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Email: msattendance@avon-schools.org
Website: https://www.avon-schools.org/mssouth
Location: 7199 East US Highway 36, Avon, IN, USA
Phone: 317-544-5700
Twitter: @avonsouth

September 5, 2022 - Labor Day - NO SCHOOL!

October 6, 2022 - Picture Retake Day

October 10 - 21, 2022 - Fall Break - NO SCHOOL!

7th grade: 9/8 HOME vs. Franklin Central 5:30PM

8th grade: 9/8 AWAY vs. Franklin Central 5:30PM

Good luck!

9/7 AWAY vs. Plainfield 5:00PM

Good luck!

9/8 AWAY vs. Plainfield Quad 5:30PM

Good luck!

9/7 HOME vs. Zionsville West 5:00PM

9/8 HOME vs. Plainfield 5:00PM

Good luck!

9/6 HOME vs. Franklin Central 5:00PM - Oak Tree

9/8 AWAY vs. Monrovia 5:00PM - Heartland Crossing

Good luck!

Boys Basketball will begin pre-season open gyms starting next Wednesday, August 31st from 8:00 - 9:00AM before school. These workouts are optional and will be held every Wednesday. Please enter door 14.

A physical must have been completed after April 1, 2022 and uploaded to your PRIVIT account. If the student-athlete is not cleared in PRIVIT, they will not be able to participate. The required paperwork can be found by clicking on the links below.

The annual AMS South fundraiser has begun!! The proceeds from this all school fundraiser will be used to support students clubs and the PBIS rewards program at AMS South. This support may include providing supplies, materials, awards, t-shirts, and/or food for club activities and events. This fundraiser will also provide money to purchase items for students using their PBIS Points through the all school PBIS Reward program. Your support and participation is truly appreciated!!

Students were given a presentation and information to take home on Tuesday, August 23rd.

Orders are due by Wednesday, September 7, 2022.

Yearbooks for the 2022 - 2023 school year are now on sale!

Below is more information for ordering this years yearbook, there is a flyer and a link to Josten's webpage.

Happy Birthday

to our students celebrating a birthday this week:

Alyssa Lewis

Isabelle Lewis

Preston Miller

Jonathan Higgins

Rebecca Mills

Savannah Parsley

Maliyah Helmick

Paityn Clark

Addison Stevens

Sophia Martin

Weston Hendrickson

Starting September 07, 2022, National Junior Honor Society will offer after school study help sessions on Wednesday’s after school from 4:10 - 5:00PM. Students will then go to the front commons area and wait for the late bus or parent pick-up. During this time, there will be a supervisor with the students while they wait for the late bus to arrive. Students that will be a car rider home on these days can be picked up at door 1 at 5:00PM.

If your student will be staying for the study session and they need bus transportation home they must sign up for the late bus in the Guidance Office at lunch that day. For those students taking the late bus home, the bus will leave AMS South at 5:10pm.

Each week your child's team will give an update about the current week or week ahead. Please find your child's team below for that information. In addition, you will find news from our Encore teachers, Media Center, and PE/Wellness teachers.

Mrs. Dugan, Mrs. Williams, Mr. Schubert & Mr. Uhl

In Language Arts, students will read chapters 10-12 in Red Scarf Girl and continue working on improving our constructed response writing with the ToSEEC strategy. Science classes will continue exploring and applying the Scientific Method to real-life situations. In Social Studies, we will begin discussing population and what factors play a role in why and where people move. In Math, we will be reviewing for our Chapter 2 Test. Pre-Algebra classes will be learning how to solve and graph inequalities on a number line.

Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. Boroff, Mrs. Schroer & Ms. Weinstein

In Math, students will be preparing for their rational number computation test on Friday. Pre-Algebra students will be working on solving equations and inequalities. Next week in Language Arts, we will be reading Chapters 10, 11, and 12 of our Narrative Novel, Red Scarf Girl. As we approach the end of this first unit, we will begin preparing for our Unit Assessment and Essay in the coming weeks. In Science, this week we have begun diving into the Scientific Method. We will explore some experiments as we practice these steps making sure we understand Independent, Dependent, Control, and Extraneous Variables. We will also look at how the Scientific Method and the Engineering Design Process is similar and different. *All work related to the Engineering Design Process was due Friday, August 26th.* Social Studies students will be moving into our culture and ethnicity unit! What are our cultural characteristics? How are we alike and different from people around the world?

Mrs. Cassida, Ms. Hatton, Mrs. Ringham & Ms. Schaber

Ms. Costello, Ms. Gawrys, Mr. Thoennes & Mr. Walker

Language Arts

Mrs. Ringham - Language Arts students will consider mood (how authors make choices to evoke emotion in readers) and will select specific details from three passages and explain how the author's choices convey mood.

Mr. Thoennes - In Language Arts, we will continue to read Red Scarf Girl while we practice ToSEEC Writing.

Math & Pre-Algebra

Mrs. Cassida - In Math, students will wrap up Chapter 2 with a test on Friday over fraction to decimal conversions, fraction operations, and adding integers. In Pre-Algebra, will continue working on equations and inequalities with Algebra tiles.

Ms. Costello - In Math, we will be reviewing our chapter on fractions and Integers, then we will take the Chapter 2 Test on Friday (9/9).

Science

Ms. Schaber - In Science, we will be continuing to learn about the scientific method by doing a fun lab and through activities.

Ms. Gawrys - In Science, we will be doing a lab to help us better understand the scientific method!

Social Studies

Ms. Hatton - Social Studies students will wrap up population with a population pyramids activity and also talk about culture next week. We will end the week with an intro of types of governments.

Mr. Walker - In Social Studies, we are starting a unit on human geography specifically populations.

Mrs. DeBow, Mr. Gullion, Ms. Tobin & Mrs. Zimmerman

Ms. Costello, Ms. Gawrys, Mr. Thoennes & Mr. Walker

Language Arts

Mrs. Zimmerman - Students will be exploring perspective as we read "My Mother's Garden" and practice using the R.A.C.E. response.

Mr. Thoennes - In Language Arts, we will be reading “My Mother’s Garden” by Kaitlyn Greenidge and will take a vocabulary quiz over the Unit 8A vocabulary words at the end of the week.

Pre-Algebra & Algebra

Mrs. DeBow - Pre-Algebra students will make predictions based on linear relationships. Algebra students will learn about parallel and perpendicular lines and test over Chapter 2 on Friday.

Ms. Costello - In Pre-Algebra, we will be beginning our chapter on graphs and equations.

Science

Ms. Tobin - Students will take a Wednesday quiz over unit conversions and mean, median, mode, and range.

Ms. Gawrys - In Science, we will be continuing our math in science unit with unit conversions and a lab!

Social Studies

Mr. Gullion - Students will be looking at the life of Benjamin Franklin and then we will be on to the French and Indian War.

Mr. Walker - In Social Studies, we will be learning about the 13 colonies.

Mrs. Warthan, Ms. Kegley, Mr. Casey & Mr. Osen

In Science, students will be investigating density. Biology classes will continue their bio-bottle experiment. Pre-Algebra students will extend patterns and find their rules. In Algebra, students will write equations for parallel and perpendicular lines. Chapter 2 test on Friday! Social Studies classes will study the Great Awakening and Enlightenment. They will also be studying for their Unit 2 test. In Language Arts, students will finish up “My Mother’s Garden” and will be planning for their personal narrative.

Greyhound Team Information:

If you are absent, make sure that you are checking into Schoology.

Mrs. Hood, Mr. Rodgers, Mrs. Taylor & Mr. Williams

Pre-Algebra classes will continue solving equations which include multi- step equations and equations with variables on both sides of the equal sign. We will have our Review/Preview on Friday. As always students will be working on IXL this week. They must complete 10 diagnostic questions and move 4 skills to 90. In Algebra, we will be finishing up our unit on linear equations with our final top of parallel and perpendicular lines on Monday. Our unit test will be Friday. This test will cover writing and graphing linear equations from multiple representations and will include material covered on the first unit test. This spiral is effective in helping students move the information they are learning from short term to long term memory. Language Arts classes will be analyzing the narrative essay “My Mother’s Garden” by Kaitlyn Greenidge. They will have a vocab quiz over the 30 words from Unit 8A. Finally, they will begin writing a personal narrative later in the week. In Science, we will finish our Density investigation and work on metric-to-metric conversions. Biology students will continue working on Bio-bottles, finish the radish lab, and investigate symbiotic relationships between organisms. Social studies will be looking at the life of Benjamin Franklin and then we will be on to the French and Indian War.

Señora Barker (Spanish), Mrs. Hauptmann (Japanese), Mr. Parr (Computer Science), Mrs. Leonard (Art), Mrs. Gleissner (FACS), Mr. Hamsley (Engineering and Technology), Mr. Wolf (Robotics) and Mrs. Snyder (Flight & Space and Medical Detectives)

Spanish

Next week students will be working with expressing the day, and date in Spanish. They will have to know how to spell the months and days of the week.

Japanese

Next week in Japanese, students will be learning about birthdays, after school activities, begin hiragana characters.

Art

7th grade: Students will design a landscape with the elements and principles of Unity, Emphasis, and Scale in mind. Students will learn to mix tint, tones, and shades to create the illusion of depth in their painting.

8th grade: Students will work on their second mixed media formalism sculpture, this time with Wire, Nylon, Gesso, and Paint.

7th & 8th grade FACS

7th grade: Students will wrap up the Nutrition and Cooking unit by preparing Macaroni and Cheese from scratch. They will begin the Sewing unit.

8th grade: Students will present their Special Needs Diet projects to the class. They will prepare breakfast burritos in the food lab.

7th grade Engineering and Design

Students will be beginning construct on their boats.

8th grade Gateway to Technology

Students will be continuing work on their solar light animals.

Flight & Space

Flight and Space classes will be exploring liftoff and testing "rocket fuel."

Medical Detectives

Medical Detectives will be dissecting sheep's brains!!!! Yay! Please contact Mrs. Snyder with any questions, but more information will be going home soon.

Robotics

Students will continue building testbeds to learn the basic programming skills used to operate various motors and sensors.

Computer Science

7th grade: Students will be finishing their first side scroller game.

8th grade: Students will be finishing their Safe project and starting Shark Tank project.

Below are some pictures from Mr. Parr's Computer Science classes. Students are learning to code their safes in the first set of photos, and in the 2nd set the are building their safes and putting their code to the safe design.

Mrs. Fair, Mrs. Lucas & Mr. Jackson

PE students will continue their new rotations of fitness, soccer, and flag football. Please remind your child to bring their clean clothes on Monday!

Mr. Abbey (Band), Ms. Szymkow (Band), Mr. Zimmerman (Choir) & Mr. Miller (Orchestra)

Band

For all band students, Pep Band and Jazz Band will begin the week of Labor Day! Make sure your forms are turned in for either band if you plan to participate!

Choir

Students have their first voice test coming up! We will have a new sight-reading factory assignment in both 7th and 8th grade. 8th grade is working on Veteran’s Day music and 7th grade is working on part-singing and December concert music.

Orchestra

Classes have been working hard on playing tests and auditions.

Ask your students what they have been working on in class, and have them demonstrate something for you at home!

Ms. Sever

Students visiting the library this week and next will learn about using Sora, a reading app, to access our digital collection of eBooks and audiobooks through the library. Students can access Sora through an app on their phone/tablet/other home device or through a website on their school laptops.

ABSENCE PROCEDURE

If a student is absent from school, the PARENT must call the school by 10:00 A.M. to report the absence. If no call is received, the automated school system will make an effort to contact the parent, but if NO PARENT CALL has been received by 3:00 P.M. the day following the absence, the student will be charged with an unexcused absence. You may also send an email to us to notify us of your child's absence at msattendance@avon-schools.org.

EARLY DISMISSALS

** Please be advised that we cannot take early dismissal information over the telephone. **

If your child needs to leave school early during the school day please send a note in with your child to bring to the office first thing in the morning or email us at

msattendance@avon-schools.org with all the necessary information: students name, date and time picking up, and the name of the person picking your child up if someone other than a parent or guardian will be picking up. This email will go directly to the front office secretaries and they will be able to get your child an early dismissal pass so that they can be in the front office when you are ready to pick them up. If you are unable to email us we will need you to come into the office with your valid ID, once we verify it is a parent/guardian picking up we will be able to call the student down for dismissal.

If someone other than a parent or guardian will be picking up your child we MUST have this information in writing from a parent/guardian. Please include his or her name on the note or email. Once we verify their photo ID then the student can sign out and leave.

If leaving early for a doctor/dentist/orthodontist appointment, please provide verification note from the appointment to the main office to ensure that the absence is excused.

Using this email will ensure your child will get a pass out of class to be in the office. Please do not use Parent Square to send a message to your child's teachers as we cannot guarantee that this message will get to the front office to get your child a pass. Our teachers are very busy throughout the day and may not be able to check Parent Square often, or if the teacher is out that day we would not get that message in the front office in time to get your child an early dismissal pass.

We want to make sure that your information is getting to the right person in a timely manner, and hopefully prevent any miscommunication or missed messages.

It is our belief that students can best achieve academic success by being in school every day. We also understand that a student may occasionally have an opportunity to experience extraordinary opportunities that may result in a missed day of school. The principal or designee may grant a pre-arranged absence, if the absence provides an extraordinary opportunity for the student and/or family. The request must be submitted at least five school days in advance of the requested absence. The student will be required to complete all missed work upon his/her return to school.

No more than three days of pre-arranged absences will be approved each year. Pre-arranged absences may not be granted during the following circumstances:

• I-Learn
• During semester exams
• When the requested absence would push the student’s attendance record into excessive absence status or if the student has surpassed the allowable number of absences.

For Visitors to our Building

Avon Schools require all visitors to check-in at the front office using our visitor management system, Safe Visitor. This system requires visitors to scan their driver's license or state identification card for a check of their record. A temporary badge is provided to all visitors to wear while in our buildings. As our visitors leave school, they scan and return that badge to front office staff.

Entering the Building

Anyone entering our building beyond the front office will need to have a valid photo ID with them so that they can be checked in through our Safe Visitor Solutions system. You will be given a badge to wear while in the building so that you are identified as a visitor. When leaving you will return to the front office so that we can check you out of Safe Visitor Solutions and take your badge.

Visiting Students during Lunch

At this time, we are allowing parents/guardians to have lunch with their child during their specified lunch time in our commons area outside of the cafeteria. Parents must follow our policy for entering our building listed above; present a valid photo ID and be checked into our Safe Visitor system. Please take note that this process may take a few minutes to get you checked into our system so please allow for a few extra minutes for that process.

**If someone other than a parent/guardian would like to have lunch with your student, we MUST have that information in writing in advance from a parent/guardian. You can either send a note in with your student to bring to the office when they arrive at school in the morning, or you can email our attendance line with the information at msattendance@avon-schools.org

In all Avon Schools, safety of our students and staff is our highest priority. Visitors will utilize an intercom and camera system to gain entry to the school offices.

Please be prepared to identify yourself, provide a valid photo ID, and provide a reason for your visit when you arrive. Thank you for your patience in adapting to the updated and more secure system.

7th and 8th grade parents: Your children may be eligible for a college scholarship!

View the form below for more information.

Avon Community Schools has chosen Worth Ave. Group as the vendor of choice to insure school-issued laptops rented by students. Insurance with Worth Ave. Group will protect the device against: Accidental Damage, Theft, Fire, Flood, Natural Disasters, Power Surge and Vandalism. This insurance policy will provide full replacement cost coverage and will protect the item worldwide (on and off school grounds). The policy is also transferable to a replacement unit. Insurance plans may be purchased online.

• Coverage Term: July 18, 2022 - July 18, 2023
• It is up to you to renew yearly.

• Deadline to Purchase Coverage: September 5, 2022

• Yearly Insurance Rates:
• 6th-12 Grade: Lenovo 11e Laptop $45.00
• Costs are prorated for enrollment after September 5.

Need help with Math and Science homework?

Call the Homework Hotline

1-877-ASK-ROSE

Click below to visit their website

www.askrose.org

The Avon High School Athletic Administrators asked us to pass along the following information regarding middle school students attending football games. Please read carefully as students must purchase tickets online prior to showing up at the stadium.

Students must have a digital ticket or All Sport Pass for entry. Tickets are $7 this year for Varsity events. To expedite entry, the ticket should be purchased ahead of time via the link with a credit card. Ticket info for purchasing online single event tickets and/or All Sport Passes (which will be sent to the purchaser’s phone) can be found at https://websites.eventlink.com/s/avon-high-school/Tickets. Tickets can be purchased on the link provided for Home and Away events throughout the school year.

K-8 STUDENTS ATTENDING FOOTBALL EVENTS AT AVON HIGH SCHOOL - It is highly encouraged that all elementary and middle school students be accompanied by a paid adult. Unsupervised students will be required to sit in the middle school section on the SW corner of the Football Stadium and will not be allowed to wonder around. Backpacks, shoestring bags, and sports equipment (footballs, frisbees, etc.) are not permitted at AHS athletic events.

The Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry is available to Avon school families and employees.

Every Thursday from 5:00 - 6:00PM (when school is in session)

at Avon Intermediate School East

Please do not arrive before 4:30PM due to AIS bus/school traffic

Enrollment is simple. Please complete your 2022 - 2023 enrollment before you shop. Below you will find more information for enrollment, please click the link below.

Please click on Community Flyers below to take you to the ACSC web page of all the Educational Flyers and Community Events Flyers happening in our community.