February 2010

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LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
 
  February, 2010 
  Cameron Grow, Principal          Bill Holman, Assistant Principal                               (509)334‐3411                                  www.psd267.org 
STUDENT RECOGNITION DESSERT NIGHTS
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
to the
LMS BOOSTERS
for their continued support of the LMS SWOFS Program!
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THIS MONTH!
ach year after the end of first semester, we hold three awards nights to recognize student achievement in the areas of academic success and social development. The LMS Boosters sponsor and organize these events by helping with set up, tear down and decorations.
You will receive a letter from Mr. Grow if your son or daughter will be receiving an award. If your last name begins with a letter between M-Z, you will be asked to bring a homemade or store bought dessert to feed 6-8 people. The boosters will provide all paper products as well as coffee and punch. Please provide a serving utensil if needed.
Jachin Smith, Madeline Rogers and Brian Field each won $50.00 in our Semester Grand Prize SWOFS drawing held on January 22nd!
Mardi Gras!
7th and 8th Grade Dance
Friday, February 19, 2010
6:30—8:30pm
6th Grade—February 23rd 7:00pm 7th Grade—March 4th 7:00pm 8th Grade—March 3rd 7:00pm
Admission: Free with ASB Card $3.00 without card
WANTED: FOR THIS YEAR’S YEARBOOK!
YOUR PHOTOS
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Just send an e-mail with your photos attached to:
LMSclaypool@gmail.com or dclaypool@psd267.wednet.edu
Please identify the event and the names of the people in the picture, if possible.
We can accept photos through February 2010.
8TH GRADE PARENTS!
NIGHT OF THE NOTABLES
is scheduled this year for March 22 & 23rd.
This is a wonderful evening event for all 8th graders and their significant adults, which celebrates each students’ research of an important historical figure of their choosing.
HOMEWORK HELP!
One-on-one tutoring for your child is available through the Center for Civic Engagement. Call 335-7707, or check out their web-site at http://cce.wsu.edu. Click on “programs” then “tutoring”.
Please mark your calendars now as this event will take place the week before Spring Break.
JANUARY
STUDENTS OF THE MONTH!
(6TH) Victory Jones
(7TH) Mayra Blanco
(8TH) Conchetta Comito
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he Student of the Month program is sponsored by Kiwanis club of Pullman. Students of the month are nominated by students and teachers, and criteria for selection includes good citizenship, thoughtfulness, volunteer activities, creativity and attendance. Recipients are recognized at a special luncheon with the Kiwanis club and receive $50 ($25 to go to the charity or project of their choice).
CONTRATULATIONS Victory, Mayra & Conchetta!
 
     
 
ave you ever daydreamed about  standing on the very steps where  past presidents have addressed the  nation, or experiencing the sights and  sounds of a bustling city while making  memories that last a lifetime?  Join Ms.  Ayre‐ Svingen on an educational trip  to Washington DC!   
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June 15th—20th, 2010
Brochures available in the LMS office,  or go to www.worldstrides.org/timetotravel       Trip ID: 27164 
DRAMA CLUB
Drama Club G reat workpreparation forstudents in upcoming performances! At this point student actors are bringing their props and costumes to school for storage in the drama club room, and are finishing memorization of lines and blocking. This year, not only are Drama Club students preparing plays for performance, but they are also collaborating with Art Club for a living art production. These performances will take place on Tuesday, March 16th. Look for more information in the March newsletter.
CLOCK NIGHT!
Tuesday, February 2nd
7:15pm LMS Commons
If your student was in Mr. Stephenson’s Drafting and Woods class Fall Semester, you are invited to come view clocks made by each student, and also take home the clock created by your student. You will also learn important information on caring for your clock.
LMS 2010 7th/8th Grade
GIRL’S VARSITY
BASKETBALL
Updated: 1/15/2010
Date
Feb. 2 Feb. 4 Feb. 9* Feb. 11 Feb. 16 Feb. 18* Feb. 23
Location
Pullman Pullman Lapwai* Sacajawea Pullman Clarkston* Moscow
Opponent
Clarkston Moscow Lapwai* Sacajawea Jenifer Clarkston* Moscow
Bus Time
2:45 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
Home Games will be played at Lincoln Middle School 8th Grade Coach: Lisa Merrill 7th Grade Coach: Jacque Garza Game times: 7th Grade - 4:30 p.m. 8th Grade - To follow 7th grade game, usually about 5:45 pm *Game times on events indicated with the asterisk: 7th Grade—4:00pm 8th Grade—To follow 7th grade game, approximately at 5:15pm
LMS 2010
WRESTLING
Updated: 1/15/2010
Date
Feb. 3 Feb. 6 Feb. 10 Feb. 13 Feb. 17 Feb. 22 Feb. 27
Location/Opponent
Clarkston/Clarkston, Pomeroy Potlatch Round Robin Tournament Pullman/Sacajawea, Potlatch Moscow Invitational Tournament Moscow/Moscow Jenifer/Jenifer, St. John Bi-State Tournament at Pomeroy
Bus Time
3:00 p.m. TBA TBA 3:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 6:00 a.m.
Home matches will be held at Lincoln Middle School Head Coach: Ryan Scaggs Asst. Coach: Philip Goodell League match weigh-in: 4:00 p.m. Start time: 5:00 p.m.
LMS 2010 7th/8th Grade
GIRL’S JV
BASKETBALL
Printed: 1/15/2010
Date
Feb. 1 Feb. 3 Feb. 4 Feb. 8 Feb. 9
Time Teams
4:30 5:30 4:30 5:30 4:30 5:30 4:30 5:30 4:30 5:00 5:30 4:30 5:30 4:15 5:15 6:15 P2 v M1 P1 v M3 P3 @ L1 P2 @ L2 P1 @ M2 P3 @ M3 P1 @ L2 P2 @ L1 P1 v P2 P1 v P3 P2 v P3 P3 v M2 P2 v M3 P1 v M1 P2 v M2 P3 v M3
Location
LMS LMS Logos Logos Moscow HS Moscow HS Logos Logos
Bus
Return
3:15 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
LMS (Intersquad), 2 quarters LMS (Intersquad), 2 quarters LMS (Intersquad), 2 quarters LMS LMS LMS LMS LMS P2 – Hanna Smaha P3 – Ryne Webb
Feb. 11 Feb 17
Coaches: P1 – Jeff Martin
LMS 2010 6th Grade
GIRL’S INTRAMURAL
BASKETBALL
Date
Friday 2/5 Friday 2/19
Game
A vs D B vs C C vs D A vs B
Time
4:00pm 5:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm
Coach: Lisa Merrill ( lmerrill@psd267.wednet.edu) and Danielle Hodge
CHOIR NEWS
SEWMEA Solo/Small Ensemble Festival~ Our Southeast region’s 2010 Solo/Small Ensemble Music Festival, open to all public school music students in the Southeast region of Washington, will be hosted by Mrs. James (Lincoln MS Choir) and Mrs. DeWitt (Pullman HS Band) at Lincoln Middle School in Pullman. The event will take place on Saturday, February6th from 9:00am to 3:00pm and will feature middle school and high school student musicians. Each performer will receive a personal adjudication and rating from a respected expert in the performer’s area of study. High school students receiving a “Superior” rating will have the opportunity to compete at the state Solo/ Ensemble Festival in April. We have many vocal and instrumental students from LMS entered in the event, including one soloist, 7th grader Lily Thoren, and several small ensembles from the LMS 7th & 8th Grade Concert Choir. We invite you to come out and support our performers, and enjoy some outstanding music along the way. All LMS 6th Grade Choir members are strongly encouraged to attend as audience. Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival~ The 2010 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is quickly approaching and our LMS 7th & 8th Grade Advanced Jazz Combo is working hard to prepare for it. The Advanced Jazz Combo is entered in the Combo Division for this year’s festival. The festival will take place Thursday, February 25th for middle school participants and is an all day event. During the day students will have the opportunity to perform, hear other school ensembles and young soloists perform, and may have the opportunity to sit in on clinics given by various jazz artists that also perform at the festival. Due to this great opportunity to learn more about jazz, the LMS 6th Grade Jazz Combo is also invited to attend the festival. Their day will be filled with jazz music. This year we also have one LMS student, 7th grader Lily Thoren, performing in the Vocal Solo Division. Good luck jazz students! WMEA Youth Honor Choir & Junior All-State Concert 2010~ One LMS 6th Grade Choir student, Amanda Emerson, and two LMS 8th Grade Choir students, Lucina Perez and Jen Van Allen, will participate in the Washington Music Educators Association’s Youth Honor Choir and Junior AllState Concert on Saturday, February 13th. These students were selected to the choirs by audition this past December, and have been working on the six to seven honor pieces they will perform at the concert. Amanda Emerson will perform with the Youth Honor Choir, Lucina Perez will perform with the Junior All-State Treble Choir, and Jen Van Allen will perform with the Junior All-State Mixed Choir. The performance will take place at 4:15pm at The Capitol Theatre in Yakima, WA.
Upcoming Events
7th & 8th Grade Concert Choir
February 6th — SEWMEA Solo/Small-Ensemble Festival All day at LMS
Congratulations choir students on all of the practice hours you have put in and all of your hard work in rehearsal so far this year. Keep up the good work! If you are not receiving weekly choir news emails and would like to, simply email Mrs. James at tjames@psd267.wednet.edu with your email address and you will be added to the family list. The weekly choir news emails send out reminders to families/ students about upcoming events, tell what students should be practicing at home, and give tips on how students can practice outside of class.
6th Grade and 7th &8th Grade Advanced Jazz Choirs
February 25th — Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival,
Moscow ID, all day
Lincoln Middle School Instrumental Music News
February - 2010
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC NEWS
Lincoln Middle School Instrumental Music Program 2009-2010
February is a busy month for the instrumental music department! We hope parents will take advantage of coming to hear the performance opportunities this month. Saturday, February 6th is our regional solo and ensemble festival here at Lincoln Middle School. Students involved in this festival have been hard at work rehearsing their solos or small ensemble music. A schedule will be sent home closer to the event. Eighth graders who were accepted to Junior All-State will participate in that honor group this month, on February 13th in Yakima. We are very proud of all of the students who auditioned, they did an excellent job, and we know those students who were accepted will be wonderful ambassadors for Lincoln Middle School. February 25th is a big day for the Jazz Bands at LMS. That is the day of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Mr. Covill will send out more information about the Jazz Festival, such as schedule and information for anyone interested in chaperoning, closer to the event. Sixth grade Jazz Band starts this month! 6th grade Jazz Band will start on Friday, February 19 at 7:30am in the band room at LMS. We rehearse on Monday and Friday mornings from 7:30am to 8:15am. Percussionists need to purchase a pair of brushes. I will let them know what kind to get or you can check our website. Looking ahead, the 6th grade and 7th/8th grade Orchestra will have a concert Monday, March 1st at 7:30 pm in the LMS Commons. The PHS Orchestra and WSU string orchestra will also be performing on this concert. Please mark your calendars! Thank you for your support of your student in instrumental music at LMS. Remember to check the music department website: http://www.lmsmusic.org for up-to-date information for both the band and orchestra programs.
Thank you for your support of the LMS Instrumental Music Program!
From the Library…
As a public school librarian, I am constantly thinking about ways to better engage students with the world of the printed word. Believe me, with all the many technological and social diversions in our children's lives, that can indeed be a full-time job. Sometimes the realization that many kids will never know the joy and fulfillment reading can bring, the worlds it can open up, the comfort it can bring to a chaotic day, the knowledge that leads to understanding and growth, can actually hurt! It's at those low points that I have, thankfully, been able to renew my commitment to the challenge of finding just the right book that will give a student a taste of all those things books have offered me. And, when that doesn't seem to work, when the "right" book is returned unread, or the student has no interest in finding the next "right" book, I can easily put my faith in the fact that some of our greatest minds, our best writers, and some of our most successful leaders of business, society and government, also did not like to read when they were in middle or high school. So, what's a parent to do? 1. Let your children see you read. Novels, non-fiction, newspapers, magazines, work-related materials, whatever it might be, children become life-long readers more readily if they see it modeled at home. 2. Read with your children. Even though your child is middle school-aged, they can still benefit greatly from reading to you or their siblings or having you read to them. In fact, if you have a reluctant reader in your family, reading out loud the first couple of chapters of a book they bring home as homework or for pleasure will often spark their interest and motivate them to continue reading the story. It can also help them decide in a much more timely manner that they may need to get a different book either because the one they chose doesn't interest them or is too difficult or too easy. 3. Encourage your child to check out books from the library. Whether it is our school library, Neill Public Library, or any of the WSU libraries, children learn that they can enjoy books without having to purchase them. Is that so cool, or what?! 4. Give books as rewards or gifts. Showing your children that books are a treat not a punishment is very important. Does it matter what kind of book? I don't think so. Although I am not a fan of "graphic" novels, I have seen kids who do not enjoy reading picking those up and reading them. The same goes with cartoon books and magazines. As long as the content is age-appropriate and supports your family's values, let them read what they like. 5. Don't lose hope. As I said at the beginning, many successful individuals have developed the love of reading later in their lives—often when they no longer have to. In the meantime, the teachers at LMS and I will continue to look for just the right book that will open that limitless, wonderful world to them.
Mrs. Jovanovich
LMS CLUB INFO 
What Spartans are doing before and after school!
MONDAYS
• 7/8th Grade Math Team (208) 7:15am • 6th Grade Jazz Band (806) 7:30am (Begins in January) • 6th Grade Jazz Choir (807) 7:30am
TUESDAYS
• • • • • •
7/8 Jazz Band (806) 7:30am Advanced Jazz Choir (807) 7:30am Yearbook Club (208) 7:30am Science Club (503) 3:00pm Drama Club (807) 3:00—4:00pm P.A.W. (Conf Room) 3:00pm
WEDNESDAYS
• • • • •
6th Grade Jazz Band (806) 7:30am (Begins in January) Builder’s Club (302) 7:30am L.E.A.P. (Recycle Club ) (404) 2nd Lunch Cyber Club (506) 7:15am Advanced Jazz Choir (807) 7:30am
THURSDAYS
• • • • •
7/8 Jazz Band (806) 7:30am Advanced Jazz Choir (807) 7:30am Art Club (501) 3:00pm Drama Club (807) 3:00—4:00pm 6th Grade Math Team (208) 3:00pm
FRIDAYS
• 6th Grade Jazz Choir (807) 7:30am • Spirit Club (407) 7:45am • Destination Imagination (406) 3:00—5:00pm
Art Club Builder’s Club Cyber Club Dance Committee Destination Imagination Drama Club 6th Jazz Band (Begins in January) 7/8 Jazz Band 6th Grade Jazz Choir Advanced Jazz Choir L.E.A.P. (Recycle Club) 6th Grade Math Team 7/8th Grade Math Team P.A.W. (People for Animal Welfare) Science Club Spirit Club Yearbook
Thursdays, 3:00pm (501) Wednesdays, 7:30am (302) Wednesdays, 7:15am (506) Meetings TBA (501) Fridays, 3:00pm (406) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:00—4:00pm (807) Mondays & Wednesdays, 7:30am (806) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30am (806) Mondays & Fridays, 7:30am (807) Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays 7:30am (807) Wednesdays, 2nd Lunch (404) Thursdays, 3:00pm (208) Mondays, 7:15am (208) Tuesdays, 3:00pm (Conference Room) Tuesdays, 3:00pm (503) Fridays, 7:45am (407) Tuesdays, 7:30am (208)
LMS BOOSTER CLUB
WANTED: VOLUNTEERS!
The Boosters have two big activities we are sponsoring in March and would LOVE more volunteers! • 6th Grade Fun Night will take place on Friday, March 5th. This is a great night for kids but always needs lots of volunteers to make it run smoothly! • Student Recognition Nights will be held on February 23rd and March 3rd and 4th. Parents of the students being recognized bring desserts to share, but volunteers are needed to help serve the desserts each of the nights. If you are able to help with either of these events, please contact Tami Pitzer at tpitzer@clearwire.net.
Don’t forget to sign up for Escrip!
Every time you shop at Safeway, a percentage of your purchase can be given to Lincoln. We currently have 70 members! Thank you for your participation! Sign up at escrip.com. Our group # is 8564182. If you don’t know what your Safeway card number is, you can call (877)723-3939 to get it.
Come to our next BOOSTER MEETING!
February 8th
7:00pm at LMS
2009—2010 BOOSTER CLUB OFFICERS
President: Tami Pitzer (tpitzer@clearwire.net) Treasurer: Tina Imler Secretary: Katrina Mealey
Everyone Welcome!
We appreciate your support!
If you would like to join the LMS Boosters, please fill out the information below and return to the office. THANK YOU!
I would like to support LMS Boosters!
___$15 Individual membership ___$20 Family membership
NAME ____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS ________________________________________________________ PHONE __________________________________________________________ E-MAIL __________________________________________________________
(Please return this form to the Booster Club box in the office) THANK YOU!
6th Grade FUN NIGHT!
Date: March 5, 2010 Time: 6:30—8:30pm
All 6th Graders are invited to LMS for an evening of fun! Activities will include pizza, an inflatable obstacle course, karaoke, bingo, photos, volleyball, basketball and more!
We need volunteers! If you are interested in helping with this fun activity, please contact Tami Pitzer at tpitzer@clearwire.net
GIRLS: If your last name begins with A-Q, please bring a bag of chips. If it begins with R-Z, bring a 2-litre bottle of pop. BOYS: If your last name begins with A-H, please bring a 2litre bottle of pop. If it begins with I-Z, please bring a bag of cookies.
WHO:
Children - Birth through 5 years of age who reside in the Pullman School District and children age 6-21 who may have a developmental delay. This screening is an opportunity to review your child’s development and to address potential concerns. The first Friday of each month except Dec. and May February 6 March 6 April 10 (no school on Apr. 3) 8:30 am – 10:30 am Appointments scheduled on the half hour until 10:00
WHAT: WHEN:
WHERE:
Community Child Care Center/Head Start 530 NW Larry Pullman, WA Call Paula Bates at the Pullman School District office at 332-3144 for more information or to schedule an appointment.
CONTACT:
The Pullman School District No. 267 complies with all federal and state reules and regulations and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, or disability. This holds true for all district employment and opportunities; as well as admission to, or employment in, its education programs or activities. Inquiries regarding compliance and/or grievance procedures may be directed to the school district’s Title IX/RCW 28.A640 Officer, Susana Reyes, 509-332-3144, 240 SE Dexter, Pullman, WA 99163.