Good News from Marshwood Middle School Selected Marshwood Middle School Chorus students joined 80 singers from area middle schools to practice and perform in the York County Junior High Music Festival held at Bonny Eagle Middle School on January 27 and 28. From left to right are: Baer Gray, Owen McCormack, Sam Wakefield, Lucia Blanchette, Abbie SanDiego, Hannah Tuttle, and Payton Caswell. Congratulations students!
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Students Paticipate in district concert
Last week Ms. Corriveau hosted a celebration of World Read Aloud Day. There were more than 500 visits to the library. Students joined Ms. Gilpatrick and Ms. Corriveau throughout the day for variety of read alouds.
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Read aloud day
Are there any motions delegates would like to bring to the floor? "For posterity sake vote yes!" says Patrick Adams to the parliament in Mrs. Thompson's Social Studies class. In this simulation unit 7th graders have been divided into three groups: Patriots, Neutralists and Loyalists. They have been writing and giving speeches for and against various acts. This is the first of several speeches the students will be giving in their Social Studies class this year.
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delegates
We have made it to the halfway point in the school year! Today the sixth graders stood at their lockers to see how they measure up. At the beginning of the school year teachers marked how tall students were on their locker. The measuring activity is repeated midway through the year and again in June. It is so fun to see the literal growth of the students.
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Growth
Buy a Yearbook
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Living in Maine and New Hampshire we are used to our winters being full of snow. This year some students are missing the snow. Last week some of the middle schoolers paused to enjoy the snow as it was falling.
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snow
Marshwood Middle School yearbooks are on sale now. Reserve your copy at yearbookforever.com
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2023 yearbook
January's genre of the month is here! WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION? Science fiction stories are set in imagined, futuristic societies with advanced technology and science. The science behind the story should be somewhat believable, which is what makes it sci-fi and not fantasy. WHY SHOULD YOU GIVE THIS GENRE A CHANCE? Science fiction helps us escape reality and exercise our imaginations. It also helps us think about the present and future of science and technology. See Ms. Corriveau in the MMS library for some Science Fiction recommendations! She has some good ones!
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Sci Fi
Good news from Marshwood Middle School Renee Caverly December 22, 2022 Students at Marshwood Middle School are busy building robots in 8th-grade Robotics Class. Using EV3 Lego Mindstorm kits students build and program robots to do moves and turns. Students build models with gears and conduct experiments testing force and motion like real engineers.
over 1 year ago, Vicki Stewart
Robotics students
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robotics students
8th grade Spanish One students have been hard at work on a project! They were asked to explore their identity and create three products to explain different aspects of who they are. The three products, all in Spanish, were a mind map, a self-portrait, and an essay. Assessment: This project will count as a Presentational Communication grade worth 100 points (mind map = 20 points, selp-portrait = 40 points, essay = 40 points) The students used their self-protraits to help guide them as they had a conversation in Spanish with Señora Nelson or with a classmate. The work students produced is impressive! As students completed the assignments they were displayed in the hallway here at MMS!
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Congratulations to this year’s Patriot’s Pen Contest Winners! Christopher Neathawk, an eighth-grader, placed second while Nora Widerstrom, a seventh-grader, placed third. They will be the featured guests at a VFW dinner in February. Thank you to all the students who participated in the contest this year. Your efforts and enthusiastic participation is greatly appreciated, especially by our veterans.
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Patriots Pen
Congratulations to the MMS Choruses on their successful concert last night! The choral students all performed a wonderful concert! Our next performance will be our school-day concert next Wednesday morning, December 21. It is not too late to see the concert. Check out the choral talent using this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvp6zbIUikg
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MMS Chorus
Student Council is selling Winter Grams! Winter Grams are for sale during lunch each day. Students are able to write a special message and the recipient will also get a peppermint treat. Each Winter Gram costs 50 cents and will be delivered to on Thursday, December 22nd.
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Winter Grams
A Letter from Superintendent John Caverly December 8th, 2022 Dear Marshwood Community, I hope this note finds you all well. It has been a wonderful start to the school year. To have our buildings in full use and students engaged in multiple opportunities has been such a gift. I must share with you: I am so proud of the work of our district staff over the past 3 months. They have worked tirelessly to create a safe learning environment for all learners that supports the individual learning needs of our students. Prior to the fall break, our community faced a violent critical incident hoax at Sanford High School and Sanford Regional Vocational Center that brought forth our greatest fear, the safety of our students. As you know, the safety of our students, staff, and community is our top priority. In the wake of this event, the district has taken a number of steps to review our response and test our systems. We have met as individual schools, as district leaders, and with both the Eliot and South Berwick Police Departments. These meetings have been focused on reviewing our communication protocols and procedures to ensure the safety of all. As part of that work, I wanted to notify the community that we will continue to focus on our building-level crisis planning. This includes age-appropriate safety drills in addition to our typical fire drills. What may be appropriate at Marshwood High School may be drastically different from what occurs in our elementary schools, based on the age and development of the students. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your child’s principal. It pains me that we live in a world where we need to be concerned about school violence, but we cannot turn a blind eye to this. It is the district's goal to strike the balance between creating a safe environment for all, while not creating fear for anyone or compromising our primary purpose of educating children. As always, I appreciate the community support as we work together to keep our community safe. Thank you John Caverly Superintendent of Schools MSAD 35
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Maine School Administrative District No. 35 Board of Directors – Regular Meeting Agenda Marshwood High School – Learning Center Wednesday, December 7, 2022 – 7:00 PM For complete agenda go to: https://5il.co/1livs https://www.rsu35.org/page/board-meeting-stream-information Reminder: As of March 9, 2022 all MSAD 35 building recommended/optional masking indoors. 6:30 PM Wellness Committee 7:00 PM Call to Order
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Good News from the Marshwood Middle School and Marshwood High School Music Rooms Choral Students Perform At Eliot Tree Lighting Music teachers, Mrs. Bisson and Mrs. Michaud, joined students from the MMS and MHS choirs that sang carols at the Eliot Tree Lighting ceremony. Our district appreciates the town of Eliot for inviting the students and is proud of these hard-working and dedicated students for participating.
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Michelle Simpson recently requested a flag be flown over the US Capitol, through the office of Congresswoman Pingree. She thought it would be a nice thank you to the students and staff for all of their continued support to Veterans and First Responders. Michelle stated “I wanted to say thank you to MMS for organizing and hosting the recent Veterans Day Celebration. As a Veteran myself, I was honored to be a part of the celebration and humbled to learn Marshwood Middle School has been hosting this event annually since 2021.” The US Flag is displayed in the front entryway with a certificate that states: "This is to certify that the accompanying flag was flown over the United States Capitol. This flag was flown at the request of the Honorable Chellie Pingree, Member of Congress, in appreciation of Marshwood Middle School students and staff, for their devoted support of Veterans and First Responders."
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Students on the 7 White Team had their own balloon parade in the hallway before the Thanksgiving break. Prior to the event, students met in Advisory groups and read or listened to the story Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade. This week students took on the challenge of creating their own balloon design. The balloon could be a character from their favorite book, movie or even an original design. For an additional challenge, students were asked to suspend the balloons in air just like the balloons int he Thanksgiving Day Parade. Take a look at some of their creations.
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Balloons
Who can? Marshwood Middle School Can! The Student Council is thankful for the success of our annual food drive. We were able to donate over 1,000 food items to the Footprints Food Pantry. To help celebrate our success, the school mascot came to visit the students!!
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Food Drive
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A big thank you to Mrs Balsiger for filling the halls of MMS with various student-created art exhibits.
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Art