Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 2/9/24

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsFebruary 9, 2024 Hello Tiger Families! Hello Tiger Families, We have been working hard on building community and cultivating a calm, focused, and fun learning environment. Part of this is the introduction of the Tiger Showdown. We have been tracking team challenges, academic progress, and attendance as part of a larger competition. […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 2/2/24

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsFebruary 2, 2024 Hello Tiger Families! Hello Tiger Families, Today in Advisory we delivered our Principal’s Honor Roll and Honor Roll certificates and stickers. Are you ready for this?! 210 students earned a 4.0 in our school and 228 students earned a 3.5 to 3.99. That is a total of 438 students! […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 1/26/24

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsJanuary 26, 2024 Hello Tiger Families! Hello Tiger Families, I want to tell you about TWO things that happened this week that were so supportive of our students. First, the high school counselors from EHS were here to work with our students who needed to finish up registration for 9th grade. It […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 1/19/24

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsJanuary 19, 2024 Hello Tiger Families! Holy Cow! Check out that picture above. Over 654 certificates to recognize students that outpaced a year’s worth of math or reading growth…in only one semester! We started the process of handing out these certificates in math and language arts classes this week. We will continue […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 1/12/24

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsJanuary 12, 2024 Hello Tiger Families! Hello Tiger Families, Happy New Year! We are cranking away already in 2024! As a staff, we have been working on some key professional development topics, including Schoology organization and specific strategies to boost opportunities for our students to write as part of the learning process. […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 12/21/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsDecember 21, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! We finished our final week of 2023 with smiles, field trips, treats, final projects, and classroom celebrations. We are all feeling ready for winter break, and we wish you happy holidays! Our third quarter will start on Monday, January 8th and third quarter schedules will be […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 12/15/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsDecember 15, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! How are we already finishing out last full week of school in 2023?! This school year has gone by so fast, and we are so grateful to be part of such a great school community. This week, students finished up their iReady mid-year assessments. Our student […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 12/8/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsDecember 8, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! There were so many moments this week that reminded me how much I LOVE working with middle school students and how much I LOVE this community… chaperoning the SIX field trip…collaboration at late start professional development on Wednesday…amazing conversations with parents at the Parent Leadership Collective […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 12/1/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsDecember 1, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! And just like that…it is DECEMBER! We had a fantastic week back from Thanksgiving Break, and we are gearing up for the last few weeks of the quarter. I would like to take a moment to give families a heads up on our upcoming iReady testing. […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 11/17/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsNovember 17, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! Happy Thanksgiving! We had a FANTASTIC week with our students. Sixth graders got the chance to participate in our Challenge Day activity and counselors, teachers, and administrators supported students during our Tiger Support time. We also enjoyed a Spirit Day competition where over 35% of our […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 11/10/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsNovember 10, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! This week we introduced CHALLENGE DAYS during Advisory. Each grade level will have one challenge day each month to earn points for their grade level. The purpose of Challenge Days is to create and foster a sense of community and FUN. We want to promote the […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 11/3/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsNovember 3, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! We had our Open House event this week and got to meet all of our future Tigers. The energy was AMAZING, and it was fantastic to get to tell so many families about all the great things happening at our school. We had a wonderful selection […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 10/27/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsOctober 27, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! Spirit Week was NEXT LEVEL this week. We had students dressed like teachers, decades, and Barbieland! We loved seeing all the creativity and fun that our students brought this week! The kids at Erie Middle School are THE BEST. Thank you to the WEB Leaders and […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 10/20/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsOctober 20, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! I am overwhelmed by the generosity of this amazing community. Our families donated over $35,000! THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS! That is so incredible! I want to take a moment to thank our amazing PTO co-presidents, Katie Curtis and Candice Carter (pictured above). Their hard work and […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 10/12/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsOctober 12, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! There are some weeks that stick out in my mind as being filled with pure joy in middle school…and this week was one of those weeks! Mrs. Smith in a T-Rex costume, floor cheese being prepped for Mr. Tomasek, team-building games as part of a competition, […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 10/6/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsOctober 6, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! WE REACHED OUR SCHOOL-WIDE GOAL!!!!!!! You all have donated over $25,000 to benefit our PTO and school. This is UNBELIEVABLE! We are so lucky to have such supportive parents! And…to make things even more interesting…we are introducing a “bump” goal as one last push for support! […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 9/29/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsSeptember 29, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! We did it! We finished September strong! This week was full of energy…parents in the building for conferences, volleyball and cross country rockin’ and rollin’, boys basketball gearing up…AND we have raised over FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for our PTO. This is AMAZING! We are less than […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 9/22/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsSeptember 22, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! It was an AMAZING week filled with lots of buzz and energy! Our students are getting into the swing of things…projects, advisory lessons, routines, and crazy assemblies. We have set an ambitious PTO fundraising goal of $20,000 as a school…with an ambitious payoff. My hair…orange! (Eek!) […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 9/15/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsSeptember 15, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! Holy Cow…we are already raising money through our fundraiser, and we haven’t even announced it to students yet! If you didn’t already see the communication I sent yesterday about our upcoming PTO fall fundraiser, click here. Fundraising “officially” starts on Wednesday, September 20th, but parents can […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 9/8/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsSeptember 8, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! I need to warn ya….some fun is coming! Like. Lots of fun! I joined an inspiring meeting with PTO this past week where we developed our plans for the fall fundraiser. We are working to create some amazing and fun incentives for our students as we […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 9/1/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsSeptember 1, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! We had an amazing Back to School Night this week! So many students and parents came to see our building, meet our teachers, and check out our halls. Thank you to those of you that came and enjoyed the night…and huge kudos to our PTO for […]

Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 8/25/23

Erie Middle SchoolTiger NewsAugust 25, 2023 Hello Tiger Families! We did it! We crushed our first full week back to school…and we didn’t just survive, we thrived! We had lots of amazing things going on in our building, and one that is worth highlighting is Advisory! This week our students decided on mascots and created […]