CHMS Weekly Update

March 4th - 8th, 2024

End of Tri 2

Our second trimester ends this Friday! Please use Skyward to check your child's progress in his or her classes. If you would like to contact your child's teachers, you can contact them via email or via message from our Website.

If you need help accessing Skyward, you can reach out to Mrs. Recker or Mrs. Patterson in the middle school office.

Phone: (989) 967-2200

Email: Mrs. Recker - crecker@chsd.us

Mrs. Patterson - rpatterson@chsd.us

Honor Society Cupcake Sale

The Middle School Honor Society will be selling cupcakes to raise money for some local needs. 50% of the profits will go to the CH Middle School Student Needs Fund, and the other 50% will go to Angels of Action. Orders can be placed on March 5th-7th in homerooms. Students can choose to order chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting or white cupcakes with vanilla frosting. They will cost $2.00 each. Cupcakes will be delivered to homerooms on Wednesday, March 20.

Band and Orchestra Festival

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

You can find more information including performance times in the document attached below!

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Second Step

What are we learning this week?

5th Grade

Unit 4: Problem-Solving

Lesson 18: Solutions Web: In this lesson, your child will evaluate solutions to an interpersonal problem by thinking about the problem from each person’s point of view.

Try this at home - Tell your child about a simple interpersonal problem that you’ve experienced and describe each person’s point of view about the problem. Ask them to help you think of solutions and predict the possible outcomes of each solution.

6th Grade

Unit 3: Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions

Lesson 18: What Works Best for You? - In this week’s lesson, your child will practice choosing an emotion-management strategy that works best for them in a given setting. They’ll look at several different settings and pick a strategy they think will work for them.

Try this at home - Discuss different scenarios that might happen at home or school where your child might need to use an emotion-management strategy. Talk through the scenarios and ask your child to share their thinking and reasoning with you.

7th Grade

Unit 3: Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions

Lesson 18: Practicing Positive Self-Talk - This week, your child will practice a strategy called positive self-talk to help them reframe challenging situations.

Try this at home - Ask your child to explain what “negativity bias” is. Share with each other one or more good things that happened today.

8th Grade

Unit 3:Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions

Lesson 18: Changing Strategies and Getting Help - In this week’s lesson, your child will analyze stressful situations and decide if they need to change their strategy or get outside help to manage their stress.

Try this at home - Tell your child about a time you needed help managing stress.

Students can sign up to perform in the talent show and can practice after school on Mondays and Wednesdays until 4:15pm in Mrs. Wernette's classroom (#426). The show will take place after our 5th/6th grade activity afternoon and concessions will be available for purchase.

Middle School Athletics

Upcoming Events

No events this week!

Staff Shout-Outs!

Recent Shout-Outs!

Mr. Thompson - STEM Teacher

"My son really enjoys Mr Thompson. You can tell he is a great teacher and cares about his students. Thank you for leading the STEM group, and being awesome!"

Mr. Moore - Custodian

"Mr. Moore is so thoughtful and kind. He is always thinking of ways to make things easier or more comfortable for us and it is much appreciated!"

Mr. Smith - Counselor

"Mr Smith always has a smile on his face in the hallway. If I’m having a bad day he makes it all better"