LONG MIDDLE SCHOOL
IMPORTANT DATES
August 2008
5 6th Grade "Jump Start" 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
7 7th/8th (Pick up schedule & Pay fees) 11:00 - 1:00
14 Floating In-service
15-19 In-service/workdays
15 In-service (9:45 Presentation)
19 Welcome Back Breakfast 7:45-8:45 (Meet the Teacher 12:00-2:00)
20 First Day for Students
25 Enrichment
25-September 18 Map Testing
29 Emergency Lesson Plans/SGA Nominations
September 2008
1 Labor Day Holiday
9 Josten's Ring Presentation (7:45 a.m.)
10 SGA Election
15 GBE Due
16 Fall Pictures (Candlelight Luncheon) Josten's Ring Order -7:45 a.m.
17 12:30 Student Dismissal/In-service
19 Interim Reports/1st Nine Weeks (Staff Breakfast)
23 Curriculum Night 5:30-6:30 (David Chatwell-Singe Gender)
26 Long Range Plans
29 Enrichment
October 2008 Month of the Adolescence
2 Prize Patrol
4 Family Fun Day (10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
3-5 Social Studies Conference
13 Enrichment
15 PSAT
16 Bobcats Trip
16-17 Charleston Trip-8th graders
17 Staff Breakfast
20-24 Red Ribbon Week
22 12:30 Student Dismissal/In-service End of 1st Nine Weeks
24 Real Men Read
28 Math Fair
30 Celebrate Learning/Clubs (Report Cards)
Parent Conferences 3:00-6:00 P.M.
30-31 Math Conference
31 No School -- Parent Conferences 8:00-12:00 Noon
November 2008
4 No School (Election Day)
6 Prize Patrol
6-8 Science Conference
13 Make-up pictures
17-21 American Education Week
18 Family Read Night
21 Staff Breakfast
24 Interim Reports/2nd Nine Weeks
25 Spelling Bee/Wrestling Exhibition
26-28 Fall Break (Thanksgiving Holiday)
*** PLEASE re-mind family and friends to turn in Campbell soup labels and Box Tops for Education. You may want to give them a ziploc plastic bag with these labels written on them to place on refrigerator. Also, parents may want to take one to work. This will help all of us to earn much needed supplies for our school.
December 2008
2 GBE Conferences
4 Prize Patrol
5 Yearbook Dance 6:00-8:00
9 Ring Delivery
12 Bowling/Eighth Grade
15 Bowling/Seventh Grade
16 Chorus Concert 6:30 p.m.
17 Bowling/Sixth grade
18 BandConcert 6:30
19 Staff Breakfast
22-Jan 2 Winter Break
January 2009
5 In-service
8 Prize Patrol
15 End of 2nd Nine Weeks
16 In-service
19 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
23 Grade Due (AM/AR Walk)
29 Report Cards
30 Celebrate Learning/Clubs
February 2009
2 African American Read-in
13 Candlelight Luncheon
16 President's Day Holiday
18-22 SC Business Education Conference
19 Interim Reports
20 Staff Breakfast
23 Enrichment
26 Science/History Night 6:00 p.m.
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March 2008
6 Spring Picture and Parent Conference (3:30-6:30)
7 In-service (Parent Conferences 8:00-12:00
11 National Junior Honor Society Induction
12-14 Media Specialist Conference
14 District History Day/Yearbook Dance/Pi Day
20 Staff Breakfast
21-28 Spring Break
April 2 End of 3rd Nine Weeks
April 3 Sixth Grade Orientation/Registration 6:00 PM
April 4 District History Day
April 7 Grades Due, and 8th Grade Field Trip
April 8 Prize Patrol
April 10 Report Cards
April 11 Celebrate Learning
April 14-15 GBE Final Conferences
April 16 Early Dismissal
April 17 Dr. Cobb will visit 8th graders
April 18 Special Olympics, Beta Club trip to Atlanta, and staff breakfast
April 21 8th Grade Bowling
April 22 7th Bowling and Chorus Concert, 6:30 P.M.
April 23 Warriors of Drama presentation
April 24 Career Day and Band Concert, 6:30 P.M.
April 25 6th Grade Bowling
April 26 State History Day
May 1 Health fair, 2:00 – 6:00 P.M., cafeteria (vendors and blood drive)
May 2 MORP, Beta Club Lock-in, and Interim Report
May 6 Prize Patrol
May 7 Drop Everything and Exercise @ 10:00 A.M.
May 8 Retirement Banquet, Edwards Elementary @ 6:00
May 13 – 14 ELA PACT test
May 15 MATH PACT test
May 16 AR/AM Cut-off and Yearbook Dance
May 20 7th Grade Science PACT and 6th and 8th Grade Science/Social Studies PACT
May 21 7th Grade Social Studies
May 22 PAC Field tests for 6th, 7th, 8th Grades8 th Graders will visit CHS, and AR/AM walk to lunch
May 23 8th Grade Field Day and 6th Grade Cookout
May 26 HOLIDAY
May 27 7th Grade Field Day and 8th Grade Cookout
May 28 6th Grade Field day and 7th Grade Cookout
May 29 PACT Incentive/Fundraiser (Tug-O-War, volleyball, Basketball)
May 30 8th Grade Park Trip
June 3 Discipline Free Day at the Park & Award Night
June 4 8th Grade Recognition
June 5 Report Cards & Last day for Students
June 6 Last day for Teacher