Dates to Remember December 12 Chorus Holiday concert @ AHS (7:00 p.m.)

December 12 Desk Top Stores for 7th graders

December 16 Final Exams

December 17 Final Exams

December 18 Final Exams

December 19 Grandparent Coffee

Dec. 22-Jan. 5 Winter Break-No school

January 6 1st day of Second Semester

January 7-9 Drama auditions

Intramurals

Intramural hours are from 4:05 to 5:05p.m. Students are to be picked up at

the latest by 5:15 p.m. Failure to do so will result in loss of intramural

privileges. The fall intramural activities offered are:

Outdoor Basketball 6th-8th grades

Technology Fair

Students are encouraged to submit technology projects they have created to

the school technology fair, which will be held the first week of second se-

mester. Projects advancing to the county fair will be judged on Saturday,

January 31, 2015, at Centennial High School. Guidelines and categories for

the fair are available on the state technology fair site at http://gatechfair.org/

categories. Registration information and further details will be posted on the

WBMS homepage.

Webb Bridge’s Got Talent

The Talent Show is coming!

Here are dates to add to your calendar:

Audition Sign Ups Tues, Jan 6-Fri, Jan 9 (main office)

Auditions Mon, Jan 12-Wed, Jan 14 (chorus room)

Dress Rehearsal Tues, Feb 3 at 4:15-6:00 PM (gym)

TALENT SHOW Thurs, Feb 5 at 7:00-8:30 PM (gym)

Join us on Edmodo for all of the details at kakdka.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Webb Bridge math team members who brought home

the 3rd place trophy in the junior varsity high school division at Lassiter

High School on Saturday, December 6th. Adam Wang received the 9th

place individual trophy; team members Manoj Niverthi, Vatan Kapadia, and

Sidhesh Desai all scored in the top 20 individuals. Keep up the good work! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

It is the policy of the Fulton County School System not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability in any employment

practice, educational program, or any other program, activity, or service..

Week of December 15 - December 19, 2014

Monday 12/15 Salisbury Steak, Chicken Sliders, Cheese Pizza

Tuesday 12/16 Chicken Nuggets, Pepperoni Pizza, Cheese Calzone

Wednesday 12/17 Cheese Stuffed Shells, Spicy Chicken Sandwich, Cheese Pizza

Thursday 12/18 Rotisserie Chicken, Pepperoni Pizza, Bean Burrito Friday 12/19 Shrimp Poppers, Steakburger, Cheese Pizza,

Daily - Salad Plates, Wrap Sandwich Plates, Fresh Fruit Basket

Cookies available on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday

Webb Bridge Middle School

Toys for Tots Drive WBMS Jr. Beta is sponsoring a Toys for

Tots drive from December 8th to December

18th. Jr. Beta is encouraging students and

parents to donate new, unwrapped toys in

collection boxes positioned near the front office and academic rotunda in

the mornings. When students donate a toy, they will receive a “Pajama

Bottom Pass” to wear pajamas bottoms on December 18th. Toys for Tots

is sponsored by the United States Marine Corp Reserve to help ensure a

happy holiday season for every child. Please see our website for more

information, wbmsjrbeta.weebly.com, or ask a Jr. Beta member.

Donations Needed

Please assist us in recycling your old eyeglasses, sun-

glasses and cell phones for Georgia Lions Lighthouse

Foundation/ Operation Eye Care to help provide vision

services to uninsured Georgians and underdeveloped

nations. Our recycling box is located in the main office. We will

continue to accept these items throughout the school year.

WHAT HAPPENS WITH YOUR DONATIONS

Eyeglasses are washed and sorted by volunteers; then each pair has its

prescription read and is bagged and labeled. Various doctors volunteer-

ing overseas, missionaries, etc. put in requests. Finally glasses are sent

to developing or disaster-stricken nations to be redistributed. The more

donations we receive, the more we are able to send out.

Sunglasses are distributed to agriculture farm workers, mainly in Florida

but also nationally.

Cell phones are sold to a company that recycles some of the parts, then

refurbishes and resets them to be used for emergency calls only. The

phones are then sent to battered women’s shelters. These earnings are

used to support eye clinics we provide throughout the state.

For more information please go to www.lionslighthouse.org

LOST and FOUND

ALL items in the Lost and Found will be donated to charity on Wednes-

day December 17th. Please have your student check the Lost and Found,

located near the clinic, on a regular basis for missing items.

Exemplifying Excellence Every Day!

Final Exam Schedule

December 16th: Reading, World Language and Science

December 17th: Math and Health

December 18th: Social Studies and Language Arts

Citizenship Award Winners

WBMS would like to congratulate the following students for their

Citizenship Awards. The students who were selected for the award met

the following criteria: Practices academic integrity, behaves appropriately,

utilizes school agenda consistently, demonstrates character traits promoted

through E3, completes homework and classroom assignments consistently,

attends school regularly, and demonstrates cooperation with a concern for

others. Parents were invited to a breakfast on November 11th. Each

student received a certificate and a free ice cream token the morning of the

breakfast.

6th Grade

Donya Molaei, Jackson Dickey, Daley O'Brien, Lauren Lederer, Scotty

Falcon, Ryan Schuliger, Lauren Kalmon, Hunter Laserna, Haley Rhein,

Brannon Kersey, Andrea Onesti, Jhania Swaby, Paige Wolf, Alexander

Lidback, Dylan Huskey, Avnee Mhaskar, Ava Paikeday, Spencer Raimon-

do, Sofia Weinstein, Stella Rockwitz, and Ashlee Hollman.

7th Grade

Lauren Erickson, Sarah Dereje, Jacob Fragle, Lauren Guiney, Elizabeth

Kittle, Drew Marks, Sanika Kulkarni, Billy Waters, Nidhi Kethineni, Noah

Lange, Catherine Wadsworth, Aaila Khan, Campbell Morin, Slade Erick-

son, Ethan Benn, Nikhil Jaganathan, Sidney Sidwell, Cassie Bizzarro, and

Luke Marks.

8th Grade

Lamis Al-Wazani, Rachel Park, Yoana Zaharieva, Kayleigh Cook, Brittley

Woods, Vanessa Tam, Jane Arnold, Ashleigh Black, Lauren Baginski,

McKenna Brooks, Amaya Garner, Amelia Valdez, Kayley Beard, Zayne

Akrofi, Emily Bonfanti, Jake Bischoff, Ash Arumugam, Daniel Aguilera-

Salcedo, Jayme Morton, Anna Swauger, and Laura Tomo.

Are you planning to travel for the holidays? Check this first. If you are planning to travel during the school year, please review your

child’s attendance record first. Students who miss 10 or more total days of

school this year will be asked to provide medical notes for additional ab-

sences to be considered excused. Fulton County Schools’ attendance poli-

cy can be found online at http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/fcss/Board.nsf/

goto?open&id=9EHLDB554789. If you anticipate that your child will

have a planned absence from school, submit a letter to the principal

PRIOR to the planned absence for pre-approval consideration. Whenever

possible, please schedule your family travel/vacation time to coincide with

school breaks and avoid missed class time. Thank you for your assistance

in keeping your student present for class instruction.

Teacher Appreciation Wrapping Event – Volunteers Needed

As a way to gift back this holiday season, the PTSA is

providing a giftwrapping service to WBMS teachers and

staff. As a show of our appreciation, we are going to wrap

their Christmas and Holiday gifts for them, so they don’t

have to! Join us for a fun and festive day of wrapping and

giving back to our fabulous teachers and staff. The wrapping days are

December 15th and 16th. Shifts are 10 – 12 and 12 -2. Please contact Mar-

sha Ziegler if you have any questions at m_ziegle@bellsouth.net. To sign

up, go to: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080C4AAAAF2BA31-webb/

Message From PTA

Dear WBMS PTA members,

Just a quick update on what your membership dollars

are doing for your children at their school this year. The

teachers have been awarded over $9000 in mini grant

funds to be used in the classroom this year (and beyond)

to enhance your child's learning experience. Just a few

highlights include: Across the Math curriculum-WBMS

will be implementing IXL (the web's most comprehensive adaptive math

program). In Language Arts, Reading ESOL, SPED- WBMS has pur-

chased class sets of books to support the common core. In business and

computer science- 32 desk top microphones have been incorporated into

the classroom. In the Arts- power tools, batteries and sewing machines

have been provided for the technical theater. The morning broadcast was

granted a new iMac, a much needed technology update.

A student mentoring program has been funded in the amount of $8800 for

teachers to be trained in Boomerang this spring. Boomerang is built on the

belief that students can help students succeed, the program trains mentors

from 8th grade class to be leaders. As positive role models, leaders are

mentors who guide the 6th graders to discover what it takes to be success-

ful during the transition to middle school and help facilitate 6th grade suc-

cess. The transition to middle school is a significant event in the life of a

young person, and yet very few substantial strategies for support exist in

most middle schools. Because the move to middle school can be challeng-

ing and frightening, 6th graders often experience lowered academic

achievement and difficult social adjustments. And, because 6th graders are

often scared in the new environment of middle school, they can easily

become the subject of bullying. WBMS will not just stand by and allow

this rite of passage to happen to their 6th graders.

Your dedication to WBMS has certainly made an impact this school year

and you are greatly appreciated.

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season,

Your WBMS PTA Board

Computer Science Education Week

In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, students in Dr. Ora-

vetz’s Business and Computer Science classes this quarter participated in

Hour of Code, a global movement reaching over 48 million students in

over 180 countries. This one hour of introduction to computer sciences is

designed to demystify code and show that anyone can learn the basics. To

learn more access the website at www.code.org.

ORGANIZATION 101

Webb Bridge Middle School's Counseling Department is

pleased to announce that we will be offering Organization

101.

All counselors will be available to help students organize

their papers and binders to get back on track in their classes.

Appointments will be scheduled in the morning, before school and will

allow about 30-45 minutes per session.

Feel free to call or email your child’s counselor for an appointment.

Please call or email - 770-667-2940

Tina Mathewson, 6th grade, Mathewson@fultonschools.org

Leslie Nuckolls, 7th grade, NuckollsL@fultonschools.org

Anne Ramsey, 8th grade, RamseyA@fultonschools.org

WBMS is happy to provide information about the following programs and

activities, but please note that they are not sponsored by WBMS.

Celebricktion A Celebration of the Lego Building System on December 20-

22 from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. at High Meadows School

Community Center. Tickets are $ 10.00 at the door; all

proceeds will go directly to The Drake House. For this

fundraising event, Lego builders Harry and Austin Nijenkamp "free

built" (meaning no plans or drawings) an entire city with over one million

Lego pieces featuring parks, 12-foot plus high skyscrapers, streets and

even a parade containing thousands of Lego mini figures. It took over a

year to build this amazing city. For more information go to

www.celebricktion.com. An informational flyer is attached to this email.

Business Partner of the Month

Lily’s Pharmacy is a Johns Creek family owned & operated

pharmacy that can serve all of your prescription

needs! Lily’s is the best rated pharmacy in all of Fulton

County for a reason…come on in and see why kids always

want to come back! All insurance is accepted, prices are

better than the big chains that just treat you like a number,

and you get free delivery and the personal service you

should expect! What do you have to lose? Give them a call

or come in to meet Dr. Jen, Mike, Lily, and Abby (the Shan-

non family)!