Saints Day, Friday August 24th

Hopefully everyone is up to date and on board with an activity we started last year that we had great success with. Our Saints Day is when students come in before school starts, receive their schedules, locker combinations, student photos, books, tour the building, etc... Here is the schedule: Friday, August 24th, SCMS SAINTS DAY 6th Graders – 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM 7th Graders – 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM 8th Graders – 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM - Hope to see you there!!!!

Bullying QR Code

I love this new (to me) technology.

SCMS 2012-13 Student Handbook

Welcome to the 21'st Century. If you're unsure what this is, odds are you can ask one of your kids.

Looking for Cheap Labor

In cheap I really mean free. Our front flower beds are on the verge of being over taken by weeds. Looking for some middle school students that would like to do me a HUGE favor (and I never forget favors) by stopping by and doing some landscaping (aka weeding). Shoot me an e-mail if you're interested....hopefully I can get a few to help out. I'm sure I can supply pizza as a reward.

DC Disappointment

This can get a bit confusing but here's the short version. Our best friends from college who happen to be our youngest son's Godparents (yes...they had colleges back when I was young) have a son named Nick. Nick was our middle son's best man when he got married. As you can probably read between the lines and make the assumption that these are very close family friends. Nick is getting married on the same date that our Washington DC trip is scheduled. For that reason, for the first time in what seems like 100 years, I will be missing the DC trip this year. The good news is that Mrs. Barker has been on this trip almost as many times as I have and our new assistant principal, Mr. Westerhof, has had been with the MCMS Washington DC trip many times. The group that is going are going to LOVE it....they're just going to have to love it without me.

Supply Lists

Thanks to Meijers, who already have their back to school supplies out, I've decided to put our supply lists on our Blog. This list is only a suggestion. One suggestion that I will make is please, please, please don't buy your son/daughter a trapper keeper. One of the biggest downfalls at the middle school is a lack of organizational skills. The Trapper Keeper tends to turn into a Black hole for assignments. 6th Grade Supply List: Scissors, erasers, lined paper, box of Kleenex Six one inch binders (one for each class), dividers for each binder red pens for correcting, 4 pack of dry erase markers colored pencils, 1 old sock (to use as an eraser for the markers) glue sticks, one Green spiral notebook for Math, highlighters One Blue spiral notebook for Geography 7th Grade Supply List: Colored Pencils, #2 pencils and erasers Glue sticks, ruler (English and metric) Highlighters, box of Kleenex (turned into your Math teacher) TI-30X-IIS calculator, pens One Green (Math), one Blue (Geography), one Yellow (Language Arts) and two red (Science …one for notes and one for labs) spiral notebooks. 8th Grade Supply List: Colored Pencils, #2 pencils and erasers Glue sticks, ink pens Highlighters, box of Kleenex TI-30X-IIS calculator One Green (Math), one Blue (Geography), one Yellow (Language Arts) and one red (Science) spiral notebooks.

Supporters Cruise August 21st.

The East China Supporters Group will again be sponsoring a "Cruisin’ Down the St. Clair River!” on Tuesday, August 21. Boarding begins at 6:00 p.m. departing from the dock of the River Crab Restaurant in St. Clair at 6:30 p.m. SHARP! We'll be cruising the St. Clair River to the Blue Water Bridge and returning to the dock at 9:30 p.m. Music will be provided by The Rivertown Gents. Hors d’oeuvres prepared by the River Crab. Ticket Price is $50 per person with a cash Bar. If interested please reserve your tickets by calling Bonnie Christler at 810.676.1018