News & Announcements

(11/7): Students in Mrs. Scott's reading class are studying dramas and poems this week. They have enjoyed acting out scenes and finished up the lesson with a poetry scavenger hunt for patio pass prizes.

(11/7): Pontotoc Middle School will celebrate World Kindness Day on Monday, November 13. World Kindness Day is an international holiday that was formed in 1998 to promote kindness throughout the world and is observed annually on November 13 as part of the World Kindness Movement. It is observed in many countries including the United States, Canada, and Japan. World Kindness Day presents us with the opportunity to pay it forward and display numerous Random Acts of Kindness.

**As part of our Kindness campaign we are kicking off a “Can Food Drive” and these items will be donated to our local food pantry.
**Students and teachers can also wear bright colors on this day to remember the slogan “Shine bright with Kindness”.
**Students and staff will also be challenged to perform 5 acts of kindness throughout the day.

(11/7): Students in Ms. Swain and Mrs. Whitworth's sixth grade science classes learned just how quickly a population of deer can increase and decrease based on the availability of resources. Random students were either a resource (food, water, or space to live), while others were deer. Resources and deer turned their back to each other and made the sign for which resource they chose to be, and deer made the sign for the resource they wanted to hunt. If the deer did not find his/her resource, he/she became a need, causing the population of deer to decrease. If the deer found the resource he/she were hunting, then that resource became a deer, representing how balanced ecosystem can help a population increase. They loved acting out their parts! They took the data from 12 rounds of this activity and created a line graph indicating the increase and decrease of the deer population over 12 "years". Learning to read graphs, charts, diagrams and creating them are major skills that students will use throughout life.

(11/6): Students in Ms. Swain and Mrs. Whitworth's AG classes carved shapes into the rind of pumpkins to test the chickens on their pumpkin pecking skills! Looks like their pumpkin peckin' skills are perfect!

(11/3): Everyone had a great time at our book fair and family night! Thank you for all who supported our library this week. We appreciate it very much!!

(11/3): Students in Mrs. Johnson's 5th grade UFO class created their own podcasts! After choosing their topic, students wrote their own content, created their own music and recorded their podcasts on professional podcasting equipment. Student recordings will be available to listen to on the Pontotoc City website soon. Stay tuned!

(11/3): These students received a positive praise from a teacher this week. They displayed noteworthy character traits while at school. Congrats to these Warriors of Distinction.

(11/2): Mrs. Richardson's class is discovering the science behind making homemade ice cream by hand. Students were amazed that by adding salt to their ice bags, their solution quickly froze and became solid ice cream. We would like to give a huge, "Thank You!" to our student intern, Ms. Jordan Bennett for making this possible.

(10/31): Sixth grade students who read 400 minutes the month of October earned a free personal pan pizza certificate from Pizza Hut. This is a promotion through BookIt program. Way to go, Reading Warriors!

(10/31): Students in 6th grade ELA classes read a suspenseful story, “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl. The students then used an escape room to review standards and answer questions to escape from the evil landlady.