LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL SPARTAN NEWS January 2017

Cameron Grow, Principal Juston Pollestad, Assistant Principal

(509) 334-3411 ~ www.pullmanschools.org

Coffee with Cameron January 17, 7:30am

Each month our principal, Cameron Grow,

holds a meeting to discuss various school is-

sues with the parents of our students. It is an

excellent time to ask questions and be a part

of important decisions made here at LMS.

P arents, you are invited to Lincoln to see a wonderful assembly put on by LMS Leadership, Band, Orchestra and Choir Students. The assembly will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

and promises to be one of the best of the year. It will take place in the gym at 9:15 am.

Hope to see you there!

LMS SPECIAL ASSEMBLY for

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Friday, January 13th

No School Monday January 16th

in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday.

T 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).

CONGRATULATIONS Duane, Spencer & Carson!

Duane Finley (6TH) Spencer Neale (7TH) Carson Coulter (8TH)

December Kiwanis

STUDENTS OF THE MONTH

2nd Semester begins on

Monday, February 6th

Schedules for 2nd Semester will be given to 7th and 8th graders during 7th period on

Friday, January 20th

6th Grade schedules do not change at the semester.

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Congratulations to students who had performances in December! You did an

outstanding job.

The 7th and 8th grade Jazz Band I and 7th and 8th grade Orchestra students

will have a performance when we return from break for our annual Martin Lu-

ther King, Jr. Assembly. This will be held Friday, January 13 at 9:15 am in the

Gym. Students will need to wear their black and white concert clothing to

school that day. Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend this wonderful

tribute to Dr. King.

Students who choose to participate in our regional Solo and Small Ensemble

Festival will be busily preparing their music during the month of January. The

festival will be held Saturday, February 4th at LMS. This is a great opportunity

for students to perform for an adjudicator who specializes in their instrumental

area.

Mr. Covill will be talking with select students when we return from break

about participating in Jazz Band II. This ensemble will rehearse on Mondays

and Wednesdays and will perform for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival later

in February, along with Jazz Band I.

Congratulations Drama Club on great “Small Group Scene” performances! Early in October, Drama Club students se-

lected small group scenes and prepared them for their performance December 8th. Actors worked on script memoriza-

tion, character development, blocking, and voice inflection and tone. Each performance group was responsible for

deciding on their hand props and set design. Students working behind-the-scenes met with actors for production notes

on hand props, costumes, lighting, and set furniture. Way to go Drama Club!

Drama Club has now begun work on a large group production of “The Ice Wolf”. Watch for a performance date in

the February newsletter.

Drama Club

Happy New Year from the LMS library! I want to start by thanking the LMS Boosters for all of the hard work that they put into the

Scholastic Book Fair and all of you for supporting the fair. Not only were students able to buy

books, but because of the great success of this fair, the LMS library gained almost 90 books and

classroom teachers received around 50 new books. We have a wonderful collection that is great-

ly enhanced every year in large part due to these sales.

I continue to make changes to the library as I am figuring out how to best accommodate the

needs of all of our students and faculty. I highly encourage you and your students to talk to me

or email me with suggestions or comments or concerns for and about the library.

Thank you for sharing your amazing students and have a wonderful year!

Ms. Coke Sutton

kcokesutton@psd267.org

GENERAL LIBRARY INFORMATION:

The library is open from 8:15am-3:45pm Monday through Friday.

Every Thursday students from WSU are in the library to tutor LMS students. This is a wonder-

ful opportunity for all students to work on class assignments, get assistance if they are behind,

and to connect with college students.

I am here after school each day to assist students with assignments. Feel free to contact me if

there is anything in particular that you want me to help your student with.

We have computers, chromebooks and a printer available for student use.

BORROWING MATERIALS:

Students may check out books at any time throughout the day including lunch and before and

after school.

Students may check out five items at a time.

Check-out periods last for two weeks. We don’t have late fees, but please encourage your stu-

dents to turn their books in on time.

Books may be renewed an unlimited number of times (as long as another student has not re-

served the book).

Students may also reserve books that are currently out by talking with me.

I greatly enjoy helping students to find books that they will enjoy. Please encourage students to

talk to me if they believe that they just don’t like reading or if they are stuck in a rut reading

only one type of book. The library is very busy during lunch, but before school, after school, or

if they have some extra time during class and their teacher approves, I can spend time individu-

ally with students to find works that best suit them.

CHOIR NEWS

Wonderful December performances for our Pullman community LMS Jazz Choir, 6th Grade Choirs, 7th/8th Grade Concert Choir and Spartan Voices! Early in December the LMS Jazz Choir and Spartan Voices did a great job performing at the Kiwanis Pancake Feed and the Pullman Holiday Festival and Tree Lighting, two annual events that bring our community together. Then, just before winter break, all LMS choirs performed at area retirement communities. Residents at Regency of Pullman and Bishop Place commented on how much they enjoyed watching and listening to the students perform. The group sing-a-long at the end of each perfor-mance is always the most memorable, and during the sing-a-long students handed out cards they had made for the residents. Finally, LMS choir students had the opportunity to go caroling. The carolers were well received by residents of Pioneer Hill. Thank you to those students who were able to participate in this fun, traditional event. Now with the New Year there are many new performance opportunities for our LMS choir stu-dents:

7th & 8th Grade Concert Choir will be busy during the first part of January preparing music for the Martin Luther King Jr. Assembly. This is another great LMS assembly pro-duced by the LMS Leadership, Band, Choir, and Orchestra classes.

Jazz Choir will perform Monday, January 30th at the South East Washington Music Educator Association’s Bill Bolick Jazz Night. This event takes place at Kimbrough Con-cert Hall on the WSU campus. Spartan Voices and 7th & 8th Grade Concert Choir members will be preparing for solo and small group performances at the annual South East Washington Music Educator As-sociation's Solo/Small Ensemble Festival on Saturday, February 4th. This year’s festi-val will be held in Pullman at Lincoln Middle School. Students will perform for a judge and small audience in order to receive a rating based on specific vocal/choral performance criteria. They will also have the opportunity to work personally with the judge following their perfor-mance. All soloists/small groups will work at lunch time and/or afterschool with Mrs. James, as well as put in several hours of additional rehearsal time on their own in preparation for this event.

Practice Tips:

Sing through a solfege scale forward and backward.

Practice singing solfege intervals by skipping over tones and syllables. Monitor your performance technique by watching your singing in a mirror - look for low jaw, raised cheek muscles/eyebrows, a rounded/oval mouth shape, and a low breath.

Upcoming Events: 7th & 8th Grade Concert Choir: Martin Luther King Jr. Assembly - Friday, January 13th – LMS Jazz Choir: SEWMEA Bill Bolick Jazz Night – Monday, January 30th, time TBA – Kimbrough Concert Hall, WSU Spartan Voices and Choir members: SEWMEA Solo/Small Ensemble Festival - Saturday, February 4th, all day, Pullman - LMS

ATHLETIC CORNER

Go Spartans!

Athletic Requirements

Girls’ basketball for 7th and 8th graders will start Wednesday, January 4th immediately following

school in the main gym. An informational meeting was held the week of December 12th—16th

during lunches. All interested 7th and 8th grade girls had the opportunity to meet Coach Thomp-

son and sign-up for the season. Students can still participate even if they did not get the opportuni-

ty to sign-up. If your seventh or eighth grade student did not participate in athletic activities during

the fall, she will need to complete all athletic requirements necessary to participate, including a

physical. This information must be filed with Mrs. Deeds in the office before students will be al-

lowed to practice.

All 6th grade girls interested in playing intramural basketball will have the chance to sign-up during

the week of January 4th-6th. Practices will begin on Monday, January 9th and are held in the

mornings (M-Th) from 7:00-8:00am in the main gym. The girls will play on Fridays beginning the

second week of practices. If your sixth grade student did not participate in athletic activities during

the fall, she will need to complete all athletic requirements necessary to participate, including a

physical. This information must be filed with Mrs. Deeds in the office before students will be al-

lowed to practice.

Wrestling practices will also start on Wednesday, January 4th in the Multi-purpose gym. All stu-

dents participating in Wrestling are required to have their physical and necessary paperwork com-

pleted prior to their first practice. LMS has a Sixth Grade Intramural Wrestling program as well,

and sixth graders practice at the same time and in the same gym as the seventh and eighth graders.

Please look for more information as we approach January. See you in the gym!

Juston Pollestad Assistant Principal/Athletic Director 334-3411 or jpollestad@psd267.org

In order to participate in any athletic programs at LMS, students must complete the following:

Physical Examination (every two years) Emergency Card Waiver and Sports Information Sheet Completed Concussion Sheet Purchase of an ASB card ($25 for 7th and 8th grade, $20 for 6th grade)

LMS BOOSTERS

2016—2017 BOOSTER CLUB

Our next

BOOSTER

MEETING

January 9 7:00pm at LMS

Everyone Welcome!

Thank you to everyone who

came out to support the LMS Fall Book Fair. We made $3300.00 and 50% went to LMS in Scholastic dol-lars. We were able to buy $1650.00 in books for the library. We were also able to fill every teachers wish list. Thank you for your support of the fall book fair---hope to see you in the spring.

Edie Talbot and Staci Day

If you are interested in being involved in your child's school, please consider

attending Booster Club meetings. You will have the opportunity to be a part

of the conversation on what all is happening at the school. We are looking

for new officers for the 2017-2018 school year, if you are interested on more

information please contact Danielle Kallaher at BoostersLMS@gmail.com

Happy New Year! Thank you to all of you have joined the Boosters,

volunteered for our various events and supported our overall efforts to make

LMS the great school that we know it to be. Please continue to be involved - it is

greatly appreciated! For questions about how to be involved, please contact

Danielle Kallaher at BoostersLMS@gmail.com.

Be sure to

like LMS

Boosters on

Facebook!

Limo Lunch

Congrats to our students that raised enough

funds to qualify as a limo lunch winner!

The winners will be escorted to lunch in a

limousine on Friday, January 6th with Mr.

Grow.

8th grade Fun Night There will be a fun night for this year’s 8th graders on

January 6th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm here at

LMS. This fun night is a reward from the boosters as

this class raised the most funds last year. There will be

a movie and pizza in the commons; music and a ping

pong tournament in the small gym and games in the

main gym. Congratulations 8th Graders!!

Booster Club Officers

President: Danielle Kallaher - BoostersLMS@gmail.com

Treasurer: Teresa Cole - tccole2010@htomail.com

Secretary: Tricia Benton - triciabenton@hotmail.com

Booster Club Chairs

Concessions: Jodi Adkins & Nicole King

Book Fair: Edie Talbot & Staci Day

Staff Appreciation: Karen Bruno-Bittle

Lincoln Middle School

CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES 2016—2017

What Spartans are doing before and after school!

MEETING CLUB DAY(S) TIME ROOM ADVISOR

ART CLUB Monday 3:00 - 4:00 pm 501 Emerson BUILDER’S CLUB 1st and 3rd A school and community service club Monday 7:45 - 8:15 am 405 Fulfs CHESS CLUB Friday 3:00-4:00 pm 302 Dissmore CULINARY CLUB (1st Group STARTS: Oct. 6th - Feb. 9th) Thursday 3:00-5:00 pm 508 Nalle (2nd Group STARTS: Feb. 16 -June 1) DEBATE CLUB Wednesday 7:30-8:10 am 303 Claypool DRAMA CLUB Tue/Thu 3:00-4:00 pm 807 James GOLF CLUB (STARTS: Spring TBA) TBA TBA Willy 6th JAZZ BAND (STARTS: 2nd Semester TBA) Mon/Wed 7:30-8:15 am 806 Covill Open to 6th grade band students 7/8 JAZZ BAND 1 Tue/Thu 7:30-8:15 am 806 Covill Open to 7th and 8th grade band students JAZZ CHOIR Mon/Fri 7:30-8:15 am 807 James Open only to Choir students 6th Grade MATH TEAM Friday 7:30-8:15 am 506 Morgan Competition, trips, tough problems and teamwork 7th/8th Grade MATH TEAM Friday 7:30-8:15 am 506 Morgan Competition, trips, tough problems and teamwork PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Thursday 3:00-4:00 pm 503 Schertenleib RUBE GOLDBERG Tuesday 3:00-4:00 pm 507 Akmal (previously Destination Imagination) SCIENCE CLUB Mondays 3:00-4:00pm 505 Haugen Competition, trips, tough problems and teamwork SPARTAN VOICES Tue/Thu 7:30–8:15 am 807 James Vocal group open to all students SPIRIT CLUB Tuesday 7:30 am 501 Emerson Plan, prepare, and lead projects which build school spirit YEARBOOK Tuesdays 3:00-4:00pm 303 Claypool Help create the LMS yearbook!

All LMS Students are encouraged to participate in at least one after-school club or activity