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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

May 7 - Orchestra Concert - more information below

May 9 - Band Concert - more information below

May 13 - 8th Grade Job Shadowing/College Visits - Student forms due to the Guidance Office by 4/30

May 14 - Choir Concert - more information to come!

May 15 - Blood Drive - more information below

May 16 - School Dance - more information to come!

May 17 - Oriole Flight - more information to come!

May 24 - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!

We are excited about several fun opportunities that are students will have as we near the end of the school year. Attached is a document with two volunteer opportunities for parents. Please visit the document for more information and instructions to sign-up if interested.

Thank you

Anyone who enrolls May 13-19, 2024 will get $200 off. Students/Parents who enrolled when we first launched will also got the $200 discount!

Mr. Will Mahan, Athletic Director/Dean of Students

Ms. Joni Johnson, Athletic Trainer

5/6 AWAY vs. County Tournament 5:30PM

5/7 AWAY vs. County Tournament 5:30PM

5/11 AWAY vs. Conference Tournament 9:00AM

Good luck!

5/6 AWAY vs. Speedway JHS 5:30PM

5/8 AWAY vs. County Tournament 5:00PM

Good luck!

5/6 HOME vs. Danville MS/The Oaks Academy 5:30PM

5/10 AWAY vs. Conference Tournament 5:30PM

Good luck!

5/6 AWAY vs. Plainfield MS 5:30PM

5/7 HOME vs. Western Boone Jr./Sr. High School 6:00PM

Good luck!

5/6 AWAY vs. Plainfield MS 5:30PM

Good luck!

Our Athletic Department is offering a season ticket option for all students. This season pass is $40. This pass will get all students into each regular season game hosted by South. Regular ticket price is $5 per event. We host approximately 45 athletic events this year at South. This pass will also allow students to enter the three tailgates this year.

The season pass for students is offered through EventLink. EventLink is the online ticket platform that we use for athletic events at South. The student will simply need to show the barcode via cellphone to the ticket taker when entering a game.

The link to purchase this ticket is below:

https://websites.eventlink.com/s/avon-middle-school-south/Tickets/Passes/2900/276

Happy Birthday

to our students celebrating a birthday this week:

Anderson Lopez Urbina

Ben Knisley

Amiyah Journey

John Adefegha

Antrez Williams

Ayomide Adewale

Madisynn Bridgewater

Destiny Robinson

Mark Knecht

Alejandra Palacios-Orta

Preszler Zeronik

Waylon Hickey

Chloe McCaslin

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 are finishing up their analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, studying irony, and on Friday, beginning their Unit 7D test. In Social Studies, we will begin preparing for our Japan and the Koreas test on Friday. In Science, we will continue to investigate how humans impact the world's resources. In Math, we will finish up our unit on Probability and review for the test which will be on Thursday/Friday. In Pre-Algebra, we will start our unit on Systems of Linear Equations.

Mrs. Barnes, Mr. Blackmore, Mrs. Boroff & Ms. Weinstein

In Language Arts students will wrap up work on our final unit, Poetry, and Poe, after being introduced to and studying different types of irony in creative fiction. We will have our final Unit Test of the year on May 10th and 13th. Math students will be finishing up their probability unit and start reviewing on Wednesday, May 8. The test is scheduled for Friday, May 10. Math NWEA is scheduled for May 20-22. Pre-Algebra students will be finishing their unit on Linear and Non-Linear Functions and will be studying for their test. The test is scheduled for Monday, May 13. Math NWEA is scheduled for May 20-22. In Science, we will be studying natural resources – both renewable and non-renewable and fossil fuels. We will take a look at how they are distributed across the globe and what impact humans have on these. Our last test on this content is scheduled for May 15th. We will be completing a wind turbine challenge during the last days of the school year. Social Studies students will be finishing the unit on the Koreas and Japan. Learning about modern Korea and the lasting effects of the Korean split, Korean war, and Kim Jong Un. The unit test will be on Friday May 10th.

Mr. Leach, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Ringham & Mrs. Schaffer

Mr. McDonald, Ms. Schaber, Mrs. Shambaugh & Mr. Thoennes

Language Arts

Mrs. Ringham - In Language Arts, students will wrap up their analysis of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, irony, and take part one of the unit test on Friday.

Mr. Thoennes - Students will be looking at irony in Cask of Amontillado while starting their Unit 7D test on Friday, May 10.

Math & Pre-Algebra

Mrs. Schaffer - Math students are continuing to practice with probability and using probabilities to make predictions. We will test over probability on May 10th. In Pre-Algebra students will complete their unit on functions and begin our last unit of the year. In our last unit, we will learn how to solve a system of linear equations.

Mrs. Shambaugh - Students will continue learning about probability of simple events. The probability test will be Friday, May 10.

Science

Mrs. Miller - In Science, students will be discussing the distribution of Earth’s natural resources, and the impact humans have on these natural resources in our notes, as well as completing a lab that goes along with talking about renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Ms. Schaber - Students will continue to learn about natural resources. They will be completing labs about the distribution of natural resources and mining to help deepen their understanding of the topics.

Social Studies

Mr. Leach - Social Studies students will be taking a deep dive into the government of North Korea. As well as reviewing for our test that is on Friday the 10th.

Mr. McDonald - Students will take their East Asia Quiz, then Begin learning about Southeast Asia.

Mrs. DeBow, Mr. Goson, Mrs. Mellen & Mrs. Zimmerman

Mr. McDonald, Ms. Schaber, Mrs. Shambaugh & Mr. Thoennes

Language Arts

Mrs. Zimmerman - Students will complete the Unit 8C test on Wednesday, May 8th. This is also the last day to turn in any late or missing assignments from this unit.

Mr. Thoennes -Students will be finishing Frankenstein and quizzing over vocabulary Tuesday, May 7 and testing over Unit 8C on Thursday, May 9.

Pre-Algebra & Algebra

Mrs. DeBow - Math NWEA testing is Wednesday - Friday of next week. We look forward to seeing lots of growth from this year's learning!

Mrs. Shambaugh - Students will begin to prepare for Algebra I by exploring the growth of patterns. Students will take the NWEA test Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Science

Mr. Goson - Students will begin our final unit: weather. We will be taking a more research-focused approach as students will learn about various weather phenomena, and how they occur.

Ms. Schaber - Students will be starting our next unit over weather.

Mrs. Hood - Biology students work on the survival of the fittest lab. They will also be having their Biology ILEARN on Thursday 5-9.

Social Studies

Mrs. Mellen - Next week, we will be studying Major Battles of the Civil War and completing a battle map of the U.S.

Mr. McDonald - Students will be starting our next unit over weather.

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

In Science, students will be investigating how density affects our everyday lives. Biology students will be preparing and taking I-Learn on Thursday May 9th. In Pre-Algebra & Algebra, students will be taking the Math NWEA test. Social Studies students will be mapping the major battles of the Civil War. In Language Arts, students will be finishing up Frankenstein and taking their Unit 8C Assessment.

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

In Pre-Algebra, will be finishing up our LAST testing sessions with 3 days of NWEA testing. We will spend the last 2 days studying growth patterns. Algebra students will take the NWEA test and will continue working with our data and statistics unit. Science students are going to be investigating weather related events. Biology students work on the survival of the fittest lab. They will also be having their Biology ILEARN on Thursday 5-9. In Language Arts, students will finish reading Frankenstein. They will take a quiz over Volume III on Wednesday. We will review the unit on Thursday, and they will take the Unit 8C test on Friday. Social Studies: We will look at the election of 1860 and the first battles of the Civil War. Additionally, we will discuss the strengths and weakness of the North and South.

Señora Barker (Spanish), Mrs. Hauptmann (Japanese), Mr. Parr (Computer Science),

Mrs. Leonard (Art), Mr. McFarlin (Engineering and Technology), Mr. Wolf (Robotics),

Mrs. Snyder (Flight & Space and Medical Detectives),

and Mr. Tarnowski (Digital Literacy & Communication)

Spanish

Students will be reviewing for their unit test on Monday and Tuesday. Students will take their 4A listening and reading exam portions on Wednesday and their 4A culture and writing exam portions on Thursday.

Japanese

The Japanese class topics will be recognizing kanji, additional tsu numbers, and transportation.

Computer Science

7th graders will be wrapping up their side scroller and moving on to collisions and advanced movement!

8th graders will be working on the shark tank projects and watching Shark Tank.

Art

Next week students are working on a one-point perspective drawing and will glaze three of their ceramic projects.

7th grade Engineering and Design & 8th grade Gateway to Technology

7th Grade- We are starting to put together our Airblaster Cars and will start testing them in the middle of the week.

8th Grade- We are starting to cut out our designs for our light boxes and will start putting them together by middle of the week.

Digital Literacy & Communication

This week in Digital Literacy, we finished our Narrative Writing unit by creating our own stories with different forms of media like podcasts, radio, skits, and short stories!

Robotics

Robotics 1 – Students will finish building testbed and will learn to code various motors and sensors.

Robotics 2 – Students will continue working to design, build, and code a 3-level elevator.

Medical Detectives

Medical Detectives will learn about the parts of the brain. They will also being their brain dissection lab.

Flight & Space

Flight and Space will learn how astronauts eat, sleep, and survive in space. They will also make "astronaut food."

Mrs. Fair, Mrs. Lucas & Mr. Jackson

Students will begin their final units in PE. These include pickleball, ultimate frisbee, and fitness. We will also continue to focus on improving strength and endurance to prepare for fitness tests at the end of May. These include a sit up test, push up test, and the pacer test. As always, we appreciate students having clean PE uniforms each Monday to be prepared for active participation in class.

Mr. Basso (Band), Ms. Szymkow (Band), Mr. Miller (Orchestra) & Mr. Nelson (Choir)

Band

All band students are prepping for this week's concert. All details are in ParentSquare.

7th Grade Concert is at 6:30pm

8th Grade Concert is at 8:00pm

Congratulations to the 28 Avon Middle School South Band and Color Guard students that were selected for the INpact honor band! These students will join 1,000 other middle school band students from around the state and perform at the Drum Corps International World Championships at Lucas Oil Stadium this upcoming August.

Choir

The choir concert is two weeks away on May 14 at 6:30pm! Doors will open at 6, free admission, so come enjoy what we've been working on and celebrate what we've accomplished this year! Enter door 13 to get to the auditorium.

Orchestra

Students are hard at work on their new music! We only have a a few days before our May concert. Keep encouraging these students to play for you at home, even if it is only a couple of measures. All recordings are on Schoology for the students to be listening at home as well.

8th Grade/Chamber King's Island Trip: Money/Permission slip past due. Trip is on Saturday, May 18th. Students need to report to South at 7:45am. More info to come.

Spring Concert: Tuesday, May 7th @ 6:30pm. Students report at 5:45pm. All students are required to stay for the entirety of the program. 7th Grade students will wear their all black concert polos, pants and shoes. 8th grade students are encouraged to wear their own version of nice concert clothing. In the past, students have worn nice dresses, khakis with a shirt and tie, etc. This is their last concert at the MS, and we want to have them look their own personal best!

8th Grade HS Audition/Playing Test Final: Mr. Powell has visited our classes to hand out high school audition and final information. This information on Schoology as well. This is a required part of students' grades, and it is due May 8th by midnight. Students should have completed the 3 scales already and should be focusing on the "General Etude" or "Symphony" excerpt, and should primarily be working on this on their own. There are practice videos to go along with the materials to help students that were created by the HS orchestra students. This is not an option playing test. This is every 8th grade student's final playing test as well. A "0" grade will weigh heavily on student grades.

SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION: Avon MS Summer Camp is June 24-28 at AMS North from 9-11:45am. Registration forms have been passed out to students. Camp Fee is $115, and the form is due by May 17th.

Chamber Orchestra End-of-Year Party: We will have a combined Chamber Orchestra party at North on Tuesday, May 21st from 5:45 - 7:15pm. We will play our instruments altogether as one big chamber orchestra, play some games and then we will be providing students with pizza, cake and ice cream. Check ParentSquare for more updates.

Orchestra Final: Orchestra students will be given a written orchestra final on Tuesday, May 21st that will test their knowledge of key signatures, bowing terms and new orchestra vocabulary we have learned this year. There will also be a rhythmic understanding portion as well.

Thank you!

-Mr. Miller

Ms. Sever

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In the library and on Sora, we have a variety of books written by AAPI authors and featuring AAPI characters and cultures. In honor of this celebration, I wanted to highlight Hello, Universe, a middle grade realistic novel, by Erin Entrada Kelly.

In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and she loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so he can concentrate on basketball.

They aren’t friends, at least not until Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well. This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship blooms. – Blurb courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers

To learn more about Virgil, Valencia, Gen & Chet during their day together, check out Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly from the AMS South Library or Sora!

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.

** 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.

Below is our Pre-Arranged Absence form.

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

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

If your child qualifies for free and reduced lunch they are automatically enrolled in the 21st Century Scholars Program.

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. 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. Please note this insurance does not cover accidental loss of the laptop, and families will be charged the full replacement cost for a lost device.

• Coverage Term: July 18, 2023 - July 18, 2024
  • It is up to you to renew yearly.

Need help with Math and Science homework?

Call the Homework Hotline

1-877-ASK-ROSE

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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

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