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Mona Shores

Middle School

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SAILORS ARE INSPIRED LEARNERS!

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MSMS Families, January has been a phenomenal month at Mona Shores Middle School! Our teachers continue to deliver engaging, high-quality lessons to our students, challenging them to reach their personal best in every situation. Our students continue to achieve high levels of academic and behavioral success. I am proud of both of their efforts! The shared commitment to being the absolute best that we can be, every day, is evident at MSMS. I continue to be impressed with this commitment from our students, teachers and parents; we are truly striving to build the highest level of character and success within each of our students! This month, MSMS will be focused on Caring/Compassion. While there are many different definitions of care or caring, the one that jumps out to me is one that is used as a verb, “to feel concern about.” As we move into our Month of Caring at MSMS, we challenge and remind ourselves, and our students, what it means to feel concern for others...for their situations, circumstances, experiences, and challenges that they are faced with. At Mona Shores Middle School, we want our students to not only recognize this, but to truly feel that sense of caring and to take action. I believe this quote captures it, “Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intention. Give without any reason. And most of all, care for people without any expectation.” As our students move through the month of February, our Month of Caring, please have conversations at home about what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to be a caring individual, encouraging them to positively impact their school, community, and world through a caring and compassionate spirit. I continue to be encouraged by the partnership between MSMS, our parents, and community as we remain focused on academic and behavioral success, along with building positive character traits, for every student. I hope you all have a great week and a wonderful month of February. In service… Doug Ammeraal Principal Email: ammeraad@monashores.net Facebook: Mona Shores Middle School Twitter: @msms_sailors Twitter: @dougammeraal Hashtag: #msmspride

CALENDAR

LATE START DATES (9:40)

Wed., Feb. 4th & 18th

SKI CLUB (CANNONSBURG)

Wed., Feb. 4th & 11th

DRAMA PLAY - PINOCCHIO JR.

Feb. 5th (Thur.) - 7th (Sat.) 7:00pm @ H.S.

NO LATE START (7:40)

Wed., Feb. 11th & 25th

SCHOOL COUNT DAY

Feb. 11th (Wed.)

MID-WINTER BREAK - NO SCHOOL

Feb. 13th (Fri.) - Feb. 16th (Mon.)

CONFERENCES (BY INVITATION)

Feb. 18th (Wed.) 4:00pm - 7:00pm

6th GR. ORCHESTRA SOLO FEST.

Feb. 19th (Thur.) 5:00pm - 9:00pm

8TH GR. SCHEDULING ASSEMBLY

Feb. 23rd (Mon.) @ Middle School

8TH GR. PARENT NIGHT

Feb. 23rd (Mon.) 7:00pm @ H.S.

8th GR. SCHEDULING

Feb. 26th (Thur.) During Day @ M.S.

6th GR. BAND CONCERT

Feb. 27th (Fri.) 12:00pm - 1:00pm

SAILOR CELEBRATION

Feb. 27th (Fri.) 6:00pm - 8:00pm

February 2015

Sailors have ownership, integrity, gratitude, service, perseverance, compassion, positivity, attitude, courage & success.

The Middle School Drama Production,

"My Son Pinocchio Jr."

will have performances

on Feb. 5th, 6th, and 7th

at 7:00 pm

at the High School Auditorium.

6th Grade Orchestra Solo Festival

February 19th

5:00 - 8:00 PM

7th & 8th Grade Orchestra

Festival Performances

at Grand Haven High School

February 25th, Time TBA

Sailor Celebration Date Change:

Mark your Calendar -

the Sailor Celebration will now be on February 27th from 6-8 pm. If you are interested in chaperoning,

please contact Leah Kern @ kernl@monashores.net.

Please note that the 8th grade March

4th Career Exploration Day has been

cancelled. There was a change in

the date that this opportunity was

offered. The new date did not work

for our 8th graders. We are hopeful

that it will work out for our 8th

graders next year.

We are in the process of creating a

master schedule for 2015-2016. We

will be in classrooms in the near

future to sign students up for their

next year electives. Any elective

classes selected by our students will

need to be approved (signature) by

their parent/guardian.

There will be a Science Technology

& Engineering Preview Summer Day

Camp (STEPS) for 6th grade girls at

Grand Valley State University the

weeks of June 15-18 or June 22-25.

The application deadline is March 9,

2015. The cost is $75. Scholarships

are available. Campers participate in

activities that give them hands-on

experience with high-tech

engineering equipment and

processes. You may request an

application from 6th grade science

teachers or the counseling office.

MMLI will be sponsoring the

3rd annual Month of Caring at

Mona Shores Middle School

throughout February. Over the past

two years, MSMS has raised almost

$10,000 for the American Cancer

Society. This year's fundraising

efforts will be put towards local

charities and needs in

our own community.

Sailors Help Others! Please join in

on the weekly activities/events

to SHO that MSMS cares! You can

look forward to a spirit week, class

competitions, different sales, a

student vs. teacher basketball game,

and much, much more!

February is Month of Caring at

Mona Shores Middle School!

MINI-BOND -- Mona Shores Public

Schools is facing a Bond Issue on

May 5, 2015. This Bond, at .75

mils, will generate approximately

$13 million. It will be directly

focused on keeping our students

Warm, Safe, and Dry.

For more information

on the May 5th Bond Issue,

click on the vote button below.

The following 6th grade students

have completed all of the

Multiplication Timed Tests in

Ms. Rayl's math class:

Aiden Anderson & Tyler Beckley

Sailors have ownership, integrity, gratitude, service, perseverance, compassion, positivity, attitude, courage & success.

ORCHESTRA NEWS

Congratulations to 7th grader Kelly Avila for her performance in the 2015 All- State Middle School Orchestra. Kelly was one of over 2560 students who auditioned for a spot in the All-State groups and was ranked 8 out of the top 16 middle school viola players in the state! The All-State Orchestra rehearsed on January 22 and 23, then performed in DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids on the morning of January 24.

ORCHESTRA NEWS

Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association (MSBOA) Orchestra Festival is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, at Grand Haven High School. The 7th grade orchestra will perform at 10:15 AM, and the 8th grade orchestra at 11:15 AM.

Performances are free and open to the public and we would love to have parents and supports attend. More details will be available to participating students from Mr. Mosley and Mrs. De Rose soon.

New Books in the

Library Media Center

Nonfiction Selections

Bugged: How Insects Changed History by Albee, Sarah

There are about ten

quintillion insects in

the world—and some

of them have affected human history in

tremendous ways! For as long as humans

have been on earth, we've co-existed with

insects . . . for better or for worse. Once

you begin to look at world history through

fly-specked glasses, you begin to see the

mark of these minute life forms at every

turn.

Chernobyl's wild kingdom: life in the dead zone by Johnson, Rebecca L

After the 1986 Cherno-

byl nuclear explosion,

scientists believed

radiation would make the area a barren

wasteland. Today the Dead Zone is teem-

ing with wildlife. But every plant and ani-

mal is radioactive, leaving scientists won-

dering how their survival is possible.

School integration: Brown v. Board of Educa-tion of Topeka by Klein, Rebecca T

The landmark Supreme

Court decision in the Brown

v. Board of Education of

Topeka case of 1954 was a

pivotal moment in the Civil

Rights Movement. Striking

down the toxic "separate

but equal" doctrine that had long been upheld

in the United States.

Try this!: 50 fun experiments for the mad scientist in you by Young, Karen Ro-

mano

Provides instructions

for fifty kid-friendly

science experiments and an explanation of

the science involved, as well as more

than twenty bonus experiments, science

fair tips, and STEM connections for each

project.

Fiction Selections

The whispering skull by Stroud, Jonathan

Lockwood & Co. are

hired to investigate

Edmund Bickerstaff, a

Victorian doctor who

reportedly tried to

communicate with the

dead, while Lucy is

distracted by urgent

whispers coming from the skull in a ghost

jar. This is the second book of the

Lockwood & Co. series.

The cat at the wall by Ellis, Deborah

A cat sneaks into a

small Palestinian house

on the West Bank that

has been

commandeered by two

Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty,

until the cat realizes that a little boy is

hiding beneath the floorboards. Should

she help him? After all, she's just a cat. Or

is she?

The glass sentence by Grove, S. E

In 1891, in a world

transformed by

1799's Great

Disruption--when all of the continents

were flung into different time periods--

thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her

friend Theo go in search of Sophia's

uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost

cataloger, who has been kidnapped.

Cami-nar by Brown, Skila In 1981, with the

arrival of soldiers in

his Guatemalan vil-

lage, Carlos must flee

and join a band of

guerillas who head to

the mountains where his grandmother

lives to warn her about the soldiers.

The crossover by Alexander, Kwame

“With a bolt of light-

ning on my kicks . .

The court is SIZZLING.

My sweat is DRIZ-

ZLING. Stop all that

quivering. Cuz tonight

I'm delivering," an-

nounces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh

Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are

awesome on the court. But Josh has

more than basketball in his blood, he's

got mad beats, too, that tell his family's

story in verse, in this fast and furious

story of family and brotherhood.

Sailors have ownership, integrity, gratitude, service, perseverance, compassion, positivity, attitude, courage & success.

Sailors have ownership, integrity, gratitude, service, perseverance, compassion, positivity, attitude, courage & success.

Sailors have ownership, integrity, gratitude, service, perseverance, compassion, positivity, attitude, courage & success.