The Newsletter of Moore MST Magnet School February 2015 Get Your Mustang On...Building On a Solid Rock!!! From the Principal... The first six weeks of 2015 has quickly come to an end as we approach the month of February with optimism for the New Year. Welcome to the second semester of school in mustang country! Did you set a New Year’s resolution for yourself? Perhaps it’s time for all of us to revisit our goals and get focused again. Our students are looking to us to model successful adult behavior. Successful adults set goals and adjust them until improvement is obtained. We like to call this “working on the work”. Help us talk to our middle school student about setting high academic goals for themselves for this second semester. This is a winning formula for our students that will set them up for success. February 13th D-FY-IT Dance 7:00-10:00 (Must be a member of D-FY-IT) February 13th Magnet Application Deadline February 16th Student Holiday February 24th PTA Exhibit Fair and Hamburger Supper 5:30 February 27th TISD Band Solo and Ensemble Contests February is the month we recruit for our MST Magnet Program. The deadline for students to apply is early this year scheduled for February 13 th. If you know someone who is interested in attending Moore, please have them contact our office. Current TISD students have received notices of this new deadline in the mail. We will work with any student outside of TISD that may not have received this information in a timely manner. Our deadline to review MST applications is February 25th. We will do a final recruitment presentation at 7:00 in the library on February 24 th. The success of our program can greatly be contributed to our parents. Good comments shared by parents have encouraged other people to look into what Moore has to offer. Thank you for spreading the good news about Moore. March 5th Report Cards All Moore parents are invited to attend our February 24 th PTA Hamburger Exhibit Fair and Silent Auction where student projects from the school year will be displayed for all to enjoy. Each year this is one of our favorite evenings to be involved in with our school community. Please mark your calendars and come out for a family night of fun with our students. Our PTA Silent Auction has over 90 items to bid on. All proceeds go directly back to assisting our school and our students. March 6th B.U.G Incentive— College Color Day/ Cheerleader Tryouts Please glance at the Up and Coming Events for this spring and join us on campus, in the concerts, on the fields and in the gym to rally our Mustangs to the close out of this school year and the close out of our current facility. The new building is looking majestic and the excitement is growing. March 9th to 13th Spring Break Expecting the best, Claude Lane Principal Choir News On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Robert E. Lee High School, the Mustang Choir Soloists DOMINATED!!! At the U.I.L. Solo and Ensemble Contest, eight singers prepared solos to sing in front of one judge. ALL eight SINGERS were granted top ratings! Hailey Nichols, 8th Grade, came home with a SUPERIOR rating. 7th Graders Emily and Erin Berry, Sophie Breen, Hailey Parish, and Sandra Trujillo all came home with EXCELLENT ratings, which is the TOP honor! 8th Graders Amayah Hawkins and Jackson Gullatt also received top honors with their EXCELLENT ratings. Mr. Minter is SO PROUD of these soloist for making such HIGH marks in their solos!! GO 'STANGS!!!!! The Mustang Page 1 Page 2 The Mustang Are you an “Eager Beaver?” UIL Academics is for YOU!!! Page 2 The students for UIL Academics are preparing for the competition that will be held on March 21, 2015 at Hubbard Middle School. This is a change from the original date. Mustangs are competing in the following events: writing, reading, speaking, listening, dictionary, spelling, math, art, and science (7th and 8th only). For more details about the completion or practice times, contact Ms. Vullo or Ms. Carter. Moore Mustang Orchestra News On Thursday, February 5, 62 Mustang Orchestra students competed in the TISD solo contest and 43 came home with 1stdivision medals. These students are Nolan Kirkendoll, Hannah Smitherman, Caitlin Reed, Beth Routon, Jacoy Washington, Rebekah Roberts, Jackson Sorenson, Irasel Pacheco, Jeanette Cruz, Jasmine Antunez, Taniyah Jones, Abigal De Los Santos, Jackson Haling, Malorie Butler, Meghan Romines, Makena Caveness, Lidia De La Cruz, Michael Pirtle, Violet Orchard, Baylee Sukiennik, Annie Thompson, Abigail Price, Angel Mondragon, Brooke Sheffield, Adrianna Gauna, Cecilia Ortiz, Jewel Cemanes, Daniela Olague, Zane Williams, A’Christen Buchanan, Isabella Perez, Wendy Amores, Jacob Story, Lucy Matthews, Tara Roshan, Aaron Mills, Saachi Dalal, Graham Galbraith, Ryan Peters, Colin Miller, Evelyn Robinson, Caleb Garcia-Quiballo, and Yahnissi Flores. Job well done!! The Mustang Page 3 PTA News I trust your 2015 has started off well -- January seemed to fly by! We have a number of exciting events in store for the spring semester and there should be something for just about everyone! Our Exhibit Fair and Hamburger Supper & Silent Auction is coming up on February 24 in the Cafeteria and Gym areas. We have a special guest joining us: School Board Member Barbara Smith will share some thoughts about TISD with us. This evening is the main PTA fundraiser of the year and is always lots of fun. Tara McCrea has been working diligently to solicit donations from local businesses and there are many wonderful items! There are plenty of gift cards from local eating establishments, autographed sports memorabilia from our Moore athletes, several weeks at summer camp, tutoring sessions, gift baskets, a KitchenAid stand mixer, and many more items! If you would like to make a donation of any sort, just let me know and I will be happy to take care of it. I hope to see many of you that evening! Thanks to all of our PTA volunteers for helping out in so many ways. We have volunteers chaperoning dances, attending PTA council meetings, volunteering on Flex days and 93 and Up days, selling and distributing spirit wear, creating and mailing newsletters, planning and making teacher treats, and the list goes on! Thanks to those who gave our teachers the gift of time during December so they could have a few extra hours of holiday shopping, and thanks to all our parents for helping make Moore the greatest middle school around! Make it a great day! Stephanie McClintock PTA President [email protected] FLEX Dates and Requirements Progress Report Dates/FLEX Date: Mar. 31st/Apr. 1st On FLEX Day, Lunch Times Are as follows: 7th—10:50—11:25 6th 11:30—12:00 8th—12:15—12:45 All students must have a 73 and up in all subjects on Progress Report day and signed by parent/guardian when they arrive at school on FLEX day. School ID lanyards must be worn to receive the FLEX pass. Students without ID Lanyards and Progress reports that are brought to the school for students or signed after classes start at 8:20 will result in missing the first 45 minutes of FLEX. Students failing only an elective course will be re-assigned to an elective classroom. Students failing any other class are assigned to a tutorial during FLEX to help bring the failing grade up. Page 2 The Mustang Page 4 PTA News PTA SILENT AUCTION PTA will be hosting a Silent Auction during the Hamburger Supper and Exhibit Fair on Tuesday, February 24th. All proceeds will benefit our wonderful school to help provide postage for the Moore Newsletter five times a year. The funds also make academic incentives possible to reward our hard working students. They also help make drug education, teacher/ staff appreciation, UIL soccer, school dances, and many more deserving programs possible. Some of the wonderful items we have to auction this year include an ipad mini, overnight camps at both Pine Cove and Sky Ranch, a pair of ladies boots from Cavender’s, tennis lessons from Tyler Tennis & Swim, and a KitchenAid Mixer. Students will love the items from Rocket Fizz, Times Square Cinema, DBat, Rangers Baseball, and many other places that were kind enough to donate items! If you would like to donate an item or make a monetary donation, please contact Tara McCrea at [email protected]. See you there! Moore Student Council During the holiday season, the Moore Student Council believes that it is important to take time to give back to our community. This year, the student council partnered with the Salvation Army to participate in two important service projects. First, on December 3rd and 4th, members of the Moore Student Council rang the bells outside of the Southeast Loop Brookshire's from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. In addition to ringing the bells, the students sang Christmas carols and greeted everyone entering or leaving the store with a "Merry Christmas" and a "Have a good night". Over the course of two nights, we had over sixty people donate money to our bucket! On December 5th, the eighth grade student council members took a field trip to the Broadway Square Mall to participate in the Salvation Army Angel Tree. The boys were assigned a 5 year old boy and the girls were assigned a 5 year old girl. Both groups were able to spend money they had earned from our student council penny bomb fundraiser last year. In addition, many of the students contributed their own money to their shopping budget. Both groups were able to purchase everything that was on their angels wants and needs lists, including purchasing each child a bicycle. We want to thank all of our student council members and their parents for making both of these projects a huge success. Page 2 The Mustang Page 5 PTA Congratulations to these students for placing at the District Level PTA Reflections contest. Emily Berry is advancing to the state level for her Dance Choreography Jonathan Graham is also advancing to state for literature Karina Esparza, 6th grade, Visual Arts—Participation Caroline Richbourg, 6th Grade, Literature—Honorable Mention Katie Stanford, 6th grade, Literature-Honorable Mention Erin Berry, 7th grade, Photography—Award of Merit Emily Berry, 7th grade, Dance Choreography-Outstanding Interpretation John Mark Grant, 7th grade, Literature-Award of Merit Koen Kissinger, 7th grade, Photography—Honorable Mention Ellie Lyons, 7th grade, Literature, Award of Merit Abigail Price, 7th grade, Literature—Award of Merit Jonathan Graham, 8th grade, Literature—Outstanding Interpretation Will Johnson, 8th grade, Literature—Award of Merit Caroline Lofquist, 8th grade, Literature—Award of Merit Beau Lytle, 8th grade, Literature—Award of Merit Meagan Miller, 8th grade, Literature—Award of Merit 2nd Semester2/13—D-FY-IT Sponsor 5/15—PTA Sponsor 6/4—8th Recognition and Dance TUTORIALS Academic Tutorials are offered M, T, Th, & F 7:50—8:20 A.M. The The Mustang Mustang PagePage 6 64 Page 2 Student Spotlight Dancer from Tyler Shines!!! Evelyn Robinson, 7th grader, recently competed in the Youth America Grand Prix dance competition for 8-19 year olds representing Tyler Junior College Academy of Dance. She competed against 400 other dancers in her age group at the semifinals in Dallas and won 1st place in contemporary and classical. This is a huge accomplishment for her personally as a dancer and she is also the first dancer from Tyler to win a spot in the finals. In April she will travel to New York to dance in the final round of the competition. Way to go Evelyn! Cheerleading Nurse’s Corner Attention 6th grade PARENTS!! Make sure your student is getting the state required immunizations to start 7th grade. These immunizations are required: Tdap, Meningitis, and 2nd Chicken Pox vaccines. If your student has already had these done by their physician, please get a copy of their current shot records to the school nurse by June 5th. ATTENTION ALL PARENTS and STUDENTS!!! Please follow Tyler ISD Medication Policy: Cheerleader tryouts are here again! If you are interested in being a Mustang Cheerleader make sure you pick up a packet at the front desk! Our cheer clinic will be February 20th from 4-7 and tryouts will be March 6th! If you have any questions please see Ms. Jacobs or Ms. Carter! ALL MEDICATIONS needs to be given to the school nurse and kept in the clinic for safety purposes. The only two exceptions are emergency medications (rescue inhalers for Asthma and EPI-PENS for severe allergic reactions. Tyler ISD requires that medication form be signed by a parent and physician and kept on file in the nurse’s office. If the student has any medication in their backpack, purse , etc. , a parent will be notified. If you have any questions, please call the school nurse, Ruth Rush at: 903-262-1644 Page 2 The Mustang Page 7 Science ARDUINO RELEASE This past November a group of students started meeting every Thursday afternoon in Mr. Magnuson’s Science room to collaborate on the programming of something called an, “Arduino.” For the uninitiated, Arduino is an opensource computer hardware and software company. It has also become a moniker for a project and user community that designs and manufactures kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control the physical world. The group is organized and led by two 8th grade students, Micah Katz and Zachary Morrison. Together they have been presenting information on how to use the programming language of an Arduino circuit board. The Arduino platform uses the C and the C++ language to communicate, which Micah and Zach have been teaching to the weekly attendees. This month the group has started its largest project which is to use the Arduino to control a four wheel remote vehicle. This process will involves having to write the instructions for the motion of the vehicle as well as disassemble and reassemble the vehicle after adding the Arduino circuit boards. The group has set a mid to late April date for completion. If you would like more information please contact Mr. Magnuson through Moore MST Middle School. The Mustang Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 105 Tyler, TX A Newsletter from the Moore MST PTA Moore MST Middle School 1200 S. Tipton Tyler, TX 75701 The Mustang Volume IV Issue 04 February 2015 UPCOMING EVENTS Feb 13th D-FY-IT Dance 7:00-10:00 (Must be a member of D-FY-IT) Feb 13th Magnet Application Deadline Feb 16th Student Holiday Feb 21st Saturday School 7:00-11:00 / Pollard Feb 24th PTA Exhibit Fair and Hamburger Supper 5:30 Feb 27th TISD Band Solo and Ensemble Contests Feb 27th Kilgore Regional Science Fair Mar 3rd Track Longview Mar 3rd CPOC 4:00 / Moore Library Mar 5th Report Cards Mar 6th B.U.G Incentive College color day as earned Mar 6th Cheer tryouts Mar 9-13th Spring Break
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