The Howler Newsletter

It was great to see so many families visit with our teachers at Parent-Teacher Conferences last night. If you did not attend conferences last night, you can still sign up in ParentVue for conferences that take place on Tuesday, October 13th.

Thank you to our AMS Parent Pack for planning and providing a meal for our upcoming Parent Teacher Conferences on October 13th. Click here for the Sign-Up Genius. You can also Venmo our Parent Pack leader, Kristin Johnson, at @Kristin-Johnson-256. Thank you to everyone who has already donated or is considering donating! Our teachers really appreciate it!

Important Dates and Links:

• Parent-Teacher Conference Sign-Ups OPEN NOW! Click here for more details!

• October 13: Parent-Teacher Conferences

• October 14: Don & Millie’s fundraiser - 144th & Harrison - 20% of your purchase comes back to AMS! Make sure you mention you are with the AMS fundraiser!

• October 15-19: No School for Students!

• AMS All Athletics Fundraiser - 17 days left!

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

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Heather Spessard-Schroer

AMS Principal

This week, we had our first Student of the Hexter awards for the year. Team teachers choose students who are consistently demonstrating our SHARP characteristics (Safe, Honest, Achieving, Respectful, and Persevering.) We are proud of our first round of winners! Keep up the good work, Wolverines!

We also recognized the team at each grade level who had the best attendance in Hexter 1! They received a traveling trophy that will be passed each hexter to the team with the best attendance. Our Hexter 1 winners were 6A, 7C, and 8B! Congrats, teams!

This week, our music department put on their very first “Fall Fest.” The games, candy-eating, and fun started at 6:00 pm and there was a quick 30-minute concert at 7:00 pm. All the games were totally planned and run by 8th grade volunteers. Lots of 6th graders chose to come to have fun (and also got to hear older musicians perform and hopefully be inspired.) Parents were amazing by donating treats AND volunteering to chaperone, and our building was buzzing with both students and parents mingling with one another. What a special community!

Emi and Tim were DISTRICT CHAMPIONS at this week’s district cross country meet! Congrats to you both! That takes some serious dedication and grit!

We have more PAWS Notes winners! Keep up the great work, students!

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.

Soccer club will start next week, October 7, and we will continue to meet on Wednesdays while the weather is nice. Pickup time will be 4:00. Students do not need to bring any special equipment.

Students should email Haley Dahlgaard (hadahlgaard@mpsomaha.org) if they are interested in joining. We can only accept the first 40 students this time around. We will do another round in the spring.

6th/7th Grade Quiz Bowl will practice after school on Monday, October 12th in room 619.

Please plan rides for 3:45.

7th/8th Grade Quiz Bowl will practice after school on Wednesday, October 14th in room 619. Please plan rides for 3:45.

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)!

Art Club will be meeting in room 802 from 3-4 pm on the following dates:

October 20th

November 17th

December 1st

December 8th

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.