Announcements for Thursday, December 23, 2010

1. Lunch today is Egg, Ham and Cheese on a Bagel, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2. Congratulations to the 8^th grade boys’ basketball team as they defeated Radnor 33 to 20.  The entire team played an outstanding game.  Way to go bulldogs!

 

3. Attention sewing club…if you need to complete a sewing project before winter break, please come in to work over your activity period today.  Thank you

 

4. As we head into Winter Break, here are the standing in the song of the week competition.   This is turning out to be the closest competition ever,

 

In 5^th Grade, Mr. Prothero and Room 113 has a small lead of only three points over Mrs. Rickel and Room 215.

 

In 6^th Grade, Room 123 and Mr. Krimsky leads both Mrs. Cook and Mrs. O’Connor by 4 points.

 

In 7^th Grade, there is a dead-heat between Ms. Corson and Mr. Boukalik.  Their lead is only one point over Mr. Marchiando and Ms. Wilson.

 

In 8^th Grade, Room 220 and Mrs. Ferenchick holds a three point lead over Mrs. Tyrell.

 

There is a three-way tie for the school wide lead between Mr. Broadhead, Mr. McCarthy, and Mr. Ferris.

 

Thank you to all of the homerooms for participating and good luck.

TEMS Athletics: Week of January 3

1/5
8/7 GBB at Valley Forge

1/6
8/7 BBB v Valley Forge at TEMS

1/7
WR v Valley Forge at TEMS
BB at E.T.Richardson MS: 7GBB at 3:30, 7BBB at 4:45, 8GBB at 6:15, 8BBB at 7:30

Announcements for Tuesday, December 21, 2010

1. Lunch today is Penne Pasta with Meatballs, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2. Attention UNLIMITED football team members: we will be ordering shirts to commemorate our undefeated season.  Place orders through Jack McLean before December 22.  The cost of the shirt is $12.

 

 

3. In continuation of our cards for recovering soldiers program, all this week, there will be a very, very large holiday card that will be addressed to one of our very own, Jay Rafetto, Jay is a recovering Marine at Walter Reed Medical Center. Jay attended Devon Elementary, T/E Middle School and Conestoga High School. This card, compliments of Mrs. Turners and her students, will be available for your signing, every day this week in the lobby next to the cafeteria from 7:15 until 7:45.

 

 

4. Attention TV Studio Members:  The schedule for the week after break is posted.  Please come check it to see if you are on the schedule.

 

 

5. Reminder for the Chester Valley Nursing & Rehab Home Trip.  Peer Mediators and Student Council should meet Mr. Sola in the Main Office lobby immediately after 1st period today.  The bus leaves at 8:55 sharp.

 

 

6. Congratulations to the TE Wrestling team for their strong showing at the Chichester Tournament this weekend.  Kevin Z. and Chris M. took home first place in their weight class and Sawyer H. and Peyton E. placed third.  Congratulations.

 

 

7. Any 8th grader interested in applying to CAT-Pickering needs to do two things:  sign your name on the application sign-up sheet on Mr. Sola's office door and meet Mr. Sola in the cafeteria on Wednesday - 1st period.

 

Announcements for Monday, December 20, 2010

1. Lunch today is a Taco Rice Bowl, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2. Attention UNLIMITED football team members: we will be ordering shirts to commemorate our undefeated season.  Place orders through Jack M before December 22.  The cost of the shirt is $12.

 

3. Attention all members of Cantabile.  You will not be permitted to attend tomorrow's trip to the nursing home if you have not returned a signed permission to Mr. Sola in the Main Office.  If you need another permission slip – they are available for pick-up in the Main Office.

 

4. In continuation of our cards for recovering soldiers program, all this week, there will be a very, very large holiday card that will be addressed to one of our very own, Jay Rafetto, Jay is a recovering Marine at Walter Reed Medical Center. Jay attended Devon Elementary, T/E Middle School and Conestoga High School. This card, compliments of Mrs. Turners and her students, will be available for your signing, every day next week in the lobby next to the cafeteria from 7:15 until 7:45.

 

5. Tech Club will not be held today however we will meet each day for the remainder of the week !!!

 

6. Today in 1963, more than two years after the Berlin Wall was constructed by East Germany to prevent its citizens from fleeing its communist regime, nearly 4,000 West Berliners are allowed to cross into East Berlin to visit relatives. Under an agreement reached between East and West Berlin, over 170,000 passes were eventually issued to West Berlin citizens, each pass allowing a one-day visit to communist East Berlin.

TEMS Athletics: Week of December 20

12/20
7/8 GBB home v Stewart

12/21
7/8 BBB at Radnor

12/22
8/7 GBB home v Radnor
WR at Radnor

Announcements for Friday, December 17, 2010

1.      Attention UNLIMITED football team members: we will be ordering shirts to commemorate our undefeated season.  Place orders through Jack M before December 22.  The cost of the shirt is $12.

 

2.      The ice hockey season is well underway and the Conestoga Middle School teams are racking up the wins.

The Conestoga Gray team beat Kennett Grove 10 to 1.

The Conestoga Maroon team beat Great Valley 7 to 0 and beat Lower Merion 8 to 1.

The Conestoga A team beat Great Valley 5 to 3.

On January 1st, Conestoga Gray plays Haverford and Conestoga Maroon plays Great Valley. 

 The following day, Conestoga A plays Owen J. Roberts.

Come out to Ice Line to support the Conestoga Middle School Ice Hockey Teams!

 

3.      Congratulations to T/E Middle School, students, administration, faculty and staff, 1100 holiday cards were delivered to Walter Reed Medical Center. All of you made a difference relative to the recovery of many soldiers. All of you have another opportunity next week. There will be a very, very large holiday card that will be addressed to one of our very own, Jay Rafetto, Jay is a recovering Marine at Walter Reed Medical Center. Jay attended Devon Elementary, T/E Middle School and Conestoga High School. This card, compliments of Mrs. Turners and her students, will be available for your signing, every day next week in the lobby next to the cafeteria from 7:15 until 7:45.

 

4.      Congratulations to the 8th grade girls basketball team on their victory against Eisenhower Wednesday. Anna T was the leading scorer with 11 points. Good job girls!

 

5.      Congratulations to the 8th grade boys’ basketball team as they defeated Stewart

40 to 10.  The entire team played an outstanding game.

Way to go bulldogs!

 

 

 

 

Announcements for Thursday, December 16, 2010

1. Attention UNLIMITED football team members: we will be ordering shirts to commemorate our undefeated season.  Place orders through Jack M before December 22.  The cost of the shirt is $12.

 

2. Dance Club is cancelled for today.  Please take your regular transportation home.

 

3. Those 8th grade students attending the Wharton Esherick field trip tomorrow are reminded to submit their permission slips ASAP. Also we will be walking a short distance so dress for the weather, bring a pencil and accommodations for lunch. You are to be dismissed from class at 8:45. We will leave shortly thereafter from the main lobby outside the main office ...

 

4. Please congratulate the following students as the high scorers on this month's Math League Test:

 

April H

Alex W

Michael Z

 

Thanks to all who participated.

 

 

Announcements for Wednesday, December 15, 2010

1. Lunch today is cheese barbeque chicken breast sandwich on a Kaiser roll assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2.      On this day in 2001, Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after a team of experts spent 11 years and $27 million to fortify the tower without eliminating its famous lean.

 

3. On this day in 1791, Virginia becomes the last state to ratify the Bill of Rights, making the first ten amendments to the Constitution law and completing the revolutionary reforms begun by the Declaration of Independence. Before the Massachusetts ratifying convention would accept the Constitution, which they finally did in February 1788, the document's Federalist supporters had to promise to create a Bill of Rights to be amended to the Constitution immediately upon the creation of a new government under the document.

 

4. The yearbook staff is to see Mr. Frescoln for cameras today.

 

5. Tech Club will not be held today, Wednesday Dec. 15^th.

 

6. All cast members of Seussical Jr. should meet in the large group room after school on Thursday for their first rehearsal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Announcements for Tuesday, December 14, 2010

1. Students attending the Wharton Esherick field trip this Friday, Dec. 17th are reminded to submit their permission slips ASAP.

 

 

2. The Math League Test will be held today in Large Group Room 12 during eighth period. Participants should report promptly following 7^th period.  Please bring a calculator and a pencil.

 

3. "Immediately after Homeroom, all 8th graders who have returned permission slips for the CAT-Pickering tour - should report to Mr. Sola in the Main Office lobby.  The bus will be leaving TE Middle at 8:10am."

Announcements for Monday, December 13, 2010

 

1. Students attending the Wharton Esherick field trip this Friday, Dec. 17th are reminded to submit their permission slips ASAP.

 

2. Attention all Model United Nations club members: our next meeting is tomorrow, Dec. 14, after school. Meet in room 130.

 

3. On this date in 1577, English seaman Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World and explore the Pacific Ocean. Three years later, Drake's return to Plymouth marked the first circumnavigation of the earth by a British explorer.

 

Announcements for Friday December 10, 2010

1. Lunch today is Boscos pizza, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

 

2. Those 8th grade students attending the Wharton Esherick field trip next week are reminded to submit their permission forms ASAP.

 

 

3. Today in 1901, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be "annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war.

 

 

4. Knitting Club will meet today in the large group room.

 

 

5. Today in 1898, in France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEMS Athletics: Week of December 13

12/15
7/8 BBB v Eisenhower at TEMS (scrimmage)
8/7 GBB at Eisenhower (scrimmage)

12/16
8/7 BBB at Stewart
8/7 GBB at Sandy Run

12/17
8 GBB v Phoenixville at Colonial, 4:30 (tournament)
WR at Welsh Valley (scrimmage)

12/18
8 GBB at Colonial, 10:30 (only with win on Friday night)
WR at Chichester Tournament

Announcements for Thursday, December 9, 2010

1.) Lunch today is BBQ Chix, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

2.) Attention all Math League Participants. Signups are being taken for the Math League Test to be administered Tuesday, December 14, eighth period. The test will be held in Large Group Room 12 and will last approximately thirty minutes. All advanced seventh and eighth grade math students are encouraged to participate. Please sign up with Mrs. Stehouwer.

3.) Peer Mediation, Student Council, and Cantabile will be bringing holiday cheer to a local rehab facility on Tuesday December 21st. They will be bringing fleece blankets, cards, and socks to each resident as well as visiting with them and singing a concert. There will be a collection next week for new pairs of tube socks in each homeroom to bring to these residents. We need approximately 5 pairs of socks from each homeroom to be donated, but the more the merrier. So next week please begin to bring in these socks to your homeroom and Peer Mediation will be around to collect them. Thanks for your help.

4.) Attention all students auditioning for Seussical Jr. today - please report to room 170 promptly at your scheduled time. You will receive a pass to return to class after your audition. Good luck!

Announcements for Tuesday December 7, 2010

1.      Lunch today is soft turkey taco, assorted fruits and vegetables, low fat white or chocolate milk.

 

2.      Those 8th grade students attending the Wharton Esherick field next week are reminded to submit their permissions forms ASAP.

 

3.      Today in 1941, a 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.

 

4.      In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, all U.S. and Pennsylvania state flags be flown at half-staff today in honor of all who died on December 7, 1941, and in tribute to the enormous sacrifices that all of our military heroes, from World War II to the War on Terror, have made in the protection and safety of our nation and its citizens.

 

5.      The very last day for submitting cards 4 recovering soldiers is this Wednesday, Dec.8^th

 

6.      There will be an optional music rehearsal for students auditioning for Seussical Jr. today during activity in room 10.

 

 

Announcements for Monday December 6, 2010

1.    Lunch: Shrimp Popper with Lowfat White or Chocolate milk

 

2.    There will be a meeting for 7th grade basketball players after school tomorrow Tuesday December 7th in room 221.  Please come right after the bell.  We should be done by 3:15.

 

3.    The very last day for submitting cards 4 recovering soldiers is this Wednesday, Dec.8^th

 

4.    On this day in 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city's namesake and the nation's first president, George Washington.

 

5.    The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the U.S. Constitution.

 

Announcements for Friday, December 3, 2010

1.    Forensics Club Members - The competition training field trip is on Monday.  Meet in Room 203 at 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning.  Seventh and eighth grade Club members, remember to bring a lunch.  Please see Mr. Gately with any questions.

 

2.    An important reminder - All audition forms for the 7th and 8th grade musical are due to the main office by this afternoon.

 

Announcements for December 2, 2010

1.    Cards for Recovering Soldiers are due today thank you.

 

2.    All choral sectionals held during activity period are cancelled for this week.

 

3.    There will be an optional rehearsal for all boys interested in auditioning for the 7th and 8th grade musical during activity today in room 10.

 

4.    An important reminder - All audition forms for the 7th and 8th grade musical are due to the main office by Friday

 

5.    If you were able to answer the geography questions during the past week, you may want to keep practicing geography trivia on line and with an atlas. There will be a contest in January for 5th, 6th, and 7th graders through the Social Studies classes. It is a nation wide contest called the Geography Bee, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Good Luck

 

Announcements for December 1, 2010

1.    Cards for Recovering Soldiers are due by Thursday, Dec. 2, thank you.

 

2.    All choral sectionals held during activity period are cancelled for this week.

 

3.    There will be an optional rehearsal for all females interested in auditioning for the 7th and 8th grade musical during activity today in room 10.

 

4.    An important reminder - All audition forms for the 7th and 8th grade musical are due to the main office by Friday

 

5.    All winter athletes needing an IMACT test can report to the alien lab on Thursday or Friday after school

 

6.    The Geography question yesterday asked for the states and the Great Lake that borders Pennsylvania. There were 48 correct answers submitted. The winners can pick up their prizes today. They are Carolyn A, Peyton J, Noah B, Aidan L, Catherine R, and Emma T.

 

7.    If you have been able to answer the geography questions in the last 5 days you may want to keep practicing geography trivia on line and with an atlas. There will be a contest in January through the Social Studies classes for 5th, 6th, and 7th graders. It is a nation wide contest called the Geography Bee, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Good Luck