#cmsridernation Volume 1 Issue 3 October 31, 2014 Save the Date:  Monday, October 27, - Girls Volleyball vs. Diboll @ Home 5 PM  Saturday, November 1, 2014—CMS Monster Mash Dance 7— 10 PM  Thursday, November 6—Football vs. Gladewater 4:30 PM (CMS Band Performs @ Game)  Friday, November 7— Eighth Grade Band Performs with High School Band @ Varsity Football Game  Wednesday, November 19—Fall Picture Retakes Center Middle School 302 Kennedy Street Center, Texas 75935 HOMECOMING EDITION This special homecoming edition of #cmsridernation is packed with photos and highlights of CMS Homecoming Week! Students and staff participated in theme days, class favorite elections, Homecoming pep rally, football game and parade. BETA CAN FOOD DRIVE BEGINS OCTOBER 27 CMS Beta is conducting a food drive from October 27 — November 7. Please bring donations to Mrs. Tomlin, Mrs. Hockenbery, Mrs. Burns, or the front office. Share what you can: canned goods, peanut butter, bags of rice, dry beans, canned meat, cornbread mix. Monster Mash Dance Saturday, November 1 is the date for our first ever Monster Mash Dance. All middle school students should make plans to attend from 7pm 10pm. Wear your costume! We will have door prizes, a best costume prize and a "Thriller " dance competition. Students need to get their groups together and start practicing! Students will be able to purchase a variety of food and drinks, as well as crazy pictures from a "haunted photo booth". We are still in need of pumpkins and Halloween decorations to complete our chiller of an event! Thanks to all who have contributed. Proceeds from this event will be used for future student activities. Meet Our Teachers Ms. Renee Verdine has been working at Center Middle School as an ESL teacher for 34 years. She attended three universities, including Baylor, SFA, and Sam Houston State. Her favorite thing about working with students is that most of them want to learn and are very nice and thoughtful. She has eleven dogs, two horses as well as Brahman cows! Her favorite quote is, “Hard work pays rich dividends.” In one word, she thinks CMS is ‘AWESOME’! Coach Alex Cloudy is new to the CMS campus, but not to Center ISD. He grew up in Center, graduating from CHS in 2009. He is an East Texas Baptist University Alumni. His mother is CMS Assistant Principal, Felicia Cloudy. Coach Cloudy says CMS is an amazing place to be. His favorite quote is, “It is what it is, until you MAKE it something more!” We are always pleased to see our CHS grads come back to their hometown to make a difference in the lives of our students. Welcome, Coach Cloudy! 2 #cmsridernation CMS COLLEGIATE DAY Gig ‘Em, Olivia! Gig ‘Em, Hook ‘Em, Wreck ‘Em, Axe ‘Em. CMS students and teachers, Coach Cratty and Ms. Stone showed off their collegiate colors. CMS Collegiate Thursdays will begin after our football season ends. Staff and students will be encouraged to wear their favorite collegiate shirts each Thursday to help us in our efforts to increase awareness of higher education. 3 Page 3 #cmsridernation Volume 1, Issue 1 HOMECOMING PURPLE PRIDE DAY Purple Pride Friday! Lexie Truitt and Aiden Hagler showing off their Rider colors! Yearbook Staff promoting their product, #ridernation. One more week for the early bird special on yearbooks for $22. Price will be $25. after October. Personalize your yearbook by having your name imprinted on cover for $5. Above, Genera Bolton and eighth graders in Roughrider Purple. Below, seventh and eighth grade students are proud to be a Rider. 4 #cmsridernation THROWBACK THURSDAY Above left, sixth graders taking it back several years in their throwback outfits. Above right, CMS self-proclaimed history nerd, Mr. Rowe takes it way back in his overalls, along with Caitlyn Rogers and Amanda Hughes in their seventies attire. At right, Heather Lawrence and Maddie Russell in their groovy sixties apparel. Below, CMS pep squad rocking out at the pep rally in their poodle skirts from the fifties. Thanks to our students and staff participating in Homecoming Theme Days this year. 5 #cmsridernation #cmsridernation Page 5 TWIN DAY SUPER HERO DAY Teachers and students getting into the spirit of homecoming Theme Days by wearing their favorite Super hero apparel. Superman and Wonder Woman were two of the most popular superheros repre- 6 #cmsridernation CMS ROUGHRIDERS—THE BOYS OF FALL 7 #cmsridernation SPIRIT FAMILY UNITES FOR HOMECOMING CMS twirlers, band, pep squad, dance team and cheerleaders performed at the Homecoming Pep Rally and game. Cheerleaders performed a competition routine in throwback uniforms. All spirit team performances were excellent. The CMS band added a special excitement to the Homecoming game. A big shout out to our awesome students for the time and effort you put forth in dedicating yourself to your teams. 8 CMS students added some excitement to Homecoming Week by voting for their class favorites. Results are posted below. 8TH GRADE BOY GIRL MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED KEATON WATLINGTON SCARLETT SHIRES MOST ATHLETIC MOST ARTISTIC DEVON ROBINSON ARTIS NICKERSON MALAISHA CARTWRIGHT PHAW KU MOST DEPENDABLE BRYCE COCKRELL CARSEN VICKERS MOST HUMOROUS MARCO GONZALEZ CHRIS’SHONNA NASH MOST SPIRITED BRAYDEN STRONG BRYANNA SAMPLE MOST HARDWORKING CONNOR LOVELL KATELEN BOLTON MOST FRIENDLY DALTON SNIDER VALERIE RAMIREZ BEST SMILE ALEX HUERTA MADDIE RUSSELL BEST ROLE MODEL OSEAS RAMOS ESTHER MERGERSON 9 7TH GRADE BOY GIRL MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED TYLER HERNDON KEELAN WILLIAMS MOST ATHLETIC JAKADRIC WATTS JAKAYLA WEATHERED MOST ARTISTIC ANGEL SEQUERA MOST DEPENDABLE ASHTON MCGHEN GLORIA ESTEFANIA PARADES FLORES INDIA WHITE MOST HUMOROUS STEPHANY GONZALEZ MOST SPIRITED JAYDEN HICKS ISRAEL MENDEZ DAKOTA INGRAM MOST HARDWORKING MARK PERKINS TAYLOR BURCH MOST FRIENDLY JONATHAN BUSTOS MALLORY FAUSETT BEST SMILE JEREMIAH POLLEY EMILY CERVANTES BEST ROLE MODEL JORGE LEON KALEI LAROCK 6TH GRADE BOY GIRL MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED AIDEN HAGLER ELLA SHIRES MOST ATHLETIC JACOB LIKER KIRA WINDHAM MOST ARTISTIC CASEDRICK GOODWIN MONICA SANTIEGO MOST DEPENDABLE COLLIN JONES (TIE) TATUM METTAUER ALLISON JONES MOST HUMOROUS JERMAINE JONES CAMRYN CROUCH MOST SPIRITED GRANT HOCKENBERRY TATUM METTAUER MOST HARDWORKING OSVALDO GUERRERO ALYSSA WHITE MOST FRIENDLY AIDAN HAGLER ASHLEY CASTILLO BEST SMILE JASE BIRD BEST ROLE MODEL JACK WATLINGTON (TIE) CHLOE EAVES KYLIE VIDRINE KENNEDY BUSH CHASSITY DAVIS