

Be eligible to work in the United States

In addition, before you start to train, you will

need your class B CDL permit complete with

passenger and School Bus (P&S) endorsements.

You are required to pass the DOT

physical by a nationally authorized physician.

We offer our own in-house Bus Driver Training

Program. In most cases we will subsidize your training,

paying a per hour wage while working and training.

Once you have your CDL license with P and S

endorsements, as a full time stand-by driver

with work agreement your pay is $114.00

per day, plus you are eligible for benefits.

School Bus Monitor/AIDE are also needed, starting at $14.76 per hour.

ALREADY A SCHOOL

BUS DRIVER?

Do you have a current CDL Class B

license with Passenger and School

Bus endorsements? We’ll get you

acclimated to being a school bus

driver for AVON in the shortest pos-

sible time.

Whether you need us to

train you or your already

fully licensed and qualified

in the state of Indiana. GET

STARTED NOW.

SIMPLY GO TO:

https://www.applitrack.

com/avonschools/

onlineapp/default.aspx?

Category=Transportation

The Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry

has moved from AMS South to

Avon Intermediate School East

Every Thursday from 5-6PM

For additional Flyer information please visit the

“Community” tab on our website at:

https://www.avon-schools.org/Page/13