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DECEMBER 2018

Greetings Booker Nation, With the Holiday season upon us, December is always a time of anticipation and excitement. At Booker Middle School, we welcomed December with a visit from various stakeholders. Our school was selected to showcase exemplary practices. We have embarked upon a vision that celebrates each scholar, while helping us to realize the importance of making a collaborative impact. Although it has been very challenging for our staff and students to organize and host visitors throughout the first half of this school year, it has also been rewarding. We have received excellent feedback from our visitors, thus validating that our teachers are doing phenomenal work with students. After spending time in classrooms, one visitor said to me, “Booker Middle School is a great example of striving to meet the needs of all student. Your teachers make it happen here.” I considered that comment one of the best testimonials and highest compliments I have ever heard about our school. I am always telling folks what great things happen at Booker Middle School, but to hear it from a visitor experiencing our school for the first time was truly validating. As you know, there are many opportunities throughout the year for parents to visit and see the great things our students and teachers do here at school. Although it is a short month with the vacation at the end, we always find a way to make the most of our time. Before we left for Thanksgiving break, I told our teachers that I would always give thanks for our staff and all they do for children each day. For December, I am also giving thanks for our wonderful extended community here at Booker Middle School. I wish all our families the very best this holiday season and a very Happy New Year. Sincerely,

Dr. LaShawn Frost, Principal

SAVE THE DATE!

ARTS MAGNET EXTERNAL

AUDITIONS Saturday, February 16th

9:00 am @ BMS

STAY INFORMED! Website: www. sarasotacountyschools.net/schools/bookermiddle

Remind: Text @bookerm to 81010

VPA Website: www.BookerMiddleSchoolVPA.weebly.com

VPA Facebook: @BookerMiddleSRQ

VPA Instagram: @BookerMiddle

VPA Twitter: @bookermiddle

TORNADO WATCH DECEMBER 2018

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Holidays Are Stressful for Middle Schoolers,

According to the National Association of Health Education Centers, the chief stressor for students ages

9-13 is school. No middle grades educator is surprised by this, given the factors involved in a student's

school day—grades, homework, friends, bad hair, etc. While the holidays can be a fun time, for some it

also can be stressful. The holidays can be filled with anxiety because of family issues or there can be

long stretches of time with nothing to do during extended breaks. Teachers and parents can help kids in

the middle grades deal with this stress.

Acknowledge that it exists.

Let kids know that you are aware it is a hard time for them. Acknowledging the concern can help ease

stress. This might allow kids to be less hard on themselves for any negative feelings that exist.

Teach stress-reduction techniques.

To help to reduce stress, pre-teens and teens can talk out problems without someone they trust or

engage in other healthy options such as breathing techniques, body relaxation, mental imaging, art,

music, exercise and writing.

Don't let your stress get in the way.

Students who are under stress are going to act out. Kids are going to talk back more, engage in more

fights, and be meaner to each other than at other times. Raising your voice and losing your patience

with students only adds to the tension.

Get students to think beyond themselves.

Spend quality time talking about the needs of others and the issues behind those needs. Focusing on

others is a huge stress-reliever.

SOURCE: Association for Middle Level Education

To supplement funds received for classroom

supplies our teachers spend their non-teaching time

writing grants to enrich their classrooms and the student experience. Here is

a smattering of some of the grants received this year at

BMS.

Ms. Fox received two grants from Ed foundation one for a concrete block garden and another for a collection of the sunshine state titles. She also received Maya Angelou Poetry Award Grant

for $10,000!!

PE received a grant, enabling us to buy the equipment to play

Spike Ball. This is a new game that has recently shown on ESPN!

Donna Heath a grant titled: Walking a Mile in Their Shoes,

Multicultural Understanding Through Literature and Research.

Ms. Dwulit was awarded a grant.

Mr. Silva was awarded a grant for a drum set to start a rock band at BMS.


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Congratulations Students of the Month!!

Ashlee Amaya

Juan Areiza

Madison Barfield Jackson Carney

Victor Castellano

Gabriel Cordero Ava Crowell

Alma Dasberg

Jadarius Davis Reyes Dimas-Vasquez

Jayla Douglas

Julianna Famiglio Emmanuelle Fandoux

Cooper Flerlage

Jazmynne Goddard A'Drea Gordon

Makaley Graham

Valeria Hernandez Jose Herrera

Gabriella Huff

Yeili Ibarra Kimberly Icabalezta-

Hermosillo

Jaime Irizarry Kyla Jackson

Karemy Jermino

Makiyla Kackley

Darlton Kenton Margaret Laymen

Charles Lester

Amyah Ma Clarissa Martin

Dennise Martinez

Maurise McKinney Emma Ortiz

Aubrey Patrick

Jasmine Robinson Erick Rojo

Ariel Samedi

Anastasia Samedi Casey Scolardi

Mercedes Seepaul

Jason Smith Azariah Summers

J'siyah Taylor

Ed'yarri Timmons Jesus Trevino

Ashley Villalobos

Tuesday Whalen Kylee Worth

Jesus Zamarripa


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Legend Purple and Gold BMS General

Blue Academics

Yellow Clubs

Green Law Academy

Red Sports and Athletics

Purple VPA and Arts

VPA and Arts

WINTER DANCE CONCERT Saturday, January 12 7:00 @ Booker High

VPA NIGHT & AUDITION

WORKSHOP Tuesday January 15th

6:00 @ BMS

DRAGONFLY CAFÉ Thursday, January 17th 6:00 @ BMS Rm 130

BAND/ORCH

AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM

ORIENTATION Wednesday, January 23rd 6:00 PM @ BMS Rm 303

VOCAL RECITAL Tuesday February 5th 7:00 @ BMS Rm 407

GUITAR & ORCH

CONCERT Wednesday, February 13th

7:00 @ BMS

VPA AUDITIONS Saturday, February 16th

9:00 am @ BMS

SPORTS AND ATHLETICS

BMS GENERAL

COMMUNITY DINNER Wednesday, December 19th

6:00-7:30 @ BMS

COFFEE &

CONVERSATION WITH

THE PRINCIPAL Friday, January 18th

8:00 AM @ BMS

PARENT INVOLVEMENT Tuesday, January 22nd 5:00-6:00 PM @ BMS

SAC Tuesday, January 22nd 6:00-7:00 PM @ BMS

PARENT UNIVERSITY

Thursday, January 31st 5:30-6:30 PM @ BMS

BMS SCHOOL SHOWCASE

Tuesday, February 5th 6:00 PM @ BMS

BASKETBALL Monday, January 14th

BMS @ Sarasota

BASKETBALL

Wednesday January 16th Pine View @ BMS

BASKETBALL Wednesday, January 23rd

BMS @ McIntosh

COUNTY TOURNAMENT

Top 4 teams to Semi Finals Girls: 1/28 Boys: 1/29

Location TBA

Championship Game

Thurs. 1/31 Girls: 6:00 Boys: 7:30 @ Booker High School

This page is a hub for some of the Booker Middle School events happening

both on and off our campus in the next month. Use the legend below to

more quickly locate your areas of interest.


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The Musical Theatre students were treated to an amazing

performance of The Music Man at the Asolo Reparatory Theatre!

It was such a fun production with incredible singing and

dancing as well as beautiful sets and costumes. This production

was made even more special by the wonderful performance

given by Henry Mills, Mrs. Mills’ son!!

ESOL Visit Mote Marine On November 20th, our ESOL students visited the Mote Marine

Laboratory and Aquarium. Students were able to learn about the

process of sea animals rescue, rehabilitation and release. They

enjoyed a day of looking at amazing live sea animals and learning

about their habitats and ways of life. Their favorite part? Touching

the Rays; of course !! 😊

Music Man Visit

Big Wins For Boys and Girls Basketball

Congratulations on a BIG win and BIG trophies for our BMS Girls

and Boys basketball teams. We had a double win at The Neil

"Chip" Nelson/Howard Porter, Sr. Legends Game. The coaches

gave the teams a history lesson before the game about Chip

(Lincoln High Legend 65/67) and Howard (Booker High Legend

65/67). Our history is very important!

Sports

2018 BMS STEM Fair

Congratulations to the Booker Middle School 2018 STEM Fair

participants! On Wednesday November 28th, we had twenty-two

sixth and seventh grade students participate in the school wide

STEM Fair. First place: Jackson Carney, Second Place: Auggie

Toynton, Third Place: Sofia Patarini. Honorable Mention (will

represent BMS along with winners at the district fair in January):

Lilia Burgess, Emma Ortiz, Tylee Giorgio, Annabelle Truong,

Casey Scolardi, Ursula Cook, Cristobal Lugardo-Lopez,

Mackenzie Lopatinsky, Lila Saarinen, Aukan Coliguante-Rivero


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BMS Wowed at Jr. Thespians District Festival! BMS Drama and MT students really shone at the Jr. Thespians District Festival this month at Blake High School in Tampa. We received all Excellent and Superior ratings for the 16 events we presented… no small

feat for any school! Additionally, one of our students took top honors in the category of “Costume Design”. Jackson Carney was selected as the

“Critic’s Choice” for his costume design for the musical “Honk!”. Next step… the State Festival in early February!

Critic’s Choice: Jackson Carney, Costume Design (Superior rating…

perfect score!) SUPERIOR RATINGS: Jackson Carney – Solo MT,

Jackson Carney – Monologue, Jackson Carney and Owen DeMaio –

College For Every Student Events! As always our CFES program is having an action packed

time. Here are some of the highlights from this month:

• CFES Fast Track to Success Career Event

• USF Sarasota-Manatee CFES Field Trip

• Our CFES Scholars being mentored by Booker High CFES

Scholars

Orchestra Performance UTC Booker Middle School VPA Orchestras did an awesome job

performing at UTC Mall in November! We have such talented

musicians at our school!

Attendance Challenge Volleyball Game! The 6th Graders had a grand time cheering for the teachers or the

BMS Volleyball Team in our Attendance Challenge Students vs

Staff Volleyball game! The staff looked really confident until the

students won 2 out of 3 games for the first time ever!

Congratulations to the 6th graders for having the best attendance

during quarter 1; congratulations to our Tornado Volleyball Team

for beating the staff for the first time in school history.

Duet MT, Owen DeMaio and Briana Wilder – Improv, Marielena Savino and Kyle Ramon –

Improv, Ava Crowell, Evelyn Pintus, and Evelina Rous – Ensemble Acting, Shayla White and

Tylee Giorgio – Pantomime, Kyle Ramon – Solo MT, Briana Wilder – Solo MT, Marielena Savino

– Solo MT, Marielena Savino – Monlogue EXCELLENT RATING: Shayla White and Tylee

Giorgio – Improv, Dylan Ramon – Solo MT, Lila Saarinen – Monologue, Atticus Pratt – Monologue

BMS


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November Parent University Kudos to Mr. Leal, Mr. Termine, and Mrs. Alvis on a fabulous Parent

University. The parents actually looked like the kids while having fun

with Kahoot! 😊

The presentation was an excellent refresher about the importance of

teaching behavior and staying in front of issues and rewarding good

behavior.

Chorus Community Performance

The VPA Chorus program has been very busy in the

community. 36 VPA Chorus students performed on Saturday

Dec 8th with Riverview High school for the annual

Renaissance Holiday concert, at St. John's United Methodist

Church. Also, Advanced chorus enjoyed singing for the

residents of The Pines of Sarasota this month. BMS is so

proud of their kindness, professionalism, and for sharing their

talents.

ESOL Afterschool Speaker Our ESOL afterschool program recently welcomed a

Community ESOL Professional Guest, firefighter/EMT

Jennifer Diaz. Ms. Diaz is a former ESOL student who

graduated from Riverview H.S. She also holds a K-12 Teaching

degree from USF.

Guitar Concert

Our guitar program lead by Mr. Silva put on a

wonderful concert this month. Congratulations on your

wonderful performance and thank you for sharing your

talents with us!

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VPA Dance At North Port

Invitational Congratulations to our VPA Dance students who

performed stunningly at the North Port Invitational on

Saturday Dec 1st

Everyone had a blast and can’t wait to return next Fall

for this event!

Perlman Concert Musicians from the Perlman Music Program came to

BMS this month and put on a beautiful performance for

our students. Thank you so much the Perlman Music

Program and their talented musicians for bringing this

lovely experience to our campus!

SWAT Joins Downtown Sarasota Parade We had 18 of our Booker Middle SWAT students walking in the

downtown Sarasota parade this month!!!

Some displayed their posters, others gave out informational cards,

while everyone spread holiday cheer :)

And the weather was just right.

Manasota Middle School Honor Chorus Please join us in congratulating the following 15 students for being selected from their auditions to be a part of the Manasota Middle

School Honor Choir. This is a combination of students from Manatee, Sarasota and Desoto Counties and it is the first year for

this event. Their performance will be Saturday evening January 19th at 6:00 pm in SCF’s Neel Auditorum. Iris Dougherty, Joy

Olaince, Kyra Rosier, Miranda Lyons, Sofia Patarini, Tisha Trivedi, Tylee Giorgio, Annika Trout, Briana Wilder, Kayla Cinelli, Kylie Morrison, Dylan Ramon, Kyle Ramon, Auggie

Toynton, Addison Ruscoe

Clubs


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Come visit our

generous community

partners on their scheduled night and a

portion of the profits from that evening is

donated to our school! Flyers with details and coupons

will be distributed at

school. Invite your

friends!

5:00PM-9:00PM 5:00PM-9:00PM 5:00PM-9:00PM

Freddy’s Night

6224 N Lockwood Ridge

Newk’s Night

5405 University Pkwy

5:00PM-8:00PM 5:00PM-9:00PM 5:00PM-9:00PM

Culver’s Night


California Pizza Kitchen

215 N Cattlemen Rd

5:00PM-9:00PM 5:00PM-9:00PM 5:00PM-8:00PM

Blaze Pizza Night

215 N Cattlemen Rd

Tijuana Flat’s Night


Jan 18 Dec 14 Nov 16 Oct 26

Feb 15 March 29 May 17 Apr 26


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For more information on Booker Middle School Visual and Performing Arts events or

admissions contact VPA coordinator Savannah Holds at [email protected]


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Volunteers We Would Like To Thank: Kelly Carney

Thuy-a Khue Roxanne Jorgensen

Janine Gevas Kelly Endress

Nereida Ponce Carla Burrell


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Parental Notification Principal Attestation of Qualifications

For Teachers and Paraprofessionals

Booker Middle School

Sarasota County School District

As required by P.L. 107-110, Section 1119(i) of Title I, Part A, I attest to the following for the school year 2018-2019:

• All teachers teaching in core academic subject areas and hired after the first day of 2001-2003 school year and teaching in a program and supported bt Title I, Part A

funds, are highly qualified.

• All instructional paraprofessionals, (except for translations and parental involvement

activities) meet the requirements to be considered highly qualified. Copies of this attestation are available online and at the school and district office and will

be made available to the general public upon request.

Dr. LaShawn Frost

Title I Booklet Distribution

What is “Parent’s-Right-to-Know” Federal law requires that the Sarasota County School District notify parents of all children

in Title I schools of their rights to receive timely information on the professional

qualifications of their child’s teacher. Parents may request information about the professional qualifications of the student’s classroom teacher including, at a minimum, the

following:

• Whether the teacher has met the state qualifications and certification criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction.

• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which state qualification or certification criteria has been waived.

• The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate certificate or degree held by the teacher, and the field of discipline of the certification or degree.

• Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications

If you would like to receive a Title I booklet, please notify Debra Alvis-Greenwald

(941)359-5824 or [email protected]


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