Middle School Update

Volume 7 Number 19

December 21 , 2007

CALENDAR:

OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS: Students who had overdue library books, textbooks not turned in, school musical instruments, team uniforms, or owed money to the kiosk did NOT receive report cards on December 21st. They instead received a letter saying what the outstanding obligation was.  The Middle School Office will not be open to distribute report cards until January 7th. There will be no access to grades in PowerSchool until the obligation is met.

ACCESS TO POWERSCHOOL - First semester grades will be available December 21st – 4:00 pm if the student has no outstanding obligations.

CALCULATORS:  Next year, all students in grades 8-12 must have a TI83 or TI84 graphing calculator. This is made by Texas Instrument and not available in Peru.  The PTA sells some of these and rents some, but if you are traveling to the US, know someone who is traveling to the US, or have visitors coming from the US it would be wise to arrange to get one this January or February rather than waiting until July.  You can usually find these online and have them shipped to an address in the US.  If you have a question about the models, email tatrille@amersol.edu.pe or go to these sites:

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_ti84p.html

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_ti83p.html

EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE/HUMANITIES PROJECT: The eighth grade students will begin a 3 week project on February 27th. They will be using classtime in science and humanities to do this, this is not a homework assignment. It is very important that students return to school for second semester on time in order to finish the work on time. 

FIFTEEN STUDENTS are leaving us this month for other schools, some of them with short notice. We wish them well and  hope they had the opportunity to say farewell to all of their friends and teachers at FDR.