Student Fee ( $40) mandated by School District 51 was due the first month of school.

If that hasn’t been paid yet, please make this a priority for your students’ education.

Cheri Vana, Principal School District Website: www.mesa.k12.co.us Jason Eidinger, Assistant Principal OMMS Website: http://omms.mesa.k12.co.us/ Sandy Reams, Secretary Joni Spence, Attendance Secretary

September/October 2018

*September 14 - No School – Teacher In-Service *October 15 – No School – Teacher Work Day *October 2 - Band Clinic-Palisade *October 17 – Choir Concert Central HS *October 9 - Choir Concert 7 pm - OMMS Gym *October 22 – No School - Conferences *October 11 - Orchestra Concert 7 pm - OMMS Gym *October 23 – No School – Teacher In-Service *October 15 - Rock-a-thon 8am-6pm - OMMS Gym

Dear Orchard Mesa Parents/Guardians,

I would like to thank you all for an outstanding start to the 2018-19 school year. I am very pleased with what I have observed both in our classrooms and around our campus. There is a great deal of learning taking place already! Our teachers are working hard to get to know their student’s strengths and areas that present challenges. They will be communicating with you throughout the year with both celebrations and concerns. I encourage you as parents to be proac-tive in your student academic and social growth. With that being said, our D51 schools are in the beginning stages of introducing a learning management system (LMS) as we continue to grow in our D51 Learning Model. Schoology is our integrated learning management solution that pro-vides course management, mobile learning, and support for system-wide communica-tion. Schoology enables our students, parents and teachers to engage with learning materials and their school community from the classroom and beyond. We look forward to using Schoology in our classrooms to enhance transparency, connectivity and communication across our D51 com-munity.

With a LMS, students can digitally submit homework assignments, review grades, demonstrate learning and growth, receive announcements and feedback, participate in interactive discussions, and more. As a parent/guardian, you will be able to view your child’s activity within the plat-form.

I would like to thank you for your support and patience as our teachers are learning to navigate a new learning management system. Our school district has been providing ongoing training in order for teachers to become acquainted with the system and hopefully become proficient at re-porting grades by the end of this quarter. We intend to open the system up to parents on October

2nd. Parents will be imported automatically to the new system if they currently have a Parent Vue account. In addition, we will offer training and support for parents on our October 22nd, and

23rd conference dates. We look forward to working with you in this new system.

My door is always open to your questions, concerns and ideas. Please feel free to contact me if the need arises. Thank you and Go Knights!

Cheri Vana, Principal

Mesa County Valley School District 51 Orchard Mesa Middle School 2115 Grand Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501

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From the Counselor’s Desk

Be kind to each other, middle school is hard enough and

you don’t always know what others may be going through. Take care of our young Knights, remember you were there once. You are all changing, make your change for the good. Have someone you can talk too. Work on being the kind of person you would want to be friends with. Our door is always open. . .

Welcome New OMMS Staff!

Kelly Bowen—Behavioral Therapist Kelsie Dardis—Counselor Adam Eberhardt— 7th Social Studies Jason Eidinger—Vice Principal Mike Hautula— SNB Pam Henry—SPED/Para Jordan Houde—7th Math/Science Ashley Lloyd—Interventions Sonja Predovich—Resource Adam Rothrock—Speech Therapist Laura Stewart— Computer Science

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school sport

teams.

*Girls Volley-

ball schedule

on the website.

*Football Can-

yon View Park

Saturdays.

For showing qualities of an OMMS Knight: *Honor *Empathy *Courage *Persistence *Work ethic *Kindness *Respectful *Responsible Teacher of the Month: Sandy Bavor—8th Grade Science Student of the Month: Olivia Thurston—8th Grade

Library News:

OMMS LIBRARY MISSION:

In collaboration with the Orchard Mesa Middle School learn-ing community, the OMMS Library will be an essential part of the instructional program focusing on student growth and achievement. The OMMS Library is dedicated to providing the OMMS community with the best possible resources, ser-vices, and access to a quality collection in a variety of for-mats.

Hours:

7:10 AM until 3:10 PM, on school days (subject to change). During class time, each student is required to have their planner signed by teacher and sign AND out from the Chromebook in the library

*Library Policy:

Book check out: Two weeks with 1 renewal Students are encouraged to renew on their own at the OPACs in the library or through their ClassLink.

*Lost Book Charges equal the replacement cost of the book

$20 plus a $5 processing fee.

Contact Information: Telephone 970-254-6320 x. 38108 (direct line with voice mail) Postal address: 2736 C Rd. Grand Junction, CO . 81503 Email:

Mrs. Pitman, Teacher Librarian