The Howler Newsletter

Happy Friday!

As the days get shorter and our morning drop-off time gets darker, please be cautious when driving around the school. Take your time, watch for students, and be mindful when dropping off your own children. We’ve had some parents reach out with concerns about people driving too fast or stopping abruptly on Adams Street to drop off their children. While we aren’t traffic cops, we do want our students to be safe when they are arriving to and leaving school. Let’s all work together to ensure our students’ safety!

Important Dates and Links:

• Sunday, September 27: Scooters Fundraiser (153rd & Q) - 20% comes back to AMS!

• Monday, September 28: Parent-Teacher Conference Sign-Ups begin! Click here for more details!

• September 29: Student Athletes - Have list of email addresses ready for our school fundraiser!

• October 8 and 13: Parent-Teacher Conferences

• October 15-19: No School for Students!

• Yearbook ordering information - Search for ‘Andersen Middle School’

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Heather Spessard-Schroer

AMS Principal

This is our Principal’s Kindness Club. At the end of each year, 6th grade teachers nominate 6th graders who have demonstrated kindness in and out of the classroom all year long. We just welcomed our new 7th graders this week who were nominated by their 6th grade teachers. We are also happy to welcome back an outstanding group of 8th grade leaders who will lead various kindness activities throughout the year.

As we wrapped up hexter 1, our Family Consumer Sciences classes wrapped up some really fun hands-on learning! Our 6th grade Foods classes made chicken pesto last week, and our 8th grade Design Lab classes showed off their sewing and design projects!

Our orchestra students headed to Vala’s this week for their annual Vala’s performance! They were grateful to catch a day without rain, had a great time, and gave a wonderful performance!

We had more Positive Office Visits this week, and here are a few of them! We are so proud of all of our Wolverines for working hard and being kind every day!

Teachers give PAWS Notes to students who are going above and beyond in the areas of SHARP (Safe, Honest, Achieving, Respectful, and Persevering.) Students can use their PAWS Notes to buy treats in the PAWS store. Each Thursday (starting this week), we randomly draw 9 students who have received PAWS Notes to get an extra treat. Here are our first PAWS Note drawing winners! Great work, kids! Keep being SHARP!

Sometimes 8th graders still play with their food - especially when they’re giving a shout-out to one of their favorite lunch supervisors! Mrs. Grace connects with kids everywhere she goes - even cafeteria supervision! She’s amazing! (And don’t worry - they cleaned up after themselves!)

Students must have a current physical on file to participate in the open gym or tryouts.

• Boys basketball tryouts will be held on October 7 and October 9 from 3:00–4:45 p.m. If an additional evaluation day is needed, tryouts will continue on October 12. Otherwise, October 12 will be the first official practice.
• An open gym will be held on October 6 from 3:00–4:30 p.m. This is a non-evaluation day and an opportunity for athletes to prepare for tryouts.

Please join our Google Classroom for all boys basketball information.

The classroom code is th52qhrd.

Please email Coach Carder at blcarder@mpsomaha.org with any questions.

There will be 2 Girls Wrestling meetings on Wednesday, September 30th, in Room 401 (Mr.Raabe). Try to attend one meeting. If you can’t, please come see Mr. Hawkins for information.

6th/7th Grade Quiz Bowl will meet on Monday, September 28th from 3-3:45 in room 619.

7th/8th Grade Quiz Bowl will meet on Wednesday, September 30th from 3-3:45 in room 619.

Practice Dates are Mondays & Wednesdays: 3:00-3:40

Sept: 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30

MUST HAVE PHYSICAL TURNED IN TO PARTICIPATE AND HAVE PAID THE $25 fee

Photography Club is meeting after on Monday, Sept. 28th.

All are welcome to attend!

Mrs. Walker’s Room 303

3:00 - 3:45pm

MathCounts Update!

We have decided to have EVERYONE meet weekly for MathCounts! A few students asked if we could meet every week, so we decided to make it happen!

We will no longer separate meetings by grade level. All MathCounts students, no matter what grade you are in, can attend each meeting.

We will alternate between Tuesdays and Thursdays each week.

October MathCounts Dates:

• Thursday, October 1st (ALL GRADE LEVELS)

• Tuesday, October 6th (ALL GRADE LEVELS)

• Thursday, October 22nd (ALL GRADE LEVELS)

• Tuesday, October 27th (ALL GRADE LEVELS)

We’re excited to see everyone each week and have some fun with math challenges, problem solving, and competition!

See you at our next meeting in Mrs. Schutte’s room (319)!

Student Athletes- How is the collecting of emails? did we get our 5, 10 or more? Sept 29th will be the day we upload the emails for our fundraiser. Remember to get them in digital format.

Find the entire AMS Staff Directory here

Office Hours: Monday through Friday 7am - 4pm

Website: https://ams.mpsomaha.org/
Location: 15404 Adams Street, Omaha, NE, USA
Phone: 402-715-8440
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MPSAndersenMS/
Twitter: @MPSAndersenMS

Andersen Middle School, a collaborative family of Wolverines, guarantees each student will be inspired to achieve academic excellence and exemplify positive character traits through supportive relationships and engaging learning environments.