NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL

Patriot News ~ DECEMBER 2016

Phone 712-279-6804 FAX 712-277-5941

SHAWN CHESTEEN, Principal • EMILY LLOYD, Asst. Principal • JAMES CLINE, Asst. Principal

Thursday, Dec 1 Fundraiser items go home with students

Saturday, Dec 3 NMS Library Barnes and Noble Book Fair

Tues/Wed/Thurs, Dec 6/7/8 Yearbook sale during student lunches

Tuesday, Dec 6 6th/7th/8th Band Concert, 7:00 pm

Tuesday, Dec 13 6th/7th/8th Choir Concert, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, Dec 13 OURS Parent Group, 6:00 pm, Sanford Community Center

Friday, Dec 16 Patriot Choir Winter Tour

Monday, Dec 19 Orchestra Concert at North High, 6:00 pm

Wednesday, Dec 21 1 hour early out at 1:45 pm for Winter Break

No School for Winter Break - Thursday, Dec 22 through Monday, Jan 2

School resumes on Tuesday, January 3, 2017

These are the days your teen will want to remember forever. Help

make the year unforgettable by purchasing a 2016-17 North Middle

School yearbook.

You can also buy online anytime between now and January 27th with

a credit card, debit card, or PayPal at yearbookforever.com for

$17.00. Order now, so your student won’t miss out when the

yearbook is distributed on the last day of school.

Taking photos this year ... At games, school concerts, the musical?

Share them by emailing them to mcmanih@live.siouxcityschools.com.

When you submit your amazing photos to the yearbook staff, via

email, your pictures have a chance to be featured in the yearbook!

As an adult, you know how important middle school memories be-

come. Don’t let your child’s memories fade; make sure they get a

yearbook!

December…winter…the weather continues to change in Sioux City. Please have a plan for your student if there is a late start and/or early dismissal because of the weather.

Students should be wearing appropriate clothing to school for cold weather.

Fundraiser items will be given to students on Thursday, December 1. The items should be delivered promptly.

December 6, 7, and 8

Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday

(during lunches)

$15.00

cash or a check written to NMS

Do you have questions about your child's progress in school? Feel free to contact your child’s “team” at the following times, Tuesday - Friday only (due to shortened schedule on Mondays):

6th Grade: 1st period, 8:13-8:57

7th Grade: 2nd period, 9:00-9:44

8th Grade: 3rd period, 9:47-10:31

Counselors are also available for your questions:

Mrs. Pottebaum 6th Grade Blue and 7th Grade

Ms. Greer 6th Grade Red and 8th Grade

Ms. Mendenhall Graduation Coach

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Phone: 712-279-6804

Fax: 712-277-5941

Sioux City Community Schools:

www.siouxcityschools.org

Visit the Sioux City Community School District’s website to see all district and school information! Stay up to date, access district or school information and utilize the links to outside sources to give you all the information regarding your child’s education.

Infinite Campus

Infinite Campus is our student information system. Infinite Campus allows parents and guardians to access an online portal for their student’s schedules, assignments, scores, grades, completed standards, attendance, district and school notices, reports and more. You can access Infinite Campus on the homepage of the Sioux City Community School District’s website main page at www.siouxcityschools.org or by clicking here.

Important Immunization Requirement for

Middle School

The State of Iowa now requires a TDAP vaccination for

all students entering 7th grade. Tdap is a booster vac-

cine for older children, adolescents, and adults. It safely

protects against 3 dangerous diseases: tetanus, diph-

theria, and whooping cough (also called pertussis). This

requirement will help protect your child and others in

school and the community from whooping cough.

All 7th grade students will need to provide proof of re-

ceiving the Tdap vaccination before enrolling for school

in August 2017. Many students may have already re-

ceived this immunization. Please be sure to provide the

school with an updated immunization record if your stu-

dent has already received the immunization or if they

receive it during this school year. Records may be faxed

to North Middle at 277-5941.

Influenza (also called flu)

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm

Influenza (also known as flu) is a contagious respiratory ill-ness caused by flu viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs. The flu is different from a cold. The flu usually comes on suddenly.

Flu symptoms:

Fever* or feeling feverish/chills * Not everyone with flu will have a fever

Cough

Sore throat

Runny or stuffy nose

Muscle or body aches

Headache

The Flu Is Contagious:

Flu symptoms start 1 to 4 days after the virus enters the

body

Call your medical provider if your child has symptoms Stay home for 24 hours after fever is gone without the

use of medicine

News from the school

nurse, Julie Thiele:

Nutrition Tip: Kid-Friendly Veggies and Fruits

Delicious Dippers: Kids love to dip their foods. Whip up a quick dip for veggies with yogurt and seasonings such as herbs or garlic. Serve with raw vegetables like broccoli, carrots, or cauliflower. Fruit chunks go great with a yogurt and cinnamon or vanilla dip.

Personalized Pizzas: Set up a pizza-making station in the kitchen. Use whole-wheat English muffins, bagels, or pita bread as the crust. Have tomato sauce, low-fat cheese, and cut-up vegetables or fruits for toppings. Let kids choose their own favorites. Then pop the pizzas into the oven to warm.

Fruity Peanut Butterfly: Start with carrot sticks or celery for the body. Attach wings made of thinly sliced apples with peanut butter and decorate with halved grapes or dried fruit.

Homemade Trail Mix: Skip the pre-made trail mix and make your own. Use your favorite nuts and dried fruits, such as unsalted peanuts, cashews, walnuts, or sunflower seeds mixed with dried apples, pineapple, cherries, apricots, or raisins. Add whole-grain cereals to the mix too.

Potato Person: Decorate half a baked potato. Use sliced cherry tomatoes, peas, and low -fat cheese on the potato to make a funny face.

Any 8th Grade Athlete (Male/Female) that is interested in

weightlifting, after school, see Mr. Binder (Room 448).

Outreach, Understanding, Responsibility & Support (OURS) Parent Group

The Sioux City Community School District, Northwest Area Education Agency, the Local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will continue their collaboration with the Outreach, Understanding, Responsibility, and Support (OURS) parent group. The efforts are focused at empowering parents/guardians of African American/Black students who attend public schools K -12

th grades. The topics are in relation to the education of the Black student,

community awareness, and other suggested topics. The OURS parent group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm at the Sanford Community Center, 1700 Geneva Street. For more information and to RSVP to the meetings, contact Lori Gentry, BSW, Educational Equity Student Liaison for the Sioux City Community Schools at 712.203.1107.

December 13 meeting topic is: Healthy Families

North Middle would like to invite parents of North Middle students to organize and facilitate a PTO here at NMS. We have,

in the past, had an active PTO and would like to see the organization alive again to help our students and staff.

At this time we would like to get an idea of how many are interested in actively joining. Please contact Monica, at North

Middle at 279-6804, if you would be willing to be a part of this important organization in our school. We are hoping for a

great response! Thank you!

Nondiscrimination Statement

The Sioux City Community School District is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is an unfair or discriminatory practice for any educational institution to discriminate on the basis of race, creed,

color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, age (for employment), disability, socioeconomic status, marital status, or veteran status in any program or activity. Inquiries or grievanc-

es regarding compliance of Title VI, Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Iowa Code sections 216.9 and 19B.11 may be

directed to Jen Gomez, Director of Student Services & Equity Education, at 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com.

Spanish

El Distrito Escolar de la Comunidad de Sioux City es una institución con oportunidad equitativa y acción afirmativa de empleo. Es una práctica injusta o discriminatoria de cualquier institución educativa de

discriminar basado en raza, credo, color, sexo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, religión, edad (por el empleo), discapacidad, condición socioeconómica, estado civil, o estatus de

veterano en cualquier programa o actividad. Las preguntas o quejas sobre el cumplimiento del Título VI, Título VII y Título IX de la Ley de los Derechos Civiles, Sección 504 de la Ley de Rehabilitación, La

Ley de los Americanos con Discapacidades (ADA), el Código de Iowa en las secciones 216,9 y 19B.11 pueden ser dirigidos a Jen Gomez, Directora de Actividades Estudiantiles y Educación de Igualdad al

627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101 (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com

Vietnamese

Học Khu Cộng Đồng Sioux City là một nơi có cơ hội bình đẳng/ hành động chắc chắn trong việc làm. Đó là không có sự công bằng hay có sự kỳ thị thực hành trong bất cứ các cơ sở giáo dục về phân

biệt căn cứ theo chủng tộc, tín ngưỡng, màu da, phái tính, khuynh hướng phái tính, nhận định phái tính, nguồn gốc quốc gia, tôn giáo, tuổi tác (cho việc làm), khuyết tật, tình trạng kinh tế xã hội, tình trạng

hôn nhân, hoặc tình trạng cựu chiến binh trong bất kỳ chương trình hay hoạt động nào. Ai muốn hỏi han hoặc than phiền về việc chấp hành của Điều Luật VI, Điều Luật VII và Điều Luật IX của Sắc Luật

Bình Đẳng, Điều Khoản 504 của Sắc Luật Phục Quyền, Sắc Luật Công Dân Khuyết Tật (ADA), Quy Luật Iowa Điều Khoản 216.9 và 19B.11 có thể tiếp xúc trực tiếp với bà Jen Gomez, Giám Đốc Dịch Vụ

Học Sinh và Giáo Dục Bình Đẳng (Director of Student Services & Equity Education) tại 627 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101, (712) 279-6075, gomezj2@live.siouxcityschools.com

Band News!

First concert TUESday, December 6, 7:00 pm

Warm-up for all bands will be at 6:40 pm. 6th grade warm-up in small gym, 7th grade in band room, 8th grade in choir room. All of the bands have been working hard to improve their concert pieces for this perfor-mance! Students are expected to be on time for warm-up and stay for the entire concert to support the other bands. We appreciate help clearing the gym after the concert. Many hands make for light work!

ATTIRE for CONCERTS

All 6th grade band students will wear their blue ALL STARS t-shirts and jeans for their concerts this year. All 7th & 8th grade band students will wear the navy band polo and khaki pants. Please contact us if you are in need of assistance locating khaki pants.

Gifts for your musician

Looking for a special gift for your musician? A few good ideas include a music stand, a cleaning kit, or a tuner/metronome. Students would also enjoy a book of popular tunes for their instrument, to give them more variety of music to play. Don’t forget pencils…musicians can never have too many!

JAZZ Rehearsals

Jazz 1 rehearsals are Tuesday and Thursday after school from 3:05-3:55 Jazz Workshop is Wednesday after school from 3:05-3:55. Any 6th, 7th, or 8th grade student interested in learning about jazz is welcome to come to the jazz workshop.

Honor bands in January

The Strong Foundations Honor Band for the selected 6th Graders will be held at East High School on Monday January 9. The concert is at 6:00 pm at the East High Auditorium. More information will be coming home with your student. The All-City Honor Band for the selected 7th & 8th Graders will be held at North High School on Monday January 16. The concert is at 6:00 pm at the North High Auditorium. More information will be coming home with your student.

INSTRUMENTS HOME

All band students should plan to bring instruments home to practice at the end of the week, either Thursday or Friday. Students are welcome to bring their instruments home every day! 8th grade is focusing on being accountable to each other in their band. 7th grade is focusing on improving every class and every lesson. Everyone plays a vital part in all of our bands! Be Proud! Play Proud!

Let’s Go Band!!!

Mrs. Ortmann, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Simon, Ms. Hall North Band Directors

Remember the Barnes & Noble Book Fair is December 3! It is also Educator Discount Day for those of you working in schools, so educators get a 25% discount (10% on Café Consumables & select Nook devices)! Book Bash members will be there part of the day to wrap your BN presents for a free will donation. NMS artwork will be on display and there will be a per-formance by The Patriot Choir at 3:30 pm! Just say you are supporting North Middle when you check out. For online shopping, please use our ID number 11868981 when you check out—the end date for online credit for us is December 8. The profit will be used to buy more books in the library!

Seventh graders are researching their favorite authors or another report topic and using databases such as Gale Biog-raphy in Context and Teachingbooks.net. They will write a report and start a visual project of their choice after their research. They will create a bibliography or works cited page using our database called NoodleTools and present their project to the class. In reading classes, many students are checking out non-fiction books. They love the series paperback books: Who Is, Who Was, What Was, and Where Is. Ask them about their books! Sixth graders just typed a paragraph in MLA style, ask about their topic! I have shared one digital citizenship lesson each for 6th and 7th grade English classes which remind students how to be-have online and we discuss the safe and responsible use of technology.

Please encourage your children to return or renew items on time and to pay or work off their late or lost book fees. Students may use BoxTops for Education to pay their fines, which are worth 10 cents each for the NMS SPED Dept.

The user name and password for our online databases (see www.siouxcity schools.org, find Schools -- North Middle – Academics -- Library) are posted at school. These cannot be posted online but bookmarks and small AEA cards are available with this info. Please encourage your children to visit the library website: www.northmiddlelib.weebly.com for great reference sources; some are provided by our Northwest Area Education Agency. Examples include Webpath Express in Destiny, Culture-grams, Rosen’s CyberSmarts, EBSCO, SIRS, Soundzabound, Gale Research, Visual Thesaurus, Teen Health and Wellness, Free-domFLIX and TrueFLIX. Again this year there are eBooks through MackinVIA! Students login with an “s” and their ID number for both username and password. Over 1,500 are available at https://siouxcity.mackinvia.com or on the library catalog site, Desti-ny: http://destiny.siouxcityschools.com.

Contact Ms. Sweeney or Mrs. Jarman if you have questions. sweenes@live.siouxcityschools.com.

11868981 is our Barnes & Noble Book Fair Code for Online Shopping!

Hy-Vee receipts

Pop tabs

Box-Tops for Education

Pizza Ranch logos

Bring these to the Library at any time during

the school year!

Box Tops can be used to pay your library fine!

North Middle Library

Saturday December 3 (Educator Discount Day!)

Barnes & Noble

Southern Hills Mall

Hours: 10:00 am - 9:00 pm

See displays of student artwork, listen to performances

by the Patriot Choir and strings students, have BN gifts

wrapped by students - more activities announced soon!

The more you buy, the more profit we receive to buy

books!

Can’t attend our book fair at Barnes & Noble?

Visit BN.COM/bookfairs to support us online

from 12/3/16 to 12/8/16

By entering Bookfair ID 11868981 at checkout.

A percentage of your Barnes & Noble

purchases will benefit our school/

organization.

supporting

North Middle Library

Saturday December 3

Barnes & Noble

Southern Hills Mall

Bookfair ID Number 11868981

Please present this voucher prior to making your purchase. A percentage of the net sale will be

contributed to your school/organization.*

*The purchase of gift cards, Barnes & Noble memberships, text-

books, magazine subscriptions, video games, digital content,

purchases made at Cafés owned and operated by Starbucks, and

other items Barnes & Noble may exclude from time to time in its

sole discretion are not eligible for bookfair sales. Institutional

discounts may not be applied.

See BN.COM/bookfairs for more details and to shop online.

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supporting

North Middle Library

Saturday December 3

Barnes & Noble

Southern Hills Mall Bookfair ID Number 11868981

Please present this voucher prior to making your purchase. A percentage of the net sale will be

contributed to your school/organization.* *The purchase of gift cards, Barnes & Noble memberships, text-

books, magazine subscriptions, video games, digital content,

purchases made at Cafés owned and operated by Starbucks, and

other items Barnes & Noble may exclude from time to time in its

sole discretion are not eligible for bookfair sales. Institutional

discounts may not be applied.

See BN.COM/bookfairs for more details and to shop online.