FSP Coffee with the Principal
We are the Parent/ Guardian Organization for the Amherst Regional Middle School. We strive to create a supportive and welcoming community for students, their families, teachers and administration by hosting events, organizing programs that foster a productive and positive environment; be a resource for information and engagement; and funding academic and ARMS community initiatives. Contact the PGO at armspgo@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
ARMS FSP Frisbee Golf Tournament This Friday!
Join us for a Disc Golf & Ultimate Frisbee Tournament on Friday, May 3, 2013 from 5 until 7:30 PM!
Evening begins with a Disc Golf Clinic at 5:00 sponsored by our friends from Pure Flight Disc Golf & Ultimate in Amherst.
The first flight of golfers will tee off at 5:20. We’ll break for a potluck dinner and barbecue at 6:00 with the second flight starting back out on the course at 6:50 PM. We’ll play with a scramble format so there’ll be plenty of fun for everyone!
Compete for prizes in the Putting Contest and Longest Drive competitions. Challenge your creativity by entering the contests for Most Outrageous Hat, Craziest Hair, Most Unconventional Technique & Most Colorful Outfit.
Sign up on the Draw Sheet outside the Middle School Office or just come on out Friday night! Entry fee is $5.00 per player and all proceeds benefit the ARMS Family School Partnership. Players will be in teams of 5 so if you want to be grouped together with friends, just make that note on the Draw Sheet.
Ultimate Teams that want to compete can do so for a $15.00 entry.
Parents who want to help out can sign up in the Middle School Office or be in touch with Eileen Marasco at e.marasco@comcast.net or call her at 256-3880. We'll need some help keeping folks moving safely on the course, with food set up and sales, and clean up.
To sign up for a potluck item please click on the link to the PleaseBringIt sheet we have set up for the event at http://armsfrisbeegolffundraiser.bringit.bz/public/4fc6bb. Burgers, hot dogs, pizza and drinks will be available for sale at the event with all proceeds going toward the Family School Partnership general fund.
Hope to see you there!
Disc Golf & Ultimate Tournament Last Call for Sponsors
Opportunities still exist for sponsorship of the Disc Golf & Ultimate Tournament taking place this Friday evening, May 3. If you have a business or offer a service that you'd like to promote during the tournament, please be in touch with Eileen Marasco @ e.marasco@comcast.net or you can call her at 256-3880. Sponsorships are available for $25, $50 or $100. Your name will go signage at a tee box on the course & you'll be listed on the scorecards for the event as a donor.
We're also looking for parent volunteers to help out as rangers on the disc golf course, to oversee the putting & longest drive contests, to help selling food & drinks & doing a little set up & clean up. Please be in touch with Eileen if you can support us in any way. Many thanks!!!!
Friday, April 26, 2013
Save the Date!
Next week is week 1 schedule.
Friday, April 26- Really Rosie in the Auditorium 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 27- Really Rosie in the Auditorium 2PM
Tuesday, April 30- Grade 6 Students Shadow Day by Elem. School - Middle School
Thursday, May 2- Grade 6 Shadow Day by Elem. School - Middle School
Friday, May 3- FSP Coffee
Friday, May 3- FSP Frisbee Golf Tournament
Tuesday, May 7- MCAS Math - Grades 7 and 8
Thursday, May 9- Late Start Day
Friday, May 10- MCAS Math - Grades 7 and 8
Tuesday, May 14- MCAS Science/Technology - Grade 8 Only
Thursday, May 16- MCAS Science/Technology - Grade 8 Only
Monday, May 20- MAP Testing - Grade 7
Tuesday, May 21- MAP Testing - Grade 8
Tuesday, May 21- Rushing Rivers Field Trip - Team Evergreen
Wednesday, May 22- Rushing River Field Trip - Greylock
Thursday, May 23- Rushing River Field Trip - Team Frost
Monday, May 27- Memorial Day - School is Closed
Tuesday, May 28- Rushing River Field Trip - Grade 8
Wednesday, May 29- MAP Testing - Grade 7
Wednesday, May 29- Rushing River Field Trip - Grade 8
Thursday, May 30- MAP Testing - Grade 8
Friday, May 31- Rushing River Field Trip - Grade 8
Wednesday, June 5- Chorus 7 and Chorus 8 - Concert
First Annual ARMS FSP Frisbee Golf Tournament
Evening begins with a Disc Golf Clinic at 5:00 sponsored by
our friends from Pure Flight Disc Golf & Ultimate in Amherst.
The first flight of golfers will tee off at 5:20. We’ll break for a potluck dinner and barbecue
at 6:00 with the second flight starting back out on the course at 6:50 PM. We’ll play with a scramble format so there’ll
be plenty of fun for everyone!
Compete for prizes in the Putting Contest and Longest Drive
competitions. Challenge your creativity
by entering the contests for Most Outrageous Hat, Craziest Hair, Most
Unconventional Technique & Most Colorful Outfit.
Sign up on the Draw Sheet outside the Middle School Office
or just come on out Friday night! Entry
fee is $5.00 per player and all proceeds benefit the ARMS Family School
Partnership. Players will be in teams of
5 so if you want to be grouped together with friends, just make that note on
the Draw Sheet.
Ultimate Teams that want to compete can do so for a $15.00
entry.
Parents who want to help out can sign up in the Middle
School Office or be in touch with Eileen Marasco at e.marasco@comcast.net or call her at
256-3880. We’ll need some help keeping
folks moving safely on the course, with food set up and sales, and clean up.
To sign up for a potluck item please click on the link to
the PleaseBringIt sheet we have set up for the event at http://armsfrisbeegolffundraiser.bringit.bz/public/4fc6bb. Burgers, hot dogs, pizza and drinks will be
available for sale at the event with all proceeds going toward the Family
School Partnership general fund.
Hope to see you there!
Really Rosie Opens Tonight at ARMS
Amherst
Regional Middle School Theater Company presents “Really Rosie,” a musical
written by Maurice Sendak, with music by Carole King. Performances
will be on Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2
p.m. at ARMS Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for
adults. Students with financial need, please see their Guidance Counselor
for a free ticket. Buy your
tickets at the office during school hours or at the door.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
ARMS Theater Company Presents "Really Rosie" This Friday and Saturday
“Really Rosie” was first performed Off-Broadway in 1980. Prior to the production of the musical, an animated special was presented on television in 1975 featuring many of the songs by King. The musical and the animated special are based upon Sendak’s early works, including “The Nutshell Library” books: Alligators All Around; One was Johnny; Pierre; and Chicken Soup with Rice; as well as the book The Sign on Rosie’s Door.
Rosie is a young girl who lives on Avenue P in Brooklyn, NY. Her friends in the neighborhood escape the boredom of a summer’s day by imagining themselves as producing an extravagant Hollywood movie, lending their quirks and creativity to an eccentric story line. Although her friends are reluctant at first, and at times quarrelsome, Rosie’s imagination keeps the group of kids entertained and engaged throughout the afternoon of a hot day on a street in New York.
The student production features live piano played by Dylan Walter (7th Grade) directed by local musician John Hayman, as well as a cast and crew of students from Amherst Regional Middle school. The production is directed by Sarah Wilson.
Because of some of the content of humor, dialogue and taunting/teasing depicted in the play, parental guidance is suggested for very young children.
Ice Stars for Wounded Warriors to Support The One Fund Boston and the Wounded Warrior Project
Come join Ice
Stars for Wounded Warriors this Friday and Saturday at the Mullins Center and help us celebrate and
support those who have served our country (including the Boston Police
Department)!
All of our proceeds from the events are being donated to THE ONE FUND BOSTON and the WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT.
This is an event designed to HONOR and THANK those who have sacrificed themselves for our nation. This is the first year we have decided to extend our charity beyond the Wounded Warrior Project, due to the tragedies that have occurred in our home city in the past week. We will be splitting all donations between the Wounded Warrior Project and The One Fund Boston.
Despite the exhaustion that Boston is currently enduring, the BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL BE ATTENDING. Please come and show your support for them as they kick off our hockey tournament Friday afternoon at 5 pm.
Schedule of events:
FRIDAY 4/26
5:00 - Hockey Tournament - First game: BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
SATURDAY 4/27
7:00 - Hockey tournament (continued)
3:30 - Parade around the UMass Campus
7:00 - Ice Skating Show
We will be joined by several Olympians, Paralympians, ROTC units, veterans, law enforcement units, fire departments, and many more. Between the two days, we are aiming to achieve unity among our community while sharing love for our country, and for those who have devoted their lives to protect our freedom.
Some of the world
class Ice Skaters who will be skating in the Ice Show include: Mirai Nagasu,
Todd Eldredge, Yasmin Siraj, Wesley Campbell, Getchen Donlan and Andrew
Speroff.
Tickets will not be sold at the door. Tickets can be bought in advance at the Mullins Center Box Office or online at ticket master: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Ice-Stars-for-Wounded-Warriors-Celebration-tickets/artist/1837390?tm_link=artist_artistvenue_module
Tickets will not be sold at the door. Tickets can be bought in advance at the Mullins Center Box Office or online at ticket master: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Ice-Stars-for-Wounded-Warriors-Celebration-tickets/artist/1837390?tm_link=artist_artistvenue_module
Tickets are $12 for
adults, $7 for children. Free admission for children of military
families. One ticket gets you into all of the hockey games, and a
separate ticket is required for the Ice Show.
For more information
on the Celebration Event on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/645591528800548/
For more information
about Ice Stars for Wounded Warriors, please visit the website -
www.icestarsforwoundedwarriors.weebly.com
Monday, April 22, 2013
Save the Date
Tuesday, April 23- Grade 6 Students Shadow Day by Elem. School - Middle
School
Thursday, April 25- Grade 6 Shadow Day by Elem. School - Middle School
Tuesday, April 30- Grade 6 Students Shadow Day by Elem. School - Middle
School
Thursday, May 2- Grade 6 Shadow Day by Elem. School - Middle School
Friday, May 3- FSP Coffee
Friday, May 3- FSP Frisbee Golf Tournament
Tuesday, May 7- MCAS Math - Grades 7 and 8
Thursday, May 9- Late Start Day
Friday, May 10- MCAS Math - Grades 7 and 8
Tuesday, May 14- MCAS Science/Technology - Grade 8 Only
Thursday, May 16- MCAS Science/Technology - Grade 8 Only
Monday, May 20- MAP Testing - Grade 7
Tuesday, May 21- MAP Testing - Grade 8
Tuesday, May 21- Rushing Rivers Field Trip - Team Evergreen
Wednesday, May 22- Rushing River Field Trip - Greylock
Thursday, May 23- Rushing River Field Trip - Team Frost
Monday, May 27- Memorial Day - School is Closed
Tuesday, May 28- Rushing River Field Trip - Grade 8
Wednesday, May 29- MAP Testing - Grade 7
Wednesday, May 29- Rushing River Field Trip - Grade 8
Thursday, May 30- MAP Testing - Grade 8
Friday, May 31- Rushing River Field Trip - Grade 8
Wednesday, June 5- Chorus 7 and Chorus 8 - Concert
Host Families Needed
The Doshisha group is coming from 7/29-8/17--they are the group which is the sister college for Amherst College
and who the Japanese garden there is dedicated to. It's single
placement only, and if you did it last year you will remember that it's a
wonderful time. The kids go to Amherst College to learn English from
the teacher guides, and field trips include Tanglewood, Boston (of
course), Look Park, Six Flags, the Emily Dickonson house, a fun
bar-b-que at Mill River and more--
If you are interested, there are 2 things- this group will either go quickly or very slowly-quickly because they're great kids, slowly because people are away. Since it's a 3 week time, if you have vacation plans for 3 days or more we can split the time,
Another great thing is if you have kids/grandkids they are welcome on any of the field trips we go to and of course you are too, as well as Tanglewood-we had a few host families come on that trip--it does run late but it's worth it!
So if you are interested or know of anyone who is, please let me know ASAP so we can get this figured out. There will only be around 15 kids coming, split evenly--I just changed my vacation to do this because I had such a good time with them, as did Becky!
So let me know-thanks so much!! Stipend will either be $20/day or $30/day but they bring their own money obviously for anything outside the house! Contact Dianec711@comcast.net (Becky's mom.)
If you are interested, there are 2 things- this group will either go quickly or very slowly-quickly because they're great kids, slowly because people are away. Since it's a 3 week time, if you have vacation plans for 3 days or more we can split the time,
Another great thing is if you have kids/grandkids they are welcome on any of the field trips we go to and of course you are too, as well as Tanglewood-we had a few host families come on that trip--it does run late but it's worth it!
So if you are interested or know of anyone who is, please let me know ASAP so we can get this figured out. There will only be around 15 kids coming, split evenly--I just changed my vacation to do this because I had such a good time with them, as did Becky!
So let me know-thanks so much!! Stipend will either be $20/day or $30/day but they bring their own money obviously for anything outside the house! Contact Dianec711@comcast.net (Becky's mom.)
Supporting Children in Times of Tragedy
In the wake of the events at the Boston Marathon, parents and guardians may be searching for ways to help their children process their emotions and fears. Excellent resources are available through the National Association of School Psychologists and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. School psychologists and counselors will also be available to provide support as students return to school today.
A raÃz de los hechos
ocurridos en el maratón de Boston, los padres y los encargados pueden estar
buscando maneras de ayudar a sus hijos a procesar sus
emociones y
miedos. Excelentes recursos están disponibles a
través de la Asociación Nacional de
Psicólogos Escolares y el Departamento de Educación Temprana y Cuidado
de
Massachusetts. Los
psicólogos escolares y consejeros también estarán disponibles para brindar
apoyo a los estudiantes que
regresan
a la escuela hoy.
Free Parenting of Teens Discussion Panel
Parents and community members are
invited to a dynamic panel discussion, Raising Sexually Healthy Teens in the
Pioneer Valley." April 30th,
7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Jones Library, Amherst Room. Organized by Dr. Steve
Brown, a psychologist, the panel includes two ARHS students, a sexual health
educator and ARHS parent, and a coordinator for teen services at UMass. Free.
Not to be missed!
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