Roaring News
Westport Middle School, Springfield, Missouri 10/1/2018.1
Westport K-8
Email: pleasecall@nocontact.thisway
Website: https://www.sps.org/westport
Location: 415 South Golden Avenue, Springfield, MO, USA
Phone: 4175233100
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WestportK8/?ref=br_rs
Twitter: @westportcats
School Year 2018-19
Meet Mrs. Strohm
Pizza Pies awarded best team spirit.
The Jr. Chef teams did great this past weekend.
Planning and Prep
Thanks to the Newsletter for the fabulous coverage on 10.1.18.
Attention Parents: BrightBytes Survey
Survey Link: https://bbyt.es/start/TL7TC
Athletics
Our Fall Sports are Football and Girls Volleyball
Football dates
Oct.4
Oct.11
Oct.18
VolleyBall Dates
Oct.1
Oct.2
Oct.3
Boys and Girls Cross-country
Oct.6
Oct.13
Later sports
Girls Basketball Nov.8-Dec.13
Archery Jan.14-Mar.2
Cake Decorating
Have you heard about the Westport Cake Decorating Club? If you haven’t, you’re really missing out. The Westport Cake Decorating Club (WCDC), is working with the Community Partnership of the Ozarks (CPO).
CPO is a non-profit organization with the goal of building strong children, healthy families, and secure neighborhoods. They will be taking pictures and videos of the club to use for promoting their organization.
The WCDC will be meeting every other Thursday in room 130 to decorate delectable treats. For their first meeting on Thursday, Sept. 13, the club decorated cupcakes with frosting they made and colored themselves! YUM!
--PT, 8th grade
Library @ Westport Middle School
Westport Middle School Library
Welcome to a new school year at Westport Middle School. The library is just a few steps away from providing you lots of resources to use for your classes or just to read for fun.
This column will share with you the various types of books we have. It is amazing to think about all the different ways you can be a reader.
Of course you can see the books on the shelves when you come into the library. There is a Fiction side with the Truman Nominee books on special display shelves above those fiction bookcases. Fiction books are very popular with teens, especially the Realistic Fiction genre. We offer Sci Fi, Historical Fiction as well as Fantasy The Nonfiction side has a strip of world flags to remind you this is an area where you read to learn something or find out some type of information. You name a subject area and it is likely you can find a book about it.
Using your chromebooks, you can find eBooks with Mackin. If you have a phone and want to download the free Mackin app, you are welcome to do so. You will need to know your ID number which you use in the lunch room and use to check out a book. Then of course that you are with Westport Middle School. If you want to bookmark the site, the web address is www.mackinvia.com or you can go into the Library Canvas page and find eBooks right there that logs in with Clever. Most of the eBooks purchased for Westport Middle School allow multiple users so the whole school can read the same book at the same time. How cool is that?
The library offers a limited number of Playaways for teachers to check out to use with their students as well as audio books on CDs for both students and teachers. You will need a CD player to get these books to read correctly. Some of the eBooks on Mackin are audio therefore only one person can check them out at a time. When you listen to a book, you are still reading. (Some people think that is cheating but it is not.)
AND...the library has MAKERSPACE supplies that make life better. If you have a clothing repair that a sewing machine can fix, bring it to the library. It is best if the item can be washed ahead of time but sometimes that only makes the tear worst. If you want to solve a problem with a 3D print, bring it to the library. If you need the green screen for a video project, you can find it in the library. So you can see, the library is so much more than books.
Hope to see you in the library soon. Check out something to read.
Love and Logic with Mrs. Eaton
Join us on Mondays, 5:15 to 7:15 for dinner and Love and Logic. Be prepared for lots of laughs as we discuss the fun but stressful world of parenting! Through Parenting the Love and Logic Way training, you will be presented with a menu of fun and effective parenting techniques to use while raising responsible children.