Middle Campus
Brain Smart Start: Power 30
This Week’s Commitment: I commit to be open-minded by using a growth mindset when facing challenges. This week. Today.
Next Week: Art Club
Positive Messages: Milestones are coming up and we want to spread positive talk. You will have an opportunity to write some amazing messages to your peers during Advisory. These messages will line the entrances so you can see positive messages on your way into the school building.
Academic Growth Reflections: Over the past two years we haven’t been able to measure growth because you were only assessed in an area once. This will be a new process and here are the steps.
- You will identify the criterion where you have grown.
- Demonstrate your growth through reasoning or evidence of your work.
- Explain your growth by giving reasons or causes.
Reminders from Mr. Sanders
- NO AirPods
- Cell phones off and away during the school day.
- No outside food. Students can bring in home baked goods for their own consumption but not to share with others. Anything shared must be in its original packaging with ingredients and nutritional information listed.
Calendar for the Remainder of the Year
- Algebra EOC Test Wed. 4/27
- Week of May 2nd – Milestones
- 8th grade: ELA (M); ELA 2 & 3 (T); Math (W); Sci (Th)
- 7th grade: ELA (M); ELA 2 & 3 (T); Math (W)
- Week of May 9th – Milestones
- 8th grade: SS (M)
- 6th grade: ELA (M); ELA 2 & 3 (T); Math (W)
- Week of May 16th – Exhibitions
- Week of May 23rd – Last Week of school
Morning Recess during Milestones
- BE ON TIME when you’re testing. Outdoor recess for everyone 8-8:15. At 8:15 get your Chromebook and go to your testing room OR your advisory.
Movie Night
- Who: Student Council Presents… for ANCS 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students
- What: Movie Night showing… The Croods: A New Age
- Where: ANCS Middle School Backyard… enter through The Backyard gate
- When: Friday, April 29 8-10pm… gates open at 7:30
- Free Popcorn and sparkly water
- Bring a blanket to sit on (no chairs please)
Masquerade Dance: The Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and the Student Government Association (SGA) will be co-sponsoring a middle school dance that is open to all ANCS 6th, 7th, and 8th graders (students cannot bring guests from other schools or from the Elementary Campus) on Saturday, May 14th from 6-8pm in The Backyard at the Middle Campus. There will be a food truck from Skips (with hamburger, hot dog, and veggie burger meal options), King of Pops, a photo booth, and a DJ. Everything is completely FREE!
The dance will have a masquerade theme but students are free to “come as they are” in terms of dress. NOTE: Students must be dropped off and picked up by an adult from The Backyard gate the night of the dance. Students will not be allowed to walk home alone. For students who are being picked up on foot we will release those students directly to an adult who is walking them home.
Student Council: Movie Night this Friday. No meeting this week. Reach out to Shoshi with questions.
Sports: Two baseball games are left – tomorrow night and Saturday. Playoffs will start soon. Boys soccer finished the season undefeated!
Summer Reading Book Choices
- Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
- Additional Book for Rising 7th & 8th Graders: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
- Our ANCS families are invited to read this book together – a remixed and condensed version of the original (Stamped from the Beginning) targeted for young people.
- 2020 Kirkus Prize finalist Best Teen Book of the Year, Kids’ Book Choice Awards Winner, 2022 ANCS/Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Book
Closing: In Lak’ech