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WILDCAT NEWS HIXSON MIDDLE SCHOOL September 2013

Wildcat News

Hixson Middle School

INFORMING HIXSON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, STAFF AND PARENTS IN THIS ISSUE

Dear Hixson Middle School Family,

Thank you again to all those who took part in our Wildcat Discount Card Fundraiser and met the challenge to “STRIVE TO SELL FIVE” and beyond. Our fundraiser party, WILDCATPALOOZA was held on September 27. Photos on pages 9-10.

SAVE THE DATE: Freaky Friday is October 18 and Report Cards go out the same day. Also, our PTSA is hosting the WILDCAT CRAWL, a 5k and fun run, on November 16.

Thank you to Prison Prevention Ministries

On September 12, 2013 Prison Prevention Ministries brought two young adults to speak with our 8

th

graders about making the right choices. We appreciate Prison Prevention Ministries for their dedication and support of our students in becoming successful citizens of the Hixson Community.

It is great to be a Hixson Wildcat!!!!

LeAngela Rogers, Principal

Sports Round Up Go Wildcats! Catch the last football game of the season on October 1 and then get ready to watch some great HMS soccer. Get more sports details inside.

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The Student Section New! Every month Wildcat News will feature some of our talented students. In this issue, two 8

th graders showcase a scientific

principle through storytelling…Do you have student school work we should feature? Send it in to [email protected].

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Principal’s Corner

Hixson, TN

www.hixsonmiddle.com

September 2013

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Successful local writer talks to Hixson Middle School students and parents about his path to becoming a published author and how important it is to read.

On Tuesday, September 17th

, a selection of students, parents, siblings and staff of Hixson Middle School were treated to an evening with local author Greg Wilkey and Read 20

representative Sheila Elliot for the 2nd

Annual Literacy Night. Greg Wilkey, author of

Growing Up Dead and three other books in the Mortimer Drake series, grew up reading in Chattanooga. He became an educator in Hamilton County and while teaching noticed a need

to get students, especially boys, more engaged with books. Thus was born Mortimer Drake the young adult vampire and Greg Wilkey the author. Greg has now sold over 8,000 books, plus a few more won by a lucky HMS student at Literacy Night.

The 2nd

half of Literacy Night was an introduction to Read 20, a public/private partnership in Hamilton County that promotes reading. Sheila Elliot shared her

favorite book pick the Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce, a story she said that will bring tears to your eyes. She encouraged parents and students to read together and to just read, read, read. Read for 20 minutes every day (or more) and enjoy better vocabulary, better narrative skills and better written skills.

Thank you to Greg Wilkey, Sheila Elliot and Read 20 for your generosity! Thank you as well to the HMS staff who put the evening together. Almost everyone left with a door prize and dessert. Make a note in your calendars now for Literacy Night next year. You don’t want to miss it!

Literacy Night

RECYCLING!!

The library is recycling used inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges, cell

phones, GPS devices, iPods, video games and consoles, digital

cameras, laptops, PDA's, DVD's, iPads, Tablets, and eReaders. Just

get a new phone? We will recycle all your old electronics to raise

funds to get more books. Send them to the library to keep our planet

GREEN!

Library News:

It's exciting! The first 15 days the library was open, students checked

out 1401 books! That's 93 books a day. Keep it up. READING

ROCKS!!

We have added 163 new books since the beginning of the year and

now have over 11,000 to choose from!

Library News

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Winner! Philip Herrin was the winner of the “Guess the Pages” contest last month at the Book Fair. The competition was fierce. Students submitted guesses one over and one under, but Philip guessed the exact page count. An avid reader, Philip combined his knowledge of books with some math skills and came home with a gift card. Congratulations.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support the Book Fair!


Message from Your PTSA President

The PTSA has been very busy gearing up for our fun and exciting events that will take place in the months of October and November. First up in the month of October, we will be hosting our annual “Donuts with Dads” breakfast on Thursday, October 10

th from 6:45 am until 7:30 am. So, Dads, plan to stop in and enjoy a quick breakfast with your child before heading off to work.

On Saturday, October 12th

we will be partnering with the Friends of Hixson to host a “Clean & Green” day of our school grounds. This is a community wide event and there are several other schools participating to help beautify the Hixson community, so come out and join us from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Last but not least, in the month of October will we host the highly anticipated “Halloween Dance” on Friday, October 18 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. If you plan to stop in, prepare to get spooked as you walk through our Haunted House!

Plans are already underway and we have been working to obtain $250 sponsorships for our 5K run, “The Wildcat Crawl”, which will take place on Saturday, November 16. This is a great opportunity to get out, get moving, and bring the family to meet other families at our school. So plan now to be involved and come enjoy the day! But we still need your help in obtaining $100 “Route Sponsors”. If you own a business or know someone that owns a business, please ask if they would consider becoming a “Route Sponsor” to support our school. The cost is $100 and it goes toward the purchase of a sign that offers advertisement along the route of the 5K. The sponsorship forms can be found in the foyer of the school or there is one attached to the newsletter for your convenience.

Thank you to the businesses that have already committed to become a $250 Sponsor: Center for Sports Medicine Front Runner

Dr. Barto, DDS Highland Pediatric

Rogers Taxidermy

And also thank you to Grace Church of the Nazarene for signing up to host a water stop. Thank you in advance for supporting our school and PTSA! Sheila Rector Hixson Middle School PTSA President [email protected]

Have questions or want to get a copy of the newsletter? Contact Kirsten Desai at [email protected].

Attention all Dads!

Join us for Donuts for Dads, Thursday, Oct.

10th from 6:45am-7:30am in the school

activity room. It's a great way to meet other

Dads and spend a little time with your child.

Coffee and orange juice will also be served.

We look forward to seeing you at this popular

event!!

SAVE

OCTOBER 18, 2013

THE HALLOWEEN DANCET


SCHOOL CALENDAR

October 2013

CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO:

1 – Last Football! @ HMS vs Sale Creek

2 – 4 Girls & Boys Soccer Try-outs! 10 – Donuts with Dad in the Library 11 –End of 1

st Quarter

Last Day of PTSA Membership Drive 12 – Clean & Green Hixson day Come spruce up the school! 17 – Girls soccer vs Ooltewah @ N. River Boy soccer vs Ooltewah @ N. River 18 – Freaky Friday Fundraiser Report Cards come home! Turn in your box tops – thanks!

Halloween Dance at HMS 19 – 28 Fall Break, no school

28 – PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES Send in your conference slip!

November 2013 5 – Girls & Boys soccer @ HMS vs Soddy

7 – Girls & Boys soccer @ HMS vs Hunter

8 – Progress Reports

11 – Huddle House Fundraiser

12 – Girls & Boys soccer @ Camp Jordan

14 – Girls & Boys soccer @

16 – WILDCAT CRAWL!! Join us for this Fun 5K run or walk to raise money for technology

Football HMS has had a great season. With one game left against Sale Creek, the varsity team has a 4-2 record. Max Riemer has done a great job leading the team at quarterback. Preston Ward is leading the team with tackles. New comer Ivan Buckner has led a potent offense that includes Seth Ayala. Seth led the rushing attack for Hixson for over 550 yards and 5 TD! The JV team has seen its highs and lows this season. With a 2-4 record, they have suffered through several injuries during the season. Godfred Collins leads the rushing attack with 7 TD. Landon Wallace has emerged as a solid quarterback for the team. The JV program is young with a lot of promise for next year. Coach McElhaney is very proud of his team and the efforts of his coaching staff.

Soccer Girls try-outs are Thursday and Friday, October 3rd and 4th at 2:30. Boys try-outs are Tuesday and Wednesday, October 2nd and 3rd at 2:30. Plan to spend October watching some great middle school soccer games. Remember Academic Excellence students (Honor Roll) get in to home games free!

.6TH GRADER SYDNEY BUCKNER

PHOTOS FROM THE HUNTER GAME

HMS Football Players

Wildcat Sports

GO WILDCATS!


BETA CLUB. Congratulations to all the new Beta Club members! Please pay your $25 fee for new members and $5 fee for returning members as soon as possible. As you complete service hours please get a signature and document these hours. Mark your calendar for our trip March 2-4 to the Junior Beta Convention in Nashville.

WILDCAT PRIDE Pep Club

Pep club is selling aluminum water bottles with a clip, $8. Contact Jamie C. Isenhour at 423-847-4810 ext. 243 or [email protected] for more information

Technology Student Association

Hixson Middle School’s Technology Student Association, TSA, is looking

for members to participate in Tennessee TSA’s Regional and State Conferences. Students who participate will be given the opportunity to display their leadership and technological knowledge and skills in representing Hixson Middle School, Chattanooga, and Hamilton County. Members are needed who have at least a 2.0 grade point average without any grades that is D or below; who have not been suspended; who are in good standing with their teachers and administrators; and who will be able to attend TSA meetings after school. There is a $15 membership fee for all students that must be submitted for state and national affiliations.

Please contact Mrs. Bulls for additional information at 847-4810, extension 261 or [email protected].

Arts & Entertainment

CHORUS

Mr. Ailey is EXCITED to share that we have started the chorus year off with a BANG!! Over the three grades we have a total of 124 students enrolled in chorus here at Hixson Middle!!! The first chance to see all of our awesome chorus students performing together will be at the October 1st varsity football game where the choruses will join forces to sing our National Anthem!

For our Veterans Day program, which will be at 1:00 pm on November 11th in the gym, our 8th graders are working on a rousing arrangement of “God Bless America”, the 7th graders are working on a very moving version of “In Flanders Fields” and the 6th graders are working on a patriotic medley that includes “God Bless the U.S.A.” and “America the Beautiful”. As usual, all choruses will combine to honor our veterans with the “Armed Forces Salute!”

Wildcat Clubs

Chorus T-shirts are currently on sale. If anyone would like one, they are $20.00. (We are doing this as a self-fundraiser. A portion of each shirt sale goes into the chorus account to purchase new music and materials for the class) Please notify Mr. Ailey if you would like to order a shirt. They are on sale until October 16th and they are dress code compliant!

Our Holiday Pops concert is currently scheduled for Monday, December 9th at 6:30pm in the gym. This is going to be an outstanding year for vocal music here at Hixson Middle!! Our spring stage production is going to be Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Getting to Know Oklahoma!”, a Broadway Jr. style version of “ Oklahoma!”.

mailto:[email protected]


Guidance This month in Guidance, the 6th grade had a “Welcome to Guidance” orientation where the students were able to come to the guidance classroom and get to know how guidance will work and some upcoming lessons we will be going through this year. I read the students the story of EGGBERT, the Slightly Cracked Egg and the students were given an opportunity to write a reflection about what the story meant to them. If you have a 6th grade student or your student has been through 6th grade at HMS, they have all heard EGGBERT and I invite you to ask them about the stories meaning.

The 7th grade has taken a Career Assessment to help them see how their interests and their abilities could play a role in a future career.

In October, the 8th grade students will be talking about the requirements to be accepted into college and how the Explore test plays into them receiving scholarships in the future. The 8th grade will be taking the Explore test in October.

The 6th grade will be focusing on “Bullying Forensics” in October, where they will become experts on what bullying is and questions they need to ask themselves in order to determine if a situation is bullying behavior. They will learn the Hixson Middle School policy for bullying and how they can help stop bullying in their school. Thank you for sharing your children with me, Nicki Haynes Guidance Counselor

8th Grade

Language Arts students completed their first five paragraph expository essay in preparation for TCAP Writing. They read an excerpt from Tom Sawyer, and analyzed one of Tom’s many life lessons, “the great law of human action.” First quarter exams will be given the week of October 7th. Tutoring has begun! It is available on Mondays and Thursdays from 2:30-3:30.

Coming up: The new unit “Looking Back on America” will focus on historical texts, and how various perspectives impact the story.

Students will expand on their writing repertoire with additional practice with creating claims and supporting claims with textual evidence.

U.S. History students have been learning about the establishment and development of the 13 original colonies and will continue to study the beginnings of an American identity focusing on the roots of American Democracy and how the French and Indian War contributed to this.

In 8th grade science, classes will be focusing on atoms and states of matter. These topics are the introduction to more difficult concepts like conservation of matter and chemical reactions. If you have not paid your $10 science fee, please do so and this will help us replace chemicals and supplies for experiments. Thank you for the opportunity to teach your child.

DID YOU

MOVIE OPPORTUNITY! Don’t delay! Join HMS PTSA today.

Last day to join and for your child to be eligible for the movie will be October 11

th.

When you send in your registration please include your child’s name and homeroom teacher. Also we’ve received several registrations without payment. Payment must be received for your child to be eligible for the movie day. Send in your $5 to your child’s homeroom teacher now!

8th Grade Team Extra Credit Opportunity If you are one of Mr. Henderson’s students and you are out seeing the sites in Tennessee (think Fall Break), you could be getting extra credit. Please see Mr. Henderson BEFORE you go to get specific assignment information.

We want your Box Tops! It’s that time! Send in your Box Tops. HMS gets 10 cents for each one submitted. Please put your Box Tops in a baggie or envelope, put your student’s homeroom teacher’s name on the baggie and send them in to your homeroom teacher. The winning class in each grade will get a dress down day. The deadline for submission is October 18

th. Remember to put the teacher’s

name on the baggie in order for that class to get credit. Keep clipping and help HMS earn money!

Academic Update


Each month Wildcat News will feature the work of our talented students. This month we have two student interpretations of the scientific principle of adaptation. Thanks to our two contributors!

. Explaining poem: Read = reading, summer books Write = writing notes Draw – art class or boredom Play = band or with my friends

Adaptation by Annika Desai, 8th grade

Adaptation by Breanna Waller, 8th grade


HMS Soccer 2013

SOCCER

October 17th Ooltewah @North River

Girls at 4:30

Boys at 5:45

November 5th Soddy-Daisy @ Hixson

Boys at 4:30

Girls at 5:45

November 7th Hunter @ Hixson

Girls at 5:00

Boys at 6:30

November 12th East Ridge @ Camp Jordan

Boys at 5:00

Girls at 6:15

November 14th Red Bank @ Red Bank

Girls at 3:30

Boys at 4:45

November 18th Signal Mountain @ Signal

Boys at 5:00

Girls at 6:15

November 19th East Hamilton @ Hixson

Girls at 5:00

Boys at 6:15

November 21st Loftis @ Middle Valley

Boys at 4:00

Girls at 5:30

Tournament December 3rd-6th

Details TBA


“It’s great to be a Wildcat!”


WILDCAT CRAWL

1-Mile Family Fun Walk/Run and 5K Saturday, November 16, 2013

Start/Finish: Hixson Middle School (Proceeds to benefit HMS technology additions & enhancements)

SPONSHORSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Route Sponsor $100

Company name on one of the route signs displayed throughout the 3.2 miles

Sponsorship deadline – November 12, 2013

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Please mail form and payment to:

Hixson Middle School, 5681 Old Hixson Pike, Hixson, TN 37343 Or fax to 847-4811

Donor’s (Company) Name: ____________________________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________________________________________

City: _____________________________________ State:_______ Zip: _______________

Phone: _______________________________ Contact Name: ________________________________

Email Address: ______________________________________________________________________

_____ $100 Route Sponsor

PAYMENT INFORMATION

Check enclosed:$ ______Please make check payable to HMS/PTSA

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