Oriole's Nest
November 20, 2020
Avon Middle School South
Email: msattendance@avon-schools.org
Website: https://www.avon-schools.org/mssouth
Location: 7199 East US Highway 36, Avon, IN, USA
Phone: 317-544-5700
Twitter: @avonsouth
Click below to take you the ACSC 2020-2021 School Calendar
Upcoming Important Dates
Chamber Orchestra Auditions Tuesday, 11/24 from 3:00 - 5:00PM
auditions will be held in the Orchestra Room. For more information see the Music Dept.
section of this newsletter.
Wednesday, November 25 through Friday, November 27th
NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break
Upcoming Athletic Events & Information
Winter Cheer Try-Outs
Winter cheerleading tryouts will be on Monday, 11/23 and Tuesday, 11/24
after school until 5PM. Students should be picked up at Door #14.
For our entire Winter Sports Schedule please click the link below.
Celebrating Birthday's this week!
Happy Birthday
to our students celebrating a birthday this week:
Mason Seifert
Sheccid Abdelhak
Kaden Dunbar
Audrianna Porter
Sofia Gargano
Noah Lamb
Colin Karaffa
Jackson Caudill
2020 ACSC Project A.N.G.E.L. Food Drive
Monday, November 30th will kick off the ACSC Project ANGEL food drive!
Look for more information in next week's Oriole's Nest or you may click below and download the list of items being requested.
STUDY TABLES
National Junior Honor Society will offer after school study help sessions on Monday’s and Wednesday's after school from 2:45 - 3:30PM. Students will then go to the cafeteria and wait for the late bus. During this time, there will be a supervisor in the cafeteria with the students while they wait for the late bus to arrive. Students that will be a car rider home on these days can be picked up at door 1 at 3:30PM.
If your student will be staying for the study session and they need bus transportation home they must sign up for the late bus in the Guidance Office at lunch that day. For those students taking the late bus home, the bus will leave AMS South at 4:30pm.
TEAM NEWS
Each week your child's team will give an update about the current week or week ahead. Please find your child's team below for that information. In addition, you will find news from our Encore teachers, Media Center, and PE/Wellness teachers.
Grizzlies News
Ms. Weinstein, Ms. Tomlinson, Mr. Livingston & Mr. Fields
Next week, Math 7 students will work on a scale factor project. Next week in pre-algebra, students will review surface area and volume. When they return from Thanksgiving break, they will have a test on Wednesday, December 2nd over area, surface area, and volume. Social Studies students will be wrapping up the unit on Economics and Governments. Monday students will be reviewing and Tuesday will have a quest (longer than a quiz but shorter than a test) over that material. In Language Arts will read Harlem by Langston Hughes and make connections between the poem and our current play A Raisin in the Sun.
Science students will begin learning about energy and heat transfer.
Jaguars News
Mrs. Ringham, Miss Hickey, Mrs. Fee & Mr. Wolf
Science will have a quiz over Newton’s Law. In Social Studies students will have a quiz over types of governments and economies. Math 7 will work on their scale factor project. Pre-Algebra students will continue calculating volume and surface area of 3D figures. Language Arts will read the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes and analyze how it connects to “A Raisin in the Sun”.
Jaguars who stand out for exemplifying team and school values are:
SirBritton Thomas, Zane Skinner, Nathan Stamm, Zhan Lewis, Xavier Esslinger, Gracin Loy,
Joel Ikamba, Sophia Wilson, and Mario Siddons.
Knights News
Mr. East, Miss Skoniecke, Mrs. Snyder & Mrs. Wheeler
In Language Arts, we will read the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes and connect it to what we have read in A Raisin in the Sun. Math 7 students will be continuing their scale candy project, and Pre-Algebra will be reviewing for their test. In Science, for the two days we are here next week we will have a 10 point quiz on Newton’s three laws and do an escape room with their knowledge about Newton’s laws. Social Studies students will continue working to wrap up our unit on economics. We will take our test the week we return from Thanksgiving Break.
Foresters News
Mrs. DeBow, Ms. Tobin, Mr. Rodgers & Mr. Thoennes
Algebra students will analyze data using scatter plots. Pre-Algebra students will connect their new understanding of slope to scatter plots. Science students will continue work with genetics and practice using Punnett squares. Language Arts students will finish writing their essays. Social Studies students will learn about how a bill becomes a law.
Greyhounds News
Mr. Gullion, Mr. Casey, Mr. Osen & Mrs. Warthan
In Math, students will be using equations to make predictions, and Algebra students will be going over Scatter Plots and Least Squares Regression Line. Social Studies students will continue learning about the Constitution. Biology students will continue our studies on macromolecules structure and how enzymes impact the human body. In Science, we are concluding and quizzing over Mendelian Punnett Squares. Social Studies students will be finishing their study on Fredrick Douglas.
Panthers News
Mr. Brooks, Mrs. Hood, Mr. Jaynes & Mr. Williams
Biology students will continue our studies on macromolecules and how enzymes impact our bodies. In Science, we will continue genetics through predicting probabilities using Punnett squares. Language Arts We will then begin completing their analytical essay over one of these two readings of Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and Frederick Douglass's narrative. In Social Studies, will be looking at America’s first governing document The Articles of Confederation and comparing its strengths and weaknesses. Pre-Algebra is expanding their understanding of slope as it applies to the Real World Situations and in Scatterplots. Upcoming Test for this unit has been move to Tuesday December 1. Algebra is studying statistics using Residuals to examine Scatterplots.
Encore News
Señora Barker (Spanish), Mrs. Hauptmann (Japanese), Mrs. Rewolinski (Computer Science), Mrs. Leonard (Art), Mrs. Gleissner (FACS), Mr. Hamsley (Engineering and Technology),
and Mrs. Kimmell & Mrs. Woods (ELL)
Spanish
Students will be working on a map/ geography of Spanish speaking countries.
Japanese
Japanese students will improve their writing of hiragana characters and discuss family activities.
Computer Science
Students will be finishing up lessons on CSS and keyboard and mouse input.
Art
Students chose their own subject matter to draw realistically, collage abstractly, and create a non-objective version of it in a painting. We will finish up the non-objective painting next week.
All three compositions will be displayed in a tryptic after Thanksgiving break.
FACS
7th Grade -Students will prepare pinwheels in food lab.
8th Grade -Students will prepare breakfast quesadillas in food lab.
7th grade Engineering and Design
Students will be starting coding robots for the sumo robot battle.
8th grade Gateway to Technology
Students will be prototyping their winter holiday projects.
PE/Wellness News
Mrs. Porep, Mrs. Lucas & Mr. James
Students continued their two week units of floor hockey, weight room, and lifetime activities. Next week students will have the option to select a new two week rotation.
If your child is unable to attend school due to quarantine, please make sure they are checking Schoology for their PE participation log. This needs to be submitted by Friday afternoon each week. If your child is ill, they will not need to complete this but will need to send us a message that they are ill and unable to do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day.
Please make sure your student has tennis shoes every day for class.
All students have access to a small locker near the gym to store extra shoes if needed.
Music Department News
Mrs. Wagoner (Band), Mr. Zimmerman (Choir) & Mr. Ziolkowski (Orchestra)
Band
Please look for a Parent Square message from Mrs. Wagoner soon for Band information.
Choir
Next week, we will have an open mic event on Tuesday before break. We will continue to work on holiday repertoire for the upcoming concert and work on our sight reading and ear training in class. There will be NO sightreadingfactory.com assignment next week.
Orchestra
Orchestra concert information will be coming to parents and students after the Thanksgiving holiday. It is very important to remind your students that practicing their instrument is an everyday expectation, much like doing math, language arts, science and social studies homework. We also kindly reminder students and parents that instruments must go home daily and that students must be prepared for anything with the current school year.
Any orchestra student interested in Chamber Orchestra must sign up for an audition through the link on Schoology under the RED Chamber Audition folder. Auditions take place on Tuesday November 24 at South. Times are listed on the audition packet and the sign up link.
Media Moments
Mrs. Winningham
As we go into the winter holiday season, I realized that this is the time for families to gather. All age children enjoy being read to. There are many benefits of gathering as a family and reading books together. Students are exposed to new vocabulary, many new ideas and places. Family discussions about books help the children learn how to compare your feelings and beliefs to the authors. It provides students a way to discuss these issues in the comfort of your home. The Indiana Library Association has just issued the Read Aloud Indiana Book Award List for 2021. The list is divided into primary, upper elementary, middle, high school, and ageless titles. These materials would be great in audio format for long car trips or just to listen to on a cold wintery day at home. Some of these titles are available on SORA, our schools e-book and audiobook catalog. Be sure to use your student’s computer login and password to check out materials.
HOMEWORK HOTLINE
Need help with Math and Science homework?
Call the Homework Hotline
1-877-ASK-ROSE
Click below to visit their website
OFFICE PROCEDURES
AMS South's Attendance Policy
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. You may also send an email to us to notify us of your child's absence at msattendance@avon-schools.org.
EARLY DISMISSALS
msattendance@avon-schools.org with all the necessary information: students name, date and time picking up, and the name of the person picking your child up if someone other than a parent or guardian will be picking up. This email will go directly to the front office secretaries and they will be able to get your child an early dismissal pass so that they can be in the front office when you are ready to pick them up. If leaving early for a doctor/dentist appointment, please provide doctor/dentist verification to ensure that the absence is excused.
If someone other than a parent or guardian will be picking up your child we MUST have this information in writing from a parent/guardian, 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 you are unable to email us we will need you to come into the office with your valid ID, once we verify it is a parent/guardian picking up we will be able to call the student down for dismissal.
Using this email will ensure your child will get a pass out of class to be in the office. Please do not use Parent Square to send a message to your child's teachers as we cannot guarantee that this message will get to the front office to get your child a pass. Our teachers are very busy throughout the day and may not be able to check Parent Square often, or if the teacher is out that day we would not get that message in the front office in time to get your child an early dismissal pass.
We want to make sure that your information is getting to the right person in a timely manner, and hopefully prevent any miscommunication or missed messages.
Please be advised that we cannot take early dismissal information over the telephone.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry Information
The Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry is available to Avon school families and employees.
Every Thursday from 5:00 - 6:00PM (when school is in session)
at Avon Intermediate School East
Please do not arrive before 4:30PM due to AIS bus/school traffic
Enrollment is simple. Please complete your 2020-2021 enrollment before you shop. Below you will find more information for enrollment, please click the link below.
Please note that the Mary Lee Maier Food Pantry will be
CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020