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January/February 2018

Lancaster Middle

School

Drama Club Presents

“13”

Friday - February 9th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Saturday - February 10th, 2018 @ 2:00 pm

Saturday - February 10th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Sunday - February 11th, 2018 @ 2:00 pm

(Due To Demand 4th Show Added For 2018)

Tickets Go On Sale January 6th, 2018

Tickets Available at LMS Main Office

Between 10:15 am & 1:00 pm

$ 10.00 Each / All Ticket Sales Are Final

Cash or Checks Made Out To LMS Drama Club

7th Grade Red Team Julia Elias Kevin Budelewski

7th Grade White Team Eric Frys Allie Marshall

7th Grade Blue Team Kayla Buczkowski Salvatore Lima

7th Grade Green Team Olivia Amey Dominic Braun

8th Grade Language Arts Evan Folsom Emily Poplawski

8th Grade Math Zachary Coxford Eric Swiencicki

8th Grade Science Ryan Snyder Emma Almeter

8th Grade Social Studies Samantha Laska Jack Heary

Health Education Joseph Marasciulo Lillie Zotara

Music Education Kaitlin Romanowski Brody Brown

Art Education Adam Heiler Lauren Weydig

Citizenship Paige Taggart Madison Buscaglia

Emily Lippert Sierra Hunter

Matthew Mazur Olivia Kempf

Physical Education Shealyn Vanderbosch Madison Maciag

Technology Education Erica Bueme Timothy Babula, Jr.

Home & Careers Education Isabella Perna Brynn Backert

Foreign Language Education Shaun Babcock Mary Gang

Kindness Award Houston Vaughan Gillian Schwarzmueller

Students for the Month for November / December 2017

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November December

Spring Sports – ONLINE sign-ups will begin Thursday, Jan-uary 25 and run through Thursday, February 1.

MODIFIED BASEBALL BOYS MODIFIED LACROSSE BOYS MODIFIED TRACK GIRLS MODIFIED LACROSSE MODIFIED SOFTBALL GIRLS MODIFIED TRACK

Vision, hearing, and scoliosis screening is complete. If the results of the screening indicate that your child requires further

follow-up, you will receive written notification.

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Students must complete all 3 steps when signing up for sports: (1) Sign up ONLINE (2) PRINT and COMPLETE Athletic Consent Form (If you cannot print the form, come to the Health Office) (3) Turn completed Athletic Consent Form into the Health Office by Monday, Feb 5. You will then have the mandatory nurse’s interview. Students signing up for a Spring Sport must have a current physical on file dated between March 2017 - March 2018.

HEALTH OFFICE NEWS

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018

IMPORTANT DATES

January 2 Classes Resume

3 First Ski Club

8 BOE Meeting 7:00 pm JAS

9 HSA Meeting 6:30 pm.

15 Martin Luther King Day—NO SCHOOL

26 Reorganization Day—NO SCHOOL

26 Winter Ball 7:00-9:30 pm

February 2 Report Cards posted to Parent Portal after 4:00 pm

5 BOE Meeting 7:00 pm HV

9 LMS Musical—”13” 7:00 pm

10 LMS Musical—”13” 2:00 & 7:00 pm

11 LMS Musical—”13” 2:00 pm.

12 Hoops for Heart Tournament 2:30 pm

15 Hoops for Heart Faculty Game 2:30 pm

19-23 Presidents’ Day Mid-winter Recess

Classes resume 2/26

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Throughout the months, Student Council has had many successful events that have taken place. Recent events that Student Council has taken upon are the Canned Food Drive, the Giving Tree, going to John A. Sciole to teach the kids about caring, and going to the Youth Bureau for the Day of Giving. The Canned Food drive took place November 1-15th. Each homeroom was to complete a list of food to bring in so that we could collect food for the less fortunate. This was pretty successful but we would like to see more participation with homerooms in the future. The officers of Student Council, Jr. SADD, and NJHS went over to John A. Sciole on December 6th to perform caring skits to the kids. The purpose of this was to teach the kids that Caring is important and showing them what our precept of the month actually meant. Next, we did the Giving Tree which took place November 27th - December 12th. The purpose of this was for students to pick up a tag on the tree that had an item to buy for a teenager. If you picked up a card on the tree, you would buy that pre-sent so that kids that are less fortunate could have a more enjoyable holiday. This was very successful and we got gifts that we could then take over to the Youth Bureau for the Day of Giving. On December 14th, the Student Council, Jr. SADD Leo Club, and NHJS officers participated in the Day of Giving. This was very successful and many families’ Christmas’ were changed by the generosity of food, trees, and presents. Lastly, Decem-ber 18-22nd was our Winter Spirit Week. This was successful. We saw many awesome, spirited outfits! From Ugly Sweater to Holiday Character Day, it was a lot of fun. Lastly, Deck the Doors helped to make our hallways more festive. Thank you to all who partici-pated!

Upcoming Business Student Council has a lot of exciting upcoming business. The first upcoming event we have is Winter Ball. This dance will be held in the cafeteria, Friday, January 26th. This is a semi-formal dance so be sure to dress nice. Tickets will be sold in the cafeteria January 23-25th from 7:30 a.m to 7:55 a.m. Hope to see you there! February 1-28th, Scavenger Hunt for the Troops will be held. Scavenger Hunt for the Troops is a drive for the troops, where you can donate toothpaste, shampoo, etc. Coming up after that we have Art for a Start which is an art supply drive for Carly’s Club and Roswell Park. Started by Victoria Lorenz, this has been an event for the past 2 years and we were on Channel 2 News last year. Hopefully we will continue to collect for Roswell Park. This will take place April 11th - 25th. All the proceeds we get for this will be donated to Roswell Park Cancer Institute to help cancer patients. Lastly, we have our annual Bald for Bucks. Bald for Bucks will take place on Wednesday, April 25th at 2:30 pm in the aud. This is for a great cause, which is to help Roswell Park. Since the inception, we have raised over $40,000 for Roswell Park. Student Council has had a great past couple months, and we cannot wait for the upcoming activities!

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STUDENT COUNCIL NEWS

HAPPENINGS IN THE LIBRARY Today the library is not just about checking out books and completing research (although we

still do quite a bit of that), it’s also about encouraging students to be innovative and artistic.

November and December were very productive months in the Makerspace as evidenced by

the pictures below. The students never cease to amaze us with their innovative ideas for pro-

jects and “Crafts of the Month”.

Some of the winter projects were wooden snowmen, popsicle angels and Christmas tree or-

naments, jingle bell wreath ornaments and electrical circuit reindeer cards. Several hundred

handmade crafts for each project were made and given out as Christmas presents to family

and friends. Perhaps you may have been lucky enough to receive one. They also helped to

create a Christmas Wonderland in the library by making snowflakes to adorn the windows

and ceiling. It was quite a beautiful sight to see. Everyone wanted to spend time here to en-

joy the festive atmosphere while reading, researching, creating and inventing.

A Makerspace is…“.. A place where students can gather to create, invent,

tinker, explore and discover using a variety of tools and materials.”

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Lancaster Middle School HSA/PTO News January/February 2018

Membership Drive

It’s not too late to become a member!!! Simply place $5 cash or check payable to LMS HSA in an envelope

with your child’s name and submit it to their homeroom teacher or the Main Office. If you have already made

a contribution, thank you, the students appreciate your support!!!

LMS HSA Meeting

Our next Home School Association (HSA) meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 9th at 6:30pm in

the first floor conference room. Enter the building on the side ramp entrance and the conference room will be

on your left. Come and learn what is happening at the Middle School!!

Be informed!!!!!

Box Tops for Education

Box Tops for Education is an excellent way for the school to collect money for activities

such as field trips and other extracurricular activities.

The top 7th and 8th grade homeroom with the most Box Tops collected by April 1, 2018

will win BREAKFAST FOR THEIR HOMEROOM!!!! Send your Box Tops in to school in

a ziplock bag with the student’s homeroom number on the bag. Your student can drop them

off in the office

or outside Miss Czine’s room #111. Ask family members to collect theirs too!!!

****Please register under Lancaster Middle School on their website. You can do shopping

at their marketplace and a percentage of what you spend at various stores goes to our school:

http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/marketplace

TOPS in Education

Lancaster MS is registered for the TOPS in Education Program.

You can raise money for our school when you purchase participating TOPS brand,

Top Care or Full Circle TM products with your TOPS Bonus PLUS SM

or Bonus Card. TOPS will contribute to our school a percentage of every purchase you make.

How to sign up:

Visit topsmarkets.com/education to register your Bonus Card and select Lancaster Middle School.

Purchase participating TOPS brand products with your Bonus Card.

TOPS sends the money raised to our school to be used for student field

trips/programs.

The Home School Association appreciates your support!

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LHS VARSITY GIRLS GYMNASTICS

Congratulations to the Lancaster High School Varsity Girls Gymnastics team for win-ning the Section 6 Team Championships!

Six gymnasts from Lancaster Middle School are members of this team that went 8-1 this year. 8th graders Carissa Gram and Elana Oun were joined by 7th grade mem-bers Irene Anadiadis, Kayla Schaefer, Sarah Read and Hannah Wojciechowski. Carissa and Hannah were sectional qualifiers who helped bring home the team title.

In addition to their athletic accomplishments, all of these young ladies contributed to the team attaining Scholar Athlete Team status by achieving GPA's higher than a 91 average.

Mrs. Aquino and Mr. Tylenda, teachers at LMS coach our successful team. This was Mrs. Aquino's 30th year coaching Lancaster's Varsity team.

Teachers and students have banned together to help foster an even more welcoming and friendly atmosphere at LMS. Each month, the teacher formed Wonder Commit-tee (based on the book Wonder by R. J. Palacio) has been creating a new precept and poster to get students thinking about what kindness means and how they can share it with others. Teachers across various content areas, including the school counselors, are a part of this committee.

In addition to the monthly precepts, students also engage in activities in their classes that help to further explain and reinforce the meaning of the precept and how it applies to their own lives. Eighth grade students, with the support of their parents, also had the opportunity to experience a day of Wonder. This was a day where students, in ad-dition to viewing the recent blockbuster, were asked to come out of their comfort zone and really got to experience what it might feel like to be Auggie from the book Won-der. A new unofficial club has been formed by students to help promote kindness and ac-ceptance throughout LMS. The next club meeting is on Tuesday, February 6 in room 305. All students are welcome to join!

We are looking forward to spreading kindness at LMS!

“Throw kindness around like confetti.” - Unknown (I figured that we could put a quote on somewhere...you can choose whatever quote you’d like!)

Making LMS a WONDERful Place!