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Parents of MMS kids: Order your yearbook today at www.balfour.com.
You can customize your book and even get an ad-space for your 8th grader!
The yearbook is full of this year's students, events, memories and fun times.
Don't let your kid forget this year. Memories are priceless and yearbooks are $35.
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Parents of middle school academic UIL participants: just a reminder about tonight's Academic UIL awards ceremony at 6:00 p.m. in the middle school cafeteria. Please join us to celebrate your student's success!
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Due to high levels of Covid community spread our campus will be closed to visitors until further notice.
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Student Led Conferences will be held on February 7th. This will be an early release day for students. They will be dismissed from classes at noon and will need to return for their scheduled appointment. Watch for information from your student's teacher.
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Today is an Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. following lunch. If your student is a car rider, you may pick them up before lunch at 12:00 p.m. if you choose.
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Congratulations to MMS UIL Contest Winners!
6th Grade Individual:
Iris Goodson, James Duncan, Beau Hobbs, Adalyn Hodson, Laney Kralka, Madalyn Lacy, Aiden Lee, Triston Lovett, Tristan McWhorter, Evy Medina, Evelyn Neely, Callie White
6th Grade Teams:
Art-3rd Place (Evy Medina, Evelyn Neely, Lacie Spann)
Chess-2nd Place (Beau Hobbs, Kenneth Jackson, Triston Lovett)
Maps, Graphs, & Charts-2nd Place (Paisley Hall, Evelyn Neely, Nicholas Solano)
Music Memory-1st Place (Laney Kralka, Madalyn Lacy, Aiden Lee)
7th Grade Individual:
Hunter Ballard, Maeson Beck-Barton, Jeremiah Black, Sebastian Klodnicki, Jaycee Maag, Zion Olajide, Katherine Paredes, Adriana Parpart, Davis Pierce, Isaiah Robledo, Journie Wilson, Terry Yang
7th Grade Teams:
Dictionary-2nd Place (Vanessa Anaya, Madison Snook, Journie Wilson)
Maps, Graphs, & Charts-2nd Place (Hunter Ballard, Audrina Galaz, Braxten Pool)
Mathematics-2nd (Daysen Cook, Kelly Hernandez, Katherine Paredes)
8th Grade Individual:
Maeson Beck-Barton, Eva Cruz-Caro, Gabriela Fritz, Victoria Kinder, Alexander Lualua, Zoe Mandujano, Clara Marlow, Jadelyn Marshall, Jonathan McKinley, Kamya McVey, Zion Olajide, Raylie Peebles, Bendix Smith, Saoirse Ray, Kaige Welch
8th Grade Teams:
Calculator-3rd Place (Eva Cruz-Caro, Alexander Lualua, Zoe Mandujano)
Dictionary-2nd Place (Mayiah Gonzalez, Raylie Peebles, Makena Quiambao)
Maps, Graphs, & Charts-3rd Place (Carolina Arreguin, Jadelyn Marshall, Bendix Smith)
Mathematics-2nd Place (Hunter Ballard, Jadelyn Marshall, Saoirse Ray)
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During Operation Blue Santa, local law enforcement agencies raised over $10,000 to buy gifts for children in need this Christmas Season. This is service to others, above and beyond! We appreciate you!
#bluesanta
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Tomorrow is an Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. following lunch. If your student is a car rider, you may pick them up before lunch at 12:00 p.m. if you choose.
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Our campus cookie dough fundraiser items are being delivered to the school today. Small orders will be sent home with the students. Pick up for larger orders will be available from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the cafeteria stage.
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Kona Ice Day December 17th
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Friday, December 17th, will be an Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. following lunch. If your student is a car rider, you may pick them up before lunch at 12:00 p.m. if you choose.
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The last day of classes before the Christmas Break is December 17th. Classes will resume on January 4th.
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9 weeks testing is this week.
1st period, 5th period, and 8th period exams are on Wednesday, Dec. 15.
2nd period, 4th period, and 7th period exams are on Thursday, Dec. 16.
3rd period and 9th period exams are on Friday, Dec. 17.
Early Release is this Friday. Car Riders dismissed at 12:00 and bus riders at 12:30.
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Friday, December 17th, will be an Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:30 p.m. following lunch. If your student is a car rider, you may pick them up before lunch at 12:00 p.m. if you choose.
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The last day of classes before the Christmas Break is December 17th. Classes will resume on January 4th.
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Another great day for our Mineola MS Band students! Our band students competed in the MS All-Region Band contest Friday and we are proud to announce that 12 of our students earned spots in the competition. Congratulations to all of our students who competed! We look forward to performing at this prestigious event in January. More details to come next month.
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The future for the Sound of the Swarm is bright! What a wonderful Christmas Concert presented by our Middle School Bands.
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A change has been made to our incentive field trips to iJump and CiCi's Pizza scheduled for next week. The dates for 6th and 8th grades have been swapped.
Please note that 6th grade and half of 7th grade will go on December 9th. 8th grade and the other half of 7th grade will go on December 10th. Students will need to bring $7.50 for CiCi's or a sack lunch. If your child is eligible to participate, they will be bringing home a notice and waiver for you to sign tonight.
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Don't forget the band concert tonight at 6:30 in the MMS gym! If you are not able to attend, you can view the concert at https://youtu.be/iNIOHZWj1Ac or live on the Mineola ISD Facebook page.
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You are invited to attend the MMS One Act Play Troupe's production of "The Great Pandemonium: A Comedy in One Act" written by Pat Cook. The performance will be Sunday, December 5th at 2:30 p.m. in the High School Auditorium.
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