Knox Middle School

March 2022

March at Knox!

Hello Knox Families!

We had such an exciting month of March at Knox. Our Knox Circle leaders made their annual visit to Baker Elementary school to read to students and to talk about books for Read Across America! They also had a super fun game of rock, paper, scissors and the winner got a burrito!

i2 STEM WEEK

Knox students began STEM month with 3 virtual Zoom assemblies with the scientists at Vertex! You can watch the videos here. Students got to learn from Vertex scientists and engineers about their careers and their work in the lab.

During the week of March 25th, all students at Knox participated in a full STEM week. Each grade level studied a different project:

6th grade-Lunar Colony

7th grade-Kinetic Sculptures

8th grade-Surgical Techniques

You can learn more about our key activities and STEM week curriculum from i2 here.

At the end of the week, students showcase their learning for their peers and for visitors from the district and the community. We are so proud of our staff and our students for their amazing effort, teamwork, creativity, and focus during STEM week.

Sports and Level Up Clubs:

Knox hosted try outs for our soccer team. Soccer practice is Tuesday and Wednesday after school. Our Level Up dance program has also started. In the coming weeks we will be adding 2 more after school clubs: GTT Robotics and Lab Rats Forensic Science. Scroll down for the links to register.

Reminders:

SBAC State Testing Begins in April
Phones may only be out during lunch. Phones out any other time will be collected and a parent must pick them up in the office.
Students may not wear AirPods during passing period

We have a late bus for tutoring every Tuesday. It stops at Baker and Balboa. It departs Knox at 4:35
Soccer Team-Tuesday/Wednesday after school
Dance-Tuesday/Wednesday after school
Minimum days are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Thursday only.
Please monitor your child's social media accounts (Instagram, Snap Chat, Tik Tok). Please talk to your students about their digital footprint and cyberbullying. Here is a parent resource:
Teaching Kids to Be Smart About Social Media

Students must complete 5 articles in Achieve 3000 every month. Please see the video on how to access Achieve 3000 in this newsletter

Check out the Lincoln Cluster Newsletter for more awesome events happening in our cluster.

To join our ELAC, please reach out to Ms. Hueso ahueso@sandi.net

Sincerely,

Principal Potter

GO BULLDOGS!!

i2 STEM Week

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5th Grade virtual visits to Knox STEM week

All 5th grade students at Porter, Valencia Park, Nye, Chavez, Baker and Balboa had a chance to Zoom in to Knox classrooms during STEM week. Knox students were able to present their learning and STEM projects to our future Bulldogs!! Fifth grade students got a STEM activity of their own to try out at home!

Read Across America At Baker Elementary

Knox Circle Leaders went to Baker Elementary School to read to the younger students as part of our yearly tradition.

School-wide Reading Goal

Knox students are encouraged to read 5 articles a month on Achieve 3000. Each week, students will read in their Advisory program, on Thursday mornings. Our goal is that all students progress in their Lexile reading level as measured by Achieve 3000 and the FAST reading assessment. Our Knox library is open at lunch. Students will visit the library with their ELA teachers to check-out independent reading books.

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Students are earning so many Brag Tags!!

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Spring Level Up After School Programs

GTT Robotics Club

Robotics

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Monday Room 1

3:15-5:15

Starts April 4

Lab Rats Forensic Science

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiuLtofcvl3K1dNZJRODtpdJH0Q5vlaDkAQkK0-RpnGzXNyw/viewform

Tuesdays Room 2

3:10-4:10

Starts May 17

Dance Out Loud

Registration:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPYGSpDob8txg5cxrJKcQQUTFU9-ZkFPCKWZ40Y874X1wTNA/viewform

Tuesdays and Wednesdays

3:10-4:30

Auditorium

Knox Primetime Update

Hello PrimeTime Families,

Hope you are all doing well and looking forward to the last couple of months of this school year. We have a lot of exciting activities planned for the next few weeks so please encourage all students to be consistent and participate!

Remember, PrimeTime applications for the 2022-2023 school year are now open until April 15th. If you do not apply during this initial application period, you will still be able to apply however you will not receive any notification about acceptance/waitlist until later in the summer when more applications are processed. To submit your application, you will need your login information from the last time you applied. If you do not have an account or do not remember your password, you can create an account or recover your password from the application site. You will only need one account if you are registering multiple children, however each student will require their own application to be submitted. Please reach out if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Kevin Cervantes

Kevin Cervantes

Site Coordinator | Knox Middle School

(619) 494-8652
knox@arc-experience.com
1098 S.49th St, San Diego, CA 92113