Weekly Phone Message
(Note: These
announcements are from the weekly phone message sent out on Fridays)
November 16 - 20, 2009
Good Afternoon, this is
Elizabeth Battle, principal of Daniels Middle School with announcements for the
upcoming week.
Parents,
we would like to remind you that this year Daniels is implementing trimester
cumulative exams as part of the Professional Learning Team process. Teachers
working together within their like subject PLT will develop a common cumulative
trimester exam. The trimester exams will be given within the normal class time
and will count no more than 15% of the student’s trimester grade.
The exam dates are: November 16: English/ Social Studies, November 17:
Math/ Science, and November 19: Electives. Please contact me if you have any
questions or concerns regarding trimester exams.
On
Monday, November 16th there
will be a short informational meeting for any student interested in joining the
Mathcounts Team. Mathcounts is national competition program that promotes
advanced and "out of the box" mathematical thinking to middle school
students. It is tied closely with the National Society of Professional Engineers
to help promote students to enter an engineering field when they grow up. Rides
should be here by 3:00 pm
On
Tuesday, November 17th the
Daniels chess club will meet in room 3111, and the
Daniels Pep
band will be meeting after school until 3:30 pm,
On
Thursday, November 19th The Daniels Jazz band will be
meeting after school until 3:30 pm. and the Daniels Anime Club will
be meeting in room 3304 until 3:30. At
7:00 pm the Chorus classes will be hosting a concert in the auditorium.
On
Friday, November 20th The
Student Book Club will meet in room 3103 until 3:00 pm.
The
Veterans Day Drive is being extended for one additional week in hopes of getting
more donations for our troops serving overseas.
Please remember that Community Service hours are being given for
donations - one hour per five items.
Please
remember to go to www.progressCHER.com
and take an 'Energy Challenge' survey.
The
Yearbooks
are now on sale until December18th for $29. From January 4th through
February 26th the cost increases to $32. And from March 1st through April
12th books will be $35. Please order early. Extra order forms are
located in the media center, or the main office. We ask that all
yearbook payments be made in either check or money order to the Daniels PTA.
Your cancelled check is your proof of purchase. Please do not send cash!
For
those of you who ordered sportswear, the shipment will hopefully be arriving
next week.
Eighth
grade students don’t forget to bring in a baby picture of yourself for the
yearbook. Please have your first and
last name and your homeroom teacher’s name printed on the back.
That
is all the announcements for this week – I hope you all have a wonderful
weekend!
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