2/14/2020 UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, 2/17/2020

NO SCHOOL - PRESIDENTS DAY

Tuesday, 2/18/2020 GIRLS BASKETBALL AWAY vs. Cascade MS * 5:00PM * indicates a “B” game following an “A” game

Wednesday, 2/19/2020

Thursday, 2/20/2020

GIRLS BASKETBALL HOME vs. Zionsville West MS * 5:30PM * indicates a “B” game following an “A” game

WRESTLING AWAY vs. Avon North MS 5:00PM

Friday, 2/21/2020

Saturday, 2/22/2020

**Please Note all Athletic Events are Subject to Change

Important Upcoming Dates

Mar. 11 - 1 Hour Delay - Professional Development

Mar. 23 - Apr. 3 - Spring Break

May 25 - NO SCHOOL Memorial Day

8th Graders - 2020– 2021 Freshman Important Dates for

Parents & Students

Apr. 8 - Parent Coffees AMS South 7PM enter door 28

July 15 & 22 - 9AM - 7PM Oriole Preview Day

July 22 - Class of 2024 Parent Meeting at AHS 7:30PM - 8:30PM

July 24 - Freshman Student Orientation 8:30AM - 2PM

July 28 - 6PM - 8PM Freshman can walk halls one last time before classes

begin the next day.

IMPORTANT:

YEARBOOK PURCHASE DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!

The yearbook purchase deadline has been moved to February 28, 2020. If you have not purchased a yearbook yet, now is the time! We will order some extras, but to make sure you get a copy be sure to put your order in! Click the link and order your yearbook

before time runs out: 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 Library:

Library News

Mrs. Winningham

Weekly Trivia THIS WEEK’S WINNER IS:

7th grader Morgan Denagal! She received a Starbucks gift certificate.

CONGRATULATIONS, Morgan!!!

News from our Library:

Library News

Mrs. Winningham

Calling all 7th

Graders

Are you interested in being on the news crew next year?

If so go to Schoology and join the 7th grade news course

and complete your application.

Applications and videos are due Friday, Feb. 28th, at midnight.

News from our Teachers:

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

Language Arts Students will continue reading Volume II of Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein.

Social Studies Students will be covering the Industrial Revolution. We will be taking an assessment at the end of the week. Science Students will begin learning how to Diagram an atom using the Bohr Model and will have quiz at the end of the week over this. Pre-Algebra is wrapping up their Exponents and Functions Unit. They will have the Unit 8 Assessment on Friday February 21st. Algebra 1 will begin out new unit that covers Solving Quadratics and Inequalities.

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

Math Identifying relations and functions. Chapter 8 test on Friday!

Algebra Solving quadratic equations with the Quadratic Formula.

Social Studies The Industrial Revolution and the Age of Jackson.

Science is working on Bohr Models.

Biology will be working on DNA Replication.

Language Arts students will be reading Frankenstein.

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

Next week the Titans will be studying the three laws of motion in Science. They will be learning about the adoles-cent brain and then applying that knowledge while reading articles about minors being tried as adults. Social Stud-ies will take the titans to North Africa and Southwest Asia. Titans in Math 7 will begin a unit where they will be identifying slope and proportional units and Pre-Algebra students will begin a unit on geometry.

News from our Teachers:

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

Biology students are finishing DNA and replication. They will have a quiz next Wednesday, February 19 and then begin the movie Gattica. Science students are learning how to create Bohr models of atoms and starting to explore trends in the periodic table. Algebra students are learning to solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formu-la. Pre-Algebra students are finishing a chapter about scientific and laws of exponents. They will test on Friday, February 21. Language Arts students are practicing paraphrasing dialogue while they continue to read Franken-stein. Social Studies students are doing a factory assembly line simulation as they explore the difficult work condi-tions of the Industrial Revolution.

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

In Language Arts, students will be examining some other examples of brain-related case studies. We will compare them to what we’ve learned about Phineas and the adolescent brain. Science we will be learning Newton’s three laws of motion and exploring them with lab activities. Next quiz on Forces and Motion – Feb. 27 covering, gravity, friction, net force, motion, speed, acceleration and Newton’s 3 laws. Math 7 is starting a new unit on graphing.

Pre-Algebra is starting a new unit on geometry. Mrs. Snyder would like to recognize Sydney Byers as her student of the week for all of her hard work and kindness in class.

Grizzlies Team News

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

Social Studies students will be jumping into a new unit covering modern day North Africa and Southwest Asia. We will be completing maps and learning about cultures from half way around the world. Math 7 students will be starting a new unit over graphing, We will begin by finding slope from tables, graphs, equations, and points.

Pre-Algebra students will begin a new unit over geometry. Students will start by finding area of parallelograms, trapezoids, triangles, and circles. Language Arts class will be wrapping up our Brain Science Unit with excerpts from the story “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”.

News from our Teachers:

Encore Team News

Spanish News - Señora Barker

Spanish students will be starting a new unit of hobbies/sports vocabulary

Industrial Technology News - Mr. Murphy

7th grade Industrial Tech We will start a CAD drawing called Inventor, Design and Modelling.

8th grade Industrial Tech Technology Demos of the five different projects will continue this week.

FACS Family and Consumer Science- Ms. Gleissner

7th grade - Students will prepare fruit pizza from scratch in order to practice proper

measuring and time management.

8th grade - Students will prepare taco dip, which will incorporate a dish that contains five food groups.

News from our Teachers:

Encore Team News

Art - Ms. Leonard

Art-Next week we are sculpting a pop culture icon. Students were to keep the classic design of the cultural icon so we can recognize it but apply a SCAMPER technique to change the design in some way.

Computer Apps News - Mrs. Lucas

7th Graders will be working on a PowerPoint Trivia Project and a Short Story in PowerPoint

8th Graders will be working on computer science lessons using code.org

Japanese News - Mrs. Hauptmann

Japanese students will begin recognizing katakana characters and asking and giving permission

News from our Teachers:

Encore Team News

Performing Arts News -

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

Band - Mrs. Wagoner

Band- All band students should be practicing a minimum of 120 minutes every week. We are preparing music for contest in March and we are in crunch time. All students should know notes and rhythms to all pieces at this

point. There will be no formal test but I will be doing random checks for all classes. Practice charts are due on Tuesday for all 7th grade students.

Jazz 7-Wednesday 2:45-4:00; Jazz 8-Thursday 6:00-7:15.

Choir - Mr. Zimmerman

Choir – All Choir students should complete their sight-reading factory rhythm assignment and their musictheo-ry.net note construction assignment. All classes are working on festival music, which will take place on Tuesday,

March 17th during the school day. Voice tests are Friday, February 21st.

Show Choir – Tuesday 6:30-8 PM

Orchestra - Mr. Ziolkowski

Orchestra – All students are reminded to take instruments home daily to practice their contest and all new music. Parents are reminded to help their students practice by reminding them as well as setting up a

“practice space” at home.

7th Grade – Red Book, p. 34, 35, 36

8th Grade – Shifting Packet, p. 3 to 8

This week’s lessons in PE:

Your Physical Educators are:

Mrs. Porep, Mr. Hansel, and Mr. Walden

Love to Exercise

Wellness News:

The next two weeks the students will have the options of Volleyball, Lifetime activities,

and the weight room.

Please remember that students need to bring active wear clothes to change into for PE.

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.

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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.

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onlineapp/default.aspx?

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The Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry

Every Thursday from 5-6PM

Avon Intermediate School East

For additional Flyer information please visit the

“Community” tab on our website at:

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