Dress up this week!
Tryouts for 5th and 6th grade boys basketball coming up in November!
Tickets to the SMS Halloween Dance go on sale this Thursday for $3.
They will be on sale next week every morning until 8:15 a.m.
The dance is sponsored by SMS Student Council.
Shout out to Mt. Tabor Church for donating shoes to our SMS Care Closet. If you or an organization would like to donate to the Care Closet please email: smscounselors@salemschools.us.
SMS Parent Teacher Conferences will be held following fall break. Please read below for more information!
Congratulations to the SMS September Students and Staff of the Month!
The counselor's talked to students during their counseling time in September on the following topics:
Suicide Prevention Month
Types of Boundaries
Advocating for yourself
Growth Mindset Activity:
Thinking outside the card
The SMS Care Closet will hold a Care Drive during Parent-Teacher Conferences Oct. 17 and 18. We will have some of our Care Closet items available for families those two days! All items will be free.
Mrs. Abner's sixth grade digital citizenship classes have been working on engineering by building roller coasters.
Students are studying nutrition in Mrs. Snelling's 8th grade health classes. Today, Mason and Ryker made Mrs. Snelling lunch because they are chefs. It was delicious AND they earned extra credit! Way to put your learning in action, guys!
Congratulations to the SMS August Students and Staff of the Month!
The After-School Program is partnering with the YMCA. They are going to come in and host the Take a Breath program on Mondays starting Sept. 23 at 3:30 p.m.
Shout out to Mr. Catlin for being the first teacher to bring his students to the STEAM lab to 3D print! His 8th grade agriculture students designed farm animals or plants and are working on getting them printed.
Salem Middle School Picture Day will be Tuesday, September 17th. Order forms will go home with students on Monday.
Online Order Code: 86902BF
Eighth grade science students in Ms. Myer's classes have been learning about matter and the components that make up matter. Today they made compounds and molecules during a hands-on-lab.
Students in Laura Mahuron's science classes have been blowing bubbles during a science lab this week! Who says learning can't be fun?
Students in Mrs. Consley's math classes worked on fractions this week in the STEAM lab using hands-on kits. The students worked through problems and recorded their answers after visually solving them.
Every month, the school counselors will meet with students to do guidance lessons. This month, they have been talking to students about guidance resources. Topics for the month are: What is bullying? What do you do?; self harm and how to get help; and tattling vs. concern. For more information about the counseling sessions contact the counselors at smscounselors@salemschools.us.
Life Skills students in Dusty Baker's class at SMS used Legos to learn about volume.
Mrs. Morrisâs 7th grade classes visited the STEAM lab to work on computer science. They used their Chromebookâs to code microbits to show colors, change faces and play music.
