8th Grade Weekly Newsletter

Good afternoon 8th Grade families! In this newsletter: HS Transition Information (this Tuesday!), PTO Bake Sale Help Needed, Choir/Band State Fest Dates, and more! Thanks for reading!

We hope to have a large turnout for Future Freshman Info Night on March 4th - 6:30-7:30 at the High School Commons. Current 8th Grade Students and families are going to be invited to this meeting.

High School Questions can be directed to Lori Heitmeyer (lheitmeyer@kingsleyschools.org) or Lori Nolf (lnolf@kingsleyschools.org).

The 8th grade team is incredibly proud of our Choir and Band performances at their respective festivals. The students are abuzz with their accomplishments. We are lucky to have such great arts programs at our Middle School! Both groups earned the right to go to the States!

• The Middle School Choir will attend the State Festival on May 5 or 6 at Saginaw Valley.
• State Band Festival will most likely be May 2 or May 3 in Elk Rapids. More information will come out mid-late April

We are hosting our annual Career Day on Friday April 25th, 2025. The 8th grade will be participating in a simulation regarding personal finance.

BUT WE NEED PRESENTERS FROM VARIOUS CAREER FIELDS FOR THE 6TH AND 7TH GRADES! As a presenter in the Middle School you will be placed into a classroom, where students will rotate from room to room. When students are visiting you in the classroom you will be given the time to share all the cool and exciting things people should know about your career!

Please fill in this survey to let Mrs. Bradford you are able to help us out!

8th Grade Parents,

We need your help!

To support our upcoming Step Up Dance, we are raising funds by selling concessions at the high school drama performances next weekend—and we’re adding a bake sale twist! This is a great opportunity for our 8th graders and their families to contribute while also getting a glimpse of the high school theater experience.

Performance Dates & Times:

• Friday, March 7: 7pm

• Saturday, March 8: 2pm & 7pm

How You Can Help:

1. Volunteer at the Concession Stand: We need both students and parents to help run the concession stand during these shows. Shifts will start 1/2 hour before the performance.

2. Bake Sale Contributions: We are also asking for individually wrapped, homemade baked goods provided by our 8th graders. Whether it’s cookies, brownies, or cupcakes, your contributions will help make the bake sale a delicious success! Baked goods will need to be dropped off by the end of day Friday at the middle school office.

Every bit of support brings us closer to making the Step Up Dance a fantastic event. Please sign up for a volunteer shift and let us know if you can contribute baked goods by texting Stephanie Fabatz @ 231-645-1468 or Amy Schichtel @231-649-0415.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and support.

Your KMS PTO

Mark your calendars! Our next PTO meeting is on Tuesday, March 11th, at 4:00 PM. We’ll be discussing upcoming events and future fundraisers. We welcome your input and would love to see you there!

Thank you for your continued support of our school community. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting and events!

March 20th - End of 3rd Quarter - Quarterly Celebration

March 21st - 30th - Spring Break

April 9th - PSAT

June 11th - SAVE THE DATE: End of Year 8th Grade Trip - Kayak and Canoe on the Platte River

The students are currently in the midst of a completing the writing process for a longer writing which synthesizes information from multiple texts to answer the question: What inspires people to invent?

A gentle reminder that the end of the third marking period is less than a month away, and any Language Arts assignment may be revised or corrected before March 20th.

I continue to encourage all students to read independently each day for fifteen to twenty minutes outside of the school day. If you have any questions, please reach out. I am always available to communicate. - Mr. Gaddy

Next week we will begin our unit solar system. Discovering all of the items within our Solar System. Stay tuned for our Planet project. As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

We are continuing to learn about the institution of slavery in the United States. Next week, we'll focus on the differences between the white, slave, and free black populations as well as look at slave resistance. We will have our test next Friday, March 7.

Pre-Algebra: Solving Systems By Graphing, Substitution, and Elimination. Algebra: Writing Systems of Equations to Solve Word Problems, Test Thursday

Students will complete week 4 of our healthy cooking unit. We will also be making homemade biscuits and no bake cookies, :)

We are playtesting and providing feedback to designers on their prototypes. Our next project will be prepping a published one-shot adventure to give students an opportunity to be gamemasters.

Thank you for reading the newsletter! Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours!