CHMS Weekly Update

February 5th - 9th

8th Grade Parent Meeting

Attention 8th Grade Parents! Our 8th Grade Parent Meeting is Thursday, February 8 at 6:30 PM in the High School Auditorium. This meeting is very informative and covers “all things high school.” Please plan to attend with your student as we begin the process for setting up next year’s classes.

Book Blast

We will be launching our Book Blast on Monday with a live Zoom Launch Party! Here is the bell schedule so every grade has homeroom at the same time.

‘Book Blast’ Earns Students at CHIPPEWA HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL New Books

Chippewa Hills Middle School is about to embark on a school-wide book drive unlike any other!

Starting Monday, 2/5/2024, the school will launch their Books Are Fun Book Blast. This literacy initiative helps our students build their home libraries while also helping the school to get more books and school supplies. No matter what, this program ensures all the students at the school will take home at least one new, fun, age-appropriate book for their home libraries. However, with the help of the community, friends, and family, students can earn up to 10 books!

How does this all work? Students send out invitations to friends and family members to help them

reach their goal of taking home all 10 books on their grade-level list. So, if you receive an invitation from a student you know, please click on the link in the invitation and help that child by contributing on their personal contribution page. 100% of the contributions they receive first go towards the books on their book list and then help other students needing books too. Any remaining contributions after every student earns all 10 books will go toward more books for the school and classroom supplies. Let’s help CHMS reach their goal of every student taking home all 10 books!

Second Step

What are we learning this week?

5th Grade

Unit 3: Empathy and Kindness

Lesson 14: Community Solutions - In this lesson, your child will evaluate possible solutions to a community problem by thinking about the points of view of the people who are affected by the problem.

Try this at home - Point out a problem in your neighborhood that affects other people. With your child, make a list of possible solutions to the problem. Ask your child how different groups in the community might feel about each solution.

6th Grade

Unit 3: Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions

Lesson 14: What Emotions Tell You - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn how to recognize the kind of information their emotions can give them in different situations and how that information can be useful.

Try this at home - Ask your child what type of emotions they felt today. Tell them the emotions you felt. What information did they get from those emotions? What did your emotions tell you?

7th Grade

Unit 3: Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions

Lesson 14: Emotions Matter - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn how their brain handles strong emotions and brainstorm positive and negative decisions they might make when they feel a strong emotion.

Try this at home - Ask your child about a negative decision they recently made because they were feeling a strong emotion. Help them think about how they can turn that negative decision into a positive one if they feel that emotion again.

8th Grade

Unit 3:Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions

Lesson 14: Understanding Stress and Anxiety - In this week’s lesson, your child will examine how they feel, what thoughts they have, and how their body responds when they’re stressed.

Try this at home - Ask your child what they do or feel when they’re stressed. These signs will help you notice when your child is stressed, so you can ask them how to help or support them.

Polar Plunge!

This year we had the privilege of receiving a UCS Grant through Special Olympics, becoming a

Unified Champion School. This funding allows Chippewa Hills Middle School to offer Peer to

Peer, encouraging inclusivity within our building. The Mt. Pleasant Polar Plunge raises funding

for Special Olympics, and we would like to be a part of this opportunity.

If you would like to donate, here is the link (click here).

(The Fundraising Team is Chippewa Hills Middle School)

If you would like to support by spectating, here are the event details:

Date: Saturday, Feb. 10

Time: Noon

Where: O’Kelly/Wayside

We would like to thank you for your time and consideration.

Chippewa Hills Middle School Peer to Peer

Taylor Reeves - tgrover@chsd.us

Linda Jones - ljones@moisd.org

Middle School Athletics

Upcoming Events

MS Cheer

Mon. 2/5 @ Grant MS - 6:00pm - Bus Departs @ 3:30pm

Wed. 2/7 HOME - 6:00pm

MS Wrestling

Tues. 2/6 HOME - 5:00pm

Fri. 2/9 @ Grant - 5:00pm - Bus Departs @ 3:00

7/8 Girls Basketball

Wed. 2/7 @ Newaygo - 4:00 - Bus Departs @ 2:15pm

Sat. 2/10 @ White Cloud - 9:00am

Staff Shout-Outs!

Recent Shout-Outs!

Mrs. Dagley - 5th Grade Reading Teacher

"Mrs. Dagley offers positive feedback for her students, sends encouraging update emails to their parents, and even sent us a nice postcard with kind words for our daughter. This is such a wonderful thing to do for a 5th grader. Thank you for being a teacher, Mrs. Dagley!"