CHMS Weekly Update

5th Grade - Unit 2: Emotion Management

Lesson 10: Making a Change - In this week’s lesson, your child will practice identifying two changes they could make in a recurring personal situation to manage their strong emotions.

Try this at home: Ask your child to tell you about a situation at home that causes them to feel strong emotions, like anger or stress. Ask them what they could change about the situation to better manage their emotions. Talk about what you can do to help them implement the change.

6th Grade - Unit 2: Developing a Positive Sense of Self

Lesson 10: Making Decisions - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn how to use guiding principles when making a decision. This can help your child make decisions they feel good about.

Try this at home: Tell your child about a tough decision you’ve made. Share what you think about when you’re making decisions. Ask your child to describe a tough decision they’ve made.

7th Grade - Unit 2: Developing a Positive Sense of Self

Lesson 10: Influences on Self-Concept - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn about factors that shape and influence self-concept, including less obvious factors, such as comparison with others, messages in media, and what they believe others think about them.

Try this at home: Tell your child about something that shapes or influences the way you see yourself. Ask them what shapes or influences their self-concept and which influences help them feel good about who they are.

8th Grade - Unit 2: Developing a Positive Sense of Self

Lesson 10: How to Build Confidence 1 - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn how to build confidence by preparing their physical and emotional state and by observing others.

Try this at home: Tell your child about a time when you watched someone do something and it helped you feel more confident. Ask your child to describe one of the confidence-building strategies they learned about.

Students may wear their Halloween costumes on Thursday, but there are a few rules listed below. These are in addition to our regular dress code which still applies.

- No masks

- No full face paint

- No toy weapons of any kind

- Students may pay $1 to wear a hat (money raised will go towards our student council's fundraising efforts!)

We are very excited to announce that we will be recognizing students for consistently demonstrating our WARRIOR expectations, performing well in their classes, and behaving appropriately in all areas of the school as our Students of the Month! One student from each grade will be selected by their teachers. Here are our Students of the Month for September (better late than never! 😄)

Save the date! Our Middle School Honor Society is hosting a Veterans Day Celebration on Monday, November 11. All veterans and active-duty military personnel are welcome and encouraged to attend! We’ll begin with a veterans breakfast in the Middle School cafeteria at 9:30 AM. Our assembly program will begin at 10:15 AM with all our Middle School and High School students.

- Middle School and High School students may invite a special veteran to attend and can join their guest for breakfast before the assembly.

For breakfast planning, please RSVP to Candy Recker by calling the Middle School Office at 989-967-2200 or email crecker@chsd.us. Please RSVP by November 7.

- During the ceremony we’ll play a slideshow featuring pictures of veterans and active-duty military from our community or who are special to our students. To submit a picture, please email your photo and a description of the individual (name, military branch, years of service) to Bob O’Neil at roneil@chsd.us by November 4.

- The Mecosta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is sponsoring a writing contest for our Middle and High School students. Students are invited to write an essay, poem or letter on the following topic: Reflect on the freedoms you value most and how they are protected by veterans’ sacrifices.

The first-place winner will receive a $100 cash prize and second-place will receive $50. Both winners will be invited to read their essay at the Veterans Day Assembly. Entries are due to the Middle or High School offices by noon on November 4.

We hope you’ll join us for this special celebration as we honor those who served!

Looking for a particular form on our website? You can find most school documents and forms in one place on our website, under the District Documents & Forms page. This page contains new student enrollment forms, yearly acknowledgement forms and notices, medication forms, athletics forms and more! You can access this page from our District homepage under District > District Documents & Forms. Use this link.

It's also in the CHSD Warriors app! All district documents and forms can be downloaded within the app, under the District page > Documents > Documents & Forms.

Let's show our Chippewa Hills Middle School Staff some appreciation! This form will be linked every week along with a couple shout-outs as they come in.

Mr. Schafer - Fitness/Health/PE Teacher

"He explains everything very clearly, and he is a very good teacher."

Mrs. Purdy - 5th Grade ELA Teacher

"Our daughter strives to do well in her class because she feels loved and knows that Mrs. Purdy cares about her!"

Fall sports have wrapped up! Stay tuned for info when Winter sporting events begin!

Chippewa Hills is once again proud to offer FREE breakfast and lunch to ALL students for the 2024-2025 school year!

Note: Milk without a meal, a la carte items, and second meals will still need to be purchased.

A la carte items will start being sold this week for students who bring extra money.

The November monthly lunch menu is attached below.

• Thursday, November 7th - Picture Retake Day
• Friday, November 8th - End of Tri 1
• Monday, November 11th - Veterans Day Celebration