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November 2017
arlington middle
All-State Honors
Porter Spiceland represented Lakeland Elementary
School at the 2017 Tennessee Elementary School
Cross Country State Championships in Knoxville.
Porter placed 24th in a field of 300+ runners and
earned a spot on the All State Team.
AMS STEM Club
Participates in E-Day
at the University of
Memphis
2nd Grade Pumpkins
LES 2nd Grade students presented Pumpkin Book Reports
.
Penny Olympics
The students in Ms. Vaught's
APEX class are working on a
STEM project called Drops on a
Penny and working on Penny
Olympics.
The Arlington Middle
STEM Club travelled to
the University of Memphis
for the annual E-day
(Engineering
Day)
competition.
Students
competed in the Egg Drop,
Flash Build, K’Nex Bridge
Building
and
Transportation categories.
The results will not be
revealed for another week,
but students performed
well. In addition to
competing, students were
able to watch and/or
participate in Boat Car
Racing,
Industrial
Robotics, Straw Rockets,
K’Nex Tower Challenges,
Spaghetti Challenge, and
many others. STEM Club
is sponsored by Mrs.
Cantkier and Mrs. Mattix.
Computer Literacy Classes Now Offered at AMS
It is our district’s hope that
by providing this course
we are giving student’s
foundational knowledge
that can possibly lead to
bright future careers.
AMS Students
Pledge to Be Drug
Free
Special Guest Reader
Mrs. Booth’s students experienced multi-lingual reading with a recent guest
reader. The story is both in English and in Spanish. Mom is reading in Spanish
while the daughter also reads it in English.
Phases of the Moon
4th Graders represented the phases of the moon with
Oreos for a sweet (and educational) treat.
Best Buddies
LES’s Best Buddies had their first meeting
of the year. Students god the to know
each other better while painting pumpkins.
They talked about superpowers and which
power they would love to have.
Photos courtesy of LES
Computer Literacy is an
exciting new course being
offered by Arlington
Middle School to teach
students how to use the
Apple
Swift
coding
language. The material
being studied by students
is totally new and ground-
breaking and makes our
school district one of the
first in the country to teach
this
programming
language at a middle
school level.
The
Apple
Swift
language is becoming
more mainstream in the
business world as larger
companies like IBM are
converting their software
to run on it. Teaching
coding
is
requiring
students to use critical
thinking, problem solving
and logic everyday while
learning a real-world skill.
Professionals speculate
lots of growth in the
computer
programing
profession in Tennessee
and speculate that coding
skills could become a
prerequisite for many
future jobs. To illustrate
this point, Tennessee
currently has 6,599 open
computing jobs.
Computing occupations
also pay much higher than
the average salary in the
state.
Unfortunately, not a lot
of education programs
provide
computer
programing training to
students, especially at the
middle school level. Only
625 students graduated
with degree in computer
science in 2015 and only
18% of these were female.
AMS
students
participated
in
Red
Ribbon Week during the
week of October 23-27.
Students took part in dress
up days as a way to show
how they pledge to be
drug free.
Students also signed
pledge cards to promise to
be drug free. The pledge
cards
are
displayed
throughout the school.
Photos courtesy of AMS