Sept 25 to 29

Daily: Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance

mONDAY 9/25 - iMiddle Colors Grey and blue

Daily Pledge

Announcements:

Swan Lake: Students are invited to attend the ballet performance of Swan Lake at the San Diego Civic Theater on Friday, October 27th. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults. The cost for dinner at school before the performance is $5. This is payable to the main office. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, September 29th. Email Mrs. Gomez for more information.

8th Grade Announcement: Are you interested in learning about the 8th grade East Coast Trip? Students and parents are invited to an informational meeting about the summer 2018 East Coast Trip. The trip is open to 8th grade students only. The information meeting will be on Tuesday, October 10th at 6pm in the school auditorium.

The Robotics Club will be voting on class officers at the team meeting this Tuesday (Sept 26). Remember you can nominated yourself on the team website. Candidates should be ready to introduce themselves to the team and tell them why they would be a good choice. We well also be voting on the T-shirt design and taking a team picture.

PAC Incentive Day: Today we are starting to reward students who have different areas of their PAC clean-meaning no write ups. Each Monday we will pick a different topic to reward with Early Release to Lunch time.

9/25-All students with NO Tardies from the beginning of the year until now may be released for lunch today at 12:18 (5 min early)

iMiddle News: Watch for Today 9/25

https://sites.google.com/a/imiddlesd.com/imiddle-news/

Monday Message:

Respect-Right now just think about what this word really means? How would you define it? How would you show it to others? Take a look at this short clip Give Respect, Get Respect
In small groups, Come up with 3 ways that you can demonstrate respect here at iMiddle. Remember to think of respect in more ways than one.... Respect to Self, Respect to Peers, Respect to Adults, Respect to Property, etc...
Share your ideas of Respect with the class
Play the game "Have you Ever" where students stand up if they have done what the question states (then sit back down for the next question)

Respect Have You Ever

tuESDAY 9/26

Announcements:

Swan Lake: Students are invited to attend the ballet performance of Swan Lake at the San Diego Civic Theater on Friday, October 27th. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults. The cost for dinner at school before the performance is $5. This is payable to the main office. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, September 29th. Email Mrs. Gomez for more information.

8th Grade Announcement: Are you interested in learning about the 8th grade East Coast Trip? Students and parents are invited to an informational meeting about the summer 2018 East Coast Trip. The trip is open to 8th grade students only. The information meeting will be on Tuesday, October 10th at 6pm in the school auditorium.

Tech Tuesday: Digital Etiquette

What does Digital Etiquette mean?
Watch this Brain Pop video to find out

https://www.brainpop.com/technology/freemovies/digitaletiquette/

As a class, take this Digital Etiquette Quiz
In small groups, take a look at the 8 Online Etiquette Rules- break these up so that each small group takes one and explains/teaches the rule to the rest of the class
- 8 Online Etiquette Rules

wEDNESDAY 9/27 - STEAM Shirts!

Announcements:

Student email accounts- Teachers please remind ALL students that the gmail account with their student sandi.net log in is disabled by the district. If a student tries to send an email it will LOOK like it sent it, but no one will ever get it. The student sandi.net account DO NOT work. If you tried to email a teacher something through this account, please talk to that teacher as soon as possible, because he or she never saw you email. imiddlesd gmail accounts still work (7th and 8th graders) and can send and receive email.

Swan Lake: Students are invited to attend the ballet performance of Swan Lake at the San Diego Civic Theater on Friday, October 27th. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults. The cost for dinner at school before the performance is $5. This is payable to the main office. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, September 29th. Email Mrs. Gomez for more information.

8th Grade Announcement: Are you interested in learning about the 8th grade East Coast Trip? Students and parents are invited to an informational meeting about the summer 2018 East Coast Trip. The trip is open to 8th grade students only. The information meeting will be on Tuesday, October 10th at 6pm in the school auditorium.

CLEANING DAY!!! :)

During Advisory, please have students clean out and organize their backpacks!

tHURSDAY 9/28

Announcements:

First iMiddle Dance: You voted and our first dance will be on November 3!! More info to come soon!!

SkyHawk Pops: Redeem your SkyHawk cards in Room 1 the last 5 minutes of Advisory!

Swan Lake: Students are invited to attend the ballet performance of Swan Lake at the San Diego Civic Theater on Friday, October 27th. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults. The cost for dinner at school before the performance is $5. This is payable to the main office. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, September 29th. Email Mrs. Gomez for more information.

8th Grade Announcement: Are you interested in learning about the 8th grade East Coast Trip? Students and parents are invited to an informational meeting about the summer 2018 East Coast Trip. The trip is open to 8th grade students only. The information meeting will be on Tuesday, October 10th at 6pm in the school auditorium.

underlying Needs

Watch the videos on the link below...

http://www.schooltools.info/underlying-needs/

Then have the students get into groups and take the Underlying Needs Quiz!

Keep the options below posted on the board. Have the students go through each conflict and match the need to the conflict. There may be multiple needs for some conflicts!

Underlying Needs:

A. Sustenance - food, air, water, shelter, physical health

B. Safety - physical or emotional safety, trust

C. Love - affection, support, appreciation

D. Understanding - empathy, learning, respect

E. Creativity - self-expression, work, contribution

F. Community - belonging, connection, acceptance

G. Rest/recreation/play - sleep, joy, renewal

H. Autonomy - self-governance, choice, freedom

I. Meaning - purpose, beliefs, faith, hope

fRIDAY 9/29 - College Wear

Announcements:

First iMiddle Dance: Our first dance will be on November 3!! Ticket Sales will start next week!

SkyHawk Pops: Redeem your SkyHawk cards in Room 1 the FIRST 5 minutes of LUNCH!

Swan Lake: Students are invited to attend the ballet performance of Swan Lake at the San Diego Civic Theater on Friday, October 27th. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults. The cost for dinner at school before the performance is $5. This is payable to the main office. The deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, September 29th. Email Mrs. Gomez for more information.

8th Grade Announcement: Are you interested in learning about the 8th grade East Coast Trip? Students and parents are invited to an informational meeting about the summer 2018 East Coast Trip. The trip is open to 8th grade students only. The information meeting will be on Tuesday, October 10th at 6pm in the school auditorium.

Longest Winner

Please congratulate last week's ASB Team Challenge winner.

FRI-YAY! 9/22

ASB TEAM CHALLENGE:

iMiddle slogan contest

TASK: This week's ASB Advisory challenge will be to create the best school slogan.

PROCEDURES:

You will work in groups of four to six to come up with a slogan that best represents what iMiddle stands for.
Think about what makes iMiddle special: our mascot is the Skyhawk; we're STEAM focused; etc.
At the end of 15 minutes each team will give their slogan to the teacher or ASB reps who will select the class winner (make sure them small group names are on the back of the paper).
The winning slogan for your class will be put to a school-wide vote to determine the winning slogan for the school.
The winning slogan will be put on the back of our new iMiddle t-shirt and the winners (small group) will receive a t-shirt for FREE!

GOOD LUCK!!

Link to online timer

Set the timer for 15 minutes.