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SMS Scholar’s Bowl Team placed 3 rd in their pool at the State competition. They had a record of 22-2<br />
wins <strong>to</strong> losses. Eighth grader Jacob Bowling placed 5 th individually earning him a spot on the State All-<br />
Tournament Team and won MVP for Madison County.<br />
SMS band students went above and beyond <strong>to</strong> try out for all-state and all-district band! Two students were<br />
selected for all state band: Dancy Castle on Contra Clarinet and Glenda Booker on Bb Clarinet. Seven<br />
students made the all-district honor band: Dancy Castle on the Contra Clarinet; Chelsea Owens and Randi<br />
Swanson on flute; Glenda Booker and Tori Phillips on Bb clarinet; Grace Gordon on al<strong>to</strong> sax; and Steven<br />
Allen on percussion. What a huge honor for these band students!<br />
In addition, the SMS Advanced Band received a superior rating at the Music Performance Assessment for<br />
the 3 rd year in a row!<br />
Sandy Brand, Media Specialist, was a guest blogger for Edmodo. She blogged about SMS’ international<br />
book club, in which participating students are connecting with students in Renaison, France.<br />
SMS hosted the 3 rd annual Battle of the Books competition<br />
March 7 th against Liberty Middle School. Battle of the<br />
Books is a question-answer competition similar <strong>to</strong> Scholars’<br />
Bowl. BOB gives students the opportunity <strong>to</strong> read and<br />
discuss quality literature with peers, thereby formulating<br />
discussion techniques. Each BOB member is required <strong>to</strong><br />
read and submit questions on 5 specified novels.<br />
SMS held its annual School-Wide Spelling Bee on January<br />
16, 2013. The winner was Katelyn Cole, 7 th grade, and the<br />
runner-up was Rachel Dowling, 8 th grade. Katelyn placed in<br />
the Top 15 at the county spelling bee held at Randolph<br />
School.<br />
Martin Hester, Principal<br />
Submitted Jamel Thomas<br />
This week, we started wrapping up Chapter 8 in the Algebra 1B<br />
class. Students have been multiplying binomials and fac<strong>to</strong>ring<br />
trinomials. In small group time, students started with a poster and<br />
had <strong>to</strong> write two binomials <strong>to</strong> multiply. The posters were then<br />
handed <strong>to</strong> the next group who had <strong>to</strong> multiply the binomials <strong>to</strong><br />
create a trinomial. The following day, Mrs. Deiss wrote the<br />
trinomials on new posters, and handed them <strong>to</strong> a different group.
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