News & Announcements

(10/16): "Be Kind to Your Mind" so live drug free.
Red Ribbon Week kicks off at Pontotoc Middle School next week, October 23-27. Some of the activities planned next week include:
** Students will have dress up days (See flyer below).
**Students will plant tulips and daffodils in the garden area to represent Plant the Promise to be drug free.
**Students will speak on the intercom each day and share information about what it means to be drug free.
**In addition, teachers are busy decorating their classroom doors to represent drug-free week.
**Drawings will also be held for teachers and students on Friday.
**Students will be given stickers and ribbons to wear to celebrate being drug-free.

(10/19): Mrs. Ritchie, our school counselor, went into 5th grade classrooms this week and assisted students on focusing on their school study habits and how they affect one’s report card results. Students discussed various questions in small groups about their recent report cards. Some of the questions consisted of: What was positive about your most recent report card? How can you improve your next report card? After brief discussions students filled out a survey pertaining to their recent report cards. After this activity, Mrs. Ritchie talked about Red Ribbon Week activities coming up the following week and discussed drug-free information.

(10/18): To welcome students back after Fall break, Ms. Swain and Mrs. Whitworth took the kids to have fun in the Warrior Room at PJHS. Students worked hard the first nine weeks so they rewarded them with a day of play.

(10/16): After attending the MSU Ag in the Classroom PD, Mrs. Whitworth registered the PMS Ag teachers for the Hatch Out Program through the MSU Poultry Science Dept. Well, the little chickadees in their incubators have arrived. We have a couple of chicks hatched in 2 incubators already! We have a pretest we have taken determining the amount of knowledge the students have about embryo development and incubation. We have lessons that MSU has provided that will last through the hatching process. Students are chirping! They love our new project! Until the next episode…keep kick in’, chicken!

(10/12): Mrs. Ross's sixth grade ELA class prepared for the writing benchmark with a writing gallery. Students walked around the room looking at different prompts to write about.

(10/12): Mrs. Swain's science class practices with coding the robot. Students coded a path for it on the ipad. They watched it follow the path on the floor.

(10/11): PMS students gathered for an assembly to hear the expectations repeated for the new nine weeks. The expectations covered behavior, grades, dress code, and being respectful to teachers and students. Mrs. Hillhouse addressed policies and procedures for our school on the topics of cell phones, restrooms, and cafeteria.

(10/5): Mrs. Hitt's science students experimented with mixtures, solvents, and solutions as they dissolved the kool aid packet into water. The students saw the granules disappear into the water. After the solution was complete, they got to drink it!

(10/5): Mrs. Whitworth's science class used a microscope to see what was in dirty pond water. Students found paramecium and other squirmy particles under the microscope.