Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015 Good Morning Stallions and Staff! Today and every day will be the best days of your life. At Sligo, we expect the Best! Sligo is the school that highlights learning can be fun. Our Sligo’ s 2015-2016 Theme is “Sligo on the Rise”. Sligo is a school that embraces and appreciate culture diversity. This month we are continuing our celebrating of Native American Heritage Month. I am _________, ________________, ______________ we are your fellow Morning Announcers Please kindly stand for the pledge of allegiance to our American Flag: P A U S E AND COUNT I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic For which it stands, One nation Under God, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all Thanks! You may now be seated. This week’s Quotation: “Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, and great hearts expand, and grow one in the sense of this world’s life.” Written by Robert Browning From the desk of Principal Dimmick: Due to the high percentage of rain forecast for Thursday, we are rescheduling our PTSA Fitness Fun Day to this Friday, November 20th, 2015. THIS FRIDAY IS OUR NEXT SPIRIT DAY! Keep listening, w will share a special note from Principal Dimmick on Spirit Day, this coming Friday. The BEST Buck store will be closed today. It will be open Friday for any students with 5 or more BEST Bucks and a pass. “Attention, attention: All of Mr. B’s 7th grade world studies students, the retake for the 1st exit card grade will be during A lunch on TODAY and the deadline to retake this exit card will be A lunch on Friday 11/20/15. If you received a score of 3.5 or lower, you should strongly consider making yourself available for this retake. The retake will be held in Mr. B’s room, 129.” O. k. WE MADE IT TO OUR First Fitness fun Day! FRIDAY is Fitness Fun Day 2015– All Students will participate during their PE Classes! Running, Dancing and Basketball! It’s time to get your game on! So, get ready to raise money and compete for fantastic prizes: including gift cards, iPad mini, tickets to the party of the year and more! Every student who raises $100 or more gets to go to the “Party of the Year,” after school on Dec 17th – music, food, games, inflatable money machine, gift cards and more! We are closer to our goal than ever Stallions! So, keep up the great work! To date,—we have raised $13,000. Go Stallions! We are $4,000 from our goal of raising $17,000! Send in your checks made out to the Sligo PTSA. Sligo parents will be in the front hall of school Tuesday and Thursday morning to collect the envelopes with donations. If you have a Razoo account remember to fundraise from family and friends! Also from the desk of our Principal Dimmick: Students, TOMORROW is another Spirit Day…wear your favorite Sligo Swag to school, or your blue and gold. Help show your school spirit by participating in our Spirit Day Friday. Stallions, , what are you thankful for? As we approach the Thanksgiving Season, our Stampede, Sligo’ s Newspaper Team is looking for students who wish to share a special thanksgiving note in our next edition. We welcome your note on how thankful you are. After hearing about so many youth were killed in Paris, I’m thankful for life. My fellow Announcers, all agree that we are thankful for our Moms and Dads. What are you thankful for? Please share with the Stampede Team. Once again, this FRIDAY is Fitness Fun Day. Let’s get ready! We are going to have a GREAT time. See you on Friday. Fitness Fun Day. Tell everybody that there will be some really nice giveaways. DON’T MISS THIS EVENT. Fitness Fun Day 2015. Attention all Sligo Middle School students! Hour of Code is coming! During the week of December 7, students will be participating in Hour of Code, an online computer programming opportunity. Ms. Campo-Abdoun's technology classes and Mr. Anderson's science classes will be participating. Stay tuned for more information! Thanks for sharing with us your undivided attention. We appreciate your kindness and respect. Make today and each day your VERY BEST DAY! Have a most enjoyable DAY week.