Shasta Middle School

Congratulations to the Shasta “Super Stars” who competed at our District Oregon Battle of the Books competition last night and won their battle against Prairie Mountain. 

The “Super Stars” are made up of 6th grade students Alex Maillard, Haley Mugleston, Austin Ackerman, Lara Holmes-Jones and alternate Carnia Montalvo.  The “Super Star’s” will represent Shasta at the Regional OBOB competition which will be held March 13th at Springfield High School.

For more information regarding this program please click on OBOB and you will be linked to their website. (3.2.2010)

The Leadership students worked hard to provide gift items that students would want to purchase and have delivered to their friends, crushes, parents, and teachers on Valentine's Day.  Many parents took advantage of the event to order items for Shasta students, and some staff as well.

It made for a fun and exciting afternoon with the best part being that all the profit will go to the Children's Miracle Network.  CMN is a program that helps families with the extremely high expenses that accumulate when they have a premature baby or a child with other medical issues. 

The amount Shasta raised from this effort was $235. Shasta's Leadership class will probably add some money to that amount from their leadership fund (money raised from their socials) so that the amount given in Shasta's behalf can be even larger and more beneficial. (2.23.2010)

On Friday students who missed less than half a day of school during the 2nd quarter were treated to a popsicle and movie for having exemplary attendance. 
Students who had 100% of their work turned in were also rewarded with a party, where they played Foosball, basketball, Ping pong and much more. Congratulations to all these students for their hard work and awesome attendance. 
(2.10.2010)

Teachers Sheryl Barker and Alyssa Sumich each received a mini-grant from the Bethel Education Foundation.  Mrs. Barker will use her $250 grant to purchase 35 copies of The Kite Rider for use with her 8th grade advanced reading class, and Mrs. Sumich will use her $200 grant to purchase calculators for use in her classroom. 
Thank you to the BEF for making these grants available. For more information about BEF, check out their website by clicking on BEF. 
(2.10.2010)

Dressed in Egyptian attire, Ms. Weil shared stories, slides and other cool Egyptian objects with Shasta students. Ms. Poindexter and Mrs. McElravy’s classes enjoyed learning more about mummies, tombs and hieroglyphs. 
It was fun for students to see video clips and photos of places they studied.
(2.9.2010)