Congratulations to these lucky winners of our Blind Date with a Book Challenge! During February PMS students were challenged to read a book they knew nothing about and write a review. This entered them in a drawing for Sonic, Subway, and Casey's General Store gift cards. Back Row: Lucas Hisek, Hadley Turner, Katie Massey, Gio Amaparan, Athena James Front Row: Olivia Stringer, Miley Perkins, Palak Patel, Trena Hamm
Happy Thursday from Paris Middle School. We have a lot of things going on before Spring Break starts next Friday. Please make sure your child is at school for all of the testing and events!
We love having our local police officers visit the MS! We would like to thank Officer Petz, Cooper and Moore stopping by breakfast with our kiddos!
Ashley Kincannon is a state CS Specialist and worked with every grade level on Monday in Mr Jamie Varnell's classes. Students programmed a circuit python with onboard LEDs to be a strobe light. The last class even made it only work when the lights went off using a light sensor.
Read-a-thon continued on Friday! These students were reading during DEAR time with finger flashlights for Flashlight Friday!
We have some ballers at Paris Middle School! Congratulations to the young ladies who won the championship today and proud of our boys for being runners up! Congratulations!
5th Grade Quiz Bowl: Congratulations to the PMS team for a 2nd place finish.
Olivia Stringer and Ainsley Wells were in the top 10 for most questions answered
Congratulations to our February Students of the Month:
8th: Kylie Kimberling/Dylan Parsons
7th: Mollee Loyd/ Hunter Smith
6th: Cici Moore/ Asher Russo
5th: Eden Honea/ Stephan Her
CONGRATULATIONS
Paris Middle School has been celebrating Dr Seuss and Read Across America Week by dressing up and competing with grades and classes on their reading time! It has been a fun week celebrating reading!
Paris Middle School is hosting a 5th/6th Grade Read-a-Thon Feb. 26-March8. Please consider supporting a reader by going to https://www.read-a-thon.com/school/_57466
Thank you!
We challenged the 7th and 8th graders to a 30 day Expectation Challenge! For 30 days, we focused on Effort, Attendance and Respect.
Effort: no missing assignments
Attendance: Zero unexcused absences and no detentions for tardies
Respect: no more than 1 lunch detention and 0 office referrals
On Friday, we entered the names of those students who met the criteria for one, two or three of these categories and we drew for gift cards!
Winners for 7th grade:
Effort: Josslyn Smith, Emma Tencleve, Ezekiel Kemp
Attendance: Blakelyn McKinney, Kane Miller, Emily Helton
Respect: Tanner Robison, Jasmine Salgado, Abery Hamilton
Winners for 8th grade:
Effort: Kara Massey, Chloe Moore, Riley Floren
Attendance: Aiden Hull, Isaac Lowe, Maddi Howard
Respect: Landyn Kremers, Kylie Kimberling, Rome Campbell
Congratulations to these students and we will roll out our next 30 day expectation challenge soon! If you would like to donate a gift card, please get with Mr Prieur
Dance: Dance through the Decades 2/16/24 in the Middle School gym!! If you
want to bump it up a notch you can DRESS like a decade – 80’s, 90’s, etc. get
creative!!! Tickets ARE on sale for $5.00 and may be bought during 7th period in room
8 (Mrs. Cole’s room) or at the door day of the dance – 5th and 6th grade dance will be
3:30 – 5:00 (they can stay after school if they are attending the dance) and 7th and 8th will dance from 5:30 – 7:00 (no outside dates allowed). Pick up and drop off will be the same procedures as the normal school day.
REMINDER for Thursday: Paris MS will take the Science Atlas Interim Test and 8th grade students will need to report to the MS in the morning. All grades will take this Interim test, in preparation of the State Atlas test coming up this semester.
REMINDER: Paris Middle School does not accept deliveries, including floral deliveries, for or from students. With Valentine's Day approaching, this policy is important to take note. We appreciate your assistance with this.
DANCE TIME!!! Dance Through The Decades on February 16th!
5th/6th grade from 3:30-5:00. Students will be allowed to stay after school if need be.
7th/8th grade from 5:30-7:00.
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased from Mrs Cole or at the door!
Paris Middle School does not accept deliveries, including floral deliveries, for or from students. With Valentine's Day approaching, this policy is important to take note. We appreciate your assistance with this.
Paris Middle School students participated in the Battle of the Books competition at the Guy Fenter Education Co-op on Thursday, Feb. 8. Students competing include Camie Adway, Palak Patel, Holly King, Olivia Stringer, Lyla Cozens, Ainsley Wells, Liam Woods, and Preston Donahou. All teams performed well and our 5th-grade team of Olivia Stringer, Lyla Cozens, and Ainsley Wells took home the first-place trophy!
February 5th-9th is School Counselor Appreciation Week and Paris Middle School is BLESSED with the BEST School Counselor for our students, staff and families. Please reach out this week, if you can, and show your appreciation to Andrea Robertson for all she does!
Congratulations to our January Students of the Month:
5th: Saachi Patel, Jace Koch
6th: Alayna Goldsmith, Dacyn Raines
7th: Trenna Hamm, Jayden Her
8th: Taelyn Floyd, Rome Campbell (not pictured)
Congratulations to Braxton Brousseau and Kane Miller. These two were randomly picked out of this week's' Sticky Notes of students caught being good and they received a Day Pass to Daddio's Pinball and Arcade! Congratulations!
We appreciate Daddio's for supporting our students at Paris Middle School!
FCA is a group that meets every Friday morning, before school, in the safe room at Paris Middle School. It was well attended this morning as Keith Bullock from CT Church gave a great message on labels! We appreciate the support from our local community investing in the lives of our young people!
