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got hope???

You may have heard that there is a t-shirt sales campaign going on at McClure and not know the background of the ”why”.  At McClure, we have several students dealing with significant medical issues (among those cancer and organ transplant needs).  We as a school community wanted to reach out to help those families and to show our support for them financially and visually.

Each advisement group was asked to develop a theme – one line – that would show visual support for these students as we wear the shirts, but also generate conversation about why we are wearing them.  Each advisement group submitted suggestions and the student body as a whole chose the winning theme “got hope?”

We are currently selling the t-shirts for $10 or a bracelet that says got hope? for $3.  You can purchase both as a set for $12.  All proceeds from the shirts will be given to these families to meet the additional financial needs that they are incurring.  The families may choose to give the funds to the charity of their choice if they personally don’t need the funds.  One of the families has been assisted tremendously by the Rally Foundation and may earmark the funds they receive for that organization.

This is a time where we can all step out and make a personal difference to students at our school.  We hope that you will purchase a shirt and talk to your friends and neighbors about purchasing one as well to help these families!  The shirts are on sale for the next few days and are available in black with white print, black with hot pink print and brown with turquoise print.  Checks may be made payable to McClure Middle School PTSA.

Thanks for your support!

Susan Wing, Principal

There will be no FMWC tomorrow, March 5th.  FMWC will resume next week!

Several of you have asked me about why your make up/late work has not been entered in Pinnacle.  Because of conferences this week, it will be very difficult to get that stuff graded until the end of the week.  I promise you that I will have those grades updated as soon as possible!  Don’t forget that Monday, February 1st is the last day to turn in any of your technical writing stations for partial credit!  (This includes any resubmits!)

Don’t forget that we will be visiting the book fair during class tomorrow!

Attention:  McClure students & your families

You are invited to join us in celebrating Cultural Arts Night!

When:  Thursday Feb. 11, 2010 @ 7:00 PM

Where:  McClure Middle School

We need all families, students or groups of students who would like to present their country of origin, somewhere you have traveled to or a culture that you have studied to be a part of this great night!

 You can be as creative as you want to be!

Cultural Arts Night will include:

• Table presentations with information about your country, artifacts, power

     point presentations, a skit, native dance, native sport, food samples or

     anything about your country that you would enjoy sharing with everyone

• Community outreach opportunities to support Must Ministries 
• Interactive learning stations
• Entertainment with our band & orchestra
• Student art on display
• An international fashion show
• An international food contest & an international chocolate contest.

(We need donations of international food & international chocolate.)

We will be collecting donations of peanut butter & jelly for Must Ministries!

We want you to be a part of this fun night

brought to you by your PTSA!

Please contact us: Patty Reinhardt @ reinrpar@comcast.net, 770-421-1782 (H), 678-640-5718 (C) &

Deanna Slone @ Deannaslone@msn.com, 678-290-8574 (H), 678-429-8144 (C)

We will be visiting the McClure Book Fair as a class this Thursday, January 28th.  Try to get down there and browse around so that you know how much money you need to bring on Thursday!  Further details about the book fair can be viewed below! 

In class today, we talked about the extreme drop in performance that we are experiencing in language arts.  As of right now, we have 42 students on our team who are in danger of failing language arts for the 3^rd nine week period.  We talked a lot about the cause for this sudden drop in grades and in every situation, we are able to trace it back to one very specific reason: failure to turn in assignments. 

Several of you did not turn in all of your poetry station assignments and are now seeing the consequence for that decision.  You have all asked if you can still turn the work in and as always, the answer is yes.  There will, however, be a 10 point deduction from all late assignments, so make sure you do your absolute best because those 10 points don’t come off of a 100%; it comes off of whatever grade you earned on the assignment!

All of your technical writing station instructions are located on the blog under the daily assignments/today’s task page.

McClure’s Book Fair

It has been brought to my attention that several of you are having difficulty opening links from the blog.  After looking into it, it is because our school is now using the newer Windows 2007 office software.  I found out that I can save our documents as the older 2003 version, so I am going to start posting two versions of any documents I create.  If one doesn’t open for you, hopefully the other one will.

As we were discussing this in class today, a student pointed out that another trick is to save the document and then to open it from there!

If, after trying both links, you are still unable to open something, please notify me immediately so that I can get you a copy of what you need.  If you contact me prior to the due date, I will be willing to work with you on getting the assignment in without penalty.  Coming to me after the assignment deadline, however,  will result in late points being deducted, so make sure you save yourself plenty of time to get in touch with me BEFORE THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE!!!