New Middle School Families – Rising 6th Graders
Attention 6th Grade Students and New Families
We hope you are enjoying your summer! Already, we are looking forward to seeing you on orientation day as you begin Middle School! Come meet and greet your teachers, see your friends that you’ve missed all summer, and meet new ones! Bring your smiles, but don’t bring all your school supplies just yet! It can be a little crazy and frantic with beginning of the year excitement on orientation day, so here are some suggestions of what to bring on orientation day and what to bring on the first day of school (Click on the following link for a handy checklist of what to bring –>Middle School Orientation Checklist
On orientation day, DO bring your locker shelves and any locker decorations you might want to put inside like magnetic white message boards, magnetic pencil cups, mirrors, or decorative magnets. Feel free to set up your locker in preparation for the first day of school! Please also bring items from the supply list such as tissues, wipes, hand sanitizer, and paper towels and leave them in your homeroom classroom.
While you are visiting at orientation, remember to pick up the handout labeled “Organizing Materials”. Or, you may download the same handout by clicking on the following link: Organizing Materials - Middle School. Use this handout at home to assemble and label your notebooks and binders.
At home, go ahead and put dividers in binders, pencils and pens in your pencil cases, art supplies in your art case, and label notebooks just like the “Organizing Materials” handouts explains. Bring these on the first day of school.
Remember to save a few brown paper bags from the grocery store as they make great bookcovers. Check out http://www.ehow.com/how_6553681_book-cover-paper-instructions.html or http://specialchildren.about.com/od/schoolissues/ht/bookcover.htm?p=1 for step-by-step directions on how to make a book cover from a brown paper grocery bag.
Have fun organizing, and we’ll see you at orientation! Enjoy the rest of your summer!
