November 11: HOLIDAY: 🔴⚪🔵 Veteran’s Day 🔴⚪🔵
November 13: 💖 World Kindness Day 💖
📸 Picture Retakes 📸
November 14: 🎵 Band Spectrum Concert 🎵
November 21: Parent Teacher Conferences 5-8PM (IN-PERSON ONLY)
November 25: Parent Teacher Conferences 12:30-3:30PM (IN-PERSON ONLY)
November 25: Parent Teacher Conferences 5-8PM (VIRTUAL ONLY)
November 28-30: 🦃 Thanksgiving Recess 🦃
Dear Mill Families,
This week, our school community has spent time focusing on the character strength of Bravery. Bravery means you act with mental, moral, or physical strength, even when you know things are difficult or scary.
Bravery refers to voluntary (not coerced) action in the face of a dangerous circumstance. This strength involves judgment; the brave person must have an understanding of the risks and consequences involved in acting. According to Socrates and Plato, forethought separates acts of valor from acts of rashness. This means that bravery isn’t simply fearlessness but instead the overcoming of fear.
Overcoming fears is critically important in individual development, as it allows the person to do more and become more. A person can be brave every single day. For example, some people with social anxiety are brave just by leaving their houses and talking with people. On a physical level, bravery allows us to overcome fears, such as swimming or playing a sport. And, on a moral level, doing what we know to be right, despite the risks, gives us the sense that we are acting on behalf of a larger purpose.
To practice and encourage the character strength of bravery at home, please visit The Positivity Project’s mobile-friendly P2 for Families (available in English and Spanish), where you will watch a video together and discuss a quote and three questions. Below are links to this week’s P2 for Families lessons. Click on the grade level that best meets your child’s needs.
Thank you for your support!
Chris McDuffie
Principal
Mill Middle School
Please CLICK THIS LINK regarding a tutoring opportunity for students. There is no cost to students or families.
Fair Dates: Nov 18 - Nov 25
More details including eWallet, Share the Fair and pre-orders for the new Dog Man will be sent in early November. Contact Mrs. Waddell via WITS with any questions.
All purchases through the Book Fair benefit our school.
Thanks for supporting our kids! Happy reading!
Fall Celebrations:
With the help of students and faculty, our librarian, Mrs. Waddell arranged for a display in the Library to showcase three fall celebrations. Day of the Dead, Dia los Muertos, Halloween, and Diwali all fell within the same week. We created a cross-cultural display to help educate all students about the traditions associated with each holiday. Students visited on their own and with various social studies and Spanish classes, as well as with a few of our school clubs. They were able to complete a Fact Hunt to learn about all three traditions. Thank you to all who helped make our first display possible!
Click here for an updated list of Clubs & Co Curriculars with teachers, times & locations!
*NEW* Club Spotlight:
Spanish Club with Mrs. Bubb
This year Señora Bubb and the Mill Spanish Club worked collaboratively with the school librarian, Mrs. Waddell to create an “ofrenda” in the library.
An ofrenda (Spanish: "offering") is the offering placed on a home altar during the annual and traditional Mexican Día de los Muertos celebration. An ofrenda, which may be quite large and elaborate, is usually created by the family members of a person who has died and is intended to welcome the deceased to the altar setting.
Mrs. Waddell set up the ofrenda, incorporating, as well as describing the significance of each element, item, or decoration.
The students in the Spanish club took 2 weeks to make and decorate “calaveras de azucar” (sugar skulls) by hand to place on the ofrenda. The skulls represent loved ones who have passed away and are made of sugar to dissolve in the rain signifying the temporary status of life.
The sixth-grade students also learned about the “Cempasuchil” or marigold, the flower of The Day of the Dead” and created some to place on the ofrenda as well.
Winter Sports Information:
JV/Varsity tryouts begin Monday, November 18th
Modified tryouts begin Monday, December 2nd
