Panther Pride News

Every middle school sends their top two bookmarks to the district competition. The two Mears winners for this year were were created by Sam Hirsch (left) and Reagan Suki Adams (below).

Skiing with Challenge Alaska was fantastic! Ms. Sharp and Ms. Jenn shared these photos of the kids on their adventure. Isaiah, Joe, Lucian, Chase, and Sydni had a wonderful time!

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Students in 8th grade health explore the difference between a healthy lung and an unhealthy smoker’s lung. DJ Evans and Anthony Gregory took a strong interest. Perhaps they will be future medical professionals!

Let us help you tidy up. Any items you wish to donate can be brought into room 116 or room 124 before or after school.

• We prefer to receive items contained in bags or boxes.

• We are limiting the size of items to things that can be carried by your middle schoolers = small furniture items are fine, but please leave mattresses and couch sized items at home.

• Please limit donations to items in working order and in good enough shape to still be usable.

• The only books being accepted are childrens’ picture books.

• If you are donating an item running on battery power, please check that the batteries haven’t burst before donating it.

Feel free to invite donations from family, friends, and neighbors - we really appreciate the help to present a fun and rewarding selection of items at the sale on Saturday February 17th!

The Mears Costa Rica Trip students are organizing and running this event to defray their travel costs, all proceeds will go towards that purpose. Unsold items will be donated locally.

We now have THREE debate teams! This week they warmed up by making claims and backing them up with reasoning, then spent the remainder of each practice writing and editing their speeches to include more facts. It is impressive to see the teams work together when they are stuck or need clarification, as well as each member contributing to the whole argument. We have five more practices before the February debate!

Hello, Muir Families! We are well into the third quarter now, so please remind your students to come prepared to all their classes. This means bringing all necessary materials: PENCILS, a CHARGED chromebook, paper, any ongoing assignments, etc. Also, please get in the habit of checking your grades on Canvas and Q/Zangle. If you have any questions about your grades, check in with your teachers!

Wrestlers prepare for their opening match January 24th at Central

Coaches Morgan and Shutt spend every practice teaching skills, techniques and wrestling rules. Lets go Panthers!

Varsity and JV Girls Basketball travel to Mirror Lake on Jan. 25th while the C team travels to Clark on Jan. 29th. Coaches Mason and Peterson have been working hard on individual skills, team concepts and conditioning.

Encouragement: Serving others by providing support, confidence, inspiration, or hope.

It is time to start considering summer plans, and UAA has started sharing their summer Engineering Summer Camp options. Here is a link to the UAA Engineering Summer Camp page (or click on pic 👉) where you can preview the camp options, sign up for email information, and prepare for the February camp application opening. This is a great summer option for STEM learning with peers over the summer, and it includes exposure to the UAA College of Engineering = Win-Win!

Team Echo teachers highly recommend staying active and having fun while learning over the summer.

There are numerous bugs going around the community. Nurse Karin has included some references for “When to Keep Your Child Home from School” and what the return to school protocol is for positive Covid tests. Please click on the links below 👇

The Jason Foundation's Project Hug is an excercise meant to help you build a better relationship with your child. I've attached the brochure for your review. To learn more, visit the link below.

Detentions are 7:15 am-7:45 am, in Room 106, Tuesday-Friday.

Our office staff is available daily, please don't hesitate to reach out if we can help you in any way, our hours are 7:30-3:00. Thanks so much, we are here to help serve you!

Is your child going to absent from school? Save time and send a quick email to our attendance email box, mearsattendance@asdk12.org or you can call the school at 907-742-6400 and select the Attendance Line option to leave us a voice mail, either option is a great way to notify us!

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Email: marquand_carla@asdk12.org
Website: https://www.asdk12.org/mears
Location: 2700 West 100th Avenue, Anchorage, AK, USA
Phone: 907-742-6400