John Adams Middle School
April 2019
Important Dates:
- Monday, April 8 Dental Clinic
- Friday, April 12 6:45 AM Student of the Month (John Adams Cafeteria)
- Tuesday, April16 MCA Testing-Math
- Wednesday, April 17 MCA Testing-Math
- Thursday, April 18 MCA Testing-Math
- Thursday, April 18 6:00 PM PTSA Meeting in room 134
- Monday, April 29 8th Grade MCA Science
- Tuesday, April 30 8th Grade MCA Science
Every Wednesday after school there is homework help. Thursday Hoework Help will no longer be held.
John Adams Family Engagement Night is a huge success!
JA Students Performed for Families
Four John Adams Students Create Advertisements
MCA Testing
MCA testing is coming up quickly. We will be starting with the reading tests on April 16, 17, and 18. Sixth graders will test Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon. Seventh graders will be testing Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning. Eighth graders will be doing their tests Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon . When students are not testing they will be in a select class period participating in an enrichment activity based on the standards for the subject. This will be a graded project and students are expected to use their time during the class period to complete the project.
The testing period will last about 2 hours. We will be taking a whole school break during both the morning and the afternoon. Students may bring a snack to quickly eat during these breaks. Granola bars, Nutri-Grain bars, fruit or fruit snacks are great options. Chips and candy are not allowed snacks. Water is the only allowed beverage in a clear plastic container.
If you can help out those students who either cannot bring or forget to bring a snack by sending an extra box or two of bars or extra fruit we would be extremely grateful!. Those items can be delivered to the office.
We ask that any outside appointments are not scheduled during these days. If your child does have any appointment and it cannot be changed please notify the office ahead of time so your child can be excused from the testing sessions before testing begins thus preventing disruption to the testing environment.
Finally, we ask that you have a conversation with your students about giving their all on the MCAs. We realize that standardized tests like the MCAs are far from a student’s favorite activity, however the tests give us insight into a student’s growth and performance and can be used to determine placement in classes.
Thank you for your support of all of our students.
Congratulations John Adams Students of the Month
PTSA
Meetings and Speakers
The next meeting will be Thursday, April 18th at 6:00 p.m. in room 134.
Help Needed
John Adams’ PTSA needs the parents continued support for helping the students and staff. Please consider serving as the vice president, restaurant fundraiser coordinator, or book fair coordinator for the 2019-2020 school year. All of these positions have current members that will help during the transition process. Please email Associate Principal Kim Howard at kihoward@rochester.k12.mn.us if you are interested in one of the positions. The candidates will need to be voted in at the May PTSA meeting.
Chipotle Welcomes Back JA
Chipotle North welcomes JA to earn 33% of the proceeds on April 9th from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Only dine in orders will be contributed to the fundraiser for JA. Chipotle has been the largest restaurant contributor this year. Please mention JA at the checkout.
Book Fair
The book fair raised $1,151 in Scholastic dollars to purchase books for the John Adams’ library. The sucker pull earned an additional $128 to help purchase even more books. Thank you to all those families who visited the book fair.
Fundraisers
The PTSA has great ways to give back to John Adams this year! Please read below to find out how to help support the students and staff at JA.
1. Please continue your support for JA students and teachers by giving to the on-line donation drive through the gofundme page. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Some of the things the PTSA paid for last year was student field trips, rewards for the student and staff PAW store (PBIS), staff appreciation days, student attendance rewards, end of the year celebration for all grades, and 8th grade end of the year pizza party. In addition, this year the PTSA is striving to raise funds for another gaga ball pit, backboards and nets for the basketball court, and picnic tables. Click on the below link to donate to the JA PTSA gofundme page.
https://www.gofundme.com/john-adams-middle-school-ptsa
2. The PTSA has signed up for Amazon Smile. While shopping on Amazon, please follow the below directions for JA PTSA to receive 0.5% from the purchases you make on Amazon. All proceeds earned will help support the JA students and staff.
1. Go to smile.amazon.com and sign in with your Amazon account.
2. At the top of the Amazon page choose: John Adams Middle School PTSA as your charity of choice.
3. Make sure to bookmark smile.amazon.com and use it for all of your Amazon shopping (including Prime).
John Adams Middle School
Website: https://jams.rochesterschools.org
Location: 1525 31st Street Northwest, Rochester, MN, USA
Phone: (507)-328-5700