Students in Mrs. Morgan’s Project Based Learning class designed and made Halloween signs in the STEAM lab.
Retake Day at SMS will be Tuesday, October 24th.
If you would like your child to have retakes make sure they bring their current picture package back with them that day. Any student who has not had a school picture will have one taken that day too.
SMS school pictures have arrived and will go home with students today!
The Halloween Dance Party is Friday! There will be a costume contest, games and SADD will host a haunted walk in the auditorium. Don't miss out, buy your ticket! The event is for students in grades 6-8.
This morning Room 104 at Salem Middle School, also known as Lions 104, went on a field trip to visit the West Washington High School American Sign Language classroom taught by John Harkness.
Dusty Baker, who teaches Lions 104, said the group watched presentations by class members and then everyone had an open exchange between students-to-students and teachers/chaperones and Mr. Harkness.
"My students enjoyed the visit and wanted to stay longer," said Baker. "They were able to recognize many of the signs we've learned in class and learned new ones using context."
Baker said the class sent Harkness a thank you email and this was his response, "Thank you for coming! My students were excited and I was pleased with everyone's behavior. My students took a very profound viewpoint on the visit. They considered the idea of their ASL class might impact lives outside of our walls. Pretty deep for freshman and sophomores.
"I look forward to any other opportunities for us to work together for all our kids!"
SMS Students of the Month for September are:
6th Graders
Breeley Brown- Nominated by : Mrs. Abner & Mrs. Mahuron
Corbin Ponder- Nominated by: Mr. Lewis
7th Grade
Adleigh Day- Nominated by: Mr. Lewis
Clara Ziner- Nominated by: Mr. Early
8th Grade
Ethan Cooper- Nominated by: Mrs. Ellis, Mr. Lewis, & Mrs. Ponder
Adlar Cox- Nominated by: Mr. Malloy
Congratulations!
Mrs. Ponder's first period class won the Rock Your Future trivia contest this week! Way to go 8th grade!
Club's Choice fundraiser orders will be delivered on Tuesday, 10/3.
All orders can be picked up at Salem Middle School from 3:00-5:00pm on Tuesday. Please come to the main office area during this time to pick up items.
College Go Week is next week! The theme is Rock Your Future. We hope everyone participates in the dress up days! We will have competitions throughout the week with trivia and prizes will be awarded! Stay tuned!
Art students in grades 6th and 7th have been in the STEAM Lab playing an art version of the Food Network cooking show “Chopped.” Students were given only certain art materials and had to come up with a creative plan to make something with only those supplies.
Mrs. Mahuron’s sixth grade science classes visited the lab this week to design and build musical instruments. They have been studying sound waves and the fact that vibrations create sounds.
Students in Amy Abner's language arts classes took a virtual field trip to the 9-11 Memorial in NYC as part of a student-led inquiry projects about 9-11.
SMS students will join the high school for Spirit Week next week for homecoming. Here are the dress up days.
Bailee Robbins came in second at the SMS Invitational last night! Coach Gwinn Miller said Bailee and the Corydon runner battled to the very end! Congratulations, Bailee!
These two students are rolling large dice and then using a chart and calculator for adding during a project in functional math class with Ms. Baker.
SMS Students of the Month have been named for August! Congratulations to Claire Motsinger, Olivia Davidson, Case Karmire, Sophie Smitson, Jack Heninger, Ezra Cooper.
Staff nominate and vote on the students.
Thank you to Mosier Chiropractic for the donation of personal care packages to SMS students this morning. Pictured are the Mosiers with Assistant Principal Brett Miller.
Mrs. Gray's digital citizenship classes have been spending the last two days in the STEAM lab with Mrs. Morgan where they have been creating circuits with the Makey Makey.
Students in Rebecca Consley's math classes are doing a "Whodunnit?!" activity which is similar to the game Clue. They solve the math clues and figure out who did it, where the did it and how they did it. The kids are LOVING this fun way of learning and completing math equations.
Here are the middle school sports that are at home this week.
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