Middle School Messenger

A Tradition of Excellence & Equity Volume 1, Issue 1

October 2011

Dear Parents, Welcome! I am ex-cited about our 2011-2012 year. I have visited with our new 5th grad-ers; they are a great group. Please feel free to join your child for lunch any day. We get into full swing in October with our ex-tra-curricular activities. Please keep the calendar included in this newslet-ter as a reference. Per-mission from home is required to stay after school and a student must be with a teacher during this time. We do not allow students to walk to the library or into town without writ-ten permission. Please remember, too, that stu-dents may not ride home on the bus with a friend due to our bus’s capac-ity. Your cooperation in keeping track of our kids is appreciated. The first interim pe-riod ends in October 7.

occur that would require our evacuation, only par-ents would be allowed to pick up their own child. Students will not be re-leased to friends or neighbors. Seventh graders will have their first dance from 7:00—9:30 pm on October 21. A letter will be sent to all 7th grade parents regarding the event. Parents are wel-come to attend. Please call us with questions or concerns (655-1324). Our website offers important information that you will find helpful ww.caz.cnyric.org).

Sincerely, Jean J. Regan Principal

Principal’s Message

Grades will be posted on the parent portal on Oc-tober 14. Please call or email the appropriate teacher if you have any questions; each teacher has their own voice mail box to record your mes-sage. The Parent Portal is also available if you have internet service. You may sign up for your individualized pass-word in our office dur-ing our regular business hours. We will have a half day of school on Octo-ber 20 for parent con-ferences. Students will be dismissed at approxi-mately 10:45 am. During the morning of October 20th, our students will participate in our annual sheltering drill and early dismissal drill. This exercise is designed to practice procedures in the event that we have an incident that would require us to gather in one place. Should a real emergency

PTA News A reminder that school pictures are October 5th. Yearbook order forms are out! We encourage all parents to order online. The website is www.jostensyearbooks.com

Thank you for supporting the wrapping paper sale. All order forms are due by October 12. On Facebook? Please “Like” Cazenovia Middle School PTA for additional PTA News.

November 3—4:30 pm November 4—7:00 pm November 5—2:00 pm

Reserved Seating $5.00

Call 655-1324 x3334

Google Apps Are Here!

You’ve all probably heard about it by now. Maybe your child(ren), a teacher or a friend told you. Google Apps is the new Buzz at the Middle School!

To give you some background, the district was looking for some way to make sharing information and home-work easier for the students, parents and teachers. Google Apps fit the bill be-cause it is internet-based. That means that it has a format that any machine (PC or Mac ) can read. It has already saved us from many of the format issues we have seen in the past. In addition,

students need to remember only one user id and one password. Previously, we had two - one for the network and one for BlackBoard.

Students can sign on to our closed system through the Cazenovia web page at www.caz.cnyric.org. All in-formation included in our system can

only be seen by people who have accounts through the school. It is not open to the rest of the world. Once signed

in, students can find homework as-signments in their Documents or at-

tached to an event on their class cal-endars, depending on how the teacher has set it up. Students need to remember two things: name their homework using the format the teacher has shown them and share their completed work with their teacher. All students have been shown how to do this. If they have any problems doing either of these, please have them let their teacher know.

That’s the quick overview. If you have any questions, we are here to help.

Sour Kangaroo), Julia Wilson (Mayzie LaBird), Dan McKillop (The Mayor) and Mimi Gabor (Mrs. Mayor), Jake Bosworth, Geoff Christensen, John Henry Light-Olson and Adam Race portray the “Wickersham Brothers” and “The Bird Girls” include Anna Barrett, Caeli Carroll, Sophia Carroll, Lucy Connor, Hope Earley, Faith Gara, Katie Hopsicker, Alli Karmis, Siobhan Kiernan, Emily Mahoney and Katie Marshall. Other Middle School students in the roles of Jungle Animals and Who Families are Molly Carges, Olivia Ca-tania, Megan Henderson, Joanna Seeley, Danielle Tedesco, Delaney

Once you watch the musical Seussical, you’ll be dying to get back home and reread all your old favor-ite Dr. Seuss books. This musical has one magical, entertaining song after another while leading the audience on a journey through Horton’s big-hearted idealism, the Who’s danger-ous predicament, JoJo’s controver-sial “thinks”, and a total of seven-teen Dr. Seuss stories! The junior high cast of “Seuss” characters include Trevor Nourse (The Cat in the Hat), Tim Kempton (Horton the Elephant), Zachary Max-well (JoJo), Emily Kielbasinski (Gertrude McFuzz), Lillie Hunt (The

Yates, Ari Becker, McKinley Denni-son, Maleigha Ellithorpe, Mackensie Gregg, Janie Kempf, Elizabeth Riha and Hannah Scanlon. The Cazenovia Junior High Drama Club will hold three performance of Seussical the Musical: Thursday, November 3rd at 4:30 pm

Friday, November 4th at 7:00 pm Saturday, November 5th at 2:00 pm Tickets are $5.00 for reserved seating and can be purchased by calling the box office at 655-1324 x3334.

Look Who Jumped Off the Page and Onto The Stage

Coming Soon…… Seussical Jr.

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