Important Upcoming Dates

Spirit Week

November School Spirit Week is being held the week of November 18 to the 22.  Students are encouraged to participate each day that week.  Homerooms with the most participants will be winning a prize when the homeroom tallies are done.  Please remind your student of the different Spirit Days and encourage them to participate.

• Monday, November 18 – Pajama Day
  wear your pajamas, slippers or housecoat to school)
• Tuesday, November 19 – Twin Day
  (dress up in coordination with another student, or students, to look like twins)
• Wednesday, November 20 – Vacation Day
  (dress up in vacation clothes, hats, etc.)
• Thursday, November 21 – Crazy Hair/Hat Day
  (wear your hair in a fun wacky way or wear a fun crazy type of hat)
• Friday, November 22 – Anything but a Water Bottle Day
  (bring your water to drink in any container other than a water bottle – be creative!!)

Week Ahead in Athletics 

This coming week in athletics our school is hosting Junior & Senior basketball games for both our boys' and girls' teams. Schedule as follows:

Monday November 18 

Junior Girls - 4:30 against MPS

Senior Girls - 6:30 against MPS

Tuesday November 19

Junior Boys - 4:30 against MPS

Senior Boys - 4:30 against MPS

Upcoming ENVOE Trips

ENVOE 7A – Orienteering – November 18 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

ENVOE 7B – Orienteering – November 19 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

ENVOE 8 – Orienteering – November 20 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

ENVOE 9 – Orienteering – November 21 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

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ENVOE 7B – Climbing – December 10 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

ENVOE 7A – Climbing – December 11 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

ENVOE 8 – Climbing – December 12 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

ENVOE 9 – Climbing – December 13 at 8:30am – 12:33pm

Learning Commons News

Lunch Club News

Next week we will continue our yoyo club during the second half of lunch break.  It’s not too late to join!

Mondays:  Grades 5

Tuesdays: Grade 6

Wednesdays: Grade 4

Thursdays: Grade 7-9

Book Highlights

During November, we will be highlighting historical fiction.  Not only do these novels help the students to understand some of the facts surrounding significant events in world history, but they can also help students develop a deeper understanding of the emotions and the day-to-day complexities of living during these times.  

Here are some award-winning titles that our school has to offer…

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins:  Five girls.  Three generations.  One great American love story. (Recommended for grades 7 & up)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson:   In vivid poems, Woodson shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm:   It's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. Eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to Key West, Florida to live with relatives she's never met.  She finds herself coming out of the shell she's spent her life building, and as she does, her world opens up in the most unexpected ways.

One Came Home by Amy Timberlake:  In the town of Placid, Wisconsin, 1871, Georgie blurts out something she shouldn't and her older sister Agatha flees with a pack of "pigeoners" trailing the passenger pigeon migration. When the sheriff returns to town with an unidentifiable body—wearing Agatha's blue-green ball gown—everyone assumes the worst. Except Georgie. Refusing to believe the facts that are laid down before her, Georgie sets out on a journey to find her sister on the Western frontier.

Author Quote of the Week

“Our stories remind us who we were and who we are and who we can be.” – Jacqueline Woodson

Friday Schedule

Daryl Martin, Principal                        Tiffany Jernigan, Assistant Principal